Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Near Fine. Original brown cloth with black stripes. In a bright and complete example of the scarce dust jacket. Some minor scattered foxing and a few dog-eared corners. Cover art by Guy Fry. A Jimmie Haswell novel. Listed in Hubin.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1928. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original orange cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. In a bright and pleasing copy of the dust jacket signed, I think, "WB." A Jimmie Haswell novel. A brief gift inscription, dated 1928, to the front free endpaper. A very clean, bright and.....
London: The Crime Club, (1944). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. In original orange cloth, lettered in black to the spine. Murder and espionage along the wind-swept Cornish coastline. A war-time novel featuring Roger Bennion. A lovely example in a very nice though price-clipped jacket. Listed in Hubin.
London: The Crime Club, (1942). First edition. Very Good / Very Good. Original orange cloth, lettered in black to the spine. In a bright and pleasing example of the dust jacket. A very specific war-time novel dealing with espionage and the murder of high government officials. A darker and more urgent novel than typically written by Adams. Listed in Hubin.....
London: The Crime Club, (1941). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. In original orange cloth, lettered in black to the spine. Book nerd factoid - the jacket's front panel and spine omit the apostrophe at the end of Bennion's. The title page includes it. In any case, the jacket shows some edge-wear to both ends of the spine.....
London: Philip Allan, (1936). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original pale blue cloth, lettered in black to the spine. In a bright and very attractive example of the very scarce dust jacket. The author's second novel. Listed in Bleiler. Aliens invade earth and they do not have good intentions. They aim to "paralyse and terrorise the peoples.....
Boston: L C. Page & Company, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Original burgundy cloth with full color paste-down illustration identical to that of the dust jacket and lettered in gilt to the spine. The book appears fine - bright and solid. The extremely rare dust jacket shows some minor chipping to the spine ends and also a......
New York: Pantheon, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. A highly acclaimed first novel.
New York: Garden City, 1935. First American edition. Near Fine / Very Good. Some minor rubbing to the bottom of the spine and a few very small closed tears along the edges. Original black cloth lettered and decorated in red to the front panel and the spine. First Edition statement is present on the copyright page. A very sharp copy.....
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Folio volume, bound in half-white pigskin over white speckled blue cloth. Spine lettering stamped in blue. With forty etchings by Robert Motherwell on twenty folded leaves. From a limited edtion of 150 and 25 (1-XXV) hors de commerce copies, this one being number XX. Signed by Robert Motherwell at the.....
London: The Hogarth Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original tan cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. In a lovely example of the complete dust jacket. This book professes to be the first full-length critical assessment of the great 20th century composer, Igor Stravinsky. Woolmer, A Checklist Of The Hogarth Press, #244 - States this.....
London: 4th Estate, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author to the title page.
London: Little Toller Books, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. An extremely charming book that retraces the walk that a young J. S. Bach took to meet with the eminent composer and organist Deiterich Buxtehude. A lovely and fanciful work.
London: MacLehose Press, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. With promotional book-mark and post-card laid in. From a special limited edition of 500 copies - the two offered here being numbers 105 and 110. All edges sprayed black. Translated by George Goulding. Signed by both Lagercrantz and Goulding to the limitation page...
London: Bloomsbury Circus, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. A delightful look at Ms. Maiklem's passion of hunting for relics and other treasures left exposed at low tide on the Thames.
London: Hutchinson, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. A special limited edition of 700 numbered copies, this one being number 216. All edges red. A novel which explores the CIA's involvement in the publication of Doctor Zhivago.
London: Hamish Hamilton, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page.
London: Sphere, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. The Twenty-Fourth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page.
London: Head Of Zeus, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author to the title page with a line quote as well.
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered in white to the front panel and spine. In a price-clipped dust jacket which shows only minor edge-wear. The rear panel of the jacket has some scattered foxing. The author lived with the Mackenzie River Eskimos, and other northern indiginous groups, and.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Quarto edition bound in original blue cloth, lettered in gold to the front panel and spine. With 26 photographic plates, map endpapers and many in-text illustrations. The book is very clean, bright and solid. The dust jacket has received some repair work which does not look.....
Washington DC: Goverment Printing Office, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original pebble grain royal blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Large full color fold-out map laid in at the rear. A signature standing proud. A very bright and lovely copy in all respects. This book tells the harrowing tale of a rescue mission.....
Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Company, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue/gray cloth, decorated in black and gold and lettered in gold. Large 8vo. 418pp. Twenty Illustrations taken from photographs by Mr. Homan. Twenty two illustrations from sketches by Sargeant Gloster. Twenty nine illustrations from diagrams by the author and others. One map of the Alaska Exploring Expedition. Some.....
Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original large octavo bound in green pebble grained cloth with decoration in gilt to the front panel and decoration and lettering in gilt to the spine. All edges beveled. Faint shadow of a previous owner at the top of the title page. The book is quite large, coming in at.....