Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016
ISBN 10: 1534977929 ISBN 13: 9781534977921
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Heritage Press, 1950
ISBN 10: 1399978519 ISBN 13: 9781399978514
Seller: Early Republic Books, Hopatcong, NJ, U.S.A.
HARDCOVER. Condition: G- / NONE. GOOD-MINUS HARDBACK. EX-LIBRARY WITH TYPICAL MARKINGS. HEAVILY WORN BUT SOLID SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. WITH "VR" ON COVER IN 4 PLACES AS IF MADE UP OF BULLET HOLES.
Published by Wildside Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1434417735 ISBN 13: 9781434417732
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Helan Halbach Pub, Santa Barbara, 1974
First Edition
Hardcover. xxx, 191p., introduction, notes, original casts, very good first edition, first printing thus reprinted from the original 1935 edition in cloth boards and bright unclipped dj. The play investigates The Strange Case of Miss Alice Faulkner.
Published by St. Louis, Missouri: Autolycus Press, (1977)., 1977
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition: limited edition. 500 numbered copies printed this copy is unnumbered. Minor storage soiling to the boards, else near fine in brown leather shelf back stamped in black over cream boards decorated with facsimile letter; no dust jacket, as issued. TIGHT AND UNREAD! Illustrated with photo-portraits, facsimiles and drawings. Record of the relationship between the eccentric British author and his American champion--their correspondence, chummy for a decade, ceases when Machen is convinced that Starrett has been involved in pirating his work. "Machen's good friend Starrett, who did so much to bring Machen to the attention of readers in America, is, at the end, accused by Machen of being a pirate "picking my pocket."--Roy Squires. Octavo. 119 pages.
Published by Popular Magazine Pub, 1957
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: GOOD, Decent Reading Copy. Front Cover Painting by Jack Dumas; Interior Artists; Ron Wing; Stanley Meltzoff; Robert Moore; Fred Freeman; Richard Hook; (illustrator). ARGOSY Men Adventure Magazine Volume 344, #6; (June/1957; Popular Publications;) Front Cover Painting by Jack Dumas; 114 pages including covers; Writers: Harlan Richards; Robert Deindorfer; Everett Webber; Herbert Bailey & Walter Ross. Charles Lanius; Joe Reilly; George X. Sand; Dale Burgess; Vincent Starrett; Dick Halvorsen; William Holden; Arthur L. James; Harry Steeger; Nathaniel Curtis; Ormand Gigli; Larry Koler; Pete Kuhlhoff; J Edward Schippner; Norman Weiser; Ralph Stein; Alfred Sheinwold; Erle Stanley Gardner; Interior Artists; Ron Wing; Stanley Meltzoff; Robert Moore; Fred Freeman; Richard Hook; Contents; ** ARTICLES - "The Wizard of Tin Pan Alley" by Harlan Richards. Some people call him Mr. Music, but to the toilers of Tin Pan Alley he's The Beard. Meet Columbia Records' Mitch Miller, who's as much at home with a real cool combo as with the Budapest String Quartet.; ** "Baseball's Secret Brotherhood" by Robert Deindorfer, art by Ron Wing. What's your hidden batting weakness? Change-up, sid a high hard one - or just too many girls and too little sleep? What ever that weakness slugger, hide it well - because the day one alert pitcher finds it out, you may be through as a big-time fence buster. Why? This article may give you the answer.; ** "Pleasure Town" by Everett Webber, art by Stanley Meltzoff. Something went out of the world when Storyville, New Orleans, was closed down in 1917. Read the fabulous history of Basin Street's past - and mourn for the days gone by.; ** "Krebiozen . Failure - Or Ket to Cancer?" by Herbert Bailey & Walter Ross.; ** "Death's Little Brothers" by Charles Lanius. In the isolated monastic republic of Mount Athos, 5,000 ascetic rebels against human nature perpetuate an age-old belief in vampires, ghosts and the Devil - and boil the bones of their departed brethren so their spirits can earn Heaven's own reward.; ** "Love Me Tender" by Joe Reilly. There is only one food for men - beefsteak. And only one way to serve it - at a mouth-watering, male aggregation called the beefsteak party.; ** "Hog Wild" by George X. Sand. No guns are allowed, not even a lasso, when this rugged Florida hunt club takes to the woods. And when you're tackling 300 pounds of snarling porker barehanded, look out for a fistful of trouble. ; ** "Gasoline Alley Comes of Age - Indianapolis 1957" by Dale Burgess. Once a year, at Indianapolis, they separate the men from the boys. Here's how and why the swiftest speed show of the season may make your next year's car safer, cheaper and faster.; ** "The Terrible Balloon Flight" by Vincent Starrett, art by Robert Moore. In 1863, less than a century ago, Nadar's silken balloon was the largest airship built by man. Here is the dramatic story of its last voyage - a trip that began in glory and ended in shattering disaster.; ** "Now You Can Fly" by Dick Halvorsen. Sunday traffic keep you from hunting and fishing on your days off? Distance keep you from driving? Then take this expert's tip - buy your own airplane, for as low as eight hundred dollars.; ** FICTION - "The Big Trip" by William Holden, art by Fred Freeman. With two lost ships on his record, and a leaky old scow for his last command, Captain Lennon knew the only thing that could save the McBain was a miracle - and U-boats don't believe in miracles.; ** "Sand" by Arthur L. James. When the toughest drill sergeant in the Marines meets up with the stubbornet recruit in boot camp, there's bound to be man sized trouble for all hands.; ** "Mr. Beasley's Crime Wave" by Nathaniel Curtis, art by Richard Hook. Nothing like it had ever hit Oak Heights before. The citizens were up in arms, and the Chief of Police was in fear of his life. And all because of me, the meekest little enemy who ever tore up a traffic ticket!.; "The Frightened Ones" by Colin G. Jameson, art by Sam Baton. Doomed if he did, and dead if he didn't. That was a man named Charles Fenester, who, on a certain day, found he must sell out his country - or sell out his dau TRUE FIRST Edition MAGAZINE Format Thus. Book.
Published by Autolycus Press (c. 1977), St. Louis, 1977
hardcover. Condition: Good. limited edition. Tall octavo, 1/2 brown leather spine over printed boards. Endpapers are printed as well. 119 pages, black and white illustrations. #52 of 500 copies. Nice condition except for a stain on the spine which is widest at the foot of the spine and is just a line half-way up the spine where it ends. Issued without a dust jacket. Studio.
Published by Autolycus Press,, St. Louis:, 1977
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus (limited to 500 copies). Octavo, quarter bound in brown leather, cream colored paper covered boards, marbled edges. Light damp stain on rear board, else very good. No dust jacket, as issued. ; 119 pages.
Published by Autolycus Press, St. Louis, 1977
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Introduction by Michael Murphy. Quarter leather and printed paper covered boards. One of 500 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Tiny spot of front board, else fine.
Published by Autolycus Press, St. Louis, 1977
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Introduction by Michael Murphy. Quarter leather and printed paper covered boards. One of 500 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Fine.
Published by Autolycus Press, St. Louis, MO, 1977
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VF as New. First Edition. HB Illustrated Introduction by Michael Murphy Limited to 500 numbered copies.
Published by Covici-Mcgee Co., Chicago, 1934
Seller: Mainly Books, Silverdale, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover, no dustjacket, blue cloth with bright gold chalice illustration on front cover, a reading copy only of the original edition, pencil notes in the margins of several pages, all pages are secrure but some hinge-cracking is present, corners of the cloth have moderate wear and the gold spie-title is dulled.
Published by Tartarus Press Arthur Machen Society, [Horam, Heathfield, East Sussex, England], 1996
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8 [9] 10-46 [47-64: ads], green boards stamped in gold. Later edition. One of 200 copies. A reprint of Starrett's first book, published in Chicago by Walter M. Hill in 1918. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#167490).
Published by Simon & Schuster, 1944
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. PROFILE BY GASLIGHT, Simon & Schuster, 1944, first edition, light rubbing to the bottom edges, else near fine. Essays and contributions concerning Sherlock Holmes by: Rex Stout, Dorothy Sayers, Heywood Broun, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Stephen Vincent Benet, Anthony Boucher, Vincent Starrett, Howard Haycraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fletcher Pratt, Carolyn Wells, et.al. Illustrated.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012
ISBN 10: 1258289377 ISBN 13: 9781258289379
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by The Easton Press, 1981
Seller: Zach the Ripper Books, Gillette, WY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. One volume. Full-Leather. One of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written." Lettered/decorated in gilt, 3 raised spine bands, edged in gilt with silk book ribbon bound in, moire endpapers. As new except for some soiling to the bottom of the textblock. A couple of rubbings to the top of the textblock. A small soil mark on the back board. The interior is tight and clean. No writing, marks, bookplates or stamps.
Published by Modern Library, New York, 1928
Seller: Winding Road Books, Templeton, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint 1st Thus. Modern Library No. 144., Rare, Reprint First Thus Edition, First Printing from roughly 1942 to 1944 due to the price of the "Giant Editions" on the back dj cover being $1.45. True hardback, not one of the earlier decaying leatherette softcovers. Probably the first real hardback. Slight musty odor. Mottling on book covers. Book has straight stiff spine, pointed tips, no leans or dings. Blue boards and top stain.Vincent Starrett does the introduction in this edition and that was also changed in the 1949 edition. Original aqua and black dust jacket with picture is not price clipped (.95) and has Modern Library catalog listed on the back. Earlier jackets were brown with no picture, just lists of authors. This jacket has no lists on the front cover. The later 1949 jacket reintroduced the lists. General overall wear with slight crumple and loss at spine ends, tips and most edges. Looks spiffy in new plastic cover protector. Not Signed.
Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1981
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget (illustrator). Limited. Full black leather, lettered/decorated in gilt, 3 raised spine bands, edged in gilt with silk book ribbon bound in, moire endpapers. 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition. Just a hint of rubbing along text block fore-edge, essentially as issued. xxiv,764 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by The Easton Press, 1981
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reissue. Minor soiling to ribbon marker, which is also slightly frayed at the end, otherwise an excellent copy. 1981 Full-Leather. xxvi, 764 pp. 8vo. Original black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers. Color frontispiece, illustrations in text from originals by various artists. Includes A Study in Scarlet, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (comprising twelve separate cases), and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (which also includes twelve cases), all featuring the inimitable detective Sherlock Holmes. This edition is edited by Edgar W. Smith, and also includes an introduction by Vincent Starrett, and reproductions of original illustrations from various artists (Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele, William H. Hyde, George Hutchinson, D.H. Friston, and Charles Kerr).
Published by The Easton Press, 1995
Seller: Zach the Ripper Books, Gillette, WY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. One volume. Full-Leather. Lettered/decorated in gilt, 3 raised spine bands, edged in gilt with silk book ribbon bound in, moire endpapers. As new except for just a hint of wear to the bottom of the boards. The interior is tight and clean. No writing, marks, bookplates or stamps.
Published by Miniature Books - The Rodale Press, London, 1954
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Octavo, 42 pages; VG; patterned paper boards, burgundy spine with gilt lettering; wrapped in original glassine with some mild tearing and chipping, protected with mylar; signed flat on half-title page by Vincent Starrett; shelved case 0. Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (1886-1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile. 1309768. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Published by Autolycus Press, St. Louis, Missouri, 1977
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-119 [120: blank], illustrations, leather-backed boards. First edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies. The first publication of correspondence between Starrett, journalist, bibliophile and Sherlockian scholar, and Machen, English man of letters and master of fantasy and macabre fiction. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#173668).
Published by Autolycus Press, St. Louis, Missouri, 1977
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-119 [120: blank], illustrations, leather-backed boards. First edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies. The first publication of correspondence between Starrett, journalist, bibliophile and Sherlockian scholar, and Machen, English man of letters and master of fantasy and macabre fiction. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#167465).
Published by Covici-McGee Co., Chicago, 1924
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Vincent Starrett(Editor) (illustrator). First Edition. The Glorious Mystery by Arthur Machen (First Edition) A firm copy with mild wear to spine edges and corners. Mild creasing to bottom of front board and mild wear to cloth at front joint. Mild tanning to spine. Two tears to front free endpaper. Owner's name to flyleaf. Not price-clipped. A bright jacket. Chips to spine edges and to flap-folds. Mild wear to remaining edges. Dampening to rear cover; tanning to spine and flap folds. In clear protective cover. Title page dated 1924. Copyright 1924. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and design, ruled in blind; 219 pp. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. BOOK.
Published by For the Members of the Limited E, 1952
Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. These vols. annot be shipped internationally without first contacting me prior to ordering. No DJ's nor slipcase. Sunning to cover edges and spine. All of the vols. have some stains on them from having something splashed on them. Binding is tight. No markings in any of the books. Lightly read. In three volumes the entire Sherlock Holmes canon by Doyle. The first volume collects the novels A STUDY IN SCARLET, THE SIGN OF THE FOUR, and the first two story collections, THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. The second volume collects THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. The final volumes collects HIS LAST BOW, THE VALLEY OF FEAR, AND THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Published by Covici-McGhee Co., Chicago, 1924
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Blue superfine cloth covers are mostly clean, with gilt illustration. Boards show some edgewear, darkening around periphery. Corners are bumped and scuffed. See photos. Spine has gilt text dimmed and is darkened, with crushed ends. Binding is secure. Pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, bookseller sticker. See photos. Interior is age-toned; some light foxing at page edges. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. See photos. Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges, blue ink at head. Original DJ is nicely preserved behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper. Close examination of DJ shows darkening at edges and spine, heavy edgewear and bumping, many small chips especially at spine ends and corners, return corners are all clipped. See photos.** PS2023.0816** 219 pages. 5.25 x 7.5 inches** In 1924, when this work was published, The Glorious Mystery constituted a "new volume of [the] collected tales and sketches" by the Welsh author Arthur Machen (1868-1947). Machen was well known already in the 1890s for his supernatural, fantasy, and horror stories; this collection centers on the Holy Grail, or Sangraal, the "Glorious Mystery" of the title.** In the original dust jacket, which advertises this as a genuine First Edition. One thousand copies printed.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009771"**.
Published by Covici-Mcghee, Chicago, 1924
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original gilt-titled cloth. First edition. Slight rubbing to bottom edge, slight foxing to endpages. The DJ in mylar is toned, wtih gentle edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages.
Published by Pascal Covici, 1924
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. ET CETERA - A COLLECTORS SCRAP- BOOK, Pascal Covici, 1924, first edition, fine in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Previous uncollected works by such luminaries as: Richard Aldington, W.C. Bryant, Stephen Crane, Floyd Dell, Ernest Dowson, Lord Dunsany, Lafcadio Hearn, Joseph Hergesheimer, Martin Hewlett, Laurence Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Arthur Machen, Gustav Meyrink, Richard Middleton, George Moore, W. C. Russell, Edgar Saltus, Carl Van Vechten, Walt Whitman & others. 1/625 copies.
Published by London: T. Fisher Unwin., 1912
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Association copy. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with the bookplate of the writer of mystery and supernatural fiction, Sherlock Holmes expert and bibliophile Vincent Starrett to the front pastedown, his ownership signature at the top of the half title, and his presentation inscription to the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rare original dustwrapper that is split to one side of the spine and both flap folds; the front flap is defective, lacking half of the outer edge. Correctly priced 5/- to the spine. Inscribed by Starrett in blue ink on the front endpaper "For Dave / In the fellowship / of ghosts - / Vincent". A posthumous collection of fantasy and horror short stories with an eight page introduction by Arthur Machen. (Bleiler). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.