Barbara Roden Introduction (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Buchan, John; Barbara & Christopher Roden (editors) Kenneth Hillier (Introduction) : The Watcher By the Threshold. Ashcroft (BC, CAN) : Ash-Tree Press, 2005. First edition from this publisher, limited edition of 500 copies. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.25"/24cm h. Bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering imprinted to spine. Glossy color dj features art of Keith Minnion. Red endpapers with subtly patterned "Ash-Tree Press" repeated throughout. Xxvi pp prelim material, 352 numbered pp, six wo/numbers following. Intro, glossary, 28 tales (originally published 1890s-1930s), sources, colophon and (helpfully), a four page list of Ash-Tree Press "Titles Published" 1994-2005, including forthcoming titles. Condition notes: A fine, clean, just-off-square, unmarked copy, with light wear to dj and boards and a slight soiling to tail edge. Gift-appropriate. Buchan was a prolific novelist and biographer, with his most-recognized novel being The Thirty-Nine Steps (adapted to film by Alfred Hitchcock and others). This collection showcases his masterful story-telling abilities. We personally inspect every book we offer.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus; Limited edtion. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 352 pages; Snugly bound and neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Published in an edition of 500 copies, not numbered. Trace dust spotting top edge of page block; superficial shelf cock in the spine. VG++/VG++.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Illustrated D/w by Paul Lowe. 3 illus in text in Barbara Rodens informative 22 page intro. First Thus. 21 x 14 cms. Octavo. xxxi, 279pp + ads. Frontispiece portrait. Original publisher's burgundy cloth lettered gilt at the spine n dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies of this first printing of the Ash-Tree Press edition. Short stoies, some ghosts. Fine in complete clean VG dustwrapper with some minor marks and slight toning. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. Paul Lowe (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Printing. Pages are clean, no markings from the previous owners. Binding is square and tight. Maroon cloth boards are clean. Glit titles on spine are bright and intact. Textblock is clean and unmarked. DJ is clean and bright - DJ is also in protective mylar cover. First Printing, limited edition of five hundred copies by Ash-Tree Press. Pictures provided upon request.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Limited Edition. 79pp, bound in red cloth, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight. Limited Edition, this being #60 of 150 numbered copies. Complete with six photographic plates, as called for. In a protective mylar jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Thus. 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 279pp + ads. Frontispiece portrait. Burgundy cloth in dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies of this first printing of the Ash-Tree Press edition. Paul Lowe (illustrator).