Collected Edited Introduction (26 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. First Thus. Mass market paperback, xxvi + 429 pages; very gently read, if at all, pages, tiny traces of shelf wear, store stamped inside front cover, otherwise very clean and unmarked. PLEASE NOTE: the Stock Image provided by Abebooks next to my listing is of another later printing of this book and bears no resemblance to my First Printing thus copy. See also our listing for Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings [Bantam Classics], and for Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe [Poems, Tales, Essays and Reviews] (buy two or moreand save on postage!).

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 114 page. The accompaniments harmonized and arranged by Charles Vincent and T. Tertius Noble. reprinting of the 1943 publication; 7 1/2 x 10 3/4 ".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. DJ nicely in archival wraps with mended tears and soiling; pages dusty with light age toning. Less common collection.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped dust jacket protected by archival mylar. Edited reflections from addicts and their loved ones, collected by the Associate Director of the Henry Street Settlement. According to the jacket, "If we listen carefully, we can hear the tones of a new world emerging, not just the world of junk, but a world so distressing, so inhospitable that countless thousands flee from it into the escape of narcotics. This is the voice of the addict, but it is also the voice of the people telling us about a world they never made. A sensitive social worker and a talented editor have brought them to us, and it behooves us to listen before it is too late.".

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. "Midway Reprint 1980" stated. Near fine plus, if not fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4 Volumes in 3 Books. Total 1553 pages, very good plus matching hardbacks, publisher's original two tone brown & cream cloth bindings with gilt lettering to the spines, minimal evidence that they are from a uk university library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with gold gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Price clipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 100pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (28/4).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xxxix, 491 pages. Publisher's binding fresh, corners sharp, light wear to head and foot of spine; warm inscription from one of the contributors, a very few marginal marks in pencil, else contents very good. 1800 grams. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue boards and red cloth spine; gilt stamping. Contents clean and textually unmarked. No library stamps. Owner's nameplate affixed inside front cover. 272pp; Second Printing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 127 p. Final letter in title and of word detective cropped at outer edge but this as published. Slight lean to spine, overall light reading wear. Letter "A" written unnecessarily to front cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 128 p. Exceptional copy. Touch of sticker residue to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Jacket lightly soiled and rubbed with a vertical line of moderate rubbing across front and especially the rear panel. Jacket spine a bit faded and darkened with spots of staining. Half inch arc of tear to head of front jacket panel with short tears to head of spine and tiny chips to both head and foot. Edge wear with a chip to foot of rear panel. Couple spots of soil to front board. Bookplate to front paste-down, toning around edges of front free end-paper. This toning extends to half-title and faintly to title-page. LA Times review of the book pasted to rear free end-paper with an October 8, 1956 Time magazine review laid in. Both reviews produced offset to rear paste-down and to the rear jacket flap. Binding firm, unmarked copy. Johnston A18.I.a with "Format A" binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 128 p. Sound clean unmarked copy, slight lean to spine, some minor edgewear and discolouration to covers. Old tide mark to lower bottom edge of some pages and inside rear cover not affecting text.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. (1950) 127+1 pp. Original red, pictorial wraps, moderately soiled w/ wear to edges. Edges of leaves age toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine original red cloth boards, former owner's name in ink to ffep, mild age-toning, otherwise a very attractive copy, very clean throughout, in Fine DW, but slightly worn along top edge.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Second Printings. Two octavo volumes (24cm); black cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spines; dustjackets; xiv,[2],3-408,[2]pp; viii,[2],3-374,[2]pp. Previous owners' names neatly inked to upper front endpaper on both volumes. Volume I has light shelf-wear, with modest rubbing to spine ends, and trace shelf-soil to edges of textblock; Very Good. Volume I dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.50), spine-faded, with trivial surface wear and rubbing, and tiny tears to spine panel edges and wrapper extremities; Very Good. Volume II has light shelf-wear, with soil to edges of textblock; Very Good. Volume II dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.50), spine-faded, with light shelf-wear and rubbing, 1" horizontal tear to front panel, 1.5" tear to lower rear flap, 0.5" tear to rear spine fold, and tiny tears to spine panel edges; Good. Explores writings on psychoanalysis by Otto Fenichel, with many topics not previously shared by him. [86619].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Red cloth with silver stamping front panel, gutter paper mildly darkened. No. 345 of an edition limited to 800 copies. "The book before you is the first work of family history that was compiled by American and German Weisers." Contains copies of Weiser documents recently uncovered - text in both English and German. ; MCN35826; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 66 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ludwig van Beethoven, Stipple Engraving by Blasius Höfel (Cover) (illustrator). 1st Published: 1965. 519 + xlix (Vol. One) + 496 +xxxiv (Vol. Two) + 502 + xxx (Vol. Three) pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, scarce, true collectible gem! A wonderful copies (Complete 3-Volume-Set)! A great, almost spotlessly clean copies (3) and dust jackets (3)! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copies (3) and dust jackets (3) with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copies (3) with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Dust jackets (3) show minimal, minor or light wear around edges. Relevant articles (Appendixes) placed by previous owner included. Please inquire for individual volumes. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments.

hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. first edition. Octavo, green cloth covers with gilt spine titles, xiii [1] 345 pages. Former owner blind stamps on title page. Ex libris Joseph A. Sadony. A little foxing on a couple of preliminary pages. Dust jacket has some wear at edges, still Very Good. 060922B.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some minor staining to covers. Some foxing. Bookseller's ticket on front endpaper, Newbolds, Dunedin, N.Z. ; xxix, [3], 311, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 2 plates. The 3 illustrations (frontispiece + 2 plates) are by E. Griset. Oatmeal colour cloth boards with brown lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 222 x 138mm. Fairy tales. The 2 plates are facing pages 6 and 20. Texts are given in both English translation and the original Scottish Gaelic for each story. Contents: Preface; Introduction; How Finn kept his Children for the Big Young Hero fo the Ship, and How Bran was Found; Finn's Journey to Lochlan, and How the Grey Dog was Found Again; How Finn was in the House of Blar-Buie (Yellow-Field), without the Power or Rising Up or of Lying Down; The Smith's Rock in the Isle of Skye; The Bare-Stripping Hangman; A Tale of the Son of the King of Ireland and the Daughter of the King of the Red Cap; The Son of the Strong Man of the Wood, Who was Twenty-One Years on His Mother's Breast; The Farmer of Liddesdale; A Tale about the Son of the Knight of the Green Vesture, Performing Heroic Deeds which were Famed on Earth Seven Years before he was Born; Notes.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint, third impression, 4to., pp.xxxii,464, hardcover, gilt and black lettering, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations accompany the text throughout; paste-action (toning) to paste-down endpapers, foxing to edges and very lightly to prelims, corners bumped, an otherwise very good copy in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has 2.5cm closed tear to front upper margin, creasing and rubbing to extremities and a few light surface scratches to rear - now in a protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Brown publisher's cloth with gold lettering and design stamped on spine. The covers are a bit worn, with slight loss of cloth at corners and bottom edge and a bit of scuffing and wear. Top edge gilt, untrimmed fore edges. The spine is slightly cocked. Brown paste-downs and free endpapers. Sewn textblock, with a split after the endpapers and first leaf. The text is still tight with no loose pages. Previous owner's name is written, in ink, on second end paper. Considerable foxing to the end papers with slight foxing and staining to some of the pages in the text. Despite the stated flaws, this is a nice copy of a hard to find original edition. ; Seventeen page introduction by Edward Hale, giving a brief history of Howe's command of the British Army during the siege of Boston. The book consists of the précis of correspondance with General Howe taken from from vol. 290 America and West India series of manuscripts in Her Majesty's Public record office and covers the period of time from Howe's attack on Bunker and Breed's Hills, the British evacuation of Boston in March 1776 and his retreat to Halifax. Scarce original edition ; no illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xix, 357 p. pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK RED LEATHER, MCM111 or January 1903, 1st Limited Edition of 30. VG-. AS-IS, Scuff & rub to Spine edges, WITH OVER 50 FULL PAGE Illustrations, SAME 3 FRONTISPIECES WITH TISSUE GUARD THE RAVEN FROM ORIGINAL DRAWING ALBERT EDWARD STERNER, Preface to POEMS, MARBLELIZED red white Endpapers, Inner Hinges Starting Slightly, INTRODUCTION TO POEMS LITE RUB & WEAR, RED LEATHER SPINE CVR & TIPS OF COVER WITH BEIGE MARBLELIZING & GOLD GILT TRIM ON FRONT TINY EDGE RUB, RAISED BANDS ON RED LEATHER SPINE CVR WITH GOLD GILT , VOL X OR 10 ONLY, POEMS , PART OF SET OF 10 VOLS. FRONTISPIECE BY ALBERT EDWARD STERNER, Here is a very interesting and hard to find copy of "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe" Volume X ONLY, ,End of Book Bibliography, GENERAL INDEX ETC, 314 PGS, & HERE ENDS THE FIRST Complete & TRUE EDITION OF WORKS OF Edgar Allan Poe. GOLD GILT TO OUTER PGS TOP EDGE, gold floral decorations to spine CVR. MANUSCRIPT EDITION Printed on Hand-Maded Japan Vellum, PRINTED AT R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 314 PGS, Raised bands on spine cvr WITH GOLD GILT.

First edition. 2 volumes (complete). Text volume: xxiv, 169 pp.; plate volume: [7] pp., 314 plates most with 4 monochrome images per plate; royal octavo, dark blue cloth with gilt titles. First volume contains the introduction and indexes in Romanized Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese. Second volume with 2 sections of plates, the first showing collotype reproductions of the 766 preserved images or inscribed pedestals of the Pao-Hsiang Lou Pantheon; the second section shows reproductions of 360 images from the Chu Fo-P'u-sa Sheng Hsiang Tsan manuscript Ex libris American Academy of Asian Studies (San Francisco) with white call numbers on spines, AAAS ink stamp to front free endpapers of both volumes and title page of volume 1. Library pocket to inside for rear cover. Both volumes tight and clean and have seen little use.

First Edition. (New York: The American Mercury/Jonathan Press 1947). First US Edition. A Digest Trade Paperback originally offered at 25 cents. A collection of short stories following Allingham's serial detective Albert Campion. These digest-magazine sized original collections have become quite difficult to find. No darkening to the spine (as usually found), the usual discoloration of the paper (due to the poor quality of paper used). Clean smooth and unmarked. No reading crease to the spine. Fragile cover. A nicer copy than normally seen. A former owner has unnecessarily applied a strip of tape reinforcement at the base of the spine. Still overall a VG+ copy. Seven stories and an introduction by the legendary Ellery Queen. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1839. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Pages:- 368, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 368 368.