De Somerville E (5 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Top edge foxed, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Hard Cover. 221 pp.This 14-story collection of horseracing stories by British and American writers will provide pleasant reading for fans of the ``sport of kings.'' Represented here are such familiar names as Arthur Conan Doyle (``Silver Blaze,'' the story in which Sherlock Holmes makes his famous pronouncement about ``the curious incident of the dog in the night-time''), Edgar Wallace (``The Coop,'' in which the prolific mystery writer's series character, race track tout Educated Evans, turns a surprise profit) and Sherwood Anderson (``I'm a Fool,'' the first-person narrative of a young man trapped in his own deceit, entertaining despite its outdated racial attitudes). Francis, as might be expected, has a bit of crime at the heart of his ``Carrot for a Chestnut,'' a story of the fixing of a race with an O. Henryish twist. Welcome ( Grand National ) spins a tale of the unlikely racing triumph of an Oxford student over his untrustworthy best friend in ``A Glass of Port with the Proctor.'' The volume opens with Richard Findlay's ``The Dream,'' a nicely done tale of premonition and disaster, and closes with E. de Somerville and Martin Ross's ``The Bagman's Pony,'' an offbeat, amusing story of a race against the clock in Colonial India.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Number 44. 89 pp. Number 44 only! Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Small pen mark on front cover.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Vol. LIV. no. 5. Pulp magazine. Byline cover. Includes "The Perfect Crime" (complete novel) by Francis Lynde; "That Big Word, Indispensible" by Clarence L. Cullen; "Beef" by Henry Herbert Knibbs; "Angel face" by Charles Somerville; "Blight" by H. de Vere Stacpoole; "A.W.O.L." by Berton Braley; "caught in the Net" 9editorials); "The Secret City" (pt. 2 of 3) by Roy Norton; "Amateur Stuff" by W. R. Hoefer; "The Hurricane" by Carl Causen; "Three Strikes" by Roy W. Hinds; "Sweeney's Joke" by Raymond J. Brown; "Hop Carter's Luck" by J. E. Grinstead; "The Black Butterflies" (verse) by John Curtin Underwood; "The Map" by J. B. Harris-Burland; "A Chat with You" (feature). Edge and corner wear with short tears and small losses;staining at upper edge, mostly towards rear and foredge corner; rear cover re-glued at hinge with tape mends. Magazine.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. un volume in-8°, (10) 208 pp. Reliure en demi-chagrin vert, dos lisse orné du titre et de fers romantiques dorés, tranches dorées, gardes moirées (reliure de l'époque). (coins et coupes légèrement frottés, rousseurs et brunissures, cerne claire angulaire sur les tout derniers feuillets). 13 lithographies en noir à pleine page d'après les dessins de H. EMY.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. un volume in-8°, 208 pp. Reliure en demi-chagrin vert, dos lisse orné du titre et de fers romantiques dorés, tranches dorées, gardes moirées (reliure de l'époque). (coins légèrement émoussés, rousseurs et brunissures, cerne claire angulaire sur les tout derniers feuillets). 13 lithographies en noir à pleine page.