Edge Spencer (4 results)

inb. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. An Intriguing Little Book! A Rare Find. The Book Is An Ex Library Edition From A Public Library In Wellington New Zealand Library 'Rejected' Stamp On Ffep, Title Page, Pages 105, 241 And Rear Ep. Library Pocket And Date Page At The Rear Of The Book. The Ffep Has An Inscription And Dated May 1929. Minor Foxing But Still Very Legible.Grenn Cloth Covered Boards With Welling Public Library Stamped On The Front Board. The Title Is Just Visible On The Spine And The Spine Edges Are Rubbed And Fraying, Free Corners Also Bumped. Spencer Edge Was A Pottery Designer In The Early 1900S England And As Far As I Know This Was His One And Only Book. A Rare Item.

Thick 8vo. xii, 883, [1] pp. Index. Original full dark red blind-stamped morocco, raised bands, gilt spine title, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endsheets. With red leather bookplate of C.H. Roberts. Near fine. With a very sweetly painted, charming, split-double fore-edge painting of a pair of vertical fox-hunting scenes. Painted circa. 1990s-2010. / Surely this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance at a fore-edge painting on a Herbert Spencer. It is an odd choice, but the binding is so well kept, it was a good candidate for adding the fore-edge. Still, why a fox-hunting scene? Nothing to do with Herbert Spencer. Sold by Harrington's with their cost-marks. [c340/126].

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. 4pp. advertisements. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-. Internally Fine; cloth very slightly lightened at spine, o/w Fine; jacket with some minor, old repairs to reverse at spine ends and corners, but really VG. "The first chapter of Mr. Edge's story is enough to indicate the mystery which is to be unravelled, and every succeeding chapter makes the mystery deeper until the final elucidation." (The Bookseller, Vol. 60, 1914). An early detective fiction title, in a remarkably excellent pre WW1 dust-jacket. Exceptionally scarce, with only six copies recorded by WorldCat, and no copies in trade or at auction that we could trace. Book.