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Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. First Edition. Normal age/use wear. Staple bound. 45 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. States "First published 1934." Original price has been clipped from bottom of (pale sea green) jacket front flap. but a new U.S. price of $3.00 has been stamped to top of flap. Probably best known for editor Carter's seminal essay on collecting "Detective Stories," though David A. Randall also contributes "American First Editions, 1930-1933," in which he properly notes Hemingway, Faulkner and Robert Frost, while somewhat famously managing to overlook F. Scott Fitzgerald (feel free to send us your unwanted early copies of "Gatsby"), Dashiell Hammett (ditto "Maltese Falcon" -- though Carter misses Hammett, as well), L. Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs, etc. Jacket rear panel advertises John Carter and Graham Pollard's "An Enquiry Into The Nature of Certain XIX Century Pamphlets," which the publishers trumpet as "The greatest bibliographical sensation ever known in England" -- a claim for that piece of shocking literary detective work which was not overstated. Dust jacket considerably age-browned to spine; 294 pp. including Index. Now reduced from $87.

Hard Cover. Condition: good+. 1st Edition. 190pp; interior clean, b/w photos; includes program from an informal ball given by the crew at the Hotel Pennsylvania in NY on May 26, 1919. gilt lettering + decor to cover with heavy wear to edges, boards showing. Hardcover.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 120 pages. 10.50x8.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: G-vg. 127 pages. Blue binding with gold lettering on spine and front cover. B/W photos throughout the book. Minor wear to spine ends and corner tips. Rear hinge just starting. Small area on front cover has some discoloration. Photos of book on request. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. States "First published 1934." Shows original price on "10/- net" to bottom of (pale sea green) jacket front flap; jacket front panel shows a water stain. Faint emerald top stain. Probably best known for editor Carter's seminal essay on collecting "Detective Stories," though David A. Randall also contributes "American First Editions, 1930-1933," in which he properly notes Hemingway, Faulkner and Robert Frost, while somewhat famously managing to overlook F. Scott Fitzgerald (feel free to send us your unwanted early copies of "Gatsby"), Dashiell Hammett (ditto "Maltese Falcon" -- though Carter misses Hammett, as well), L. Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs, etc. Jacket rear panel advertises John Carter and Graham Pollard's "An Enquiry Into The Nature of Certain XIX Century Pamphlets," which the publishers trumpet as "The greatest bibliographical sensation ever known in England" -- a claim for that piece of shocking literary detective work which was not overstated. As mentioned, dust jacket shows a 4-inch dampstain to front panel; 294 pp. including Index. Reduced from $52.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 120 pages. 10.50x8.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket as issued. First Edition. Text and images unmarked. The binding is tight; corners show bumping; edges show slight wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. "First edition March 1996" statement and first printing number code sequence 10 through 1 to the copyright page, $24.95 to the jacket's flap. SIGNED by two contributing authors to the head of their stories: SIGNED by Edward D. Hoch who wrote in the style of Ellery Queen, and Richard Lupoff who wrote in the style of Jack Kerouac, (Lupoff SIGNED and inscribed with the notation "For Arthur from Jack Kerouac using the feeble hand of Richard Lupoff! 1997"). Introduction and rubrics by J.Adrian Fillmore. An anthology of fifteen all-new original Sherlock Holmes mystery stories all by authors who "ascribe" their tales to other famous authors, including Hemingway, Lovecraft, Dunsany, Spillane, Hammett, Stout, and more. Presentable double-Signed gift. Lower spine edge minutely crimped, else very nearly fine, square, very tight and firm in black boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the laminate. Octavo; 337 pages; plus introduction, foreword, and contents pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Ed. 127pp, small quarto hardcover. moderate wear to book edges, boards clean, binding shaken with a minor weak point at top of pg.17 yet remains solid, interior text clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 127 pages, well illus, "a record of the work and play of the Mine Force, United States Atlantic Fleet, during the War against Germany" June-Nov 1918. Significant bumping at spine and at each corner of the covers; previous owner's name, ship and date ("May 1919") on front pastedown; binding a little less than robust with wear showing at the centre top of each double-page in the first half of the book; some page corners bent; some foxing towards rear of book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Articles include: The Cathedral Libraries Catalogue; the Spanish Masquerado; An Examination of the Method of Proof Correction in Lear; Horace Walpole's Library; Forged Addresses in Low Country Books in the Period of the Reformation; Early English Books at the London Oratory; MacBeth at the Globe; Further Notes on Paper used in England after 1600; Konrad Haebler: In Memoriam; Geneva as a Centre of early Printing; the Gifts of Elizabethan Printers to the Library of King's College, Cambridge; Some Notes on the Bibliography of Jeremy Taylor; Halliwell-Phillipps and Trinity College Library. Bibliographical Notes: The 1618 Quarto of Field's Amends for Ladies; Pen-and-Ink Corrections in Seventeenth-century Books; Paper Saving in 1639; Additional Observations to the Later Editions of Nosce Teipsum; A Letter of Petrus Savornanus to Bibald Pireckheimer; Albertus Trottus and Albertus de Ferrariis; Foxe's Acts and monuments, 1570 and Single page Imposition; An Apparently Unrecorded French Translation of Galen's De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus 1544; Andrew Boorde's Dyetary of Helth and its Attribution to Thomas Linacre; Notes on a Late-sixteenth-century Opthalmic Work in English; The Archpriest Controversy and the Printers 1601-1603; Correction at Press in the Quarto of Law-Trickes; The Date of the Earliest Play-Catalogues; Browne's Urn Burial; Jacob Bryant and the Sunderland Library; Two Caslon Specimens; Tennyson's Carmen Saeculare; Notes on Some Tools used by the Unicorn Binder; Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright; A Note on the Authorship of Three Works against Thomas Bell; the First Series of Plays published by Francis Kirkman in 1661. Correspondence. Reviews. Clean grey boards with clean grey linen spine with black lettering, sound binding, penciled note at top of page 1 otherwise clean pages. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12210100059. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Paperback. Stated First Edition, First Printing: Advance Uncorrected Proof. 5.5 x 8.25in. xiii. 337pp. Publisher's printed wraps. NEAR FINE. The top and bottom text-block edge with a slight hint of oxidative stress, else Fine/As New. As pictured.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First Printing in full blue cloth with gilt-stamped titles blocked in black to spine and original $3.50-priced blue dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, boards bright & sharp-cornered with only slight signs of wear and a touch of foxing top page block edge, jacket shows large triangular portion missing from front spine fold to top front corner but surprisingly minimal wear otherwise (a little rubbing to panels), a clean tight overall very nice copy (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; 256pp.

4to., in colour pictorial glazed boards; 143pp, with black and white illustrations throughout. No inscriptions or annotation. Light foxing to edges and prelims plus some occasionally throughout, a few small handling marks to boards, overall VG. (Shelf 94) ISBN: 0224012363 PLEASE NOTE: Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. 5.5 x 8.5in. xvii. 153pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE. Shows a slight hint of shelf rubbing, otherwise remains Fine/As New. As pictured.

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. CIRCA 1881 Notes on Cage Birds: or, Practical Hints on the management of British and foreign cage birds, hybrids, and canaries. Edited by: W.T. Greene. Faded cover. The cover is folded in the side. Title is engraved in gold. DATE PUBLISHED: 1881 EDITION: 240.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 200 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Clean maroon coth on boards with gilt titles and gilt profile of Sherlock Holmes on front of cover. Thin light bumping to foot of spine. Edges: light greying to top-edge and faint dusting of a little age soiling. Just a couple of pages with few only foxings; light foxing to recto of glossy illustration pages. B/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 247p.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 200 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. NICE, CLEAN COPY.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 31pp. Stapled wrappers. Age-toning on the spine with light rubbing, near fine. Includes a long review of Ted Hughes's poetry by Newton. Cambridge University's Literary Magazine printed in the 1950s and 1960s featuring poetry, stories, and reviews. Notable contributors include John Barrell, Angus Calder, Christopher Hampton, Norman Iles, Nicholas Lafitte, Matthew Mead, J.B. Broadbent, Divers Hands, J.M. Newton, and Geoffrey Strickland. Scarce.

1st Edition. Hb original blue cloth 176pp coloured frontis plate, illustrations and maps A Vg bright copy and Uncommon.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Later Edition. 11th Edition; Volume I, - Survey and Field Astronomy; vii, 448 pages, [xvi, advertisements], map wallet to back cover containing 2 astronomical charts. Vol II Organisation and equipment scientific observation health, sickness, and injury. xvi, 286 pages. Both volumes illustrated with numerous diagrams and black and white photos, index and publishers adverts. Original covers in unclipped dust jackets. Shelf wear, previous owners names on front end papers, contents clean, dust jackets grubby, mended splits, old Sellotape marks. Comprehensive volume covering all aspects of expeditions before and after the Second World War. Serious books for would be travellers and expedition leaders of the middle 20th century. Full of hidden gems, a great book to dip in and out of "The Yak does not like the scent of a European who should not stand near during loading" "Donkeys are useful for men to ride, but not for loads. They cannot go long stages, they are slow, and they drown in rivers." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Exploration; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 642. This is a SET of books, therefore heavier than a standard volume, and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries.