Fergus Wright Hume (22 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his name in pencil on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Boards rubbed with lo…

First Edition. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.304; [16]. With the tissue-guarded halftone frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth. Black titles to upper, gilt titles to spine. Publisher's catalogue to rear. Interior frequently but faintly spotted. Rear flyleaf cancelled. Some thumbing to prelims. Heavy m…

Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi 7-319 [320], original burgundy cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, First edition. Fantastic adventure novel of murder and the occult, concerning trance-inducing tuberose leaves and an ancient herb burner from Easter Island, a relic of Lemurian civilization. Bleiler (1978), p.…

Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi 7-319 [320], original burgundy cloth, front panel stamped in black and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, First edition. Fantastic adventure novel of murder and the occult, concerning trance-inducing tuberose leaves and an ancient herb burner from Easter Island, a relic of Lemurian civilization.…

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-302 [303-304: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Harry B. Matthews, original pictorial navy blue cloth, front panel stamped in red and gray, spine panel stamped in red. First U.S. edition. Fantastic adventure novel of murder and the occult, concerning trance-inducing tuberose le…

First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 1 of adverts, 396, 16 of adverts. Yellow cloth with vivid design to spine and upper board. Bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, small close tear to front two pages, neat ownership inscription to the half title page, some occasional marking throughout the textblock, catalogue to rear is…

First Edition. [Strange tale] FIRST EDITION, three volumes complete. Octavo (19 x 13 x 9cm), pp.288; 302; 300. Pagination appears to be correct, with half-titles to vols. 2 and 3 (evidently not called for in first volume). Publisher's light blue cloth blocked in gilt to spine, and titled and trimmed in black to upper, black endp…

Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-230 [231-232: ads], publisher's pictorial gray wrappers printed in back. First British edition. The best selling mystery novel of the Victorian era. Although "ONE HUNDREDTH THOUSAND" is printed at the top edge of title page, this is probably the first UK printing (but see Bell's confusing history printed as a…

Octavo, pp. [1-13] 14-222 [223-224: ads], publisher's pictorial gray wrappers printed in back. First edition. Although "ONE HUNDREDTH THOUSAND" is printed at the top edge of title page, this is the first printing. This Australian "western" with "scenes in Ballarat and Mellbourne, is a story of mining life, with theatrical associ…

Small octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [7] 8-192, original pictorial white wrappers printed in black. First edition. A paperbound shilling shocker featuring private detective Octavius Fanks. Glover and Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction 260. Hubin (1994), p. 423. Wolff 3386. The back wrapper is missing, as is most of the spine panel, inter…

Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x] xi [xii] 1-403 [404: printer's imprint] + sixteen-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, four inserted plates with illustrations by Phillys Vere Campbell, original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. "Occult thriller by prolific mystery writer; you…

Jean Bernard PARIS, Librairie des Champs-Élysées [23, rue Marbeuf /// IFE, Imprimerie Française de l'Édition, 12, rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée] - Copyright 1934 - C.18,5x12x1,9 cm - Cartonnage éditeur jaune titré et orné du masque à la plume emblématique de la collection en marron; jaquette au premier plat illustré en couleurs par Je…