Hekking Avis (6 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This copy has the 22 pp. of publisher's ads in back. Rebound with ribbed burgundy leather spine stamped in gold. Textblock is very tight. Pages are clean with the exception of the table of contents, with the chapter titles faintly underlined in blue ink (it appears partly erased). Front hinge has separation, but this may be from the rebinding. Rear hinge is partway cracked. Attractive navy cloth covers looking neat and smooth. Wtih minimal wear to edges, though all corner tips are rubbed, and lower front corner is rubbed to the boards leaving a couple of short fray threads. Ribbed leather spine binding nice and sharp with bright gilt. Leather has a few little chips. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THE BOARDS ARE RUBBED AND FADED. THERE ARE STAINS TO THE BOARDS. THE CORNERS ARE SCUFFED AND EXPOSED. THE SPINE IS RUBBED AND BOTH ENDS ARE BUMPED. THERE IS HEAVY FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES. BOTH END PAPERS ARE YELLOWED. THERE IS SOME LIGHT FOXING INSIDE. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. First issue binding with gilt lettering, and with March 1908, 24 page Catalogue at the rear.

Hard Cover. First Edition. (London: John Long, [1908]). First UK Edition. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7-8] 9-317 [318] [319-320: ads + 24 page Catalogue at the rear]. Publisher's original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First UK edition with the 24-page publisher's catalogue dated March 1908 printed with red borders inserted at rear. According to Currey this is apparently the earliest binding with author and title in gold within a gold rule box on the front cover. Spine very lightly faded (just a touch) and some foxing to the page block edges (which has crept into the text in places) and to the early/late pages of the book else an attractive, tightly bound VG copy. No dustwrapper. "A romance set on the planet Mars, with a civilization a little advanced over Earth's with, for example, airships, the 'white fire' (a destructive hand-weapon) and the recently developed facility for sending a small metal globe to Earth, which contains a story for our edification. reasonably scarce book." -Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 110. A very nice copy indeed. Uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request.…

Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7-8] 9-317 [318] [319-320: ads], original cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Issued with and without a 24-page publisher's catalogue dated March 1908 inserted at rear; this copy does not have the catalogue. This is apparently the earliest binding with author and title in gold within a gold rule box on the front cover. "A romance set on the planet Mars, with a civilization a little advanced over Earth's with, for example, airships, the 'white fire' (a destructive hand-weapon) and the recently developed facility for sending a small metal globe to Earth, which contains a story for our edification . reasonably scarce book ." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 110. Locke, Voyages in Space 104. Bleiler (1978), p. 78. Reginald 07080. Cloth lightly stained at upper fore-edge corner of front cover and upper fore-edge corner of rear cover, else a bright, tight, very good copy. (#174210).…

Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7-8] 9-317 [318] [319-320: ads], original cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Issued with and without a 24-page publisher's catalogue dated March 1908 inserted at rear; this copy does not have the catalogue. This is apparently the earliest binding with author and title in gold within a gold rule box on the front cover. "A romance set on the planet Mars, with a civilization a little advanced over Earth's with, for example, airships, the 'white fire' (a destructive hand-weapon) and the recently developed facility for sending a small metal globe to Earth, which contains a story for our edification . reasonably scarce book ." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 110. Locke, Voyages in Space 104. Bleiler (1978), p. 78. Reginald 07080. A bit of light soiling to rear cover, else a bright, tight, very good copy. A nice copy of an uncommon book. (#89863).…