John Crombie: First Edition (139 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 111 pages. Boards have general shelf wear, rear cover had damp exposure and now has some streaks and some scrapes. Minor rippling to some interior pages, no sticking in text but front end papers had sticking along bottom edge, now small area of scrapes. Owner lib…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No. First Edition. Grey card cover with flaps with black titles to spine and black titles with purple border to front. On front paste down it is recorded that this is copy 49 of 225. 16 pages which concertina out from spine; pages have purple border and parts of black overcoat as illustrations. Cover…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good. Binding tight with very slight spine lean. Previous owner's initials in pen to title page. Otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. Some pages that were not trimmed at the printer have been separated inexpertly by a previous owner, leading to a few torn edges on the tops of a…

Condition: FINE. First printing. An unusual anthology which collects essays by 119 crime fiction authors from 20 countries on a book they picked as one of the greatest mystery novels from 1841 (Edgar Allan Poe) to 2008 (Mark Gimenez). Included are contributions from Linwood Barclay, Harlan Coben, Reed Farrel Coleman, Eoin Colfer…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : vii p., 1 l., 169 p. ; 19 cm. Subject : Literature History and criticism. 3…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : vii p., 1 l., 169 p. ; 19 cm. Subject : Literature History and criticism. 1…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Spiral bound hand-printed limited edition of 650 copies. Children's book in rhyming verse. Written and designed by John Crombie. Graphics by Sheila Bourne. White art board covers. Red plastic comb binding (one tooth missing at top of spine). Otherwise in fine condition. N…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Paperback, spiral bound, in card sleeve. No. 31 of a limited edition of only 95 copies. This can be read both backwards and forwards, non-stop. It may also be opened out and displayed, unread. To promote a free, two-way flow of ideas by word and image. Slightest wear. An excelle…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 55pp illustrated booklet printed in a limited, numbered edition of 490 copies. This is copy #127. Purple card covers with black lettering on front and spine. Drawings on front cover, title page and other pages by Sheila Bourne. In fine, unread condition. Sheila Bourne (illustr…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. No dustwrapper, old damp-marking to brown boards but gilt titles on spine and black titles and borders on boards are still clear. Some wear to spine ends and corners of the bevelled edges of boards, but otherwise a good, internally clean and tight, copy of this small hard-co…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 1st 1979. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Limited to 150 copies. Pictorial green paper wraps. Black and white line drawings throughout. Lower front corner of both book and wrapper are very slightly creased. Else a fine copy. This is copy…

kart. Condition: Gut. 1. Aufl. [46] S. ; 18 cm; Gutes Ex. - Elastische Fantasie ist das erste Buch von John Crombie aus dem Verlag »Kickshaws«, das in deutscher Sprache erscheint. . Allen Büchern gemeinsam ist das Bestreben, traditionelle Druckkunst mit innovativer Grafik oder Typografie zu verbinden. . (Nachwort) ISBN 978398014…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories by various authors. SIGNED by Deborah Crombie, John Connolly, David Morrell, Laurie R. King, Leslie S. Klinger, Dana Cameron, Catriona McPherson, Gary Phillips, Hank Ph…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. pp 16. Original publishers grey strung wraps, lettered black. Born in England during the Second World War, John Crombie founded the Kickshaws association in 1980 with Sheila Bourne. Alongside his activity as an independent translator, he launched into typography, and i…