Penmare William (3 results)
Published by Hodder & Stoughton 1929
- First Edition
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United KingdomCotswold Internet Books
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1st edition. Blue cloth with black lettering & monogram. Internally VG; blue cloth a little discoloured on spine, with light wear at head & foot; boards a little marked Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).
More imagesPublished by Hodder & Stoughton, London 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United KingdomLycanthia Rare Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. "Pseudonym of UK author Mavis Elizabeth Hocking Nisot (1893-1973) which she used for two of her novels, the second, The Man Who Could Stop War (1929), being a Near…Future Scientific Romance in which the invention of an immobilising gas helps thwart a Russian Invasion. She is better known for her detective tales as E H Nisot." (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). Some scattered foxing; cloth and dust-jacket very good. Book.
More imagesPublished by London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1929 1929
- First Edition
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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First edition, from the collection of the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, with his posthumous bookplate. This science fiction novel imagines the thwarting of a Russian invasion through the invention of an immobilizing gas. Nisot (1893-1973) wrote two novels under the Penmare pseudonym; she also known for her detective nove…ls, published under the name E. H. Nisot. Octavo. With 12 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. With dust jacket. Bookseller's stamps of the Book Room, New South Wales, to free endpapers. Spine toned, corners bumped, spotting to covers, foxing to outer leaves; jacket soiled and toned, chips and creases to extremities, loss to spine ends, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
