Roland Wild (120 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Green-blue hardcover with red titling to paper label on spine. 282 pages, indexed. Black and white frontis, plus eight (8) more photographs. Bumps, chips and rubs to corners, edges and spine ends. Spine label faded. Previous owner's name on FEP. Some foxing to endpapers. Paper separation between frontis and title page. Pages tanned from age.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition. Small Octavo. Cloth in mylar protected dust jacket. 194 pp., illustrated. The story of one of the great sea captians of his time. A clean, tight copy in a lightly rubbed dj.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Amor De Cosmos. Book.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. King's Counsel: The Life of Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett. Book.

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: G. First Edition. Blue covers with white lettering to spine, 224pp. Covers have general light wear and bumping to extremities, sunned patches at head and foot of spine and top edges, yellowed, foxed, dusty page edges, gift inscription on ffep. Foxed prelims. Discoloured, price-clipped DJ has severe wear to extremities, several losses and several closed tears and nicks. The DJ isn't pretty! Ref:093043.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Nine O'clock Gun. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and an uncreased spine and some minor rubbing on the upper left corner and a short crease on the lower right of the front cover; no interior markings. This collection contains: ONE: Misapplied Ingenuity of a Bigamist: The Rouse Case by F. A. Beaumont; Man Hunters: The German Rouse Cases by F. A. Beaumont; The Otterburn Mystery by Val Gielgud; The Murder of Julia Wallace by Dorothy L. Sayers; The Vera Page Case by George Cornish; Winnie Ruth Judd by Geoffrey Homes; How We Trapped Capone by Frank J. Wilson; The Ma Barker Gang by J. Edgar Hoover; Crime of the African Crater by Benjamin Bennett; Samuel Furnace: History's Greatest Manhunt by Roland Wild; Georges Sarret: The Acid Bath Killer by Roland Wild; The Cleveland Torso Killer by Damon Wilson; The Rattlesnake Murder by Eugene D. Williams; Jerome Braun von Selz: The Laughing Killer by Allan R. Bosworth; An Axe for Frau Marek by Ignatz Peters; A Mixed Bag: Sylvestre Matuska, The Man Who Loved Trains, The Lindbergh Kidnapping, The Case of Jennie Donald, The Ronald Case, The Nancy Titterton Case, and The Mona Tinsley Case by Colin Wilson. TWO: By the Light of the Moon by Edward Radin; Gordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper by Fred Cherrill; The Man Who Wanted Voices by John Godwin; I Always Wanted to Torture a Girl by George Vedder Jones; Harry Dobkin: The Skeleton in the Cellar by Keith Simpson; The Wigwam Murder by Molly Lefebure; The Heirens Case by Colin Wilson and William Heirens; Neville Heath: The Sadist by Percy Hoskins; The Porthole Murder by Dennis Hocking; Marcel Petiot: Murder for Profit by Alister Kershaw; The Black Dahlia by David Rowan; John Haigh: The Vampire Murderer by Colin Wilson; The Lonely Hearts Murders by Colin Wilson; The Cleft Chin Murder by Edgar Lustgarten; The Blackburn Child Murder by Tony Fletcher; Howard Unruh: The First of the Crazy Gunmen by Brad Steiger; and A Mixed Bag: The Assassination of Leon Trotsky, Bruno Ludke, The Texarkana Moonlight Murderer, Ley and Smith, The Lower Quinton Witchcraft Murder, and Charles Floyd by Colin Wilson. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 146 pp., b/w photographs. A biography of Amor De Cosmos (1825-1897), the second premier of British Columbia. Foreword by The Honourable W.A.C. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia. Edges darkened, one corner bumped. Dust jacket shows edge wear, one small chip on back panel.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fair condition hardback brown tannish boards edges of spine worn all the way down. 363 pages good and clean, tightly bound with clear print, indexed. Minor foxing on edge of pages. Frontispiece: black and white plate of The Cathedral through the arch, Canterbury. A few black and white plates within the book. Contents: Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published by & Co LTD., 1939. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. 12mo. Slight ridge to spine. Patchy boards. Rubbing to front joint. Surface loss to fpd. Light spotting. Book.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has light toning. Good DJ but has foxing to spine.

Condition: Good. 1943. First Edition. 224 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is clad in a brodart protective plastic sleeve.

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Rear hinge cracked. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine and board edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. An unconventional tour from Kent to Cornwall, illustrated, in a chipped and worn dw.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Saw,Lee (illustrator). First Edition. Illustrated by Lew Saw.129 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Dk. blue cl., backstr. brown lettering, lines on cream paper label, edges rubbed. Corners sl. bumped. Writing on ffep. Frontis. Illus. Viii, 282pp. incl. index. STATED FIRST PRINTING.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Reading Copy. No Jacket. 290 pages. Faded green cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean and complete. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Lew Saw (illustrator). Green-boards hardback with a green dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor edgewear and some scuffs, but is now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar cover. Signed on the front free page plus- "Best Wishes, Roland West, Jan 1970" with absolutely no further inscription. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999. Signed & Dated By the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. Tight binding, clean interior. Blue boards with a paste-down title on the spine in nice condition; spine ends mildly bumped. DJ is preserved in mylar, has wear to edges, soiling to front and back, spine is discolored from age. Triangular clips on corners of front flap, $2.50 price still visible. Previous owner's info on ffep, otherwise unmarked. "This is the lively account of a great career; it is also the story of a kindly and witty man, moving his vast bulk through a world which he always found intensely interesting." (from front flap) 282 pages including index.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 283pp hardback, later rebound in blue buckram with title =label to spine, bw plates.