Stevens Capt John (4 results)

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Paul Stahr (illustrator). First Edition. New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company Publisher. Good. 1934. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Good only copy [spine torn and chipped at the head, creasing and the usual edgewear to the cover, publication date added to the front cover which is badly torn and with a chip to its upper left corner, text paper tanned as usual]. ; Includes the third of six parts of "Scourge of the Rio Grande" by Max Brand, the second of three parts of "The Mystery of the Five Bald Men" by George F. Worts, "Land of the Sword" by Robert Carse, "The Stained Tabu" by Anthony Rud, "Rainbow Morning" by James Stevens, "The Weakest" by Capt. William Outerson, etc. ; Cover Art; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages; 504 E.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. Hardback. A very good copy in a modern quarter leather binding lettered in gilt on a maroon title-piece. New end-papers. Lacks half-title. Pp.[22],1-200, 209-572 + 20pp Index. (The work is complete despite the jump in pagination). Some browning and a little foxing but a decent copy.

No Binding. Condition: Fair. 1725, Fair to Good Only/no dj, octavo, 336pp., lacks both covers, full leather backstrip with 5 raised bands, light water-stain on rear endpaper & last 2 pages of text, binding text-block tight & solid, faint water-traces outer margins of a few pages, only light foxing, perfect candidate for a nice rebinding.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 336; title-p. printed in red and black; old calf with an early 20th century rebacking, maroon morocco label on spine; the calf a bit stressed at the gutter, edges worn, but the binding is sound. Stevens, "probably an Irishman" (DNB) was an officer in the English army with some military experience in Ireland, and perhaps Portugal; his father was purportedly on the staff of the English ambassador to Spain. Alston XII, 151.