Trevor Basil (6 results)

No Binding. Condition: VG+. 1239-46. A VG or better original release deluxe 8 x 10 still on heavy card stock. Photographic Image.

Paper-covered Boards. Condition: Fair. 128pp, original paper-covered boards and cloth spine, both with paper labels, ex Boots Library label partially torn on front, library lending label on rear pastedown, back joint loose with tear to dark-coloured endpapers, all pages attached but 1 page very loose, lacks part of spine labels, covers soiled, still a sound copy of a rare and amusing book. Size: 6 x 5 Inches. Humour.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Valerie Grosvenor Myer's copy of this book which she has signed and dated in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. The book has also been signed by an astonishing additional 33 out of over 50 contributors: Holloway, Waller, Target, Evans, Gohorry, Meadowcroft, Harpley, Williams, Watson, Robinson, Evans, Abbott, Burns, Overhill, Jondorf, Booth, Avison, Cann, Cavaliero, Pollentine, Davies, Holbrook, Barker, Scott, Kramer, Edwards, Anderson, Beck, Worman, Juby, Meadows, Wilson and McMahon as well as on the rear free endpaper by children's author Althea Braithwaite who doesn't have a piece in the book. Bumping to the corners of the boards. Light browning to the edges of the pages. Browning to the endpapers but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has a little light chipping at the base of the spine and some light surface and edge wear. First printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London: C W Daniel. No date but according University of Oxford, 1919. First edition. Hardback. Book Condition: Very Good. Grey paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine, lettered in black on white paper labels to spine and to front with pastedown engraved vignette of a fox-terrier. No dustjacket, as issued. Blue tinted top page edges. 128pp, 15 x 12 cm. Boards worn to edges, some grubbiness to rear panel, overall clean and stain free with sound binding. Corners of title label on spine missing. Presentation copy imprint on ffep, otherwise entirely free from marking or previous owners identifying marks. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Rare. A very good condition first edition in the original cloth-backed boards. The binding is in very good condition, with pictorial onlay to front panel and 2 title labels to spine, the lower one - for the publisher - partly worn. The text is in very good, tight, clean condition, with just a very few very small areas of age-browning. No inscriptions. See photographs attached.

Vintage reference photograph from the Spanish release of the 1942 film noir, showing William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, and Basil Rathbone. Mimeo snipe and title in Spanish on the verso. After suffering traumatic amnesia, a diplomat encounters a number of shady individuals claiming to be from his past, and eventually finds himself implicated in a decade-old robbery. A remake of the 1938 French film "Carrefour." 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.