Van Deventer E Murdoch (9 results)
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Published by Rand, McNally & Company, Chicago and New York 1894
- Hardcover
Seller: Yesterday's Book Shop, CORVALLIS, OR, U.S.A.Yesterday's Book Shop
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good+. First US Edition. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Pale green boards with black and white design and text on front and spine. First US edition thus with copyright page showing a single date of 1894. No signatures or bookplates noted, no torn or loose pages. Book exterior shows soiling and spotting, spine d…arkened. There's evidence on the front end page, upper right corner, where a price was penciled in and then erased. Book condition good plus. See photos.
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Published by Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited 1894
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, , United KingdomHugh Hardinge Books
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US$ 20.47
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Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Green cloth carrying image of pistol and handcuffs on a hillside beneath title lettered in red. Hands holding a camera on spine, the edges of which are heavily rubbed without loss. The covers are discoloured but all legible except 'Ward Lock' hard to distinguish. The b…ook is cocked, and internally the end papers are darkened and brittle with a 1" chip to ffep. The string that holds the text block is holding but loose. Occasional foxing, smudges to text. 312pp. Lynch is the male pseudonym for an early American female crimewriter. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
More imagesPublished by Ward Lock & Bowden London 1893
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, , United KingdomAddyman Books
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First edition. Original brown illustrated cloth, gilt. Lean to upper board, spine creased, cloth slightly rippled to upper board, extremities sl. rubbed. Lacks front free endpaper, prelims browned o/w contents clean.

Published by Ward, Lock & Co., London
- Hardcover
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, , New ZealandRenaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB
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US$ 35.00
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Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. No date (1890's) . 354 pages. Brown cloth covers with gilt, black. And white illustrations on front board and on spine. Title page and endpapers heavily foxed. Page edges browned. Front free endpaper cut out. Moderate water damage and bubbling to cloth on rear board. Some dampst…ains to rear endpaper. Pencil notes on rear free endpaper. 1/4" fryaying to cloth at corner of front board. 1/4" fraying to cloth at tail of rear joint. ; 12mo.
Published by Ward Lock & Co., London 1891
- Hardcover
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller, Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.John R. Sanderson, Bookseller
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US$ 110.00
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Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. Title-page undated. Very good decorative cloth binding.

Published by Ward, Lock & Co, London 1896
- Hardcover
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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US$ 125.00
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Early reprint (first by this publisher?), published originally by Laird in 1896. Octavo. Quarter red cloth with chromolithographed illustrated paper over boards. Contemporary bookseller's embossed stamp on front fly, early owner name, wear at the extremities of the boards, near very good.

- Hardcover
Seller: Richard Neylon, St Marys, TAS, AustraliaRichard Neylon
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 54.03
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hardcover. Condition: very good. London, Ward Lock [c1895]. Octavo green cloth blocked in black and gilt; frontispiece. Title browned but an excellent bright copy. A re-issue in Ward Lock's uniform series of thrillers which could consist of the first edition, a reprint, or a re-issue of sheets with a new title page which, as thi…s title page is on very different paper to the rest of the book, is the case here. The book first appeared in Chicago, then London, in 1894.

Published by Port Sunlight, near Birkenhead : Lever Brothers, Ltd 1891
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Good copy in contemporary gilt-blocked burgundy cloth over bevelled boards, now lightly scuffed and dust-dulled. Panel edges and endbands somewhat rubbed. Contemporary reader inscription (1896) to front free endpaper. Leaves age-toned. Preliminary and final leaves foxed; edges similarly foxed, reaching into the ma…rgins. Binding cracked from the tail between pp. 26 and 27, with the text block otherwise sound; a well-preserved example overall. Physical description; iv, 348 pages ; 18 cm. Notes; Date conjectural. Published under the pseudonym Lawrence L. Lynch. Subjects; Detective and mystery fiction. 19th century. 3 Kg.

Published by Port Sunlight, near Birkenhead : Lever Brothers, Ltd 1891
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, , IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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US$ 147.12
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First Edition. Good copy in contemporary gilt-blocked burgundy cloth over bevelled boards, now lightly scuffed and dust-dulled. Panel edges and endbands somewhat rubbed. Contemporary reader inscription (1896) to front free endpaper. Leaves age-toned. Preliminary and final leaves foxed; edges similarly foxed, reaching into the ma…rgins. Binding cracked from the tail between pp. 26 and 27, with the text block otherwise sound; a well-preserved example overall. Physical description; iv, 348 pages ; 18 cm. Notes; Date conjectural. Published under the pseudonym Lawrence L. Lynch. Subjects; Detective and mystery fiction. 19th century. 1 Kg.