Fame by Sinclair, First Edition (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition, Complete Numbers . NOT an ex library book. Clean interior pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is printed on rear of jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black and white photographs Pictures on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Label on front free endpaper cornerremoved on request. Out of print history. Binding is cloth boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed, 1st Edition, Hardback, D/J has very light bumping to corners, o/w v/g, v/g, looks unread. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. A Fine first Printing of the First American Edition housed in an equally Fine dust-jacket; Death by Fame is the biography of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, written by Sinclair. The book tells the story of Elisabeth's life from her childhood to her time as Empress of Austria. The book covers her time as Queen of Bohemia and Hungary, her time as Empress of Austria, and her time after her reign. The book also covers her relationships with her husband, Emperor Franz Joseph I, and her children.; 8vo; 224 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. 224pp with index,b/w photographs, colour frontis, previous owners name to f.endpaper, dj a little rubbed along top edge, not price clipped, a very nice clean firm copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback,224pp with black and white photos.Vg in VG DJ. Contents clean with no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition. Pp. 40. One of 530 signed limited editions, this being #296. In original jacket, internally clean, light off setting to end pages, tight binding. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep purple cloth covers, silver lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼'' 224 pp. ISBN 0094780609. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book, in near Fine condition dust wrapper with tiny impression marks to the lower cover, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AUSTRIA.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. B/W Photos (illustrator). 1st. 1st printing maroon c w/gilt titles, moderate wear at extremities, soft bump at lower front tip; marbled end papers; bookplate of Daughters of American Revolution, D.C. chapter;271 cean, unmarked pages; owner's name.

First Edition. Pp. xiv+224, coloured frontispiece portrait, 16 black & white plates, full page genealogical chart, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; navy boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Constable & Company Limited, London, 1998. First edition. *Elizabeth of Austria was murdered by a stalker. 'She went on starvation diets and suffered from anorexia, obsessed by the Greek ideal of physical perfection. She was married too young to the heir of the Austrian Empire. After giving him three children early, including the son who committed suicide at Mayerling, she found life at Court less and less tolerable' [wrapper blurb].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Rare first edition copy of this historic 1917 publication featuring a who's who among Texas women at that time. If you are a Texan, many of the surnames will be familiar - Briscoe, Breckenridge, Preston, Hobby and Pennybacker. Cloth cover has wear along corners and spine, and the bottom front corner is bumped. One of the pages is dogeared, and the pages and endpapers show foxing due to age. Wonderful condition for its age! BR (Box 216).