Odd by Wren (16 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Some age wear; 337 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Percival Wren, Stories of the French Foreign Legion with Dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publishers cloth little edge faded, small ownership stamp hidden by front jacket flap, VERY GOOD in dust wrapper with some wear but no loss at spine ends, jacket retains $2.50 publication price.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first published 1941 on copyright page. Some tape to verso of jacket, chip to rear panel, original price of 7/6 on front flap.

First U. S. edition. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-337 [338: blank] [note: pagination starts with free end paper], original greenish gray cloth, front and spine stamped in dark orange, top edge stained orange, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. Collects fifteen short stories in two sections labeled "Queer" and "Quaint." "A miscellaneous collection of macabre and mainstream material which includes three supernatural pieces." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 504. Cloth edges a bit faded, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to the edges, closed tear to the upper front spine fold, slight loss to corner tips. (23612).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 278. Original publisher's cloth binding in bright orange, lettered Black. Illustrated dust jacket, lettered red features a sailing ship on stormy seas. Short stories: "Major Wren's fame lies chief in his association with the foreign Legion, he has in fact had extraordinary adventures in many parts of the world. These are excellent material for telling really good storiesÉ" Very good in very good dust jacket. Very slight way to dust jacket with slight necks at spine edges but protected by a clear sleeve.…

Hardcover. First [Stated]. top dusty and first few and last few pp a little browned as ususal else a nearly fine copy with a wonderful bright d.j. Publlisher's compliments slip laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. Hardcover in very Good condition with Good Plus dust jacket. Green boards with red lettering. Publisher's red ink at upper page edge. Text clean and unmarked. Chipping to edges and general wear to dust jacket. Now protected in mylar cover. "Fifteen unusual and dramatic "Stories Stranger Than Fiction" .set in the mysterious and exotic East." The author writes "of adventure and romance, heroism and villany.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Collection of "unusual" stories. VG; bumped upper right tip front cover; wear to board edges; in price-clipped VG jacket; soiled.

Condition: Very good. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket. Jacket slightly rubbed with a few minor chips. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Odd--But Even So by Percival Christopher Wren (First Edition) A firm copy with moderate wear and several creases to edges and corners. A one/eighth-inch tear to front cloth at fore edge. Mild sunning to spine. Offset tanning to endpapers. Library Award pasted to front pastedown. Not price-clipped. 7s. 6d. A bright pictorial jacket. Moderate wear to edges and soiling to panels. In clear protective cover. First Edition 1941, stated. Orange cloth with black lettering. Part I--Queer: six stories; Part II--Quaint: eight stories; 278 pp.Publisher adverts laid in at rear. BOOK.…

No Binding. Condition: Not Specified. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Odd - But Even So by P.C. Wren Dust Jacket Only First Edition John Murray 1941. A VG+ example with no chips, tears or loss. Spine unfaded and original printed price of 7/6 on front flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Canadian issue, bound from from the English sheets. Light tanning of the war-era pages, NEAR FINE in bright fresh dust wrapper with trifling loss at base of spine, both the front and rear jacket flaps are unprinted. "A miscellaneous collection of macabre and mainstream material which includes three supernatural pieces." SHADOWS IN THE ATTICE 504.4.…

Hardcover. First US Edition. 337pp. Foam green cloth stamped in red on the front panel and the spine panel, top edge stained red. Collects fifteen stories some of which have a supernatural theme. Lower front corner tip bruised. A near fine copy in very good+ dustjacket with a few very minute chips, light edge wear, and a closed tear to the upper edge of the rear panel. ; Octavo. …

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7 [8-10] 11-278 [279-280: ads], original reddish-orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collects fifteen short stories in two sections labeled "Queer" and "Quaint." "A miscellaneous collection of macabre and mainstream material which includes three supernatural pieces." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 504. First and last leaves tanned on surfaces facing the free endpapers (as usually the case with this wartime pulpy paper), a very good copy in very good 7/6 pictorial dust jacket (with illustration by Noel Sayers). Quite a nice copy overall. (#169888).…

First Edition. ODD-BUT EVEN SO, Macrae Smith Company, 1942, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper with some slight wear. Stories stranger than fiction.