When Carruthers Laughed by Sapper: First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition.

First Edition. 1st edition, 1934. A little bit of foxing on endpapers and page edges. Pages generally bright; binding tight. Slightly yellowed pale blue cloth with black lettering on front board and spine. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

First Edition. Owner's name on front free endpaper. Light foxing on page edges and endpapers. Otherwise bright and tidy internally; binding tight. Blue cloth with black lettering on front board and faded spine. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. a much worn and scuffed copy. repairs to the binding. foxing and markings throughout. a few inscriptions. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover, 319pages, 19x13, ex-lib , original dustjacket cover is stuck on the front board, and the d/j fold (with original price) is stuck on the rear cover. Has Hoys public library plate on front end paper, faint dark scribble lines on free front end paper and rear of title page, has library stamp to title page and rear end paper which has several lending dates stamped (all 1934),fading spine, spine ends bumped, numbers 3692 inked on rear end paper with a small right bottom corner stain, split front end paper gutter, worn but quite serviceable, binding still quite firm. Collection of fiction by "Sapper". Quite scarce 1st ed.…

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1934, 1st ed., 319 pag., original blue cloth stamped in black.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. A collection of twelve short stories by Sapper. In the title story a narrator befriends the aloof City businessman Henry St. John Carruthers, who seems never to have laughed, and who rescues a naive young man from a confidence trick. Others include "The Snake Farm" and "The Great Magor Diamond". "Sapper" was H. C. McNeile (18881937), creator of Bulldog Drummond. Ink name to front free endpaper, minor spotting; tape reinforcements to jacket spine ends, a couple of closed tears, small section of loss to head of spine. Book. …