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The dead witness: a connoisseur's collection of Victorian detective stories

Michael Sims · 2012 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Bloomsbury. 2012; Paperback, goed exemplaar / good copy. <br><p>Gathering the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-including a wide range of overlooked gems-Michael Sims showcases the writers who ever since have …

The Writers' War. World War I in the Words of Great Writers Who experienced it.

TROTMAN, Felicity (edited by) · 2014 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

AMBERLEY 2014, 351pp, Illustrated. Hardcover. With dustjacket. In very good condition. Pakketzending. When I come home and leave behind Dark things I would not call to mind ...' wrote Leslie Coulson, one of the many soldiers who tried to express his wartime experiences in writin…

Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society - Sixth [ 6th ] Series Volume X [ 10 ]

Royal Historical Society · 2000 · Eastleach Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society 2000 1st edition. Imitation cloth, VG. [iv]+443pp, corners slightly bumped, top of the text block marked, otherwise a fine copy. Contains - Britain And The World In The Eighteenth Century: III Britain And India by P J …

Talking About Detective Fiction

P. D. James · 2009 · Klondyke BV

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Paperback; 2009; Faber & Faber, Incorporated; 159pp.; Puntgave paperback met onberispelijk schoon en fris binnenwerk. -- Conditie: Als nieuw; In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James-one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today-gives …

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LINCOLN STEFFENS

STEFFENS, Lincoln · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.17 | £946.21 | ¥199,609)

New York. Harcourt, Brace and Company. First Edition. Fifth Printing. Complete in one volume, illustrated. Superbly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Steffens, filling the front pastedown, to wealthy Boston surgeon and socialite, Dr. Le Roi Goddard Crandon, and his wife, Mina "Margery" Cr…

The Return of A. J. Raffles [Signed]

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991) · 1975 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.61 | £207.41 | ¥43,754)

London Bodley Head Limited Edition No. 132 of 250 signed limited-edition copies bound in boards (of which only 170 were for sale); the first trade edition was issued as a paperback original. Small, slim 8vo (189 x 113mm): 80pp. Publisher's copper-colored paper over boards, spine…

Doctor Martino and other stories

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962) · 1934 · Fine Editions Ltd

$499.00 (€452.76 | £377.73 | ¥79,684)

London Chatto & Windus First British Edition First Impression of Faulkner's second collection of stories (published the same year in New York, by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, in both limited and trade issues, the latter of which we also have on offer). One of 1,500 copies (th…

The Great Houdini: His British Tours

Derek Tait · 2017 · Winkles Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword History Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Between 1900 and 1920 Harry Houdini toured Great Britain, extensively visiting many of its major towns and cities. Whilst there, he escaped from jails, jumped from bridges into rivers whilst bound up…

The Sporting Life

Jenkins, Alan C. · 1974 · Bookbarrow

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Blackie & Son Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, 1974. First Edition, Black Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9780216897892 silver titles spine; illustrated by b/w. drawings; "The delights and terrors of the sporting life are celebrated in a collection of memorable stories: motor races, yacht ra…

This Is New Zealand: American Edition

Irene Adcock and Russell Campbell and Keith Davies and Judith Doyle and Doug Fyfe and John Goldfinch and Sheffield House and Brian Main and Judith McArthur and Janet McCallum and David Morris and David Naulls and Hugh Ross and Lyndsey Shelton and Mary Var · 1982 · Book Haven

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.73 | ¥1,632)

Sheffield House 1982 Hardback, 192pp. Interesting account of New Zealand, well illustrated with many colour and monochrome photos. Focused on the relationship between the US and New Zealand. 'It is easy to say that the two countries have a lot in common. This book attempts to br…

Crime in Ink

CARVALHO, CLAIRE AND BOYDEN SPARKES · 1929 · S. Howlett-West Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

New York, NY: Charles Scribner\'s Sons, 1929. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and edge wear. The top front cover of…

The Shadow on the Doorstep / Trilobyte

BLAYLOCK, JAMES P. / EDWARD BRYANT (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LEWIS SHINER) · 1987 · S. Howlett-West Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Seattle, WA: Axolotl Press, 1987. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0939879182. Illustrated by Donna Gordon. B&W Illustrations; This is a double novel - with two short books bound together - in opposite directions (with the limitation page in the center). Limited …

Maclean's Magazine, February 1969 *Bobby Orr Cover Photo*

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1969 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$350.00 (€317.57 | £264.94 | ¥55,891)

Toronto: Maclean-Hunter Limited, 1969. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 88 pages. Features/Articles: The alarming mystery of radar waves - What are we doing to huma life?; John Morgan and Martin Bronstein of the TV show Comedy Cafe; Editorial - let this be our last year in …

Weekend Magazine, November 14, 1964, Vol. 14, No. 46 *Brigitte Bardot Cover Photo*

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1964 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.51 | ¥23,945)

Canada: Publisher Not Stated, 1964. First Edition. Paperback. 70 pages. Feature: Canada's Nuclear Trigger - deep in a North Bay Cavern - article with colour photos, including the Bomarc missile; Brigitte Bardot - 30 and Sexy and What's Next - article with two photos; Canadian wo…

The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton

Mrs. Russell Barrington · 1906 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)

London, George Allen, 1906. Vellum. A limited edition of this expansive biography of Sir Frederic Leighton, a British painter and sculptor, presented by the author to novelist Marie Corelli. Written by Emilie Barrington (1841-1933), a British biographer and novelist, author of w…

Pictures from Punch

Various · 1894 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London, Bradbury, Agnew and Co. Ld. 1894. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated collection of &apos;Pictures From Punch&apos; filled with humorous illustrations from the British weekly magazine of humour and satire which was first published in 1941. First edition. In three volume…

Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers Volume 54 January-April 1879

George Augustus · 1879 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1879. Hardcover. 572p. A green cloth hardcover book. Hinges and edges worn; covers lightly stained. Binding is cracked and some sections of pages are loose. Stamp on title page. Some foxing; otherwise, text clean. This volume includes an article on…

Detective Inspector Chance

SIMS, GEORGE R. · 1974 · S. Howlett-West Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

London, England: Ferret Fantasy Ltd, 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This book is limited to 200 unnumbered copies. This is a thin, oversized paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust ja…

Temple Bar a London Magazine for Town and Country Readers Volume 7 December 1862 - March 1863

1863 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

London, Ward and Lock, 1863. Hardcover. A hardcover ex-library book rebound in blue cloth. Stamps on endpapers and title page and mild foxing throughout. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. This volume includes an article titled "A History of Comedy," the poem "Ode to the R…

Temple Bar a London Magazine for Town and Country Readers Volume 44 May 1875 - August 1875

1875 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1875. Hardcover. A hardcover ex-library book rebound in blue cloth. Stamps on endpapers and title page and mild foxing throughout. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. This volume includes an article on "The Last Days of the Spanish Republic," …