|
Wegman, Rob C
Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht
Oxford Clarendon Press 1994. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item950grams ISBN:9780198163824 Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3991665 ISBN : 0198163827 9780198163824
|
|
|
Crowe, JA and Cavalcaselle, GB J A G B
The Life and Times of Titian with Some Account of His Family Volume 1-2
John Murray 1881. Volume 1-2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Re-bound by library. Medium 8vo. Brown library cloth with gilt lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners minor wear and fraying to exterior. Slightly cocked. White paint stain on front board of vol II. Frontispiece in vol II. Transference suggests missing frontispiece in vol I. Binding reasonably tight. A few small pencil markings. A few plates per vol. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2400grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4945947
|
|
|
Allsebrook, Mary
Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes
Oxbow Books 1992. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item750grams ISBN:0946897409 Oxbow Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3991463 ISBN : 0946897409 9780946897407
|
|
|
Findlater, Richard
Joe Grimaldi: His Life and Theatre
Cambridge University Press 1978. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item550grams ISBN:0521222214 Cambridge University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4937877 ISBN : 0521222214 9780521222211
|
|
|
Wheatley, HB (ed) H B
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume 7
George Bell and Sons 1900. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1000grams ISBN: George Bell and Sons hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4944654
|
|
|
Lima, Robert
Valle-Inclan: The Theatre of His Life
University Of Missouri Press 1988. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item900grams ISBN:0826206611 University Of Missouri Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4940612 ISBN : 0826206611 9780826206619
|
|
|
Cochrane, T and Fox Bourne, HR H R
The Life of Thomas Lord Cochrane Tenth Earl of Dundonald Volume 1-2
Richard Bentley 1869. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Medium 8vo. Grey cloth half black leather binding. Raised bands gilt lettering and gilt decoration on backstrip. Large sections from backstrip of vol I. missing and remainder chipped and semi detached. Boards of vol I. detached. Front board of vol II. detached. Marbled edges and end papers. Pages are secure and clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1950grams ISBN: Richard Bentley hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4945875
|
|
|
Harcourt, LV L V
The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose: Containing Original Letters of the Most Distinguished Statesmen of His Day Volume 1-2
Richard Bentley 1860. Volume 1-2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Library sticker on front cover.Medium 8vo. Original red cloth binding with decorative blind border mirrored on boards. Gilt borders and lettering on sun faded backstrip. Backstrip of vol I. semi detached with some chipping. Bumped corners with some general wear. Frontispiece in vol I. Binding generally tight though pages 259 to 270 in vol II. loose. Multiple pages have been marked in pencil. Foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1800grams ISBN: Richard Bentley hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4945883
|
|
|
Penrhyn Stanley, A
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold D.D. Volume 1-2
John Murray 1877. Volume 1-2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With owner's name inside cover. In good all round condition. Small 8vo. Original green cloth. Bevelled edges. Decorative blind border and gilt motif on front board. Gilt lettering and black and gilt border on backstrip. Bumped corners and some fraying and wear nothing major. End papers have been replaced. Frontispiece with transference in vol I. Binding tight. Pages clean. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1500grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4945957
|
|
|
Williamson, JA J A
Sir John Hawkins: The Time and the Man
Clarendon Press 1927. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Binding heavily damaged and torn. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item950grams ISBN: Clarendon Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4944874
|
|
|
Harding, Michael
Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love Melancholy and Magical Thinking
Yellow Kite 2016. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN:9781473627307 Yellow Kite paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4945067 ISBN : 1473627303 9781473627307
|
|
|
Kenny, A (ed)
Wyclif in His Times
Clarendon Press 1986. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN:9780198200888 Clarendon Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4944736 ISBN : 0198200889 9780198200888
|
|
|
Hughes, Derrick
Bishop Sahib: A Life of Reginald Herber
Churchman Publishing Ltd 1986. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item350grams ISBN:1850930430 Churchman Publishing Ltd paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4944800 ISBN : 1850930430 9781850930433
|
|
|
Mendelson, Abby
The Pittsburgh Steelers: The Official Team History Fourth Edition
Lanham MD: Taylor Trade Publishing 2011. Soft Cover. Very Good. Fourth edition. Very good copy with minor shelfwear and mild creasing to back cover. Taylor Trade Publishing paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 040296
|
|
|
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood
THREE PLOTS FOR ASEY MAYO
N.Y.: W.W. Norton and Company 1942. First edition so stated. Very light wear else a fine tight copy now in homemade acetate dust wrapper. The three plots are: The Headacre Plot; Wander Bird Plot; and The Swan Boat Plot. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book. W.W. Norton and Company
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020804
|
|
|
Merrick, Mollie
MYSTERIOUS MR. FRAME
N.Y.: Ives Washburn 1938. First edition. Publishers blue cloth with with yellow lettering at front cover and spine. Spine also has Washburn's colophon a rooster on a book with the letter W embossed at spine Spine lightly darkened covers lightly soiled else a near fine tight copy. Now housed in homemade clear acetate dust wrapper. The second Rufus J. "Red" Hanlon; San Francisco CA. Very Scarce . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Book. Ives Washburn
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020882
|
|
|
Wells, Carolyn
THE LUMINOUS FACE
N.Y.: George H. Doran Company 1921. First edition. Gray cloth with black lettering. Covers are lightly spotted edges show light wear with lower edge being bumped and has a small splitin cloth slight lean else very good in dust jacket a couple of small chips some light wear at folds lightly soiled and spotted else a very nice dust jacket. Interesting note on the jacket. Today's books usually have a synopsis of the plot at flaps and advertisements at rear. Doran has the synopsis at rear panel and advetisements on both flaps. Very scarce in dust jacket. Features Pennington Wise in his fifth outing New York City. The death of Robert Gleason a wealthy businessman from Seattle at first looked like a suicide. He had called his doctor saying that he was shot and when the doctor arrived at his New York apartment the door was locked. After breaking down the door his body was found lying on the floor a revolver at his side. Yet certain facts argued against a verdict of suicide. Gleason had been shot twice once shot to the temple which killed him instantly and a second shot after he was dead to the shoulder. How could he have made a phone call after he was already dead A web of conflicting clues and dubious alibis baffle the police until detective Pennington Wise and his mysterious assistant Zizi are called in to solve the case. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-Very Good/Very Good. Book. George H. Doran Company
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020908
|
|
|
Propper, Milton
THE TICKER TAPE MURDER with RARE WRAP-AROUND BAND
N.Y.: Harper & Brothers 1930. First edition so stated. Previous owner's name at inside cover. Some mnor rubbing at spine edges and along bottom edges with corners bumped. Some loss of white lettering at spine otherwise a very good near fine copy in a beautiful dust jacket no tears or creases and with the very rare wrap-around band for the Harper Sealed Mystery. "Philip Nixon is the president of American Motors the biggest auto concern in the world. On the eve of cornering the US automobile market his corpse is found on the train tracks. Sgt. Gilmore had been asked to act as a bodyguard to the financier. Fortunately Gilmore was a passenger on the train that hit Nixons body.Milton M. Propper 1906-62 was an American devotee of Freeman Wills Crofts and Lynn Brock. The book is the American equivalent of Crofts: a methodical policeman Detective Sergeant Gilmore and Tommy Rankin of the Philadelphia police-- not brilliant but capable and thorough-- testing discrepancies and checking alibis; finance; transport three different train and two cars thundering across New Jersey by night; and plenty of railway timetables. Like his British models Propper handles a complex plot admirably unfolding layer by layer each mysterys solution opening new possibilities. The pure puzzle satisfies because there is no fat. But which character doesnt need to be in the book has no motive and hasnt been suspected when all the other characters have been eliminated Theres your murderer! With Audobon stock soaring under his skillful manipulation with the money world aghast at the significance of the colossal corner the death of Philip Nixon was a calamity. Mangled on the steel rails of the East Shore Express his body yielded no clues. Armed with knowledge of blackmail threats Detective Sergeant Gilmore of the Philadelphia Police took the case with full confidence of pushing it to an obvious and rapid conclusion. But numerous motives appeared and soon the list of potential murderers included gangsters thirsting for revenge the brothers of a betrayed girl a desperate bear speculator and the mans own secretary once before convicted of manslaughter. Who threw the body on the tracks By sheer doggedness and an intelligence that missed no single detail Gilmore solved this thrilling mystery in a way that will delight the keenest reader." -- Nicholas Fuller at "The Grandest Game in the World" blog. This copy although not marked as such comes from the auction of the Gary Groton Crime Fiction collection of detective fiction . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/Fine. Book. Harper & Brothers
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 021149
|
|
|
Green, Anna Katharine
THE AMETHYST BOX
N.Y.: Bobbs Merrill 1905. First edition. "April" on copyright page. A mystery described as a detective story of a Newport wedding. Front cover is lightly faded with light soiling. Spine has small spot light wear along edges but a solid copy. Cover art by Harrison Fisher. Frontispiece and plate at page 150 present. "On the evening before his marriage Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison is in the possession of either his betrothed or her cousin the girl his best friend Worthington loves. Turning to Worthington for help they try to recover the box before the poison can be administered."--Google books. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Fisher Harrison. Book. Bobbs Merrill
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 021163
|
|
|
Pargeter, Edith (Ellis Peters)
THE GREEN BRANCH
London: UK: Heineman 1962. 1st ed. Publishers brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bottom of page edges lightly soiled else near fine in dust jacket with some soiling to rear panel else near fine. Not price clipped 18s still intact. Dust wrapper by Pino Dell'orco. 2nd book of The Heaven Tree trilogy. 225 pages. "Young Harry Talvace the son of Ralf Isambard's master-builder who raised the great church of Parfois and was put to death by his jealous patron has grown up at the court of Llewelyn Prince of North Wales. Deep in his heart he nurses a desire for vengence and when Harry become innocently involved in the tragedy which strikes Llewelyn's marriage he sets out to avenge his father's death. Alone he makes his way to Parfois to challenge Isambard. But enmity can prove as complex as love Harry discovers as in his turn he falls under the spell of the old warrior." -- publisher. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Dell'orco Pino. Book. Heineman Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 021401
|
|
|
SMALE, David
Pauley Pavilion: College Basketball's Showplace
Manhattan KS: SportsMemories Pub. 1989. Bound in stiff blue boards printed in gold. The dust jacket shows some scuffing to extremes but has held up well. Scarce book on the sports pavilion only 7 copies on OCLC/Worldcat. 160 pp. color and black and white photos throughout. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SportsMemories Pub. Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 8001970
|
|
|
David and Fabio Bourbon (biography volume on George Croly Roberts) Roberts
The Holy Land Egypt & NubiA The Life Works and Travels of David Roberts 3 volumes
The American University in Cairo Press 2000. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. The American University in Cairo Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : G8880955128I3N01 ISBN : 8880955128 9788880955122
|
|
|
Frederick D Losey (General Introduction, Biography and an Introduction to Each Play)
The Kingsway Shakespeare - The Complete Dramatic & Poetic Works with Portrait & Fourteen Plates in Colour
London Bombay Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1933 An excellent clean and tightly bound book. 1332 pages. A heavy volume that may attract shipping charges. ------------------ Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005479
|
|
|
Burns, William J & Isabel Ostrander
THE CREVICE
N.Y.: W.J Watt and Company 1915. 1st edition. British title: The Lawton Mystery. Nash 1917. Only book by Burns who was a detective Secret Service agent founder of Burns Detective Agency; and head of FBI 1921-1924. Some light rubbing and soiling to covers pages tanned and some wear along edges spine head and foot soiled else a very good copy of a scarce title. Now in homemade acetate dust wrapper. Frontispiece with tissue protector and 3 sets of double plates two pages . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Grefe Will. Book. W.J Watt and Company Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020002
|
|
|
Poynter, Beulah
THE MURILLO MYSTERY
Philadelphia PA U.S.A.: Henry Altemus Company 1927. 1st edition. Blue cloth faded at spine covers somewhat sptted and worn but stil a very good tight copy of a very scarce title. First serialized in Mystery Magazine v9 #5 June 15 1926 Part 1 of 2 pulp and Mystery Magazine v9 #6 July 1 1926 Part 2 of 2 pulp. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 18mo - 0ver 4" x 6.5" Tall. Book. Henry Altemus Company
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020017
|
|
|
Carr, John Dickson
SCANDAL AT HIGH CHIMNEYS: A Victorian Melodrama
London United Kingdom: Hamish Hamilton 1959. 1st edition. Very minor soiling to publishers black cloth with silver lettering still very bright at spine. Pages foxing. Small Foyles store label at inside front cover. Dust jacket is mildly soiled price unclipped 13s.6d. net intact in protective mylar cover. The story is set in London 1865 and concerns a house called High Chimneys where secrets are hidden among the household members. Clive Strickland lawyer and author was to discover a bewildering and terrifying slice of Victorian life when his friend Victor Damon asked him to visit the family estate. The Damon family home a huge and formidable mansion plays host to a multitude of characters. Strange things happen at the Damons': a ghost like figure threatens; Matthew Damon gets murdered under impossible circumstances and it take the brilliance of Jonathan Whicher to solve the tangled puzzle. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Hamish Hamilton Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020264
|
|
|
Marsh, Ngaio
HAND IN GLOVE
London: UK: Collins Crime Club 1962. 1st edition. This copy although not marked as such comes from the Otto Penzler collection. Orange-red boards are clean and unmarked with nice even colour; binding very squaresuper tight looks like an unread copy in Fine crisp bright dust jacket not price clipped with a touch of soiling at rear panel in protective mylar cover. it is the twenty-second novel to feature Roderick Alleyn. This story finds its way into an upper society party gone astray into the path of precarious murder. This novel was adapted for the television series The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries with Patrick Malahide as Roderick Alleyn in 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Collins Crime Club
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020297
|
|
|
Sellon, Capt Edward
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE: A FRAGMENT LIMITED EDITION
Miami Beach: FL: Dennis McMillan 1987. 1st American Edition December 1987 so stated. LIMITED to 400 copies; 374 bound in cloth and 26 lettered copies bound in goatskin. A fine unread copy still in shrinkwrap. Red cloth lettered in gold on the spine panel decorated endpapers. Contains 8 colour reproductions of the original plates from the first edition. Introduction and Postscript by C. J. Scheiner. First published in London in 1867. It is the rarest erotic autobiography known. Only a single extant copy of the 1867 first edition is known and that is in a private collection inaccesable to the general public. The text of this edition is an edited version of the first two printings of the text originally published in 1867 correcting misspellings and obvious grammatical and syntactical errors found. Dustjacket and endpapers were designed by Joe Servello. . 1st American Edition. Cloth. New/As New. Illus. by Servello Joe. Book. Dennis McMillan Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020315
|
|
|
Leonard, Charles L pseudonym of M V Heberden,
TREACHERY IN TRIESTE
Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1951. 1st edition so stated. A near fine copy in dust jacket unclipped $2.50 price intact. Spine edges rubbed pages age toned damp stain at rear a few small nicks. "When private detective Paul Kilgerrin conferred with British and American intelligence officers in Venice he found himself in the middle of a hotbed of a Facist and Communist intrigue." Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991 by Ellen Nehr; Offspring Press 1992. This copy although not marked as such comes from the Otto Penzler collection. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book. Crime Club Doubleday
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020325
|
|
|
Browne, Douglas G
PLAN XVI
Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1934. 1st US edition so stated. Publisher's black boards stamped in red to the spine and red top edge with skull embossed into front cover. Very light wear else about fine. "Too frightful to be true said Chief Inspector Thew of Scotland Yard-- but the nightmare of horror went on as Plan XVI moved to its terrifying climax." This copy although not marked as such comes from the auction of the George Cloos collection of detective fiction. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine. Book. Crime Club Doubleday
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020492
|
|
|
Sutherland, William pseudonym of John Murray Cooper
DEATH RIDES THE AIR LINE INSCRIBED COPY
N.Y.: Claude Kendall 1934. 1st US edition. Spine faded as well as edges else a very good or betted copy of this scarce title. INSCRIBED and dated by the author using his real name John M. Cooper at front endpaper. "As Sutherland writes in his preface: "I have endeavored moreover by the use of a somewhat unusual structural design to help the reader see the people concerned in it as they really were rather than as the conventional puppet-like characters of works of fiction." After only fifty-three pages--in which Sutherland assembles the crew and passengers on a plane taking off from Boston murders one of the passengers over New York stabbing and brings Detective-Inspector Grady in to investigate--Sutherland leaves the present in order give us flashbacks into the lives of the murder victim ruthless newspaper publisher Walter Schlaf and four passengers: Russell DeWitt New York judge Marguerite Rose good time gal Timothy Cowley gangster and August Jensen pilot. Sutherland notes that the events depicted in the novel occur "during the final days of Prohibition" and he hopes that this fact will "add some special interest as well as throw some more light on the conditions which that unfortunate law produced in America." The Rose and Cowley sections take particular advantage of this setting." -- 'The Passing Tramp' blog. Check out the blog for a more detailed review. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Book. Claude Kendall Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020565
|
|
|
Gault, William Campbell
DON'T CRY FOR ME EDGAR AWARD WINNER
N.Y.: E P Dutton & Co. Inc / Guilt Edge Mystery 1952. 1st edition so stated. Previous owner's name at endpaper. Green cloth title in gold at spine. Light wear along edges with some light soiling. Publisher used different paper for the book and pages 97-192 are age toned while the rest of the pages are remakably white. I've seen this listed on other copies of this book. Dust jacket is heavily creased and worn especially at folds. Looks as if upper corner of rear of dust jacket had damp stain but not affecting the book. Scarce title. Author's first book and the MWA EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book. E P Dutton & Co., Inc / Guilt Edge Mystery
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 020577
|
|
|
Adams, Herbert
THE GOLDEN APE
Philadelphia: Lippencourt 1930. First Edition. Book has yellow cover cloth which is lightly soiled blue lettering is lightly faded but very legible. Dust jacket is solid has some slight nicks small chips and lightly soiled. Dust jacket is not clipped $2.00 price is intact and in mylar protector. Uncommon in this condition with dust jacket. Features Jimmy Haswell. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book. Lippencourt Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 019421
|
|
|
Doherty, P C
DRAKULYA: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF DRAKULYA PRINCE OF WALLACHIA AND THE BLOODY DEEDS THAT SHAPED THE LEGEND SIGNED
Sussex: England: Post Mortem Books 1997. 1st ed. Fine unread copy w/o dust jacket as issued however it was covered with a home-made clear acetate jacket. Goldenrod cloth with titles in red on top board and spine kept clean and bright. The binding colour and lettering is as faithfully represented as possible in this present volume as the design of the first edition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" Constable London 1897. Comprising the two volumes first published in 1986 as "The Prince Drakulya" and "The Lord Count Drakulya" now issued in one volume as originally written and proposed by the author. LIMITED to a print of 350 copies and each is SIGNED by the author. This is copy #182 and is further SIGNED by Ralph Spurrier the Publisher. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition. Post Mortem Books Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 018606 ISBN : 0953144607 9780953144600
|
|
|
Peters, Ellis
THE LEPER OF ST. GILES
London United Kingdom: Macmillan London 1989 1981. First edition. The fifth Brother Cadfael mystery. Bright purple covers are fine page edges are age-toned and darkened else fine in dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Macmillan London 1989 Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 018675
|
|
|
GRACE ELINORE CHAPMAN [later NASH]
1930 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG OHIO VIOLINST WHO WOULD ONE DAY SOON DEFY HER JAPANESE CAPTORS ENDURE THREE YEARS OF HORRIFIC TREATMENT AND DEPRIVATIONS EVEN WHILE PREGNANT IN PRISON ONLY TO ENDURE AND FLOURISH UNTIL HER 97TH YEAR
DELAWARE OHIO CLEVELAND AKRON OH. Good. 1930. On offer is a fascinating original January 1 1930 to November 9 1930 manuscript diary handwritten by Grace Elinore Chapman later Nash a 21 year old woman a concert violinist and teacher who would one day soon find love move to the Philippines and then in 1942 become a prisoner of war under cruel and severe treatment by her Japanese captors. Casual research finds an article regarding her life titled: "An Unbelievable Life: Mother wife teacher POW author - Grace Nash packs a lot of living into 97 years 'Amazing' Grace; Mother Wife Teacher POW Author: Grace Nash Packs a Lot of Living into 97 Years." Grace's story is truly unbelievable from how she met her husband to her capture and enduring three years of the most awful treatment and conditions and even giving birth in prison but she did endure and thrived to a goodly age. She is noted for having refused her captors admonition to give up her violin and her refusal and subsequent use of the violin led to her salvation and maintained her sanity. Her love of the violin and teaching violin led her to write 30 or so books on the subject plus she trained and taught teachers throughout the world on how to teach violin. However her first book "That We Might Live" an autobiography of her time in prison shared so that others could learn of the horrors she and her family faced. This 7 x 5 inch page a day diary book usually with full page entries describing her life friends near endless practising performing and working while trying to maintain a social life is about 2/3rd full and was written while she was at Ohio Wesleyan College in Delaware Ohio offers an unusual opportunity for researchers and historians to meet the young woman who would soon have to prove her mettle and survive when so many others did not. Overall G.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF GRACE ELINORE CHAPMAN NASH VIOLINIST VIOLIN TEACHERS PRISONER-OF-WAR MUSICIAN SYMPHONIC SYMPHONY WWII WORLD WAR II WW2 JAPANESE PRISONS THE BATTLE FOR MANILA PHILIPPINES WOMEN'S STUDIES GENDER STUDIES WOMEN IN WAR WOMEN CAPTIVES OF THE JAPANESE SANBORN LIBRARY CLEVELAND OHIO DELAWARE OHIO OHIO WESLEYAN COLLEGE CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE AMERICANAHANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0002244
|
|
|
MAUD[E] MAY TELFER
1888 1889 ORIGINAL PAIR 2 OF SOUTH WESTERN ONTARIO MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG INORDINATELY MATURE 12 YR OLD GIRL WHO GOES FROM PLAYING GAMES AT RECESS TO DISCUSSING THE SCOTT ACT OF 1888 FOR TEMPERANCE IN KENT COUNTY
BLENHEIM CHATHAM SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO. Good. 1888. On offer are a superb pair 2 of original 1888 and 1889 manuscript diaries handwritten by Miss Maude May Telfer a young woman born May 18th 1875 in Blenheim Kent in south-western Ontario. A very mature girl of 12 when the writings start January 2nd of 1888 it appears a much younger hand has inscribed the book as 'Private Maude's' on the title page. Thereafter Maud proves to be a dedicated diarist rarely missing a day and describing all her daily doings from school visits travel and she does a yeoman job naming all her family friends and visitors. Readers of Maud's diaries will find her to be rather exceptional. On the one hand she is like all girls of her age interested in playing at recess consulting with her girlfriends cheering on her baseball team. Just as easily she writes of Temperance and the politics of the Scott Act to her loan arrangement with her father repaying her $7.26 being the interest and capital repaid after a $6.00 one year loan she provided him. Casual research into her family found that her father James Telfer was an inventor and we note Maud makes note of his we believe first invention late in 1889. The 1888 book is an 8 x 6 inch and is over a hundred pages completely full. The 1889 book is a very large 13 x 8 inch 'Daily Journal' diary again completely filled. Here are some snippets: 'I moved that we should get up a society and Flora seconded it so we voted Flora as President Lizzie Secretary Maude Vice President and myself Treasurer
Went up the station and saw Dr Oliver Steward and his bride got away. There was a walking race in the for fifteen hours
Rennie got the Pilgrim's Progress at Sunday School yesterday and I read some of it
I went to a Missionary Meeting in the Presbyterian Church and joined a society. Lizzie Russell and I went to see Flora this evening who was sick with a cold and sore throat. There was an excursion to Detroit today but none of us went on it. Papa went to Detroit but not with the excursions
Afterwards I went to the Fairground to see the Lacrosse match between Blenheim and Ridgetown Blenheim boys won of course. After tea we went to a Free Social in the Methodist Church and a programme afterwards. It was an ice cream social Mr Livingston's farewell one
Mr Liv received a gold headed can his wife a purse
A message came to Josie this morning that Mr JS Bell is dead and so they are not going on a fishing excursion today
We reached Detroit between 12 and 1 o'clock. We went to a restaurant and had what we chose some things which were on the bill I had a sandwich and a coffee. We went to a dime museum and saw lots of curiosities
1889 Mr Martyn an elocutionist and ventriloquist visited our school this afternoon. He rendered two recitations besides Sunday other things
.This evening papa Stewart and Rennie went to Ridgetown the two former on business
I went to school there are not many at school. Measles are breaking out on Rennie. I read part of the Red House in Suburbs by Mrs O'Reilly Maude and I had a spat over Authors. I broke a piece off of a nice vase. I went and bought another vase which was some satisfaction
Grandpa Smith started for Montreal this morning. I washed my hair this morning with sulphur soap Mr Waddel called the afternoon and lent Josie and illustrated book
Maudie Matthew's is getting the measles Mildred is just getting the measles Vera is covered with measles Mamma thinks I am getting the measles
This afternoon I went to a meeting of the mission band at the Presbyterian Church
Did some errands uptown this evening and then went to an envelope social of the mission band at Miss Engles
Josie went with several others to a temperance lecture at the Grange Hall and got back about 12
I went to school Lizzie and I sat in the back seat and Lizzie accidentally tipped the seat and I landed on the floor but soon recovered. Josie and Mamma went to the temperance lecture this evening. I read some of a temperance book
This is the day in which to decide whether the Scott Act is to become law in the County of Kent or not. There is on this account an all day prayer meeting in the Baptist Church by the WCTU. Josie went to it this evening and played for about an hour on the organ
The Scott act had been defeated by a majority of 23. There was a great talk about temperance in school. The boys put For Act and Against Act on the blackboard and we were to put a cross under the side we were
We went to school we played baseball some of the boys played with us. It is fun and a good experience.' Save for some general ageing and the covers being scuffed and rubbed the books are overall G.; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF MAUD MAY TELFER MAUDE MAY TELFER JAMES TELFER INVENTOR PATENTS BLENHEIM CHATHAM SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO RIDGEWAY SARNIA DETROIT STONEY POINT INVENTORS POST CONFEDERATION CANADA CANADIANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0002246
|
|
|
ROBERT C SAVAGE, USN
1918 ORIGINAL WORLD WAR I UNITED STATES NAVY NATIONAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER'S MANUSCRIPT AND PHOTOGRAPHIC DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG SAILOR ON TREACHEROUS CONVOY DUTY WHO EXEMPLIFIED THE VOLUNTEER SPIRIT
Good. 1918. On offer is a super original 1918 World War I manuscript diary handwritten by United States Navy sailor Robert C. Savage N.N.V. National Naval Volunteer as inscribed on the cover of the USS South Dakota ACR-9. Robert does a super job as a diarist having added great depth to his memoir by tucking in 100 real photographs of ships ship life and the many Ports of Call plus adding further depth are a number of tipped in ephemeral pieces that go right to the heart of this sailor's soul. While this diary does an excellent job of giving a deck hand's perspective of life and service aboard the South Dakota Robert shows an enthusiasm for the ship and his service not always seen among the 'lower' decks; the journal begins we believe on the 437th day of his service in the Navy as he runs a dual number system on the pages of the lined book he has used. Along with the many many dozens of original photos he has tipped in; some of his family back home as a reminder but many more of his mates ship and other ships and more there are two official 1917 performance reports tipped in with his own comments on the distance covered; a super typed four paragraph sheet tipped in titled 'Why didn't you wait to be drafted' which addresses the question of volunteerism versus those conscripted and there is some obvious disdain for the draftees; handwritten lists of ships in convoys colliers submarine torpedo boats detailing the 6 trips the South Dakota makes from June 23 1918 leaving New York until November 18 1918 but there iss a heading for Nov 19 1918 Day 585 but the space is left blank and the rest of the book is photos or data. Likely Robert stopped telling the story of his service upon the news the war was over.Here is his final entry which reveals the man: 'Still out on the range tonight we had night firing with the searchlight playing on the target the shells fired had the tracers on them and it sure was a pretty sight to see them tearing their way thru the air light a ball of fire No news about when we will leave the old SD yet.' Overall G.; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF ROBERT C SAVAGE USS SOUTH DAKOTA ACR-9 WWI US NAVY UNITED STATES NAVY WORLD WAR I WW1 WWI WORLD WAR ONE THE GREAT WAR THE WAR TO END ALL WARS ARMISTICE OF COMPIÈGNE NATIONAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER CONVOY DUTY NORTH ATLANTIC SUBMARINE CHASERS USN NAVAL MARINES MARINERS SAILORS DECK LIFE LOWER DECKS NAUTICAL WAR IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0002309
|
|
|
MARJORIE MABIE
1908 - 1913 1929 GROUP OF EIGHT 8 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A LOVELY SMALL TOWN GIRL OF A WELL KNOWN FAMILY LIVING IN WHAT WILL ONE DAY BECOME ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS TOWNS ON THE PLANET
ROSWELL NEW MEXICO. Good. 1908. On offer are a super group of eight 8 original early 20th Century manuscript diaries handwritten by the young Marjorie Mabie who was born in 1895 and grew up in Roswell New Mexico in the early part of the century. Her family is well noted in local Roswell history having moved from Independence Iowa and once settled in Roswell they owned a number of well-known businesses. Marjorie's father at various times had a number of responsible public positions within the local community. Miss Mabie was an enthusiastic writer the notebook style diaries are well filled save for one about 1/3rd full dated 1908 through 1913. Six of the diaries are all about her life in Roswell but one smallish diary is specific to a 1929 trip to California. Marjorie does a super job detailing her life and times in pre War New Mexico. Life as a student in a small town for this typical 'all American girl' is filled with school friends activities family and Church. Rivalries in sports between the High School and the Institute travelling about with her gaggle of girlfriends and the simple pleasures from baseball to going to the dressmaker are detailed. Here are some snippets: "Wednesday the 25th. Ironed in the morning. The tailor shop had an explosion. Luther was burned to death. Talked to Florence and Jamie on the phone in the afternoon. Went to the library in town. Got a letter. July 1 Lilia came by before nine in the buggy and I went up to office with her. Then went and took my painting lesson. Frank was up at noon. Finished my dress in the afternoon and Mila came down and covered my buttons for me it sure looks dandy the skirt is pink and the coat is pink and white striped voile with pink cuffs and collar. Friday the 10th. Had a test in sewing. Had assembly at 11:30 and practiced yells. Bill and I went to town and got my megaphone. We went to the high school and met Lilia and Holly we went to the football game. It was a good game in the score was 0-0. The Institute always beat us before and we are going up. Bill Lomax broke his collarbone but no high school boys were hurt. We went to get them some candy at Nolans. We walked up north away until Milo came along in their car and took us all up there and us girls back after." Overall G.; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF MARJORIE MABIE ROSWELL NEW MEXICO GIRL NEXT DOOR WOMENS STUDIES GENDER STUDIES FEMINISM PRE SUFFRAGE BITTER LAKE CHAVES COUNTY SOUTHWEST SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES SMALL TOWN LIVING TURN OF THE CENTURY ALL AMERICAN GIRLS GIRL NEXT DOOR LAND OF ENCHANTMENT SOUTHERN AMERICANA SOUTH WESTERN AMERICAN AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0002359
|
|
|
Lovesey, Peter
KEYSTONE: A Murder Mystery at the Keystone Film Company SIGNED COPY
London United Kingdom: Macmillan 1983. 1st ed. Fine in unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Lovesey at title page. Laid in is a bookplate stating that 20 copies of this book were signed on June 28th 1983 and that this is numbered 5. A murder mystery at the Keystone Film Company 1915 with Mack Sennett 'Fatty' Arbuckle & Mabel Norman. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Macmillan Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 018310 ISBN : 0333350448 9780333350447
|
|
|
Peters, Ellis
THE POTTER'S FIELD SIGNED COPY AWARD FINALIST
London United Kingdom: Headline 1989. 1st ed. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Page edges age toned else fine in dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Map endpapers. SIGNED COPY signature only by the author on the title page. Jacket illustration by Clifford Harper. An AGATHA AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. The 17th Brother Cadfael. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Illus. by Harper Clifford. Book. Headline Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 018510 ISBN : 0747201595 9780747201595
|
|
|
Futrelle, Jacques
THE HIGH HAND
Indianapolis IN: USA: Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc 1911. First Edition. Covers very lightly rubbed else VG- near fine tight copy. Red cloth with decorative black stamping to spine and cover frontispiece and Illustrations throughout by Will Grefe. Beautiful copy. Now housed in home-made clear acetate dust wrapper. 296 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Grefe Will. Book. Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000812
|
|
|
Morrison, Arthur
THE RED TRIANGLE: BEING SOME FURTHER CHRONICLES OF MARTIN HEWITT INVESTIGATOR .
Boston: L.C. Page & Company 1903. 1st US edition. Spine very lightly soiled some very minor soiling to cloth else a near fine copy. Original pictorial beige cloth front panel stamped in red white and black stamping bright and not flaked fore and bottom edges untrimmed. A collection of six linked crime stories featuring detective Martin Hewitt who made his debut in 1894. "Martin Hewitt is the only contemporary imitator of Sherlock Holmes to survive the years." - Queen The Detective Short Story. Barzun and Taylor A Catalogue of Crime and Hubin . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book. L.C. Page & Company Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 018044
|
|
|
Doherty, PC P C
THE TREASON OF THE GHOSTS Signed Copy
London: Headline 2000. 1st ed with complete number line starting with one. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by Doherty at title page. Medieval mystery featuring Hugh Corbett. Five years ago in the village of Melford a local lord was executed for a spate of vicious murders. But now other young women have been found violated and garrotted and the dead lord's son insists that a miscarriage of justice has taken place. Meanwhile someone who believes in the lord's innocence is exacting his own kind of justice as one by one the leaders of the jury which sent the lord to the gibbet are brutally murdered. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 018198 ISBN : 0747262705 9780747262701
|
|
|
McCloy, Helen
THE MAN IN THE MOONLIGHT
N.Y.: Morrow 1940. 1st edition. Cloth lightly soiled along edges page edges browning else a near fine copy in dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges head and foot of spine lightly nicked and rear panel soiled. Author's second book and features Basil Willing. Franz Konradi austrian biochemist and refugee was shot on the campus of a New York University but there was no trace of a bullet. Increasingly difficult to find. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book. Morrow Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 018226
|
|
|
Davis, Lindsey
A DYING LIGHT IN CORDUBA LETTERED EDITION / SIGNED COPY
Blakeney: Glos. UK: Scorpion Press 1996. 1st ed. Fine . ONE OF 15 LETTERED this being letter "K" COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH DAVIS and PETER LOVESEY who wrote appreciation. Fine in navy blue goatskin with blue black and green marbled paper sides blue top edge and green end papers in transparent dust wrapper. The 8th book in Falco series of Ancient Rome. Laid in is a note on Scorpion Press letterhead describing the De Luxe Specifications : "The de luxe presentation copies are produced in small numbers as they are intended primarily for the use of the author contributor editor publisher and others associated with the authors work. These books are given a letter rather than a number and are especially handsome bound in goatskin rather than bonded leather with five raised bands. The spine blocking is horizontal because of the raised bands. In addition these books contain the signature of the contributor. Prices vary slightly due to the costs involved the difficulty of obtaining the signatures and overall desirability of the volumes.". Signed by All Contributors. First Edition. Quarter-Goatskin. Fine/No Jacket. Limited / Lettered Edition. Scorpion Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012703 ISBN : 0712659412 9780712659413
|
|
|
Davis, Lindsey
SHADOWS IN BRONZE
London United Kingdom: Sidgwick & Jackson 1990. First edition so stated. very minor soiling at page edges else a fine copy in dust jacket.348 pages last seven pages blank dramatis personae full-page map of Imperial Rome map of Italy and in set map on same page. Italy AD 70. The 2nd Falco title. It's AD 70 and just another ordinary day for Falco--disposing of the odd corpse.kicking over the traces of a failed plot agianst the Emperor making a bit on the side in stolen ingots and having a painful re-encounter with his lost lady-love the beautiful and imperious Helena Justina. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Sidgwick & Jackson Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005100 ISBN : 028306028x 9780283060281
|
|
|
Peters, Ellis
ONE CORPSE TOO MANY - A Brother Cadfael Mystery.
New York: Morrow 1980. 1st ed. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering. Cloth shows very minor spotting page edges very lightly soiled else about fine in dust jacket lightly foxed at inside flaps. The 2nd Cadfael and an increasingly difficult book to find. In the summer of 1138 war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions deceptions and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls Shrewsbury Castle falls leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress to hang as traitors. With a heavy heart Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead only to make a grisly discovery: one extra victim that has been strangled not hanged. This ingenious way to dispose of a corpse tells Brother Cadfael that the killer is both clever and ruthless. But one death among so many seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine. He vows to find the truth behind disparate clues: a girl in boys clothing a missing treasure and a single broken flower . . . the tiny bit of evidence that Cadfael believes can expose a murderers black heart. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Morrow Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004537 ISBN : 0688036309 9780688036300
|
|
|
Trow, MJ M J
LESTRADE AND THE BROTHER OF DEATH SIGNED COPY
London: Macmillan 1988. 1st edition. Page edges midly age darkened lightly soiled else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. INSCRIBED COPY. Very brief inscription at title page. "Trow has made a fine art of taking Conan Doyle's much maligned Inspector Sholto Lestrade and making him the protagonist of a witty series. In the spirited albeit corny opening scene to his latest adveture the accident-prone Lestrade survives a fall from the upper deck of the Titanic as it is slipping out to sea. "Was it the weight of his moustache The cut of his bowlerAsomething had caused the crosswinds to catch him and he plummeted over the side." Lestrade spends the remainder of the book battling crime and the wheelchair he's confined in almost equal measure. His recuperation from a broken leg is less painful than it could have been thanks to the tender care of his fiance Fanny Berkeley the daughter of his old friend Chief Constable Tom Berkeley. Upon Lestrade's arrival at the Berkeley estate the first murder of his convalescence practically lands in his lap when the constable's butler is killed in an apparent hunting accident. Lestrade believes someone is out to kill the constable and his uneasiness sharpens when he receives a disturbing anonymous letter. Lestrade's investigation starts a long and complicated chain of events that leads into his past as he tries to get a handle on rapidly unfolding current events which turn out to have everything to do with his own life. He confronts some uncomfortable truths about himself but the darker insights are balanced by slapstick and uninhibited puns and wordplay in a winning well-crafted puzzler that offers sophisticated plotting and a playful look at Edwardian manners." -- Publishers Weekly. Inscribed Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Macmillan Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011761 ISBN : 033345538x 9780333455388
|
|
|
Peters, Ellis
THE HERETIC'S APPRENTICE Signed
London: Headline 1989. 1st ed. page edges browning slight spine slant else near fine in dust jacket. The 16th Cadfael title. SIGNED Plate tipped in with Ellis Peter name printed at top with her signature below. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004693 ISBN : 074720103X 9780747201038
|
|
Per e-mail erhalten
Als pdf-Dokument herunterladen
RSS feed
Permanenter link
