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1859réf. 220690Boston: Wentworth and Co. 1859. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 376 pages. 8vo. Pages are lightly age toned. Small water stain along top edge is visible on several pages. Light age soil on endpapers. Brown stain at bottom edge of last 100 pages. Blue-gray pebbled cloth with blindstamped raised leaf designs. Cloth is spotted and faded around edges. Stains on covers. Edgewear to top and bottom of spine. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Record # 220690 Wentworth and Co. hardcover
1852réf. 5759New York: Cornish Lamport & Co 1852. First Edition/Pirate Edition. Hardcover. Good Textblock Very Good. No DJ. First Edition/Pirate Edition. Hardcover. Unusual little tome of early crime fiction and one of only 5 or 6 known copies bound in red boards typically found in brown boards. "Waters" was the pseudonym for William Russell one of the earliest crafters of detective fiction in the UK. The first "official" printing was in London under a slightly different name in 1856 and then in the US later that year. This printing was apparently a pirate edition preceding the official by an inexplicable 4 years Waters Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer. London J&C Brown 1856. Queen's Quorum 2. Hubin 1994 p. 843. Noted flaws notwithstanding a rather handsome copy of this very scarce title rare in red boards. Moderate shelf/edge wear fraying at head and tail tips through light toning at spine minor soiling to boards corners gently bumped light foxing at preliminaries minor cutting error at 181/2 edge only else tight bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards gilt lettering in blind decorative elements decorative/advert endpages blue ink decorative borders and ads for various Cornish titles. Small 8vo. 238pp. Cornish, Lamport & Co hardcover
1910réf. 1.20689New York: The Christian Herald Bible House 1910. Hardcover. good; overall. there is some light staining to a few boards all have shelfwear at corners and spine ends; texts are good; some page toning. 7 volumes 24 mo; tan boards with impressed logo of Christian Herald on front boards; each volume is 212 pp. The Christian Herald Bible House hardcover
1898réf. 184296MA: Salem Press 1898. Softcover. Good. Good paperback. The book covers have chipping and tearing covers have minor soiling spine missing. Front cover is coming loose. Salem Press unknown
2024réf. x-1032594985A K Peters/CRC Press 2024. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.21 inches. A K Peters/CRC Press paperback
2024réf. x-1032596511A K Peters Ltd 2024. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. A K Peters Ltd hardcover
réf. 47847783like new. unknown
réf. 47847783-nnew. unknown
réf. 1032594985.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2010réf. DADAX1160015600Kessinger Publishing 2010-02-17. hardcover. New. 6.00x1.00x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing hardcover
réf. 69945Boston MA: Wentworth and Company 1856. Crime classic FIRST AUTHORISED AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.ii; 376. Bound in half red morocco tooled in gilt matching red cloth sides ruled in gilt. Contents clean no inscriptions some acceptable wear to covers small crack to upper joint. A very good copy. 'Waters' is considered among the first and most prolific authors to write 'police memoirs' or detective stories. From 1849-1852 he contributed an irregular series of stories to Chambers' Edinburgh Journal. Ten of these were published in pirated book-form editions in New York in 1852 and 1853 entitled The Recollections of a Policeman. The same ten plus two additional stories were then collated into an official volume entitled Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer published in London in 1856. In the same year twenty-one stories were authorised for publication in America the present volume being the most comprehensive of all the early versions. Boston, MA: Wentworth and Company, 1856 unknown
1852réf. 002646New York: Cornish Lamport & Co. 1852 Bound in brown blind stamped cloth 238 pp. bright gilt spine titles.This ia a first edition pirated preceding the first British edition by four years the first authorized American edition by five. This copy with chipped spine extremities shelf wear spotting to front cover and the first twelve and last five leaves of text foxed. Quite bright and clean. A good to very good copy. Cornish, Lamport & Co. hardcover
1852réf. 44206New York: Cornish Lamport & Co. Publishers 1852. 1852. First edition. This is the true first American edition that was first issued as a pirated edition by Cornish Lamport & Co. in 1852 with the text lifted from CHAMBER'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL and "some of our American Magazines." The first U. K. edition was published in 1856 as RECOLLECTIONS OF A DETECTIVE POLICE-OFFICER. The first authorized American edition was published in 1857 in Boston by Wentworth and Company. Thomas Waters was the pseudonym of William Russell. 8vo. Original burgandy cloth decorated in blind on front and rear covers titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine 238 pp. preface. Queen 's Quorum 2 says this book is "the most important criminological yellow-back of its time." The first collection of British Detective stories and preceded only by Edgar Allan Poe's TALES in 1845 according to Queen's Quorum. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends corners and extremities cloth is lightly rubbed former owner's name on front pastedown sheet else a very good copy of a rare book. Cornish, Lamport & Co., Publishers, 1852. hardcover
1853réf. E14237New York: Cornish Lamport & Co 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. 8vo. in red cloth. 238 pp. True tales of a "Detective Policeman" of London who ".is in some repects peculiar to England--one of the developments of the last twenty five years.the record of 'hair-breath 'scapes whcih follow is another verification of the old saying 'Truth is stranger than fiction'". The binding while tight with hinges fully intact is well worn with the spine being chipped and lacking several pieces; covers soiled. The text has some occasional foxing and small stains. Remarkably scarce in first edition. Cornish, Lamport & Co hardcover
1852réf. 9305New York: Cornish Lamport & Co. Publishers 1852. 1st Edition . Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Extremely scarce first printing. This is the true first American edition that was first issued as a pirated edition by Cornish Lamport & Co. in 1852 with the text lifted from CHAMBER'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL and "some of our American Magazines." Front board very close to detaching binding repaired with tape. Noticeable shelf-wear soiling bumping etc. Some foxing pages otherwise clean. Cornish, Lamport & Co., Publishers hardcover
réf. 1356725325.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1927réf. 00278520Ipswich Mass.: Ipswich Mass.: Ipswich Historical Society 1927 1927 Original Wraps. Good. First Edition. American History Biography. Owner's Name. Vol xxvi edge wear history of Ipswich John Wise Chebacco Michael Farely 41 pgs data on society lists names publicationsstapled. Owner's Name. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. Ipswich, Mass.: Ipswich Historical Society, 1927 paperback
2000réf. Q-0963761617Riparian Pr 2000-05-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Riparian Pr paperback
réf. 109808019X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1993réf. 1376911Seattle WA: Hermetic Press 1993. Hardcover. Quarto xviii 806 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket has light bumping and creasing throughout with a faint liquid stain to the top left front cover. Bottom exterior text block has a light green stain. NOTE: Shelved in ND-HV. 1376911. FP New Rockville Stock. Hermetic Press hardcover books
1968réf. 221762New York: Magnum Books 1968. Softcover. Very Good. First thus. About very good in wrappers. / minor rubbing on book cover very light stain on back cover. Magnum Books unknown books
1993réf. 1376911Seattle WA: Hermetic Press 1993. Hardcover. Quarto xviii 806 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket has light bumping and creasing throughout with a faint liquid stain to the top left front cover. Bottom exterior text block has a light green stain. NOTE: Shelved in ND-HV. 1376911. FP New Rockville Stock. Hermetic Press hardcover
réf. WARE70NP024Pyramid Books. mass market paperback. fine; used. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes 12mo; 144 pages; fine mass market paperback; first edition; tips bumped; slight scuffs to face cover; spine slanting; tanning pages; clean pages; prompt shippingw ith tracking Pyramid Books paperback
1967réf. 128905Lancer Books 73-656 1967. Very Good Plus. No. 6 spine in publisher series First Edition perfect-bound softcover 12mo photo cover featuring blonde lady with pistol. Vintage paperback Dr. Lowell Simon Dee LSD knew aikido and Asian languages here as "Oriental" and he knew how to blend in with the Haight-Ashbury crowd. Drugs and humor girls and trips. Very Good Plus condition faint foxing rubbing toning slight lean spine creases. Pretty purple painted edges. For mature readers. Lancer Books 73-656 paperback
réf. 54440MASSACHUSETTS. IPSWICH. WATERS Thomas. Frank. Candlewood An Ancient Neighborhood in Ipswich with Genealogies of John Brown William Fellows Robert Kinsman. Salem MA: The Salem press Co. 1909. 1st ed. 163 pp. Map frontis. illus. map. orig. printed wrappers. A near fine copy. unknown
