And le queux william (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition. Red cloth pictorial covers, some rubbing. Tan to pages from age. Well kept. …

One page,12mo, a scrawl, good condition: "Don't trouble about 'Secrets of State'. The price they could pay is not worth paper & ink [phrase underlined]! | Your old friend | William Le Queux."Secrets of State" could well have been the following (see entry on via Libri, Sanctuary Books): "Manuscript of "Secrets I Have Known" c. 1920. Ephemera. Near Fine. Manuscript on lined paper, bound by a single post at the top corner; 200x255mm; pp. 32, cursive handwriting in purple ink, on the recto only. It begins, "In the course of an erratic & wandering life I have mostly for the purpose of obtaining first hand knowledge of the seamy & more sensational -- of cosmopolitan life been forced to keep queer company in many Continental cities." This cataloguer wonders if this item remained unpublished, or if it's an early draft of "Society Intrigues I Have Known." It may have been published by Odhams in 1920, as a short story." See Image.…

8 x 5, embossed red cloth, 550 pp, covers very worn, sunned, spotted, extremities bumped, cover edges fraying, hinges loose, pp toned and spotted; a well used copy of this FIRST EDITION of this prophetic novel about the German invasion of England.

Cloth over boards. Zustand: Good. First English edition. Set of two volumes. Hardcover cloth (original green) over boards. 8vo. Pagination: volume I -- xvi, 346, xvii-xxii pp; volume II -- viii, 347-702, ix-xii pp. Illustration: volume I -- 11 b/w photogravure full-page plates (including portrait frontispiece of Prince Amedeo), a colour map, and 162 b/w in text illustrations; volume II -- 5 b/w photogravure plates (including frontispiece), 2 b/w five fold panoramas, 2 color maps, 2 loose full colour fold-out maps in pocket (map "Arctic Ocean" missing), and 50 b/w in text illustrations. Uniform binding, Title, author, volume, and ornament stamped on the spine in gilt. Half titles. Rubricated title pages. Printed on smooth semi-gloss paper. Deckled edges. Sewn in pocket at the back of volume II. Both volumes in similar condition: darkened heads, occasional pencil mark, no foxing, some cracking in the gutters of the end papers, strong binding. Covers are slightly rubbed, bumped and worn at the edges. Overall condition is good verging on very good if not for the missing map.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original sage cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, over printed illustrated in blue, black and white to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains (viii), 334 + 2 pp. Ink name to the front free end paper 'E. M. Rayner', spine slightly darkened and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1900-1925. …