Carter john preface (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 69 pp. Soft illustrated paper wrappers in beige and pink. Very good with marginal staining along cover and creasing from water damage on cover. Catalogue of an exhibit held at Seven Albermarle St. in London from April to September, 1951. Six pages of advertisements in front and back of book. Also includes three blank pages in back for "Notes and Comments." Printed and bound in England by Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd. First edition. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.…

Hardcover. 1st edition. xi, 401 p.; 2 photogr. pl.: frontis. (head, 1888), facing p. 1 (seated, 1843); 23 cm. Title-page darkened from guard sheet Good spotted orig. blue cloth, light foxing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Bookstore's label on half-title page "Reference Library of Francis Edwards Ltd. / Not For Sale" Some foxing to dust-jacket. A 20mm tear to margin of rear panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. A later owner's purchase receipt loosely included (purchased from Smith's Bookshop, Wellington, 1999).; This copy is number 201 of an edition of 500 copies. Limitation page at rear is signed by Dorothy Glover, Graham Greene, and John Carter. xviii, [2], 149, [2], [1 (blank)] pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 248 x 159mm. Illustrated endpapers. With a 2 page Preface by Graham Greene. With a 7 page Introduction by John Carter. A catalogue of 471 titles, arranged alphabetically by author's name. With a 4 page Appendix by Eric Sinclair Bell: "The Publishing History of Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab".…