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Zustand: Good. 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Toning to page ends. Good DJ with some edge wear, some light toning and creasing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. 12mo. Light shelfwear. Foxing throughout. Dw has light wear to edges.Small tears to spine joints. Soiling to covers. Not price clipped. Book.

Zustand: Good. 1959. No edition remarks. 255 pages. Dust jacket over paper covered boards. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Large water stains to front board. Books has a backward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Notable foxing. Moderate water staining to panels. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

Zustand: Good. 1956. First Edition. 256 pages. Illustrated jacket over cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Jacket split in two at spine. Attempted tape repair.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Tight and square, light foxing in fore-edges and rear endpaper. Dust jacket is intact and bright.

Zustand: Befriedigend. Buch Tasch 372 158 Seiten.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Novel of suspense in French North Africa. Bar minor toning to endpapers, in VG, clean and bright internal order. Blue boards a little marked with small crease to front. Good unclipped d/j, lightly worn to edges, moreso to head of spine. 12mo. 256pp.

Zustand: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and light fading.

Kl.-8°, Taschenbuch. EA. John Fores, Sprungbrett zum Abgrund, Shocker 61, hrg. Scherz, Bern, 1. Aufl. 1970, TB, kl 8°, 185 S gebräunt leicht best. sonst guter-sehr guter Zustand Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 490.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. A bright UK first edition, first impression. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is bright, clean and complete. It is unclipped. Looks sharp. THE BOOK : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp. The pages are clean and bright. The closed page edges are sound - there they show one or two faint spots. No dog-eared pages. The binding is tight, the hinges are solid. An attractive copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.

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. A good condition book written by John Fores. This copy is an ex-library copy that is missing the usual stamps but has been rebound in deep green with golden gilding for 'Boots Booklover's Library'. Cover in great condition with only mild scuffing to the edges. Internal contents are clean and clear and binding is fine. Still a very smart-looking book overall with bright and crisp pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is a bit marked and worn. Internally clean and tightly bound. A few felt pen marks. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is rubbed and marked.Internally clean.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. A bright UK first edition, first impression - a File Copy from the Hodder archive ( and hence with a 'Publisher's File Copy' stamp on the half title page. Unique thus. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is bright, clean and complete. It is unclipped. Looks sharp. THE BOOK : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp. The pages are clean and bright. The closed page edges are unmarked. No dog-eared pages. The binding is tight, the hinges are solid. An attractive copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.

1st edition. Publisher's file copy - stamp on half title page, with offsetting onto verso of front free end paper. Binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

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Zustand: Good. 5 volumes in 4 (of an eventual 6). Illustrated with 13 hand-colored plates (some aquatint). 21x13.2 cm (8¼x5¼"), rebacked calf with gilt spines.With 13 caricatures, including works by Lewis Marks and Charles Williams. George Cruikshank may have executed some of the unsigned plates, as he earlier illustrated "Town talk" and "The scourge" for the same publisher.The later numbers of this periodical contain numerous articles and caricatures relating to Queen Caroline.Indexed at the end of each volume.The New Bon Ton Magazine was an English satirical magazine published between 1818 and 1821. The volumes in the present lot cover the timespan of May, 1818 to September, 1820.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:314782218.

Pig-Faced Lady Stipple-engraved broadsheet with contemporary hand-colour above letterpress text, repaired tears at centre fold at both right- and left- hand sides, clipped at lower right and upper right corners, lightly stained at top and right. "Fancy a date with an eligible young lady who's looking for a man to share her family's vast fortune with? Who wouldn't right? Well there's a slight catch; the girl in question happens to have the head of a fully grown pig. Still interested? Believe it or not, this was a proposition which many young men in London were giving serious consideration during the winter of 1814-15. A series of bizarre rumours began to circulate around town, of a pig-faced woman who was said to be living in luxurious apartments located somewhere in the up-market district around Manchester Square. This girl was reported to be the sole heiress of a wealthy family from a remote region of Ireland, and she had been dispatched to London in order to find a husband who could take charge of the vast fortune she was due to inherit. It was said that a number of aristocratic young bachelors had already sallied forth to present themselves at her door, but had ended up beating a hasty retreat after being subjected to the spectacle of their intended dining from her favourite trough, or conducting a conversation in porcine squeals and grunts. And so, after several weeks of futile searching, the pig-faced lady, still sat alone in her opulent rooms, waiting for a man with a sufficiently strong stomach to come forward and claim her. While most Londoners instantly dismissed such talk as errant nonsense, greed overcame the common sense of a good many and the story proved to be stubbornly persistent. By the spring of 1815, newspaper advertisements began to appear from impoverished gentlemen who earnestly wished to solicit a meeting with the pig-faced lady, while others offered their services as companions or employees in her household. Such symbols of public credulity particularly irked the editors of the Times, who finally attempted to quash the story once and for all in a fantastically sarcastic editorial published on 16th February 1815: "There is at present a report, in London, of a woman, with a strangely deformed face, resembling that of a pig, who is possessed of a large fortune, and we suppose wants all the comforts and conveniences incident toward her sex and station. We, ourselves, unwittingly put in an advertisement from a young woman, offering herself to be her companion; and yesterday morning, a fellow (with a calf's head, we suppose) transmitted to us another advertisement, attended by a one pound note, offering himself to be her husband. We have put his offer in the fire, and shall send his money to some charity, thinking it a pity that such a fool should have any. Our rural friends hardly know what idiots London contains". The editorial then went on to point out that similar stories had been reported in the past: "The story, however, is an old one. About 50 years ago, it is well recollected by several elderly people, there was exactly the same rumour. It was revived with but slight effect about 30 years since; and now comes forth again in its pristine vigour. On the original invention of the pig-faced woman, about the year 1764, a man offered himself to make her an ivory trough to feed out of; which can only be considered as a feeble type of the silver cradle actually presented in our day. Besides, there was but one actor in the first folly, and there have been twenty in the latter". In fact, rumours such as this had been spontaneously popping up across western Europe since the early 1600s. It seems likely that they were initially linked to exaggerated horror-stories about the malign effects of witchcraft which gradually evolved over time to become part of popular folklore. The social function of the tale also appears to have changed, becoming a humorous means by which to gauge the apparent depths to which one's acq.