Foreword peter haining (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is lightly bumped along top edges and seems to have a couple of minor printing defects. Defects are repeated on pictorial boards. Top corners of pages 103 to 112 are creased. 128 pages with 120 illustrations.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. 2nd printing. Quarto (approx. 9 1/4" wide by 12 1/8" tall), brown cloth covers with gilt spine titles and gilt design on top cover of Sherlock's hat, pipe and magnifying glass. Black and white illustrations. A bit of foxing on top edge of book block, overs slightly sprung, light scratch on rear cover else book is in very good condition; dust jacket has small chip at head of spine, light edge wear, light scratch on rear panel, else very good. 122615C "Fifty years of occasional articles, newspaper cuttings, letters, memoirs, anecdotes, pictures, photographs, and drawings relating to the great detective.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Small handling wear on jacket with red name of author on the spine faded.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1975). 162pp. SIGNED by the author on bookplate mounted on half-title. VG/VG copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st US Edition. 287 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's seal on the ffep. Bound in green cloth with black titles on the spine. Lightly worn on the corners. Grey dustjacket in very good condition with black titles. Darkened on the spine and around the edges. A significant tear at the head of the spine, taped on the inside of the jacket. 1ST US EDITION. NPC. VG/VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Thus. First Thus hardcover with clipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is marked, and edges are creased. Page block is blemished, and previous owner's dedication penned to FEP. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. Comprises short stories by the following authors: Sir Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Lawrence Durrell, Somerstet Maughan, Robert Graved, J.B. Priestley, C.S. Forester, Graham Greene, Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis, Sinclair Lewis, Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, MacKinlay Kantor, John Steinbeck, Patricia Highsmith, Evan Hunter, Paul Gallico, Truman Capote, William Burroughs, John Updike. LW. Used.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 475 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Leaves slightly age-darkened. Jacket clean. Internally clean. Peter Haining's copy. Loosely inserted are two typed letters signed by Graham Greene on his Antibes headed paper. The first declines an invitation from Haining to write the foreword for the Raffles volume. Greene writes: "It is a splendid idea to collect together the complete short stories of Raffles.' This quote then finds its way to the foot of the dust jacket! The second letter thanks Haining for sending a copy of the book. Also laid in is a letter from Dee Wallis, assistant producer of BBC's Mastermind, thanking Haining for his contribution to the programme for a 1996 broadcast. 028562640X 8vo.…