illus payne john (5 Ergebnisse)

Cloth cover; stiched booklet with stiching gone, so pages loose; stained light blue cover; 16pp; school stamp in fep.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj and illus) John Linton (illustrator). First Edition. [no wear to book, essentially a brand-new copy, but with a previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket shows just a touch of wear at a couple of corners]. The second collection of supernatural-tinged mystery stories featuring private detective and psychic investigator Lucius Leffing, one of the better Sherlock Holmes knock-offs. The Introduction is by fellow author Frank Belknap Long, who writes about his several meetings with Brennan over the years.

First Edition. Very good copies both in the original gilt-blocked green cloth boards, now slightly rubbed at the edges, joints and endbands. Endpapers lightly foxed. Internally near-fine: unread with unopened pages. Remains a well-preserved set overall. This edition limited to 1000 sets, of which this is No. 894. Physical description: complete in 2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm. Subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Allegories - Fiction. Storytelling - Fiction. Plague - Europe - History - Fiction. Italian fiction - To 1400 - Translations into English. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copies both in the original gilt-blocked green cloth boards, now slightly rubbed at the edges, joints and endbands. Endpapers lightly foxed. Internally bright and clean; remains a well-preserved set overall. This edition limited to 1000 sets, of which this is No. 834. Physical description: complete in 2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm. Subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Allegories - Fiction. Storytelling - Fiction. Plague - Europe - History - Fiction. Italian fiction - To 1400 - Translations into English. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original paper-labelled cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 210 pages; Description: xii, 310 p. 1l. Vii, 307 p. Front. (port. ) plates. 20 cm. Subjects: Fourteenth Century Italian Literature - The Decameron. 3 Kg.