Various wallace edgar (4 Ergebnisse)

[Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (24 x 17cm), pp.viii; 261-380; xi-xvi. With four double-sided photogravure plates. Publisher's colour-illustrated covers with advertisements to rear. Browned, as expected. A few chips from covers, and head and tail of spine. A large mended tear to rear cover. Very good; a rare survival. The first two and bit chapters of Orczy's novel, which first appeared in the USA, as well as chapters nineteen to twenty-four of Wallace's 'The Clue of the Twisted Candle', and various other short stories.…

[Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.[30] 77-162 [31-42]; pp.[34] 163-254 [35-46]; pp.[40] 255-346 [40-52]; pp.[40] 347-446 [41-52]; pp.[50] 447-546 [51-68]; pp.[48] 100 [49-64]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled and illustrated in dark blue and red, stapled twice, and priced at 1s. Presented in a navy fleece-lined quarter morocco clamshell box, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and blue cloth over sides. Internally clean, with browning to advertising leaves only. Covers lightly handled, but with heavy rubbing and some chipping to spines, including some careful repairs. Pencil ownerships to front covers of the first two issues. Very good. All six parts of Stacpoole's high-seas adventure, as well as numerous short pieces by authors including Doyle, Chaplin, Lawrence, Pain and Wallace.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. A first edition of this collection by P. G. Wodehouse, with a later issue dust wrapper. First edition of this collection. Twelve short stories, which were originally serialized in the Strand, including: The Custody of the Pumpkin, Company for Gertrude, A Bobbie Wickham Story, and The Mulliners of Hollywood. This copy is supplied with a later issue dust jacket, with an overprice sticker on the spine, and printed with a new list of Wodehouse's works. Written by Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with fading to the spine and edges of the boards. Later edition dust wrapper is smart with chipping and tears. Loss to the head of the spine and rear board, with minor loss to the tail of the spine and front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the endpapers. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

[Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Seven parts in their original colour illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[80] 664 [81-90]; pp.[32] 104 [33-40]; pp.[36] 105-208 [37-44]; pp.[36] 209-312 [37-44]; pp.[40] 313-416 [41-48]; pp.[32] 417-528 [33-40]; pp.[36] 529-640 [37-44]. With numerous black and white and occasional colour illustrations. Presented in a quarter black morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands, black cloth over sides, and a fleece lining. Generally bright, crisp copies, with some light rubbing to covers. Some minor loss to spines of volumes 470, 471, and 472. Very good. A complete run of all seven parts of Sergeant Sir Peter's Cases, plus six Jeeves and Wooster short stories and 'A Marriage of Convenience' by Maugham.…