elephants work von bentley e c (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good Dust Jacket. Pages unmarked. Upper corner of front inner flap clipped. Boards edgeworn. Dust jacket moderately worn. Binding square & firm. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American edition. Some foxing on the endpapers, else very good in very good plus price-clipped dustwrapper with sunned spine.

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American edition. Some light toning on the endpapers, else fine in about very good dust jacket with toned spine and a few tiny holes at the front flap fold.

1st ed. End papers a little foxed; spine slightly bumped at head & foot; binding tight. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket).

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is age toned. Fair DJ with some edge wear and soiling. Toning to the page ends.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.

First edition, first printing. Original burgundy cloth with titles in white to the spine, in dustwrapper. This example has a binding error, with the text on the spine being upside down in relation to the contents. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the corners and spine tips very lightly bumped. The contents, with a bookseller's label to the rear pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has some small chips at the spine tips and fold corners, and a few short closed tears at the extremities. Not price-clipped (9/6 to the front flap). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

8vo, pp. 277. Original red patterned boards, lettered in black to spine. Top edge stained, leading edge uncut. Illustrated dustwrapper. Offsetting to endpapers, corners a little bumped, but a very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with some scuffing with a little paper loss to rear panel and folds. First US edition, published the same year as its UK counterpart. By the author of Trent's Last Case (and the inventor of the clerihew).

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. An excellent copy of the first edition, first impression of E. C. Bentley's humorous and shocking 1950 novel, 'Elephant's Work'. The first edition, first impression of this work of fiction from novelist and humourist E. C. Bentley, the author of the popular detective novel 'Trent's Last Case'.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Termed a 'shocker' of a novel by the author, Bentley wrote this work at the suggestion of his friend, novelist John Buchan.With two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear, and the stamp of Alfie's Book Store to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to spine head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. Chipping to dust wrapper back strip head, with a small loss to back strip tail. Closed tear to head of front wrap. Light spotting to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. book.

8vo, pp. 252. Original burgundy boards, lettered in white to spine. Printed dust jacket. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket but for sliver of paper loss to rear panel, slightly affecting text of blurb. First edition. By the author of Trent's Last Case (and the inventor of the clerihew).