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JIM DAVIS.
Edition: Reprint.
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company. (1926.). Hardcover - Classic and adventure-filled story of a boy who accidentally became a member of a gang of smugglers. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and numerous black and white drawings by Frances Brundage. 246 pp.
Condition: Good overall in blue boards with black lettering, no dust jacket (gift inscription dated 1938.)
Book ID: 44666More details Price: $12.50 -
JIM DAVIS.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, nd (ca 1930) dj. Hardcover - Classic and adventure-filled story of a boy who accidentally became a member of a gang of smugglers. 244 pp. Green and white illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in green boards with black lettering, in a bright and very attractive vintage dust jacket.
Book ID: 69165More details Price: $21.00 -
DEAD MAN IN THE SILVER MARKET.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. dj. Hardcover - In this 'autobiographical essay,' the author presents a satirical view of his Indian (on his father's side) and Irish (on his mother's side) ancestry, complete with an account of being taken to visit his Indian grandmother at age 12 in a chapter entitled "My grandmother and the dirty English." 203 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 45184More details Price: $12.50 -
FALCONER'S CRUSADE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a mystery set in 13th century Oxford University, featuring Regent Master William Falconer - teacher, philosopher and amateur sleuth.
Condition: Fine in fine dj.
Book ID: 11460More details Price: $15.00 -
MURDER UNDER THE KISSING BOUGH.
Edition: First printing.
London: Headline, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring master chef, Auguste Didier, set in late Victorian England, at the turn of the century. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-7472-05590.
Condition: Very good in a very near fine dust jacket (spine slant, rather severe toning to the pages.) Still a decent copy of a title rather hard to find in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 60203More details Price: $45.00 -
MURDER AT THE MASQUE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Headline, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring master chef, Auguste Didier, set in his native Cannes, where he has gone to get away from murder, and in late Victorian England, at the turn of the century. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-7472-0358x.
Condition: Very good in a very near fine dust jacket (the inevitable toning to the pages.) Still a decent copy of a title rather hard to find in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 60205More details Price: $35.00 -
THE EDUCATION OF A GARDENER.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (light foxing to fore-edge of textblock, endpapers, and interior of dj, price-clipped) Books signed by Page are quite scarce.
Book ID: 85500More details Price: $575.00 -
WHEN CHRIST AND HIS SAINTS SLEPT.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1996.). Epic historical novel set in the early twelfh century, the story of Henry I's courageous daughter, Maude, the heir to the throne. Double page map. Author's note. 746 pp. ISBN: 9780345396686.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 54732More details Price: $10.00 -
WHEN CHRIST AND HIS SAINTS SLEPT.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Ballantine, (1996.). Epic historical novel set in the early twelfh century, the story of Henry I's courageous daughter, Maude, the heir to the throne. Double page map. Author's note. 746 pp. ISBN: 9780345396686.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54354More details Price: $11.50 -
A BREACH OF PROMISE.
Edition: First printing.
New York Ballantine, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in Victorian England - the title refers to a breach of promise suit when a young woman's fiance refuses to marry her. Mystery featuring investigator William Monk and his nurse Hester Latterly. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-449-908496.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 77399More details Price: $35.00 -
DARK ASSASSIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York Ballantine, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Victorian England, one which contrasts life in the luxurious drawing rooms where "powerful men hatch unscrupulous plots to a world beneath the city where poor folk fight starvation." Mystery featuring investigator William Monk and his wife Hester Latterly. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-449-908496.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 77815More details Price: $16.50 -
A BREACH OF PROMISE.
Edition: First printing.
New York Ballantine, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in Victorian England - the title refers to a breach of promise suit when a young woman's fiance refuses to marry her. Mystery featuring investigator William Monk and his nurse Hester Latterly. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-449-908496.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket (small star stamped on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 31263More details Price: $27.50 -
DERBYSHIRE: The County Books.
Edition: First printing.
London: Robert Hale, (1950) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very personal view of Derbyshire by a man who lived there - and loved it - for more than 25 years, but also had childhood memories going back much further. A title in The County Books series. Illustrated with 49 black and white photographs. Folding map tipped in at rear. Index. viii, 310 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages and spine of dj, price-clipped with a new publisher's price-sticker attached)
Book ID: 84429More details Price: $30.00 -
THE IV GEORGES: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court and Town Life.
Edition: First thus.
Meadville, PA: The Chautauqua-Century Press / Flood & Vincent, 1892. Hardcover first edition - A lovely edition of this humorous work - to quote a small sample - in writing of George the III's household, Thackeray comments "It was a model of an English gentleman's house. . it was kindly, it was charitable, it was frugal, it was orderly, it must have been stupid to a degree which I shudder now to contemplate." Illustrated with a frontispiece of King George I, and other drawings and decorations by George Wharton Edwards. Top edge gilt. 211 pp.
Condition: Near fine in tan cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and white decorations on front cover - some wear to the ends of the spine and the bottom edges of the boards, gift inscription dated Christmas 1891.
Book ID: 82730More details Price: $35.00 -
CLOSE QUARTERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - Summertime in Barsetshire -
Condition: Very good- in a very good+ dustjacket (spine slant, slight trace of tape on green cloth covers, slight edgewear and some short closed tears to dj.)
Book ID: 11823More details Price: $45.00
