The Butcher's Boy by Perry, Thomas - 1982

California Book auction Galleries, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Special Limited Edition. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Top edge very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Books on Books; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 13124. .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good plus. Black cloth over boards with title stamped in orange onto top board and spine, 8vo (7-5/16 x 4-15/16 inches [18.5 cm x 12.5 cm]), pp. [i-iv], v, [vi-viii], 1-279, all edges trimmed. Stated "First Edition" and code "I - F" [Sept. 1931], to copyright page and "1931" on title page, "A HARPER SEALED MYSTERY" device stamped in orange onto bottom of spine and top board, remnants of original blue onion skin "seal" to rear paste down/rfep and pg 233. Modest wear and rubbing to boards, one small bump damaging the cloth at center fore-edge of rear board, spine with both ends softened and fading to spine lettering, front hinge tender. Text toned with moderate soil throughout and light damp stain touching the fore-edges of first and last few leaves, p.153 with a large closed tear noted and rfep partially attached to rear paste-down by blue onion skin "seal" remnant near spine. Carr's third of forty-six detective novels,… Read More

Limited first edition, 1st printing, unread Fine book in Fine jacket and slipcase. This is copy U of 26 lettered copies. Book is bound in quarter morocco with marbled paper boards in matching marbled slipcase. Bizarre, wrap-around dust jacket by the late, well-known comix artist S. Clay Wilson. The book is signed by Crumley on the limitation page. This is one of the few McMillan titles with only 26 deluxe lettered editions.

Limited edition, 1st printing of this hardcover version. A back-to-back packaging of two early Willeford novels that appeared as PBOs, plus his play version of first title. A Fine minus book that has slight wear and color loss to corners and spine ends; in a Fine minus book with just a hint of fade to spine. This is number 1 of 250 copies; signed by Willeford and numbered on a limitation page.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1832. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition (published 1832-38), octavo, three volumes; xii, 388; 409; 509pp. In contemporary half calf (lightly worn), spines divided into five compartments with gilt rolls and double fillets, gilt lettered titles and volume numbers to second and fourth compartments respectively. Early ownership labels to front endpapers, neat early ink ownership names to head of each title page, early pencil ownership inscription to opening blank of volume three, half-titles present in all three volumes. Clean attractive copy in first edition of Warren's often macabre tales that have received considerable scholarly attention as a source for Edgar Allan Poe's works of mystery and the supernatural.

California Book auction Galleries, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Special Limited Edition. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Top edge very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Books on Books; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 13124. .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good plus. Black cloth over boards with title stamped in orange onto top board and spine, 8vo (7-5/16 x 4-15/16 inches [18.5 cm x 12.5 cm]), pp. [i-iv], v, [vi-viii], 1-279, all edges trimmed. Stated "First Edition" and code "I - F" [Sept. 1931], to copyright page and "1931" on title page, "A HARPER SEALED MYSTERY" device stamped in orange onto bottom of spine and top board, remnants of original blue onion skin "seal" to rear paste down/rfep and pg 233. Modest wear and rubbing to boards, one small bump damaging the cloth at center fore-edge of rear board, spine with both ends softened and fading to spine lettering, front hinge tender. Text toned with moderate soil throughout and light damp stain touching the fore-edges of first and last few leaves, p.153 with a large closed tear noted and rfep partially attached to rear paste-down by blue onion skin "seal" remnant near spine. Carr's third of forty-six detective novels,… Read More

Limited first edition, 1st printing, unread Fine book in Fine jacket and slipcase. This is copy U of 26 lettered copies. Book is bound in quarter morocco with marbled paper boards in matching marbled slipcase. Bizarre, wrap-around dust jacket by the late, well-known comix artist S. Clay Wilson. The book is signed by Crumley on the limitation page. This is one of the few McMillan titles with only 26 deluxe lettered editions.

Limited edition, 1st printing of this hardcover version. A back-to-back packaging of two early Willeford novels that appeared as PBOs, plus his play version of first title. A Fine minus book that has slight wear and color loss to corners and spine ends; in a Fine minus book with just a hint of fade to spine. This is number 1 of 250 copies; signed by Willeford and numbered on a limitation page.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1832. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition (published 1832-38), octavo, three volumes; xii, 388; 409; 509pp. In contemporary half calf (lightly worn), spines divided into five compartments with gilt rolls and double fillets, gilt lettered titles and volume numbers to second and fourth compartments respectively. Early ownership labels to front endpapers, neat early ink ownership names to head of each title page, early pencil ownership inscription to opening blank of volume three, half-titles present in all three volumes. Clean attractive copy in first edition of Warren's often macabre tales that have received considerable scholarly attention as a source for Edgar Allan Poe's works of mystery and the supernatural.