The Dark Island by SACKVILLE-WEST, V - 1934

Row, Peterson, and Company ILLINOIS, 1935. . and several corner creases and short tears. B&W illustrations are generally clean throughout, though.HB NODJ,1935, 1st edition, GOOD+/GOOD-, NO JACKET, SOLD AS-IS, Interior Some rub, Wear, Light FoX stains some pencil mrks, Few cuts, chips Tears some pages EDGES, Tan Beige & Dark Green ? Pictorial Cloth cover shows light Soil, Stains, Rub & tiny Chips Pieces Extremities, Cloth Spine Tears along Edges, chips Spine Engs, 304 pgs, No Additional Printings On Copyright Page, heavy edgewear and some scuffing to green-printed cover illustration. Fraying to corners and split to cloth along rear spine edge; some loss to spine ends. Still, a fairly tight copy with solid text and hinges.. This is an exceptionally rare book to find in any condition!. First Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Whishart & Co., 1933. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo. Revised English edition, preceded by the Contact edition. Some discolouration to cloth along edges, spine slightly cocked, foxing to outside edges of pages; former owner's signature and date to front pastedown. Dust-jacket browning slightly with spine darkened and some foxing to edge rear flap; 4 cm closed tear to bottom edge of front panel, some paper loss at head and heel of spine and corners; light scratch to rear and overall light dust soil..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1939 first British issue in two toned green and grey cloth boards, white and green titling to the spine, bottom page edges untrimmed, sewn not cased, no inscriptions, faint scattered foxing to the closed edges, lower board has minor damp to the bottom corner with some mild bubbling of the cloth and faint marking to the spine corner of the rear few text pages, but with some darker marking to the end papers, unclipped dust wrapper has some short edge tears and some light chipping to spine ends, there is some damp marking but mainly to the reverse of the DW, some age browing visible to the yellow parts of the wrapper, the green front and spine are tidy but with some edge and corner rubbing, first edition issued in only 2000 copies, RARE in the dust wrapper, 315pp. Bank deposit as payment for this item please.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Wellington: Spiral, 1983 first issue in first NZ edition, light handling wear with rubbed or creased edges, lacks blank front endpaper, crossed out name in pen to first (title) page, no errata page as called for, [x],469,[1]pp New Zealand native maori culture based novel. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited. Very Good. 1892. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 256 pages: 4.75 x 7.5 in.: 1: KB#011155: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are original Dark Blue with wear at corners and gilt lettering on spine. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright (except for endpapers being lightly age-darkened), tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Raffles Haw is a millionaire, or billionaire, thanks to his possession of a secret which furnishes him with an inexhaustible supply of money. " and "The attempts by Raffles Haw, a rich eccentric, to help the poor only backfire, as his wealth brings out the worst in those around him." .

London: Whishart & Co., 1933. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo. Revised English edition, preceded by the Contact edition. Some discolouration to cloth along edges, spine slightly cocked, foxing to outside edges of pages; former owner's signature and date to front pastedown. Dust-jacket browning slightly with spine darkened and some foxing to edge rear flap; 4 cm closed tear to bottom edge of front panel, some paper loss at head and heel of spine and corners; light scratch to rear and overall light dust soil..

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1901. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). viii,402pp, 6pp of publishers adverts. Illustrated with 12 full page mono illustrations by James Craig. Publishers 1st issue binding of grey cloth, with light green lettering and design of Marble arch, blocked in blue, green and mustard, to the front panel. The spine is lettered in gilt within a green ruled border. Top edge gilt. A little minor rubbing to the extremities and the front inner hinge is cracked but firm. Overall a better than very good copy of this uncommon novel. (Glover and Greene; Victorian Detective Fiction. No. 303). Not in Wolff.

New Orleans: W. M'Kean, 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Imprint: "For Sale by W. M'Kean, New Orleans -- James Rice, Jr., Louisville -- Flash, Ryder and Co., Cincinnati -- Meech and Dinnies, St. Louis, and by All Booksellers." Vol. 2 only. 4, iv, [1], 14-180 p.; 20 cm. Original reddish cloth spine with plain boards; original printed spine label, erroneously stating "Vol. I." Spine title: Life in London, or The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Corinthian Tom, and Bob Logic. Four pages preceding title page contain publisher's advertisements (for all four publishers in the imprint) for this title, as well as Life in Paris, or The Rambles and Sprees, of Dick Wildfire, Squire Jenkins & Capt. O'Shuffleton. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper and inscription on front free endpaper indicating that this book was given to the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College in 1854 by Talbot Murray. First American edition. Checklist Amer. Imprints, 44147. British sportswriter Pierce Egan (1772-1849) was the author… Read More

London: Jacob Tonson, 1741. Hardcover. Good +. The Third Edition: With a Compleat Index." 4 volumes: frontispiece portrait of the author in vol. 1, 6 leaves of engravings of medals; 26 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with seven spine compartments between triple gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartments with gilt-tooled title "Addison's Works." Green leather label in fifth compartments with gilt-tooled volume number. Woodcut headpieces, initials, and tailpieces. Armorial bookplate of Arthur Irwin Kelly with Kelly motto "Turris Fortis mihi Deus" on each front fixed endpaper. Former owner's name written at head of title page of vol. 1. In Good Condition: edges rubbed; joints weak, with old interior repairs; vol. 2 back board detached but present; some loss to spine labels, primarily to lower volume number labels; dampstain in upper corner of frontispiece; hole at lower edge of vol. 1 title page; otherwise, clean and bright.

Hardback. Very Good. Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1880, [first edition, privately printed]; 8vo, pp [viii], (9)-577; good later binding in half brown pigskin, green marbled boards and end papers, spine decorated gilt and with raised bands, top edge gilt; lacks half title; slight browning or dust marking in places but nevertheless a very good copy of what was to become a minor Victorian classic, the story set in the time of Charles I. Shorthouse, 1834-1903, came from a Quaker manufacturing family in Birmingham (actually Edgbaston), duly entering the family business. However, he and his wife moved to the Church of England in 1861 identifying themselves with the "Oxford School of High Churchmen". He also began to suffer from epilepsy and duly left his industrial work to write, spending the decade to about 1876 working on "John Inglesant". As he was unable to interest a publisher Shorthouse decided to have the book printed on his own account and it appeared in 1880 in a… Read More