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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1933. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1933. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [4],296pp. A few small chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, brief tape repairs to verso, moderate dust-soil, top textblock edge and early leaves rather foxed, corners tapped; nevertheless, a Very Good copy, internally sound.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 68 pp. Printed dust jacket. Green cloth with white lettering to spine. Dust jacket chipped along edges; tear to center of spine with loss along bottom; spotting to rear. Boards lightly soiled along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's olive-grey cloth lettered in red, red topstain; 267pp. Corners and spine ends gently bumped, spine cocked, rear hinge cracked, else Good to Very Good, albeit lacking the rare jacket. Inter-war mystery novel by one of the most prolific English authors of detective fiction. The present story involves diamond thievery, murder, double identities, and, of course, romance.

New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc. / A Clue Club Mystery, 1939. Very Good. New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc. / A Clue Club Mystery, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 271 pp. Light blue boards stamped in black. Dark topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure, toning to spine, and some general spotting and scuffing. Binding is sound. Abrasion to front pastedown from removal of some type of bookplate by previous owner. Endpapers toned. Some light toning and spotting to pages, but interior generally clean and unmarked. Posthumous publication and seemingly scarce in retail.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: George H. Doran Company, [n.d. but 1926]. Presumed First American Edition with GHD initials on title page verso, though dust jacket lacks price. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket, grey topstain; 304pp. Jacket a bit chipped with a few small closed tears to extremities, bottom half of front flap fold split, small loss mid-front panel affecting image but not text; some brief exposure of boards from shelf wear, else a Very Good copy in Good or better jacket. Morality tale by the English author of more than 200 detective novels, this rather unfavorably compared to Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd by one contemporary reviewer. Date of publication based on American review dates and OCLC no. 5669552.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's bright orange cloth, front cover and spine stamped in blue, blue topstain; [8],290pp. General shelf wear to cloth extremities, corners rather bumped, spine cloth a few shades faded, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. Lacking the dust jacket. Detective novel by the prolific English author, featuring London's private inquiry agents Chaney and Camberwell and a string of murdered jewel dealers.

New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc, 1930. Very Good. New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1930]. Presumed first edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo. 280 pp. Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Extremities worn with brief exposure, some scuffing to rear, and gilt lettering to spine dulled. Binding is sound. Foxing to edges of text block but overall pages unmarked. Date of publication from OCLC and author works listed facing title.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. First Edition with publisher's seal to copyright page. Octavo. 222 pp. Brown boards stamped in dark green. No dust jacket. Boards lightly edgeworn, spine ends nudged, and some light and sparse spotting to front. Binding is sound. Faint foxing to top edges of text block and worm hole to bottom, but otherwise pages clean and unmarked.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 338 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in red. Price-clipped dust jacket lightly chipped along edges with some general rubbing and smudging. Boards show some light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Touch of smudging to top edge of text block and offsetting to front free endpaper, but otherwise pages clean and unmarked.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. Later Printing, with no edition statement. Octavo; [viii], 312pp. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth with white lettering and illustration. Red topstain. Jacket shows two closed inch tears at spine and fore-edge of front panel with some creasing between, along with a few shallower chips and tears along edges and spine ends, and some scuffs down joints. Boards bumped at spine ends, with rubbing at bottom corners and a few faint scuffs to cloth. Pages toned but unmarked. Binding is sound.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [ca. 1927]. Reprint. Octavo (7.5" x 5"); 295pp +1 ads. Illustrated dust jacket (18 ERB titles on verso) over gray cloth with red lettering. Jacket shows a number of shallow chips and tears along edges with some adjacent creasing, along with some smudging to back panel and light scuffs down folds. Boards bumped at top corners and rubbed along bottom. Spine a bit cocked and nudged at head and tail. A few waterspots to fore-edge of textblock, just bleeding into page margins for a few pages at back, else pages clean and unmarked. Binding is secure.

New York (?): Haskell House (?), 1965. Very Good. [New York (?)]: [Haskell House (?)], [ca. 1965]. Unauthorized Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's grey printed staple bound card wrappers; 19pp. Top margins of wrappers rather toned, the whole a bit cockled from exposure to damp, else Very Good and sound. The later unauthorized reprint of Eliot's address on Milton, originally delivered on March 26, 1947, at the British Academy. Bound in the style of the first published edition, though the lack of an imprint has been identified by Gallup as a later, ca. 1965 pirated edition, possibly issued by Haskell House in New York. [GALLUP A49].

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1936. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in green dust jacket lettered in black and blue; 190pp. A few chips to jacket extremities including tiny loss at spine foot, spine jacket panel and cloth significantly toned, old yellow tape repair to spine end versos, preliminaries lightly foxed, else Very Good in a Good or better jacket. Updated collection of essays to "take the place of 'For Lancelot Andrewes,'" removing certain essays "the author does not think...good enough," and adding five new essays, "not previously collected." [GALLUP A31].

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. Very good/Fair. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. Second Impression, with no edition note or code designations on verso. Octavo; [viii], 39pp. Partial later dust jacket with $2.75 price and Family Reunion listed among ten titles on back panel and with "New York 17" address. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket missing entire front panel; back flap attached to back panel but with tears and cracks along fold; small chips, tears, and creases along edges; toning to back panel and along edges, with a few scattered waterspots. Boards rubbed and a bit bumped at corners and spine ends. Opens easily to title page but binding is secure. Ownership inscription of a Peggy Cook dated in New York, April 1956 on front free endpaper, else pages unmarked. Only 788 copies of the incorrectly-imposed first impression made it out to reviewers and the like to satisfy copyright obligations, with the remaining 3377 destroyed. The second… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. Second Impression (with neither statement nor codes) in later dust jacket with "Essays Ancient and Modern" listed on rear panel. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in dust jacket; [8],39pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears not approaching text, light portions of jacket rather toned, corners gently bumped, else a Very Good or better copy overall, nicer than often encountered. [Gallup A43].

London: Andre Deutsch, 1963. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Andre Deutsch, 1963. First Edition. Octavo. 160 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt; brown topstain. Light rubbing to unclipped dust jacket and spine a touch sunned. Boards with very light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Octavo; 252pp. Printed dust jacket over beige boards with red lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows an inch closed tear at top back along joint, with shallow creasing and a few smaller tears along edges, toning to white of back panel, and a few stray scuffs to surface. Boards rather heavily toned along spine and both lightly curving inward. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

London: Grant Richards, 1904. Very Good. London: Grant Richards, 1904. First Edition. Octavo. 303 pp. + 16 pp. publisher's catalog. Blue cloth stamped in white, red, and black. 4 black and white illustrations, including frontispiece with tissue guard, complete. No dust jacket. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Boards have been repaired with tears filled and colored in at spine. Coloring-in appears throughout entirety of boards, resulting in a somewhat strange shimmery look to lettering. With repairs boards remain moderately worn and scuffed and corners bumped with separation to top of spine. Binding remains sound. Toning, spotting, and glue remnants to endpapers with soiling and foxing to edges of text block. Slight loss along fore-edge of page 13-14 leaf of publisher's catalog at rear, but otherwise pages unmarked. Despite the repairs, still a Very Good copy of a scarce title. [Knight & Darley A.2.a].

London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd, 1937. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd., 1937. First Edition with publisher's catalog dated "Autumn 1937"at rear. Octavo. 415 pp. +advertisements. Restored illustrated dust jacket (details below) with 8'6 net price to spine. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt. Jacket restored with archival backing and color touch-up along edges, with evidence of prior chips along edges and spine and a long tear to rear; a bit of a textured quality to surface as a result of the backing. Boards bumped along edges, rubbing to base of spine, and long indentation to rear, tracing same arc as tear to dust jacket. Binding is sound. Touch of foxing to top of text block, but pages unmarked. [Knight & Darley A.40.a].

London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., [1928]. First Edition, with 7/6 net price to spine, "Autumn 1928" to publisher's ads at rear, and no additional printings listed. Octavo. 286 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Restored illustrated dust jacket (details below). Orange smooth cloth stamped in black. Dust jacket restored with archival backing and coloring along edges and folds, with evidence of prior chips and tears at corners and along folds, a bit of a textured sheen to surface as a result of repairs; spine sunned. Spine lightly cocked with nudging at spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. [Knight & Darley A.28.a].