burkhardt eve (12 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good dj. Reprint. [a good sound copy, spine slightly turned, moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, one-time owner's signature on front endpaper; the jacket is worn and somewhat soiled, with some fading at the spine and bits of paper loss at the spine ends and several corners]. "Margo Haynes is lovely and lovable but her love is dangerous. In the net of her scheming both she and her sweetheart are entangled. Because of loyalty to her brother she almost sacrifices her own and Bob Craddock's happiness. The story of Margo's loyalty to her brother makes an absorbing and entertaining novel.".

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 320pp, 39pp pub ads. nd. [circa1935]. Spine and edge of front board faded. Spine ends slightly frayed. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Private ownership. (bs0).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Burnt orange w/black lettering. Light fray head and heel of spine, corners rubbed, mild general scuffing. Ex lib w/label front pastedown, pocket scar rear pastedown, small scar rear endpaper and inked number. Date in ink at gutter on title page, the occasional smudge in text, but overall clean and nice.

Condizione: Very good. First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket. An attractive first UK edition, packed with thrills, romance, mystery, and suspense. VG; VG. An attractive first UK edition, packed with thrills, romance, mystery, and suspense. Book.

Condizione: Very good. First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d. "Margo Haynes is lovely and lovable but her love is dangerous" (jacket blurb). A little light toning to text block due to paper quality; cloth VG; jacket with some wear at spine ends and corners o/w VG. "Margo Haynes is lovely and lovable but her love is dangerous" (jacket blurb). Book.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Jardin, Rex (pseudonym of Robert F. and Eve Burkhardt). The Devil's Mansion. New York: The Fiction League, 1931. First edition, probably. Two other publishers brought out editions around the same time: Jacobsen Publishing Company (undated) and W. J. Black (undated, but a newspaper ad for this edition appeared in 1935). Jacobsen identified itself as a reprint house. Tebbel identifies Black as a "mail-order publisher"; both of these editions come to 291 pages, suggesting strongly they were printed from the same sheets, or the same plates, as the edition of the Fiction League, which was a book club. It should be needless to add that not a few books over the years have been first published on a subscription basis by clubs. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-291 [ 292-296: blank]. Original purple cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge of text block stained gray. Just a bit of fading to spine panel cloth, which also has some faint vertical creases, a flaw seemingly endemic to this book, otherwise a very good, clean copy. #3517. $100. A weird Gothic thriller set mostly in a rural part of British Columbia. The Burkhardts teamed up to write several detective stories, and the final portion of this novel does move in that direction as the hero (a writer) must exercise powers of detection in order to find and rescue the heroine, who has been abducted by a monstrous dwarf. But the bulk of the novel places it more accurately in the category of the weird (as attested by its presence in the 1948 Bleiler Checklist). Key elements of the story are indisputably fantastic. The novel reads smoothly and provides the kind of low-brow weird thrills for which other between-the-war writers (such as Hansom, Ryan and Masterman) have received credit much less deservedly. A blurb in the Black edition summarizes the situation pretty accurately: ". Miss Boisevan, paralyzed old woman, advertises for young companions who 'must have blue eyes'! Miss Boisevan owns a clear crystal ring and a pet chameleon which roams over her dress, attached to a fine gold chain. Miss Boisevan's servant has not uttered a word in twenty years. They live alone in this great house, all of whose mirrors have been removed ." There is also a giant wolf-dog and a musician who turns out to be a sinister dwarf.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Jardin, Rex (pseudonym of Robert F. and Eve Burkhardt). The Devil's Mansion. New York: The Fiction League, 1931. First edition, probably. Two other publishers brought out editions around the same time: Jacobsen Publishing Company (undated) and W. J. Black (undated, but a newspaper ad for this edition appeared in 1935). Jacobsen identified itself as a reprint house; Tebbel identifies Black as a "mail-order publisher"; both of these editions come to 291 pages, suggesting strongly they were printed from the same sheets, or the same plates, as the edition of the Fiction League, which was a book club; it should be needless to add that not a few books over the years have been first published on a subscription basis by clubs. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-291 [ 292-296: blank]. Original purple cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. Early pencil ownership signature on front endpaper. Cloth a bit faded and scuffed, light vertical creasing to spine cloth (a flaw endemic to this book), otherwise a very good, clean copy. #440. $100. A weird Gothic thriller set mostly in a rural part of British Columbia. The Burkhardts teamed up to write several detective stories, and the final portion of this novel does move it into that direction as the hero (a writer) must exercise powers of detection in order to find and rescue the heroine, who has been abducted by a monstrous dwarf. But the bulk of the novel places it more accurately in the category of the weird (as attested by its presence in the 1948 Bleiler Checklist). Key elements of the story are indisputably fantastic. The novel reads smoothly and provides the kind of low-brow weird thrills for which other between-the-war writers (such as Hansom, Ryan and Masterman) have received credit much less deservedly.

Condizione: Very good. First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6. Good first UK edition of this tale of romance and espionage, 'a breath-taking romance loaded with the dynamite of military secrets and international intrigue.' (jacket blurb) Covers damp-stained at lower edge; jacket slightly frayed at edges with a few small closed tears. Stamped 'File Copy' to front free endpaper. Good first UK edition of this tale of romance and espionage, 'a breath-taking romance loaded with the dynamite of military secrets and international intrigue.' (jacket blurb). Book.

Condizione: Very good. First UK edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-. Striking jacket artwork on this semi-weird tale of arcane rites in the Brazilian forest. Book VG; jacket with light stain at spine and some light soiling. Striking jacket artwork on this semi-weird tale of arcane rites in the Brazilian forest. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Machtey; Yarwood (illustratore). First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Interesting instructions on what *not* to ship soldiers overseas (so fires won't be started in the holds of ships); Full page ad for Sal Hepatica; Argentine Goose Step - "Hitler's Imitators have scuppered democracy right in our own hemisphere" - article with photos; The Great Fridolin (M. Gratien Gelinas of Montreal) - article with photos; Spark Plug - hockey fiction; What do the federal Liberals stand for? - Mackenzie King answers questions; That Roarin' Game - Curling is sweeping the nation; Why Rundstedt Attacked - after its Ardennes gamble the dice are now in Allied hands; The Disunited Nations; They Also Serve (fiction); Unfinished Anthem - a Canadian by choice tells why he made his choice; Our Pilots Don't "Black-Out" - Wing Commander W.R. Franks O.B.E. and his research to aid Allied pilots - article with photos; Nice half-page two-colour Aunt Jemima pancake mix ad "sho' hits the spot"; Nice colour half-page Pepsi ad; Nice half-page colour Canada Dry ad; Tarts for Dessert. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A high quality copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. The Campden Ruby Murder, by Adam Bliss; Rich & Cowan Ltd., London, 1934. First UK edition. Adam Bliss was the pseudonym of Robert & Eve Burkhardt, an American husband and wife team, who wrote 3 mysteries under the Adam Bliss name. This book was first published as "The Camden Ruby Mystery" in the United States, by Barse & Co. in 1931. It was then re-issued by Grosset & Dunlap around that same time. This novel is a "locked-room mystery". It was published in the UK as "The Campden Ruby Mystery". The name change was likely due to the fact that in the UK there was a real "Lord Camden" that could have been an issue. This book, 284 pages, is in very-good condition. The dust jacket is in good condition and is now enclosed in a protective mylar wrap. This murder mystery is exceedingly scarce in any of its publications, either in the United States or the United Kingdom. Even more so in the dust jacket.

[FERDINAND, Robert, and BURKHARDT, Eve]. Golden Goddess. By Rob Eden. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: John H. Hopkins & Son, [1935]. First edition. Publisher's file copy, (stamped "office file copy" along top edge). American woman becomes goddess of a lost colony of "Iracs," an offshoot of the Incas. Jacket spine panel slightly sunned, jacket tape repaired, else very good.