dr john james pitcairn (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition thus. Oswald Train Philadelphia 1977 1st ed. 196pp Very good with spine heel bumped, foxing to page edges, light soiling to cloth boards in like jacket with light rubbing and wear. See photos clphE.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Red cloth gilt. First American edition stated. Bumping to spine, slight shelfwear. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is faintly toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. William Dixon(Jacket Design) (illustratore). Second Printing. The Adventures of Romney Pringle by Clifford Ashdown A tight bright copy. Unread. A bright jacket with minor dust-soiling. No dust jacket present. Second American printing, 1972. Green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light generalized toning and there is one small semi-closed tear to the front panel. "Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology." (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. William Dixon(Jacket Design) (illustratore). First Edition. The Adventures of Romney Pringle by R. Austin Freeman Dr. John James Pitcairn (Clifford Ashdown) Clifford Ashdown (R. Austin Freeman & John J. Pitcairn) A tight bright unread copy. A bright dust jacket with minor edge wear. Clear protective cover. First American Edition, stated. Red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. BOOK.

VERY GOOD WITHOUT D.J. PRINGLE WAS KIND OF A GENTLEMAN THIEF THIS IS THE QUEEN'S QUORUM TITLE (# 30) OF LEGENDARY RARITY WHICH QUEEN HIMSELF OPINES WAS "DESTINED TO BECOME THE RAREST VOLUME OF DETECTIVE-CRIME SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY." IN 1951 QUEEN REPORTED: "BIBLIOPHILES AND BOOKSCOUTS HAVE SCOURED ENGLAND AND AMERICA, SEEKING IN THE MOST LIKELY AND UNLIKELY PLACES; YET AFTER NEARLY FIFTY YEARS OF EAGLE-EYED AND EXPERT EXCAVATING, THE RECORDED COPIES TOTAL EXACTLY SIX- NO MORE, NO LESS." THE ADRIAN GOLDSTONE COPY WHICH WAS RESOLD AT SOTHEBY'S IN DECEMBER 2000 HAS BLUE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS. ONE WONDERS IF THERE WERE INDEED SO FEW COPIES WHY MORE THAN ONE COLOR OF CLOTH WAS USED, BUT AFTER ANOTHER 55 YEARS SINCE QUEEN MADE THE ABOVE STATEMENT ONLY A FEW OTHERS SEEMED TO HAVE TURNED UP SO HIS ORIGINAL INFORMAL CENSUS MAY BE SOMETHING OTHER THAN EXAGERATION WHICH WAS HOW IT WAS CHARACTERIZED IN THE 1981 ADRIAN GOLDSTONE CATALOGUE. RED CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES ON SPINE AND FRONT COVER WITH VIGNETTE IN WHITE, NOW PERISHED, ON THE FRONT COVER, WITH 4 FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED PEGRAM, AND 2 PAGE CATALOGUE FOLLOWING PAGE 198. OTHER THAN A PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAME ON THE FRONT PASTE-DOWN ENDPAPER, AN ORIGINAL BOOK SELLER'S STAMP "J. A. FULKERSON/ SHOAL LAKE MAN." ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, SOME TINY SPOTTING AT THE HEEL OF THE SPINE, SOME MODEST RESTORATION TO THE SURFACE OF THE UPPER COVER TO REPAIR SOME WATER DAMAGE, SOME SCATTERED TOBACCO STAINS IN THE TEXT, AND A FEW DOG-EARED PAGES, A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.