Harold e scarborough (11 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good to Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 279 numbered pages. "(I)" appears below last line of text in Epilogue above the words "The End". Edges of binding and backstrip slightly discolored. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.…

Condizione: New.

Taschenbuch 268 pages. Foto gern auf Anfrage. In englischer Sprache. Schönes Exemplar. Der Einband ist leicht bestoßen und altersbedingt etwas fleckig und nachgedunkelt. Leseknicke im Buchrücken. Die Seiten sind bis auf geringe Gebrauchsspuren in gu, Sprache: en, Zustand: 7, siehe Beschreibung, insgesamt gut, Taschenbuch Tauchnitz Leipzig , 1933 268, England Muddles Through. Vol. 5092., Scarborough, Harold E. siehe Beschreibung, insgesamt gut. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good +. 288pp. Red cloth boards w black title to spine. Spine and edges sunned. Illustrated dust-jacket chipped and worn around the edges w small loss to top of back panel. Neat ink ownership inscription to ffep, both free eps lightly tanned. A good solid copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine dj. First American Edition. [book is nice and clean, with just a touch of wear to cloth at extremities; jacket similarly nice, with small bits of edgewear here and there, minor smudging on spine, some visible wear and tiny paper loss at corners of front panel]. Novel playing on the "never-ending charm in the story of the royal lady who loves the commoner." He's a journalist who meets a lovely young princess from "Versailia -- a small country of Eastern Europe, given its independence by the Treaty of Versailles," while en route to England to claim a promised inheritance. When the inheritance falls through, he is sent as a foreign correspondent to (of course) Versailia, where he not only gets re-acquainted with the princess, but through "the strange course of fortune," actually becomes the country's king! This was the first of only two novels by this author, primarily a newspaperman who was for some years the chief European correspondent for the N.Y. Herald Tribune; his second novel was "The Immortals," and he wrote one additional book, "England Muddles Through," published in 1932, before meeting an untimely end at the age of 38 in 1935, when he fell overboard from an ocean liner off Southampton, England. (There is an artist's signature on the front jacket illustration, but I can't make it out.).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Red cloth. Corners show almost no wear, with one corner bumped gently, one tiny tear at top of spine, gilt toned but readable, one small white smudge at bottom of spine, four private library stamps on front and back endpapers (no other markings). otherwise book is quite nice, very clean and sharp, with a tight and square binding, clean pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. [spine a little turned, tiny stain on front cover, minor soiling to bottom page edges, vintage price sticker (from the famous San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket moderately worn, with various small tears and chips, small piece missing from top right-hand corner of front panel, a little paper loss at base of spine Novel dealing with a Russian biologist/inventor who's working, with the financial backing of a wealthy industrialist, to develop a secret elixir of immortality, and who, "having astounded the world by apparently proving his claims, gets as far as actually inoculating a Member of Parliament, a famous actress, and a 'pussyfoot' agent with his discovery." ("Pussyfoot" in this instance being a British slang term for teetotaler or prohibitionist.) The second of only two novels by this author, primarily a newspaperman who was for some years the chief European correspondent for the N.Y. Herald Tribune; he wrote one additional book, "England Muddles Through," published in 1932, and met an untimely end at the age of 38 in 1935, when he fell overboard from an ocean liner off Southampton, England. Illustrated by (dj) C. Morse (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. A Russian scientist invents a serum conferring immortality on selected recipients, and a young couple are left to decide whether it should be used; the protagonist's advocacy of the drug is brought to an end when the Wandering Jew appears and describes the cost of being unable to die. Harold E. Scarborough (18971935) was an American journalist and author resident in Britain from 1920, and this is the title for which he is remembered in science fiction. The book belongs to a distinct and long-running line of argument within the genre - that immortality would produce social sterility - running from Walter Besant's The Inner House (1888) through Martin Swayne's The Blue Germ (1918) and forward to Huxley's After Many a Summer (1939), and the Wandering Jew device places it equally in the Gothic tradition of Godwin's St Leon, Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer and Mary Shelley's The Mortal Immortal. Noticed by Bleiler in Science-Fiction: The Early Years and Locke's A Spectrum of Fantasy. Published simultaneously in New York by D. Appleton. Cloth very slightly rubbed and bumped at extremities; jacket with loss to head of spine/lower panel, a few other chips with minor loss. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First American edition. Small owner's name, very near fine in near fine dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the crown. Doctor discovers an elixir that promises eternal life, young couple are left with the dilemma of whether it should be used.…

First edition. Very Good book in a Poor dust jacket. (1) to the last page of type. Staining to the dust jacket spine.