Note on the text (18 risultati)

unknown_binding. Condizione: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

paperback. Condizione: Fair. 1966 Printing. A good reading copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean but has tanned. Softcovers have wear (creasing, edge wear). Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery. Shipped in 100% recyclable material.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. A firm clean copy of the first printing in this format.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good Trade Paperback Large Octavo. 2001 Clean 396 pages. NOT a library copy. No underlines. Three Maps. Tight binding. Great sensitive photo of Frodo, here portrayed by Elijah Wood so well. Terrific concise preface by Douglas A. Anderson before Tolkien's own introduction. Nice solid easy reading copy for reading on your journey home. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans of Cover and Map.…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. 1137 pp. Solidly and well bound copy with moderate to extensive overall wear and use. Copy with clean text. Some edge wear. Mildly creased and slightly indented spine. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Houghton Mifflin Company (Cover Design); New Line Production, Inc. (Images) (illustratore).…

Unknown Binding. Condizione: Very Good. New book that may have shelf wear, may be dusty or slightly discoloured. Same / next day dispatch (Monday - Friday).

Hardcover. Condizione: VG+ in VG+ dust jacket. Brown cloth minor wear, very clean and tightly bound. Light foxing to text edges and fly leaves, o/w bright clean and unmarked. Dust jacket with light wear, minor age toning to rear panel, not price-clipped and now protected in a clear archival sleeve. Questions welcome. Images can be made upon request. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. First Thus. Firmly bound with some dust marks and handling wear on the cover, mostly creases and wear on the spine, internally good. 1959 first Evergreen edition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 119pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (9/3).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 118pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (11/4).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 186pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (13/5).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 167pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (13/5).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 56pp. (8/3).

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. English Edition. Paperback. 21x13cm. x+67 pages. Flat spine. Front cover has a top corner crease. Clean & tight book. Inside front cover has a written name. No other inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref ZX-crw. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Thus. First thus - issued in the World's Classics series - No. 587. First printing of this edition, with a new introduction by Bonamy Dobrée, and dustwrapper illustration by Mervyn Peake. ***Very good in navy-blue cloth-covered boards, with a blind-stamped OUP crest on the front board and gilt titles to the spine. The boards are fox marked but otherwise clean and undamaged. No bumps or tears to the cloth. Corners sharp. Page block edges slightly darkened and foxed. Internally also very good with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean. Printed on very thin India paper with some lower corner creasing to pp.237-256 but no tears. Spine tight. ***In a very good dustwrapper, with front panel illustration by Mervyn Peake. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 7s. 6d. net. The dustwrapper is complete without any creasing or tears. There is some edge wear with very slight loss at the top of the spine and tips of foldovers. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***394 pages including a seven page Introduction and a Note on the Text at the front of the book. 153 mm x 98 mm. ***'"What makes her live", says Bonamy Dobrée in his introduction to this edition of "Moll Flanders" in The world's Classics, "is Defoe's amazing genius, of a high imaginative order, for entering into the very being of the persons whose biographies he pretends to write." "Moll Flanders", he claims, "is the fountainhead of the vast flood of what we have come to call novels. There had been nothing like it before." The text used here is that of the first edition which has hitherto been very difficult to obtain; Dr. Herbert Davis contributes a note on it.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***A first printing in this edition, with a new introduction by Bonamy Dobrée, complete in its original dustwrapper, with drawing designed by Mervyn Peake. A nice quality production of this famous work of English literature. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Mervyn Peake [Jacket design] (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois, 1968. 268 pgs. First, thus. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The force and beauty of H. D. s prose brings the stories in Palimpsest brightly to life, particularly in her sense of place: Rome about 75 B. C. , post-World War I London and Egypt at the time of the Tutankhamon tomb excavations. The use of the palimpsest motif gives the reader the impression that one story has been superimposed on the other ad that the protagonist is always the same woman -in essence H. D. Herself. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 50 Arabic-numbered copies signed by the author (of 85). 8vo. Wrappers in dust jacket with title label affixed. Unpaginated (12pp. + frontispiece). Printed by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press. 'Here, from c. 1936, published for the first time, is a transitional poem on the cusp of that conscious thrust, following his growing dissatisfaction with Surrealism, to find a different kind of language.' Head edge just a little spotted and with a moderate bump to the spine head, echoed by the jacket, which has slight glue residue around the label, but generally crisp and a rather striking production. A compliments slip from the publisher to Andrew Crozier is loosely inserted. Signed by Author(s). …

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Two leaves.1. 25 x 20 cm. 2. 27 x 20 cm. In acid free Mylar sleeves. These historical documents track the cross-country pursuit of Harry Brown, a major figure in the infamous "million-dollar arson gang" operating out of Chicago during the 1930s. Document 1 (Seattle Police Report - June 22, 1935): Shows that the investigation reached the West Coast. The Seattle Police Department logged a formal "Officer's Report" linking back to circular files, preserving his physical description to look out for him locally. The verso is a standard issue Patrol Wagon Report which is not filled out. It is meant for logging daily patrol wagon routes, box locations, and arrests. Document 2: a Wanted Poster featuring his face, crime charges, and his unique Henry system fingerprint classification codes, which allowed departments nationwide to verify his identity if printed under an alias. The Chicago "million-dollar arson gang" conspired with property owners to set intentional fires to their own buildings, split the fraudulent insurance payouts, and occasionally kidnap or extort victims. The ring leaders included Harry Brown and the "Queen of the Arsonists" Bertha Warshovsky. They were exposed by co-conspirators who confessed. The charges were upgraded to murder when one of the fires they set killed a 17-year-old disabled boy who was unable to escape the burning apartment building. Harry Brown was capture, tried, convicted for his role in the fatal conspiracy and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Illinois state penitentiary system. He died in prison. Bertha Warshovsky said she had charged the owner of a house at Taylor and Racine her usual fee of $170 to set it on fire. Despite her central role, Bertha did not do any prison time by turning State's Evidence after being arrested in June 1935 and helping dismantle the ring. She testified against her former associates and various slum lords, admitting on the witness stand that she had personally started "more fires than I can remember." Bertha invented a very reliable, slow-burning incendiary device. For $5 to $10 a piece, she sold a gadget constructed of a short candle tightly bound with kitchen safety matches. Later, when she discovered that she, a heavy-set older woman, was less likely to arouse police suspicion walking into buildings than would her male counterpart, she began executing the "touch-offs" herself - charging up to $250 per fire. During the 1935 trials, the 225-pound Bertha fascinated the Chicago press by demonstrating her arson technique right from the witness stand. She requested a cigar, lit it, and blew on it to make the tip glow red. She then showed the jury exactly how she would tie the glowing cigar inside a bundle of safety matches to create a timed fuse, allowing her time to exit the building and hail a getaway cab before the gasoline-soaked paper balls exploded. The "million-dollar arson gang" operated with brutal indifference to human life. Property owners who wanted to collect insurance payouts would hire the ring to gut their buildings. The gang frequently torched apartment complexes while tenants were sleeping inside. This led to the death of the 17-year-old disabled youth in Chicago, transforming a massive insurance fraud case into a capital murder hunt that ultimately produced the Seattle police files offered here. Prosecutors asked for the death penalty for the owner of the building and rounded up many middlemen. Original Seattle Police Department Officer's Report with original gelatin silver print mugshots, attached with original 1935 staples." The original gelatin silver print mugshots are real photos with depth and silver mirroring, not a cheap ink print. This Original Case-File Ephemera / Dossier Leaf is an internal police document, much rarer than wanted flyers. Also: a matching Wanted broadside Flyer of Harry Brown, wanted for Murder and Arson. [Second item, a damaged Wanted Poster:][Handwritten note at top edge: Circular #7 see 168] WANTED [Same mugshot images.] HARRY BROWN Wanted for Murder and Arson. Finger Prints Classification as follows: 1 R IO 17 [torn off bottom line text reads:] . . (illustratore).…