thomson h douglas (55 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Reprint of this study into the classic detective story. Originally published in 1931. In fine condition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Later printing. Wrappers Illustrated Catalogue of the collection at The Sherlock Holmes Pub Northumberland Street.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Special Edition. The first 1978 Dover softcover edition of this 1931 classic. A fine copy with no spine crease or damage. A bright unread copy. See my photos. All books are in my possession and ship securely packed in cardboard boxes. #B141.

Condizione: Fair. 1940. 763 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Condizione: Fair. 1934. No Edition Remarks. 1086 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. End papers are more notably tanned. End papers are more notably tanned. Heavy cracking at the hinges. Text block held by binding materials. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding is shaky. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends, with splitting, fraying and loss to the head, tail and joints. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Board corners are bumped. Moderate tanning to spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good Reading Copy. No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustratore). 4th Printing. .Please e-mail for further details. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Gift Inscription 'Master T. Tr.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Facsimile edition. Facsimile reprint of the 1930s edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Ernest Wallcousins (illustratore). 1st Edition, Special Edition. Edited and introduced with short author biographies by H. Douglas Thomson. London: Odhams Press Ltd., (1934). First edition, Odhams Press red binding issue. Illustrated with seventeen striking b&w, evocative and suspenseful scene art plates by Ernest Wallcousins. Each story or novella is headed by a figure portrait drawing of the author, and an author biography by Thomson. An anthology comprising fifteen 'Stories of Mystery and Adventure'; fifteen 'Stories of Crime and Detection'; and twenty 'Stories of the Supernatural'. These fifty superior mystery tales are written by such luminaries as M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant, F. Marion Crawford, Maurice LeBlanc, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, and more. Less commonly seen in this quality, sturdy red binding. Some age-toning to the end-papers, small tan stain spot to the upper edge of the front end-paper, cream stain spot to the upper page edges, slender chip from the front spine fold at the upper spine end, two very short tears to the upper spine edge, else firm, sound and about very good in leather-textured red boards with blind embossed candle and dagger image to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles and decorative bordered rules to the spine; lacking a dust jacket. Thick octavo 8.4" X 5.6" X 2.2"; 1086 pages; index of authors; index of titles.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1086pp. First edition. Interesting literature. The book is in very good condition - very clean and bright. It presents nicely on the shelf. PARROTT BOOKS - established for over 20 years offering a prompt friendly and efficient service.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Reprint. Fine in pictorial wrappers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Red Boards, spine faded gilt titles, 763 pages, black/white illustrations. Includes stories by: G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, Herbert Jenkins, A. A. Milne, Mark twain, P. G. Wodehouse, H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie, Washington Irving, P. C. Wren, Edgar Allan Poe and many others.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Dover Ed. Fine in blue wraps with white lettering. Republication of 1931 edition which was the first book in English devoted to the history of the detective story. Mystery.

Red Cloth. Condizione: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. This is the FIRST EDITION. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Odhams edition without jacket on blue cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

Hardcover. Condizione: Worn. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pen inscription on flyleaf, Spine damaged. See Photos.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1935 First Edition. Size 8.5" x 5.5", 768 pages including index. Black cloth with gilt crossed daggers motif to the front cover and gilt titles to the spine. Condition very good, corners and edges rubbed, cloth torn at top edge of spine, contents clean. A compendium of Thrillers in the categories of "Stories of Mystery and Adventure" "Stories of Crime and Detection" and "Stories of the Supernatural" With frontispiece and 16 further illustrations throughout. 47 Stories by A. J. Alan, Michael Arlen, Marjorie Bowen, L. P. Hartley, Hugh Walpole, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, E. F. Benson, John Galt, Walter de la Mare, H. Russell Wakefield and more.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good to Worn - Marks. No Jacket. This is a heavy book and may incur extra postal charges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 1084, [2]pp, with illustrated frontispiece and a smattering of illustrations in text. Brown cloth-covered boards. Chunky 8vo. Boards are heavily worn and unevenly faded, gently rounded at corners, heavily scuffed at ends of a spine with the cloth cracked the length of the spine. Text block edges yellowing. Internally some faint and scattered spotting throughout else generally neat, clean and tight. An extensive collection of mystery stories grouped into 'Mystery and Adventure', 'Crime and Detection' and 'Stories of the Supernatural', with contributions from May Sinclair, Sir Walter Scott, Bram Stoker, M R James, Henry James, Allan Cunningham, Walter de la Mare, Daniel Defoe, Dorothy L Sayers, Michael Kent, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Freeman Wills Croft, Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, Morley Roberts, J J Bell, Willkie Collins, and many others.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. undated. shelf wear on the boards. foxing and markings. a few inscriptions. binding has been repaired. a few inscriptions. all pages are clear and legible. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. undated. the book is edge worn and knocked. foxing and markings. binding has been repaired. front page is partly chipped. all pages remain clear and legible. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. undated, C. 1944. shelf wear on the boards. mild foxing. a few inscriptions. all pages are clear and intact. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No dust jacket. Moderate wear. Price written in pencil on first page. Pencil markings on table of contents. Otherwise, pages are clean. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly age toned. Pictures available upon request.

Condizione: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. (Mystery, Detectives, Horror).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1024 pages. missing dj, some light foxing on edge of pages, spine faded, some insect damage bottom corner of a couple of pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear. 670pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. A Study of the Detective Story. First edition, Second impression 1932. Foxing to spine and on some pages. pencil name of flyleaf, faded and worn spine. See extra photos for condition.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original black, decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 1086 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. Notes; Short stories. Contents; Miss Bracegirdle does her duty / Stacy Aumonier -- A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm -- The man and the snake / Ambrose Bierce -- A terribly strange bed / W. Wilkie Collins -- The black veil / Charles Dickens -- The ivory god / J.S. Fletcher -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The smile of La Gioconda / Morley Roberts -- The invisible man / H.G. Wells -- The game played in the dark / Ernest Bramah -- The missing baronet / G.D.H. and M.I. Cole -- The mystery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Wills Crofts -- The adventure of the Speckled Band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cave of Ali Baba / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The last séance / Agatha Christie -- Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- Out of the deep / Walter de la Mare -- The turn of the screw / Henry James -- The witch aunt / Charles Lamb -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The judge's house / Bram Stoker. Subjects; Detective and mystery stories, English. Ghost stories, English. Horror tales, English. Short stories, English 20th century. H. Douglas Thomson editor. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1935. A very presentable copy, with some mild toning around outer page edges but no significant creases or signs of internal wear, clean and unmarked throughout. Covers firm and secure, with some light rubbing around outer edges and corners, especially at ends of spine, but still presentable with gilt titles bright. Why do most sellers not describe their actual item? Buy with confidence, support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop and help to preserve our High Streets as interesting places to shop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA (now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre, UK Size: 150 x 220 mm. 762 pages. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; 1930s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 30169. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.