Various wallace edgar (6 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 116 pages + 40 pages of adverts front and rear. Wrappers worn and surface dirt/handled look, with some loss to spine, causing a split at spine on covers, but all firm. Papers used in production has made some pages browned. Contributors inc; Edgar Wallace "The Pacifist" ( A "Bones" story) + other mystery and romance stories by Ralph Stock, Austin Chester, Laurence North, Dorothy Marsh Garrard, E. R. Punshon, + 3 or 4 articles with photos on the war progress inc a rare factual piece by poet John Oxenham "The Epic of the Walking Wounded + Major Street "Our Heavy Artillery" + a last article by the pre-war fiction writer Claude Askew who was killed by torpedo on an Italian ship in late 1917 shortly before this war article "From Salonika to the Albanian Coast" was received. His body was never found his wife's body "Alice" was washed up and identified and buried at Salonika, etc etc. Illustrators inc Maurice Griffenhagen, Steven Spurrier, Lucien Davies, Dudley Tennant, etc. Various. (illustratore).…

[Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (24 x 17cm), pp.viii; 261-380; xi-xvi. With four double-sided photogravure plates. Publisher's colour-illustrated covers with advertisements to rear. Browned, as expected. A few chips from covers, and head and tail of spine. A large mended tear to rear cover. Very good; a rare survival. The first two and bit chapters of Orczy's novel, which first appeared in the USA, as well as chapters nineteen to twenty-four of Wallace's 'The Clue of the Twisted Candle', and various other short stories.…

[Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.[30] 77-162 [31-42]; pp.[34] 163-254 [35-46]; pp.[40] 255-346 [40-52]; pp.[40] 347-446 [41-52]; pp.[50] 447-546 [51-68]; pp.[48] 100 [49-64]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled and illustrated in dark blue and red, stapled twice, and priced at 1s. Presented in a navy fleece-lined quarter morocco clamshell box, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and blue cloth over sides. Internally clean, with browning to advertising leaves only. Covers lightly handled, but with heavy rubbing and some chipping to spines, including some careful repairs. Pencil ownerships to front covers of the first two issues. Very good. All six parts of Stacpoole's high-seas adventure, as well as numerous short pieces by authors including Doyle, Chaplin, Lawrence, Pain and Wallace.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. A bound volume of "Thriller" with a 'pot pourri' selection from No.1 (1929) to No.589 (final issue) 1940, nos 1 (9/2/29, featuring a complete Edgar Wallace story, Red Aces), 43, 45, 47, 48, 50, 53, 60, 65, 72, 74, 407, 526, 528, 530, 549,550 561, including the first printing of Biggles in the Baltic (as "Storm Troop of the Baltic Skies") in a bound volume of Thriller and War Thriller, 6 of the 11 episodes (parts 3,4,6,7,9,11 in nos.581,582,584,585,587,589 (23/3/40-18/5/40) pre-dating the book of June 1940, with illustrations that have never appeared in book form, and complete stories by Barkeley Gray, Anthony Parsons, John Drummond, Edgar Wallace etc etc, please see images for a full contents list, stains on just a few pages, otherwise near-Fine in plain red binding with gilt lettering on the spine, 25 issues near-Fine, priced for the 25. (overseas buyers please note this is quite heavy and would require some additional postage to the standard quoted). Various (illustratore). …

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition. A first edition of this collection by P. G. Wodehouse, with a later issue dust wrapper. First edition of this collection. Twelve short stories, which were originally serialized in the Strand, including: The Custody of the Pumpkin, Company for Gertrude, A Bobbie Wickham Story, and The Mulliners of Hollywood. This copy is supplied with a later issue dust jacket, with an overprice sticker on the spine, and printed with a new list of Wodehouse's works. Written by Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with fading to the spine and edges of the boards. Later edition dust wrapper is smart with chipping and tears. Loss to the head of the spine and rear board, with minor loss to the tail of the spine and front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the endpapers. Very Good. None (illustratore). book.…

[Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Seven parts in their original colour illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[80] 664 [81-90]; pp.[32] 104 [33-40]; pp.[36] 105-208 [37-44]; pp.[36] 209-312 [37-44]; pp.[40] 313-416 [41-48]; pp.[32] 417-528 [33-40]; pp.[36] 529-640 [37-44]. With numerous black and white and occasional colour illustrations. Presented in a quarter black morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands, black cloth over sides, and a fleece lining. Generally bright, crisp copies, with some light rubbing to covers. Some minor loss to spines of volumes 470, 471, and 472. Very good. A complete run of all seven parts of Sergeant Sir Peter's Cases, plus six Jeeves and Wooster short stories and 'A Marriage of Convenience' by Maugham.…