Allen Baroness Orczy (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 90 pages. Illustrated. Helen Macleod "Georges Simenon's Maigret Books" / Mike Park "Early Garden Books" / Mike Ashley "British Science Fiction Magazines" / Campbell Kennedy "Ordnance Survey Maps" / Dave Thomas "Oscar Wilde" / R Allen "Baroness Orczy" / Monica Godfrey "Elsie J Oxenham & Her Schoolgirl Stories".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint Edition. The World's Great Crime Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers , Baroness Orczy, Poe, Melville Bend to corners and spine-edges. Sticker to back endpaper. Spotting to back-board. Blue Ribbon Books Edition. Authors include Baroness Orczy, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Agatha Christie. Anthony Berkeley, Stephen Crane and many others. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint 1st Thus. Modern Library No. 144., Rare, Reprint First Thus Edition, First Printing from roughly 1942 to 1944 due to the price of the "Giant Editions" on the back dj cover being $1.45. True hardback, not one of the earlier decaying leatherette softcovers. Probably the first real hardback. Slight musty odor. Mottling on book covers. Book has straight stiff spine, pointed tips, no leans or dings. Blue boards and top stain.Vincent Starrett does the introduction in this edition and that was also changed in the 1949 edition. Original aqua and black dust jacket with picture is not price clipped (.95) and has Modern Library catalog listed on the back. Earlier jackets were brown with no picture, just lists of authors. This jacket has no lists on the front cover. The later 1949 jacket reintroduced the lists. General overall wear with slight crumple and loss at spine ends, tips and most edges. Looks spiffy in new plastic cover protector. Not Signed.

First Edition. HONEYMOON IN SPACE complete in Pearson's Magazine for January thru June, 1900, Vol. 9, first edition, a vg+ or better copy with marbled paper edges and fine contents bound in burgundy cloth boards with highly decorated black cloth spine with gold-gilt lettering and gold-gilt stamped design. Wonderfully and profusely Illustrated. Also contains works by Robert Barr (A GAME OF CHESS & THE SILENT CASTLE), Barry Pain, (6 episodes complete of NATURES NEXT MOVES), Allen Upward (6 episodes complete of HISTORIC MYSTERIES, Rudyard Kipling (GARM -A HOSTAGE), Edith Nesbit (THE EYE OF X.J.X.), Baroness Orczy (THE REVENGE OF UR-TASEN which is the authors 4th appearance in print), Raphael Sabatini (THE COWARD which is likewise the authors 4th appearance in print and today remains uncollected), Halliwell Sutcliffe (6 episodes complete of Willowdene Will's NIGHT-ROAD ROMANCES), B. Fletcher Robinson (A TRUE STORY being a 10 stanza, 100 line poem about golf which is illustrated), Herbert Hamilton (THE CYCLE IN WAR illustrated with photos), W. Bob Holland (THE PASSING OF THE WESTERN DESPERADO illustrated with photos of actual American outlaws), K. & Hesketh Prichard (THE DERELICT OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC), Charles Emerson Cook (PICTURES BY TELEGRAPH), Herbert C. Fyfe (TELEPHOTOGRAPHY), Mrs. Hinde (LION HUNTING BY A LADY illustrated with photos), et.al.