Arthur B Allen (241 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Wraps. Condition: Reading Copy. Vol. 243, No. 1. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Albert J. Gibner.] Cover art by Paul Stahr for "The Terror of Algiers" (pt. 1 of 4) by H. Bedford-Jones. Includes "The Kidnapping of Madame Storey" (novelette) by Hulbert Footner; "Bad Penny" by by B. M. Bower; "Laughing Weevil" (novelette) by Foster-Harris; "Men of Daring: Capt. Gerhard Folgero - a modern viking" (True Story in Pictures) by Stookie Allen; "Signing Hap" by Richard Howells Watkins; "A Wife and Three Kids" by Tom Thursday; "The Outlaws of Mars" (pt. 2 of 7) by Otis Adelbert Kline; "Men of Power" (pt. 5 of 6) by Arthur Hawthorne Carhart. Other Features: "Eating Their Words" by Kenneth P. Wood; "Where Gold Is Used for Barter" by Frank S. Reynolds; "New Names for Old Cities" by John H. Spicer; "the Men Who Make the Argosy - Arthur Hawthorne Carhart"'; "Argonotes"; "Looking Ahead!" Uncredited illustrations. Long tears to both covers with larghe loss to rear; tanning. Reading copy. Magazine.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket. Copyright Date: 1930 Sm Quarto, 1946, PP.426, Very Good, Clean In Jacket With Edge Wear And Marginal Stain At Jacket Flaps. B & W Photos, Text Figures (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. Copyright Date: 1951 Sm Quarto, , PP.328. B & W And Color Illustrations (illustrator).

Condition: Good. 1932. First Edition. 233 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Volume 1. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Usuall library Stickers.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good for year, hardcover. Generally clean, bright and tight. Some marks and age tanning but otherwise in good condition. Owner's name inside front cover. Corners rubbed. Dustjacket chipped and torn. 272 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very good+. First Edition. 8vo, viii + 136pp. Illustrated with colored frontispiece, four half-tone plates, and sixty-eight line drawings. Hardcover, bound in original brown cloth with red titles to spine and front board. In very good plus condition. Firm binding and crisp, clean, pages. No signs of prior ownership. Light spotting to top edge of text-block, otherwise a great copy. Scarce. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of short mystery stories written by the rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Authors include Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Stephen Leacock, G.K. Chesterton and more. In Fine / Fine Condition.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good trade paperback, as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fair for year, hardcover. Some marks and age tanning but otherwise in good condition. Owner's name inside front cover. Corners rubbed. Dustjacket chipped and torn. 272 pages.

Condition: Good. 1948. First edition thus. 74 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by Harold Yates. 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 sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cream cloth with many illustrations. 120pp with 5pp illustrated publishers catalogue at rear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Some ownership marks on the FEP. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Red cloth boards. Slight wear on edges of boards. 224 pages; 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 ".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. A volume in the Rockliff New Project Series.272pp.Blue cloth. Bump and wear to spine and corners.Marks to boards. Tears in cloth to top spine joints.Cracked rear hinge. Slight spotting to endpapers. Book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and light shelf wear. Pages clean, off-white. Contents: Simpich and Stewart, Honolulu, mid-ocean capital. Nicholds and Sisson, The goats of Thunder Hill. Boyer, Stewart, Rhododendron glories of southwest Scotland. Moore, War and quiet on the Laos frontier. Allen, Split seconds in the lives of birds. Bird, We captured a "live" brontosaur. Many advertisements. 10.0" tall.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with minor creasing on a flat spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings by Barrington Barber; cover by Paul Ashby. This anthology contains: The Ghost Detective by Mark Lemon; The Story of the Unknown Church by William Morris; The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell; The Captain of the Pole-star by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Furnished Room by O. Henry; The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde; The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe; The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott; An Account of the Strange Disturbances at Aungier Street by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; The Last Drop by Sarah Bernhardt; The Horla by Guy de Maupassant; The Romance of Some Old Cloths by Henry James; The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards; The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray; Teigue of the Lee by T. Crofton Croker; The Haunted Mill or the Ruined House by Jerome K. Jerome; The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens; The Case of the Reverend Mr Toomey by S. B. T.; The Spectre of Tappington by Thomas Ingoldsby; The Hollow of the Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Lady of Rosemount by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson; Grey Dolphin by Thomas Ingoldsby; Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie Collins; The Homing Bone by Conell Cearnach; The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton; Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte; The Story of the Moor Road by E. and H. Heron; Man-size in Marble by Edith Nesbit; The Last Squire of Ennismore by Mrs J. H. Riddell; The Bagman's Story by Charles Dickens; The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy; The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce; and Ghosts That Have Haunted Me by John Kendrick Bangs. Size: 8vo. Paul Ashby; Barrington Barber; (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, tears and creasing.

Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition. 212 pages. Blue and grey pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.…

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New.

Condition: Fair. 1940. No Edition Remarks. 104 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound in black cloth with illustrated paper covered boards. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers, pastedowns and text block edges. Noticeable cracking to gutters. Binding is weakened. Pencil markings to some illustrations. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Some fraying to cloth and water staining to boards.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Some loss from spine head, light stain on bottom fore edge corner of a few pages, a few pages dog-eared, front and rear endpapers faintly foxed. Binding tight and square. 1890 Hard Cover. viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of an arctic aurora, monochrome plates, and hundreds of black-and-white illustrations in text. A collection of scientific articles contributed by numerous authors, including: The Northern Lights; The Mathematics of Plants; How the Wind Changes; Dreams; Why the Sea is Salt; The Anatomy of a Lobster; Rust; A Glass of Wine; Voyages in Cloudland; The Chemistry of Water; Nuggets and Quartz; The Sun Our Fire, Light, and Life; A Fish in the Water; A Microscopical Biography; Firing a Shot; What is 'Power'?; History Out of Refuse Heaps; What Is in the Interior of the Earth?; How Sunshine Warms the Earth; What Are the Stars Made Of?; The Protective Colours of Animals; Great Sea Reptiles; Shooting Stars; Continental Islands, and How They Were Formed; Teeth; How the River Severn Cut through Wenlock Edge; Moles and Mole-Hills; The Mariner's Compass; Spiders' Webs; Glaciers; Diamonds; The History of a Hen's Egg; Growth; The Magic Lantern; A Primrose; A Cannon Shot; Why the Rain Falls; The Story of a Volcano as Told in History; Can Science Conquer Rust?; How the Airs Were Discovered; What is 'Work'?; The Hand; How Glaciers Move; Dust; A Piece of Rock Salt; Protective Mimicry in Animals; The Physics of Music; Touch; Animal Colonies and Co-operation; Colour-Blindness; Oceanic Islands and Their History; Modern Explosives; The Gravel on the Garden Path; A Peat-Bog; A Piece of Iceland Spar; Polar Ice; Rubies and Sapphires; Weather Telegraphy; Lodgers and Boarders in Lower Life.…