Ashdown Clifford Austin Freeman (48 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stories originally published in Cassell's magazine in 1904 and 1905. Octavo, 7 7/8? tall, 196 pages + ads, gilt spine titles on brown cloth. A near fine, generally clean, original hardcover first edition, unread, but long on a storage shelf; binding tight, paper cream white with slight foxing to the endpapers and top fore-edge. In a near fine, clean, slightly worn dust jacket, with the original price present.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. Oswald Train Philadelphia 1977 1st ed. 196pp Very good with spine heel bumped, foxing to page edges, light soiling to cloth boards in like jacket with light rubbing and wear. See photos clphE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (stated), 1969. A fine copy, contents and binding are clean and tightly bound. The unclipped dust jacket cover is illustrated by William Dixon. Age-toning at the spine and edges and 4" x 3" pale stain on the front panel, still, remains Very Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. FROM A SURGEON'S DIARY, Clifford Ashdown ( R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn, Oswald Train Pubs., 1997, 196p, hc w/dj, dj bumped/scuffed, boards bumped/scuffed, text clean/tanning, binding solid--15.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Oswald Train: Publisher, Philadelphia, PA 1975 First edition 238 page Hardcover in dust Jacket. R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn writing as Clifford Ashdown, Edited and with an introduction by Norman Donaldson. vintage Adventure fiction. Near fine with dust soiling top page edges in jacket with light wear and rubbing. clphE. Dust Jacket art by William Dixon (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Probably written about 1905 but went unpublished until 1975. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Stated first edition. First written about 1905, this collaboration between two masters storytellers lay unpublished for decades and is first issued by Train in this edition. With frontispiece portraits by William Dixon. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in an archival Mylar dust jacket cover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Octavo, illustrations by P. B. Hickling, pictorial wrappers. First edition. 500 copies printed. A sequence of six criminous stories that first appeared in CASSELL'S MAGAZINE in 1904 and 1905. A fine copy. Trade paperback format. (#177404).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. From a Surgeon's Diary by Clifford Ashdown (Freeman & Pitcairn) First Edition Tight, bright copy. Lift to cover edge. Straight, intact spine. Tip of top edge back cover is bent. First Edition (stated). BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Binding and pages are intact. Former owner's bookplate is attached to the inside of the front cover. All pages are free from any notations. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Dust jacket is wrapped in mylar. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. Dust jacket condition is Good. This copy is the First Edition of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

First edition. xiii + 238 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Norman Donaldson. Frontispiece illustration by William Dixon.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. From a Surgeon's Diary by "Clifford Ashdown" (First Edition) A tight bright copy. Unread. Slightly sunned spine otherwise bright dust jacket. First edition, stated. 6 stories. Introduction by Norman Donaldson. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. William Dixon(Illustrator) (illustrator). BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Very Good Plus. First edition. First edition, stated. 6 stories. Introduction by Norman Donaldson. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. Book Condition: Fine: Sharp bright unread copy. / DJ Condition: Very Good Plus: Sharp dust jacket with sunning, no tears. Not price-clipped. William Dixon (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Very Good Plus. First edition. First edition, stated. 6 stories. Introduction by August Derleth. Original red cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. Book Condition: Fine: Sharp bright unread copy. / DJ Condition: Very Good Plus: Sharp dust jacket with sunning, no tears. Not price-clipped. William Dixon (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: nf. Dust Jacket Condition: fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Red cloth gilt. First American edition stated. Bumping to spine, slight shelfwear. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is faintly toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Piece of tape to each flap from being taped to the pastedowns, with evidence of bookplate removal from the front endpaper, otherwise a good clean copy in a dust jacket that is faded at the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good+ dj. 2nd printing. (price-clipped) [nice clean book, minor wear to extremities; jacket a little browned along edges and spine Reprint edition of this renowed collection of Victorian-era detective stories, originally published in book form in 1903. The earliest fiction by R. Austin Freeman, "soon to be acknowledged as one of the great masters of the field, in collaboration with his close friend, Dr. John James Pitcairn." The First American Edition of this reprint (got that?) appeared in 1968; this is the second printing, from 1972. NOISBN. Illustrated by (dj design) William Dixon (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. These stories first appeared in Cassell's Magazine in 1904 and 1905 and reflect the strong medical backgounds of the authors. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Dixon, William (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. These stories first appeared in Cassell's Magazine in 1904 and 1905 and reflect the strong medical backgounds of the authors. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Dixon, William (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [nice and clean, no discernible wear to book; jacket has a teensy-tiny nick at top of front panel, faint soiling/browning to spine]. Half a dozen Victorian-era detective stories, co-authored by R. Austin Freeman in collaboration with his close friend, Dr. John James Pitcairn. Unlike the preceding volume of Pringle stories (which was a reprint of a collection originally published in 1903), this volume is the first book printing of six previously-uncollected tales. As the jacket blurb explains: "These are the last six Romney Pringle stories -- there are no more." Contains two short introductory pieces: "Of Romney Pringle," by August Derleth; and "Clifford Ashdown: A Retrospect," by Norman Donaldson. NOISBN. Illustrated by (dj design) William Dixon (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Brown cloth with gilt lettering in the dust jacket. Spine fade to jacket. Good clean copy, binding tight and square.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Navy coloured cloth with gilt lettering in the dust jacket. Spine fade to jacket. Good clean copy, binding tight and square.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Piece of tape to each flap from being taped to the pastedowns, with evidence of bookplate removal from the front endpaper, otherwise a good clean copy in a dust jacket that is faded at the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Printing. The Adventures of Romney Pringle by Clifford Ashdown A tight bright copy. Unread. A bright jacket with minor dust-soiling. No dust jacket present. Second American printing, 1972. Green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. William Dixon(Jacket Design) (illustrator). BOOK.…

First Edition. Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Slight lean to spine. Discoloration along hinges. Dust jacket discolored, tiny chips to rear flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light generalized toning and there is one small semi-closed tear to the front panel. "Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery). Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology." (from Wikipedia).…

Condition: Very Good. Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1977. 1st edition. Sm 8vo. 196pp. Frontis., illus. by William Dixon Very Good book. Very Good dust jacket. (mystery, adventure) Inquire if you need further information.