Asquith Cynthia Compiler (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. pgs.334 clean text with tanning to pages with some sporadic spots some soiling to edges rust colored covers with black print shows soiling with crimping to top/bottom spines bumped corners with some fraying and shelfwear to board extremties.

Hard. Condition: Good. Undated publication. Pages clean and bright with occasional light spotting or foxing, foxing on endpapers, small inscriptions on front pastedown and endpaper, binding firm, rubbing and some discoloration to boards. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. The Black Cap by Cynthia Asquith (First US Edition) A firm copy with slight spine lean. Bright cover. Minor wear to spine edges and corners. A few creases to cloth on front panel. Clean interior. Not price-clipped. A pictorial jacket with chips to spine edges and flap-folds. Interior repairs to tears. Moderate wear to edges and flap-folds. Tanning and soiling to jacket. In clear protective cover. First American Edition. Title page dated 1928. Copyright 1928. Publisher's Press imprint to title page verso. Compiled by Lady Cynthia Asquith, known for ghost stories. Orange cloth with black lettering; black and orange pictorial design to front panel. 334 pp. Collection of short noir mystery stories by various authors: J.M. Barrie; L.P. Hartley; Mrs. Belloc Lowndes; Arthur Machen, Lady Cynthia Asquith, and others. Cynthia Asquith(Compiler) (illustrator). BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The Ghost-Book compiled by Lady Cynthia Asquith A firm copy. Slight spine lean; some foxing to prelims., pages, and fore-edge. Cover lightly dusted; tanning to spine and front edge. A bright dust jacket. Some small chips and tears to edges. In clear protective cover. Not dated; English Catalogue of Books cites 1926. Publisher: Through 1940 no later printings mentioned. Eighth Thousand, stated. Blue cloth with stamped green lettering and embossed cover. Lady Cynthia Asquith(Compiler) (illustrator). BOOK.…

dj. First edition. First edition. (Precedes the American edition.) 318, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with blue stamping. Very Good+ with sunning along top edge of front board and to spine (through jacket), name on front free endpaper, light foxing to edges, in correct dust jacket priced at 7'6 net, Very Good with spine panel a little toned, two closed tears to top of front panel, dampstain along front flap fold, light wear. An attractive, jacketed copy of a rare crime/weird fiction anthology with 14 stories by some very major writers of the 1920s including Maugham, Lawrence, Barrie, and Machen.…