Costain Thomas B Ed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. New 1958 Dust Jacket fair to good Six Complete novels and 30 stories. Frederick E. Banbery (illustrator).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. Hardcover book with gray leatherlike boards and green with gold foil lettering on the spine. Boards are rigid and warp-free. Spine is flat and square. Corners are crisp. No previous owner marks (no names, no underlining, no bookplates, etc). No remainder marks. Pages are clean and lightly tanned from age. DUST JACKET shows wear and is heavily chipped. It is in half from top to bottom at rear edge. Jacket is bright and clean. Will be protected with an archival book jacket cover. Photos coming! In the meantime, contact us now to request pictures of the ACTUAL book you will receive. All of our books are in-stock and ready to be shipped immediately. Includes: The Split Second — Daphne du Maurier The Theft of the Mona Lisa — Karl Decker The Soldiers' Peaches — Stuart Cloete A Night to Remember (excerpt) — Walter Lord Aerial Football: The New Game — George Bernard Shaw Courtship of My Cousin Doone — Walter D. Edmonds Hotel Room (excerpt) — Cornell Woolrich Two Soldiers — William Faulkner How We Kept Mother's Day — Stephen Leacock The Witness for the Prosecution — Agatha Christie The Incredible Journey — Sheila Burnford The Catbird Seat — James Thurber Act One (excerpt) — Moss Hart The Devil and Daniel Webster — Stephen Vincent Benét Gigi — Colette The Little Minister (excerpt) — James M. Barrie The Alien Corn — W. Somerset Maugham A Profile in Courage (excerpt) — John F. Kennedy The Company of the Marjolaine — John Buchan First Day Finish (from The Friendly Persuasion) — Jessamyn West The Adventure of the Priory School — Arthur Conan Doyle A Christmas Memory — Truman Capote Death and Professor Raikes — Alice Duer Miller Leiningen Versus the Ants — Carl Stephenson Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris — Paul Gallico "They" — Rudyard Kipling Son of a Tinker — Maurice Walsh History Lesson — Arthur C. Clarke The Truth About the Flood (from The Bible as History) — Werner Keller A Candle for St. Jude — Rumer Godden.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Book Club Edition. Quarter bound in publisher's green cloth over red boards, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle, brown endpapers. This is an anthology of short stories from 31 authors, all selected by Thomas B. Costain. The stories are by George Albee, Hervey Allen, William E. Barrett, Thomas Beer, Brendan Behan, Stephen Vincent Bemet, George Bradshaw, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Guy Endore, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Gallico, Rumer Godden, Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Geoffrey Household, MacKinley Kantor, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Mary McCarthy, John OHara, Dorothy Parker, Marjorie Pickthall, Katherine Anne Porter, J. B. Priestley, Damon Runyon, C. E. Scoggins, Vincent Sheean, P. G. Wodehouse, and Virginia Woolf. Former owner's small label on fep, old price on ffep, some foxing on fore-edge only, else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The dust jacket is lightly soiled along the edges, but is therwise fine, with no cuts or tears. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. . Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xii, 623 pp. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good hardcover with good dust jacket. Some wear to jacket, hinge worn. Book club edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Later. Very good in good dust jacket. Light browning of pages. Dustwrapper rubbed with tearing, wear along edges, spine, corners. Shows some smudge marks, soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 798p. A 1/4 black cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Top foredge dampstained and edges lightly rubbed. Small, pale drip stain in middle of back cover. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Twelve outstanding short stories of the 19th and 20th centuries, including "The Old Maid" by Edith Wharton, "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James, "Father Sergius" by Leo Tolstoy, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder, and more. …

Condition: Good. 1961. No Edition Remarks. 798 pages. No dust jacket. Grey and black cloth. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends.