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Published by Grosset & Dunlap, 1926
Seller: The Book Junction, Shippensburg, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: VG-. some rubbing & edgewear; small corner bumps; few smal scuffs & smudges; yellowing; previous owner's info inside; otherwise overall clean & tight. 317 pages.
Published by Grosset & Dunlap (c.1926), New York, 1926
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dj. Illustrated by (dj) Edward C. Caswell (illustrator). Reprint. [nice clean copy, bottom corners a bit bumped but no other discernible wear, vintage price sticker from the noted San Francisco department store The White House on rear pastedown; jacket shows a bit of dog-earing and minor creasing along top edge, light soiling to rear panel The first of the author's thirteen mystery novels featuring the duo of Detective-Inspector Sims, a Scotland Yard man, and Professor Wells, "a scientist of international celebrity, with half an alphabet of letters after his name." In a 1935 essay, Grierson stated that the Professor was "founded on a very distinguished scientist who is now dead [and who] was, I must admit, an acid critic of my work," and claimed that he tried to depict his fictional crime-fighters "as human beings rather than demi-gods of criminology. They enjoy their creature comforts and discuss their cases with a touch of humour, for crime is a drab affair, and only those who have participated in its detection know how welcome even the smallest touch of light relief can be." [The jacket design and illustration on this reprint are identical to those of the first edition, published by Edward D. Clode.].
Published by Thornton Butterworth, London, 1938
Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Yellow Cloth. Condition: Good (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Grubby boards , foxing.Please email for further details Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Signed By a "Mrs Tracy" in Pencil. HARDBACK.
Published by The Bourton Press, Bourton,Berkshire, 1973
ISBN 10: 0903936003ISBN 13: 9780903936002
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Elephant folio. Numbered, signed ( by both author and artist ) copy of a limited edition of 600, this number 105. 144 pp + 40 coloured plates.Bound in full gilt vellum by Zaehnsdorf -- all edges gilt. Dark red original publisher's slip-case. ISBN 9780903936002 Attractive calligraphic bookplate of Victoria Burbidge (AND HUSBAND BRINSLEY)botanist, both at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and at Kew, also Denver Botanic Garden. For many years she edited CurtisÕ Botanical Magazine. She was also Clematis registrar for the Royal Horticultural Society. This copy has her name and her hushband's printed (by the publishers) beneath the limitation as subscribers._ Book fine. Slip-case very good with slight rubbing. Signedes.