Illus John Alan Maxwell (6 results)

hardcover. Illus. by John Alan Maxwell (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 339 pp. Very good copy in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Dk. red cl., gilt lettering, dulled on backstr. Backstr. top and bottom sl rubbed, sl. shelfwear to edges. Frontis. Illus. 46pp. on beige paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Decorative paper over boards, backed in gilt-stamped cloth; 8vo; pp. 69, illustrated, pages unopened. Spine tips and corners lightly bumped, otherwise fine.

Condition: Fine in VG jacket. Book Club edition. A super sea story based on the famous voyage of George Anson, father of the British Royal Navy. Bright tight clean HB copy w jacket. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2, 434 pp, appendixes, deckled fore-edge, blue/white map endpapers. Hardback in navy/blue boards, in color-illus jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Good+ DJ. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Universal Library, complete and unabridged. Published anonymously and not attributed to Defoe until 1775, Roxana emerged as popular work in the eighteenth century. Reprinted frequently and with frequent alterations. A rather nice copy of an iteration that is sometime challenging to find in good shape. Light shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows moderate shelf/edge wear, selveral small to medium chips, closed tears and minor creasing, small red rubber stamp "remaindered" mark at front, else bright. Black cloth boards, silver gilt and green ink decorative elements, green enpapers, green topstain, frontispiece. 8vo. 322pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj illus) John Alan Maxwell (illustrator). First Edition. [minor wear to extremities, light dust-soiling to top of text block, one-time owner's name neatly rubber-stamped at top of front endpaper; jacket has small tears and minor paper loss at spine extremities, moderate soiling to rear panel, miscellaneous edgewear along spine and elsewhere]. A psychological thriller about a young war widow who gets mixed up with an American who's wanted by the authorities, and eventually in political violence in Central America; the book begins in Atlanta and "ends in those violent and beautiful Central American countries, Guatemala and San Salvador." Sounds like the setup for a movie, except it wasn't. (Although it was later published in paperback under the title "Fear is the Hunter," not to be confused with "Fate is the Hunter," the Ernest K. Gann book which DID become a movie, or with "The Fearmakers," a novel by Hildegarde's husband and sometime collaborator Darwin Teilhet, which also became a movie. Confused yet?) It is, however, a fairly uncommon book.