Pseud Gribbon (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; purple c w/gilt titles;lite wear at extremities; lite sunning os spine; dj flaps tipped in on pastedown pages; 244 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition with dust jacket. 188 pgs. Publisher's textured blue cloth, brilliant gilt stamped image on front and gilt stamped letters on spine. Orange inked head of text block. Binding tight and square.Hinges firm. Minimal scuffing to corners. Age toned pages; prior owner's inked name and comment on ffep. Small stain on page 114, random underlines and erasures. Illustrated tricolor dust jacket, lightly soiled and age toned. Worn chipped edges, torn and/or missing corners. $2.50 price on front flap. Mundy's only non-fiction book, published posthumously.

8vo. viii, [2], 544 pp. Red cloth, gilt Tibetan prayer wheel in lower right corner, gilt lettering on spine, w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by Betty Grasso, NF/NF copy. First edition, thus, with new preface of this last title by Mundy, and the second of the Old Ugly-Face series set against the backdrop of American Tom Grange combatting attempts by Russian, Japanese, and German attempts to seize the Himalayan Kingdom, published the same year China invaded and forcibly annexed Tibet.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. - Adventure Romance Set in India - attractive old musical themed private bookplate else vg in bright lightly used pictorial dust jacket showing a Harum of young white women threatened by two sinister robed, knife & flintlock gun carrying guards - typical Mundy period sensational jacket art. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. Tired Business Man's Library edition. First published as Khufu's Real Tomb in Adventure magazine, October 10, 1922. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt stamped skull image on front and spine with TBML and AC. Gilt stamped letters on sunned spine. Gilt rubbed on spine, vivid on front. Pale green endpapers; no markings. Spine head and tail softened, corners slightly frayed and scuffed. Slight forward lean. Binding tight; hinges strong. Age-toned pps. vii; 279. 7.75" x 5.5" w. "Chapter I. We Americans are ostriches. We stick well-meaning heads into the political sands of these United States, swear--probably correctly--they are better than all other sands, and accordingly declare ourselves free for ever from entangling alliances.".

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's goldenrod pictorial cloth stamped in red and black, in illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 310pp. Creasing, wear, and chipping to the top and bottom edges and corners of jacket, shallow losses to spine ends, cloth a bit dust-soiled and margins lightly scuffed, else a Very Good copy in a Good only jacket. From prolific pulp-writer Talbot Mundy, author of "King of the Khyber Rifles" and the Jimgrim series, comes a tale of romance set in pre-Independence India: American Lynn Harding, along with her widowed aunt, are vacationing in India as guests of the Maharanee and Maharajah of Kadur. Lynn soon finds herself pursued by two men: British Captain of Engineers Carl Norwood and Prince Rundhia, the heir of the throne of Kadur. While both vie for Lynn's affections, political disputes and culture clashes loom on the horizon. Published in the UK as "Diamonds See in the Dark".

8vo. [8], 312 pp. Gold cloth, black & red illustration of looming figure over a globe, black lettering (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of Indian Woman holding a British Officer at gunpoint in a cave by Ferdinand E. Warren (slight shelfwear, minor sunning to spine, price-clipped), NF/VG copy. First edition in book form of one of Mundy's most imaginative and original novels set in India as a British Officer searches for a missing colleague and instead stumbles across a conspiracy to hide a trans-dimensional doorway. These originally appeared serialized from October, 1934 to January, 1935 in The American Weekly.

8vo. [8], 279, [1] pp. Brown cloth, gilt & black decorated spine (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of T.E. Lawrence type figure by Ferdinand E. Warren (slight shelfwear, minor sunning to spine, price-clipped), NF/VG copy. First edition in book form of this first occult adventure novel in the Jimgrim series, with Jimgrim as an American working for the British Secret Service. These originally appeared as Adventure of El Karak and Under the Dome of the Rock in 1921 in Adventure Magazine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original yellow pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.One of the few Mundy titles to be serialised after publication in book-form. A Criminal Investigation Division of India caper, featuring Chullunder Ghose, and a Thuggee sect. Talbot Mundy was an English writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the 'Jimgrim' series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.Book VG; jacket a little rubbed and marked, spine slightly dulled, but overall a very good example.

8vo. vi, 280 pp. Gold cloth, black & red illustration of looming Fu Manchu over a globe, black lettering (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of Thuggee assassin peering over a wall, (slight shelfwear, rubbing, very minor sunning to spine), VG/VG- copy. First edition, 1st printing, stated, of another title in the Chullander Ghose series featured as inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department. Written with a special affection for the rotund inspector and great respect for his abilities against a plot by the Rajah to poison his cousin, the priests of Kali in the Thuggee Cult, and sinister temple in the jungle. Serialized the next year in Adventure, March & April, 1933.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original yellow pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket."Perhaps the most intensely mythic and symbolic of all Mundy's work." (Taves, Philosophy Into Popular Fiction: Talbot Mundy and The Theosophical Society) Talbot Mundy was an English writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the 'Jimgrim' series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.Cloth a little dulled at spine, but overall VG; jacket dulled at spine, edge wear, but overall an attractive first edition.