Shepherd Antony (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing of Double Issue of 17 short stories. Featured are All our Yesterdays by Andrew Klavan, Oh, Give Me A Home by Gerald Elias, The Oxford Tarts by G. M. Malliet, Le Bernadin by Alaric Hunt, The Hard Rise by Carl Robinette. Ruthless by Judith Cutler, The Stereotype by Bill Pronzini, The Copyist by Peter Tremayne, The Model Citizen by William Dylan Powell, Renters by Tim L. Williams, Cramer in Trouble by Dave Zeltserman, The Guy I Told Stuff To by Antony Mann, The Rat by Cath Staincliffe, Together by Charlie Hughes, Just Below the Surface by Robert Shepherd and Portrait of a Lady by Beatrix Kramlovsky. In Fine Condition.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. Unpaginated. Full leather binding with raised bands has chipped spine ends, bumped corners, and scuffing and wear to boards. Stained endpapers have pencil notation and ink signature of former owner in 1784. Second ink signature on title page. Name has been cut out of title page. Some thumbing, foxing, and soiling throughout. Antony Shepherd (1721-1796) was Plumian professor of astronomy at Cambridge. In 1768, he was appointed master of mechanics to George III. Though writer Frances Burney describes Shepherd as "prodigiously tall and stout"' and as "dullness itself," it is said that Captain Cook named an island "after his friend, Dr. Shepherd" (Dictionary of National Biography vol. 52).