Wren Editor Christopher (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. slight rubbing to the lettering on the spine otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Not marked; Ex-Library; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Catalog number written on front cover, no other markings.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 335 pages. Black & white illustrations. Paper covers chipped and missing small pieces of paper at corners. Hinges of paper covers are tender. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 609675.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original dark blue cloth, xxii + 335 pp, index, illustrated with plates. Hardcover, very good. Water (? ) stain on most of the exterior, corners bumped, which has bled inwards a bit up to page 46, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked; probably never really read, Includes articles on Battle of Wyoming, coal, royalty (including George Caitlin) , early recollections, autobiographical sketch of Lyman Belding, etc. History; Americana; Pennsylvania; genealogy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Fading to lettering on spine.

Second Printing of the U. S. edition. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-380, original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, top edge stained blue. Novel based on the anonymous memoirs and diary of a woman who purportedly served in the French Foreign Legion after her involvement in WW I. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with several small closed tears to the front panel, mild wear to corner tips and spine ends, slight age darkening to spine panel. (24639).

Second Printing. Book based on the anonymous memoirs and diary of a woman who, after driving ambulances in France and Belgium throughout World War I, joined the French Foreign Legion and served for five years in Morocco. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Original blue gilt designer cloth with legionnaire on cover, same date on title as on copyright page, and $2.00 on flap. A clean, unmarked copy with light dust offsetting to jacket corners, while jacket remains bright and is protected by a Brodart cover.

First Edition. Book based on the anonymous memoirs and diary of a woman who, after driving ambulances in France and Belgium throughout World War I, joined the French Foreign Legion and served for five years in Morocco. Near Fine in a Nearly Very Good dustjacket with moisture spotting to spine, inch closed tears mid-spine mended with scotch tape at verso, very shallow edge chipping.

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. x, 380 p. This is by the author of Beau Geste, and other works. Who was Mary Ambree? She was an Englishwoman who jointed the French Foreign Legion for love of adventure and to show what a woman could do. These true episodes of live and adventure in the Legion are selected from her diary and edited, at her request. Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. DJ is in a plastic sleeve, and has wear, soiling, edge tears, and chips. Bookseller's label inside front cover.

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1923, 28 x 22 cm, col. frontispiece + xvi + 280 pp, many ills. and b/w plates, some folding, 13 colour plates h/t, light blue linen, gilt lettering on spine and gilt arms on blind-tooled front, top edge gilt, ex-libris (Bernard Wallis) on first paste down. Ex-library copy, some numbers on first ( printed) paste down and first flyleaf, rubberstamp on three edges, some wear at cloth, spine a bit discolored, but still an acceptable copy. Sixteen essays by eminent architects and specialists in several fields.

First Edition. The memoirs of Mary Ambree the English Woman-Legionary. Pp. 384(last colophon)+[4](advertisements); gilt lettered red cloth, top fore-corner of boards a trifle bruised, the spine cloth faded and slightly soiled; the free endpapers faintly offset, scattered foxing; John Murray, London, 1931. First edition. *Presentation copy, with the editor's armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown; the bookplate inscribed in ink 'To Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Parkes with the author's love, P. C. Wren'. Signed.