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Published by Xanadu Publications Ltd, 1989
ISBN 10: 1854800043ISBN 13: 9781854800046
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1997, 1997
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985. They hanged my saintly Billy: the life and death of Dr. William Palmer. Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1997, Reprinted 1997, 312pp., PAPERBACK, very good. 9780897330299 ISBN 0897330293.
Published by Avon, 1957
Seller: Bookshop Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Clean text, cover creases. Complete and Unabridged. Billy Palmer, a rascal who committed nearly every other imaginable crime but was innocent, many insisted, of the murder for which he was publicly hanged.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1957
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 312 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with red label to spine with gilt lettering in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Robert Graves recounts the life of William Palmer: surgeon, racehorse owner.a confessed forger who got girls into trouble, doped horses, robbed a few people.but was he a prisoner? Based on an actual trial that took place in 1856, this novel, like Graves' "Wife to Mr. Milton" and "I, Claudius, " has all the immediacy and spiciness of contemporary Victorian life. It is told through interviews with Palmer's friends and enemies. This book has humor, social significance and passion, and makes absorbing and scintillating reading. Condition: Jacket corners and spine extremities chipped, scratch at front edge, fold over flap edges rubbed, lightly soiled else a better than very good copy in a very good jacket.
Published by Xanadu Publications Ltd(englan, 1989
ISBN 10: 1854800035ISBN 13: 9781854800039
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by London: Cassell & Company Ltd.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. (historical fiction, literature).
Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1957
First Edition
Cloth w/DJ. Condition: VG/G. Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. VG/G. 1957. First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 312 pp., toning .
Published by Doubleday & Company, New York, 1957
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardbound. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No DJ Cover Soiled.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City NY, 1957
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. 8vo, pp. 312. A VG tight copy.
Published by London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1957
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.
Published by Garden City Doubleday & Company 1957., 1957
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc., Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
First Edition
VG. Previous owner's bookplate on front inside cover. Top edge has some bumping. Book came from the library of a smoker. ; 8vo.; 312 pages. First Edition. Binding is Hardcover.
Published by Doubleday and Co., Garden City, NY, 1957
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. Tan cloth, silver foil lettering on red panel. Slightly toned endpapers and text block edges, otherwise as issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows slight rubbing along edges and spine extremities, minor surface soiling to rear panel, now in archival mylar. 312 pp. "A novel filled with sex, drink, dop, horse racing, incest, suicides, murders, scandalous legal proceedings, cross examinations, inquests and a good public hanging." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Doubleday and Co., 1957, 1957
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Doubleday and Co., New York, 1957.First Edition, First Printing. FINE- hardcover book in NEAR FINE+ dust-jacket. "A novel filled with sex, drink, dop, horse racing, incest, suicides, murders, scandalous legal proceedings, cross examinations, inquests and a good public hanging." Toning to the light background on the rear panel. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.
Published by Academy Chicago Limited, Chicago, 1980
ISBN 10: 0897330293ISBN 13: 9780897330299
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Book
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First American Paperback Edition. 312 pages. Library stamp by the lower edge of the title page. Pictorial card cover. The author 'recounts the life of William Palmer: surgeon, racehorse owner . a confessed forger who got girls into trouble, doped horses, robbed a few people . but was he a poisoner? Based on a trial that took place in 1856, the novel has humour, social significance and passion'. Size: 8vo. Ex-Library.
Seller: Blue Leaf Books, Winona, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover Good Doubleday 1957 hardcover first edition Cover shows minor wear Pages clean, with bookplate on front endpaper Binding tight Dust jacket shows minor wear A nice copy.
Published by Chicago (USA) Academy Chicago Editions, 1980
ISBN 10: 0897330307ISBN 13: 9780897330305
Seller: Die Büchertruhe, Willich, NRW, Germany
Book
fester Einband. 312 S., Opbd., 21 x 13,5 x 2,5 cm, Buchrücken etwas bestoßen und vergilbt, ohne Schutzumschlag, sonst ordentlich - sauber, fest und vollständig. Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN VERSAND mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien. Sprache: Englischg 455 gr.
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Published by Doubleday 1957, 1957
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
FIRST US EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY & CO, INC. PUB 1957., 1957
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
F/VG+. BOOK HAS AN ATTRACTIVE BOOKPLATE ON THE FRONT PASTE-DOWN ENDPAPER BUT IS OTHERWISE VERY FINE. D.J. HAS A SMALL BIT OF CORNER WEAR WITH A TRACE OF SURFACE CHIPPING AT THE ENDS OF THE VERY SLIGHTLY DARKENED SPINE PANEL, AND MILD TANNINGN OF THE REAR PANEL. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, AND TIGHT COPY AND THE D.J. IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Published by Doubelday & Company, 1957
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Alice Smith Dj Art (illustrator). First American Edition. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1957
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American edition, 8vo, pp. 312; original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; jacket spine a bit darkened, minor shelf wear, else very good and sound. On jacket cover: "A novel filled with sex, drink, dope, horse racing, incest, suicides, murders, scandalous legal proceedings, cross examinations, inquests and a good public hanging." After this, no other novel need ever be written. Higginson & Williams A82b.
Published by London: Cassell & Company Ltd.
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition; Shows moderate wear from use; Binding intact; Text free of markings; Dust jacket housed in protective mylar; A solid copy, fit for any collector's library; Stored and shipped in protective polybag; Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.05.
Published by C.Chivers, 1971
ISBN 10: 0855945834ISBN 13: 9780855945831
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1957
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Slight offsetting on endpapers, else fine in a very good dust jacket with moderate toning on the spine and edges of rear panel, and tiny nicks at the crown. Advance Copy with publisher's card laid in.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1957
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. A novel in the form of the biography of a real-life norotious serial killer, Dr. William Palmer, who was hanged in 1856. "My novel is full of sex, drink, incest, suicides, dope, horse-racing murder, scandalous leagl procedure. and ends with a good public hanging. nobody can now call me a specialized writer" said Graves. Faint foxing to fore-edge and endpapers; faint rubbing to spine ends of jacket. As close to fine as it gets.
Published by Garden City, New York, 1957
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first US edition of this novel based on the life of William Palmer, hanged in 1856 for poisoning John Parsons Cook. A novel by Robert Graves, recounting the life and times of William Palmer, surgeon and racecourse winner, who is accused of killing fourteen people by poison, and eventually hanged for poisoning John Parsons Cook despite the closest people to him claiming that he 'never had it in him to hurt a fly'.In this novel, Graves supports his innocence. With the unclipped dust wrapper.Acquired from the sale of Paul Gallico's library, American novelist and short story and spots writer, best remembered for The Snow Goose and The Poseidon Adventure. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine, with some spotting to the boards and spine. With a stamp to the front free endpaper 'Not to be removed from editorial reception room.' The dust wrapper is sound and unclipped, with some shelf wear and chipping, as well as the minor closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1957
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Slightly faded topstain, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear, and modest toning on the spine and rear panel.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, New York, 1957
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Pp. 312; beige cloth, spine lettered in silver and decorated in red; top edges red, fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip slightly discoloured; free endpapers faintly offset; Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1957. First U.S. edition. Higginson & Williams A82b. *Historical novel about Dr. William Palmer, who was hanged in 1856 for poisoning John Parsons Cook. 'A novel filled with sex, drink, dope, horse racing, incest, suicides, murders, scandalous legal proceedings, cross examinations, inquests and a good public hanging' [wrapper blurb].
Published by London: Cassell & Company Ltd.
First Edition
Condition: Good. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First Edition. 8vo Hardcover. 312pp. Good book with Good dust jacket. Page edges slightly dampstained and foxed. In protective mylar cover. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his signature on his personalized bookplate on front paste down. (english fiction, 20th century, mothers and sons, surgeons) Inquire if you need further information.