Plots Counterplots Unknown Thrillers (49 results)

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light shelfwear. A companion volume to Ms Stern's "Behind a Mask". More stories written by Alcott under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo 315pp illustrated. Protected dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Clipped dust jacket in protective mylar. Black boards with 1/4 green tape. Bookplate on FFEP; otherwise clean interior. Tight, square binding. Edited with introductions by Madeleine Stern.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 315 + ads pages, green boards. A near fine, generally clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, BUT text paper moderately yellowed. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Light wear to jacket at top of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. 1st impression. Edited and with an Introduction by Madeleine Stern. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Cheap paper shows signs of tanning. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition UK. First UK edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked and sunned, and edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are bumped, spine is slightly cocked, and page block and page edges are notably tanned. Pages are otherwise clear and boards are clean. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 315 pp, ff publishing history, notes; 8vo, dark blue boards/green cloth, near fine; very good+ priced dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 315 pp, ff publishing history, notes; 8vo, dark blue boards/green cloth, near fine; dust jacket priced, edge wear, small piece missing, rear jacket, good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st UK Edition. H/b; d/w; vg/vg-; large 8vo; 315pp; 1st UK ed ; green hardback; no handwriting inside; a little light tanning; price clipped d/w has small mark on rear; vg/vg-; ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1976. First edition, first printing. Black hardcover with lime green cloth spine, gilt decorative spine lettering, golden brown endpapers, frontis portrait, 320 pages, illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with light edgewear, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is priceclipepd and has some very modest shelfwear, no chips or tears. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Ver y Good. Near fine; dust jacket. slight wear, small chip missing top of spine, very good 8 vo. 315 pp. Green cloth/black boards, editor Madeleine Stern, list of unknown thrillers by Louisa May Alcott.

Octavo, boards. First British edition. Collects five sensational fictions published pseudonymously by Alcott during the 1860s. "Alcott's Gothic tales are marked by both the expected external trappings of gruesomeness as well as their penetration into the disorders of the mind." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 1-5. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-3. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#162005).

Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects five sensational fictions published pseudonymously by Alcott during the 1860s. "Alcott's Gothic tales are marked by both the expected external trappings of gruesomeness as well as their penetration into the disorders of the mind." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 1-5. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-3. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. (#162004).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Black cloth cover with lime green spine wrap has gold foil stamp on the spine alone. The boards are clean, and straight, spine shows a slight amount of wear with slightly pushed top and bottom. The pages are clean, unmarked, and very firmly bound to the spine. This book is fine to very fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition/First printing in lime green cloth quarter-bound over black boards in illustrated dust jacket; edited by Madeleine Stern who also writes an introduction; 4 extra pages in back list these unknown thrillers with first editions and reprints; 315[4]pp. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket that shows some minor edge wear; not price clipped; in mylar protection. A nice collectible copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Edited with an introduction by Madeleine Stern. Illustrated with facsimiles. Dust jacket designed by Terry M. Fehr (unclipped). Very good. 315 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Includes five short stories originally published under pseudonym, plus Alcott's correspondence from her publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Edited with an introduction by Madeleine Stern. Illustrated with facsimiles. Dust jacket designed by Terry M. Fehr (unclipped). Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Stories written by Alcott under her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard.

1977 STATED FIRST BRITISH EDITION(LONDON),315 PAGES, IN VERY GOOD CONDITION-GREAT BRITISH FIRST COPY!!

Hardcover. Edited by Madeleine Stern. Small 4to. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 315pp, (4pp). Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright first edition of this quartet of pseudonymously published Alcott potboilers: "V.V.: or, Plots and Counterplots," "A Marble Woman: or, The Mysterious Model," "The Skeleton in the Closet," "A Whisper in the Dark" and "Perilous Play." A fine decorative-edged archival bookplate on front flyleaf is signed boldly by Stern in black ballpoint and inscribed "For my colleague." This is a sequel to Stern's 1975 "Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott," in which she first lays out in riveting fashion how she discovered these thrillers published under the name "A.M. Bernard" in long-forgotten weeklies.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Open tearing along paneel dges. ; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches; 315 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First British edition. Fine with a tape shadow on the front pastedown in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with light soiling on the rear panel.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches; 315 pages.