The Omnibus of Adventure

Edited by John Grove; complete stories by Doyle, Kipling, Conrad, Melville, Dumas, Poe, Pushkin, Zola, Tolstoy, De Maupassant, and others

Published by Dodd Mead & Company, New York, 1930

About this Item

Rare, rare book. I saw only one or two others for sale on the Internet. Once listed, my copy will be the Only first edition (SD) for sale anywhere on the Internet. All of that, and the book is in excellent condition. Take a look at the photos. The red covers are exceptionally clean. The black lettering on the front and spine is very bright. The corners are in very good shape. The front bottom one has a tiny spot of rub-through. The edges are in excellent shape. The spine ends have a bit of wear, not bad. The spine is still red but a little less so than the front and rear. The page edges look very good. The book is square. The spine is not slanted. The binding is quite solid, no small thing given the size of the book. 882 pages. There is no crack or space between the covers and the end papers, front or rear. Just off the bottom edge, going up about an inch and a half, the half-title page has pulled away from the verso of the blank first front end paper. The rest of the page appears to be tightly bound between. Between the blank verso of the half-title page and the title page, if you look from the side, there is a thin space, and that has created just a little bit of give when you pull on the front cover. It is just a little bit of give, the front cover is still solidly bound. That thin space is the Only instance of a binding issue, minor as it is. I am turning over the pages and can tell you that they are all nicely tight, and very solidly bound. I'm not finding any cracks or spaces between any facing pages, not even close, tight pages. That carries through to the end of the book. And there are no issues with the rear cover, no give if you pull on it, no spaces or cracks between any of the rear end papers. The 882 pages in this book do not appear to have been exposed to much adventure. They appear to have lived a quiet and undisturbed life. I'm not seeing any soiling anywhere. And I'm only finding three pages, three consecutive pages, where the middle edge got folded in. I put it back in its rightful place. There are no tears, just the vertical crease which just touches upon a few of the letters, having no impact on one's ability to read them. Other than that, I'm really not finding any creasing, maybe a vague bit of one off the middle edge of a group of pages, very minor. There don't appear to be any turned-down or placeholder corner creases. There are no markings anywhere in the book. There are no attachments anywhere in the book. No one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. The title page mentions some of the writers. I was going to list them, but it dawns on me I can just take a picture. So that's it for condition. Seller Inventory # 002924

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Omnibus of Adventure

Publisher: Dodd Mead & Company, New York

Publication Date: 1930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition