Publicado por Nat Geographic Mag, 1954
Librería: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Pamphlet. Condición: Very Good. Aug, 1954, pp. 195-205, Profusely Illus with Color Photos, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.
Publicado por The A.B. Hirschfeld Press, Denver, Colorado, 1958
Librería: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Cecil Rhode (inscribed Ilustrador. Signed by Author and Photograp.
Publicado por National Geographic Society, Washington, 1954
Librería: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, Estados Unidos de America
Soft Cover. Condición: Good with no dust jacket. Supplement map of northern Europe is present, tanned, folded, laid in. Sound binding. Wrappers are yellow and white with general soiling and light shelf wear. Pages clean, off-white. ; Contents: Moran, Stop-and-go sail around south Norway. Rhode, When giant Alaskan bears go fishing. Revis, Colorado by car and campfire. Shor, North with Finland's Lapps. Peterson, A new bird immigrant arrives. Many advertisements. ; 10.0" tall.
Publicado por National Geographic Magazine, Washington, 1954
Librería: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., Reino Unido
Revista / Publicación Original o primera edición
Disbound. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 12 Pages, many illustrations, some in colour. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: National Geographic Magazine; Inventory No: 297036. Cosmo Books : 27 years selling on ABE; 27 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.
Publicado por Texas, 1964
Librería: Bristlecone Books RMABA, Ridgway, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: RMABA
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG illustrated wraps softcover. Signed with inscription on front cover by Rhode and signed with generic inscription on first page by Taber. Photos of various hunts. 96pp. Hunting. Inscribed by Author(s).
Publicado por Popular Library, New York, 1946
ISBN 10: 0486254097 ISBN 13: 9780486254098
Librería: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Popular Library 87, first paperback printing. A publisher is shot in his private elevator as he descends alone. U.S. title, published in England in 1939 as Drop to His Death. Light wear at the edges with a 1/4" chip to the spine head. Pages tanned, crease to the lower corner of the first couple of pages with the letter "N" on the front end paper.
Publicado por Geoffrey Bles, London, 1927
Librería: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. States "First published 1927." This book will close its own text block, but we downgrade to "good" due to the fact there is uneven erosion to the bottom half of the page junctions at pp. 225-228 and again at pp. 254-255 (not affecting any type), which may have been the long-ago work of insects. Pages are also considerably age-browned to edges, though still easily read. The very-good-minus original dust jacket, priced 2/6 to spine, shows a brown stain to head of spine, recto, where a piece of nitrate tape was once laid down to close a small tear. This early John Rhode "spy thriller," set behind the lines in Flanders during the Great War, is hard-to-find in any original jacket. John Rhode was one pseudonym used by the prolific English author Cecil John Charles Street, OBE (1884-1964), who also wrote as Miles Burton and Cecil Waye. Street lived in Seaford and produced four detective novels a year for 37 years. Street's two main series are the Dr. Lancelot Priestley books under the Rhode name, and the Desmond Merrion/Inspector Henry Arnold books under the Burton name. The Priestley books are classics of scientific detection, with the elderly Dr. Priestley demonstrating how apparently impossible crimes have been carried out. The Burton series are more traditional detective fiction with chase scenes and the occasional bit of romance; in fact the hero, amateur investigator Desmond Merrion, meets his wife in the first, "The Secret of High Eldersham" (1930). The author was a serving British army officer who attained the rank of Major, receiving a Military Cross. He also wrote non-fiction, focusing on history and criminology. Street was reticent about his background, but there is evidence that he was born in Gibraltar and may have attended a public school in Berkshire, possibly Wellington College. 256 pp. Reduced from $235.
Publicado por Collins White Circle Pocket Edition., Toronto, Ontario, Canada., 1943
Librería: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Line Drawn Cover Art. Ilustrador. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 192 pages. >> Canadian Collins White Circle Book # 72; >>" In addition to being a brilliantly told crime story, it presents an intriiguing picture of the British Home Guard getting ready to face an invasion." Preceded by the rare 1942 UK & USA Hardcovers; >>> VERY RARE TITLE by this Highly Collectible author; VERY RARE number in the Canadian Collins White Circle Collectible Vintage Paperback series; >> Store Stamp on front endpage; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.
Publicado por Collins for The Crime Club, 1939
Librería: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Good. Light page tanning, a little foxing to edges, else internally in very good condition; cover has slight wear and foxing and a few small nicks to the spine ends.
Publicado por Collins White Circle Pocket Edition., Toronto, Ontario, Canada., 1946
Librería: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. Line Drawn Cover with Wash Cover Art (gives Painted Cover effect) Ilustrador. First Edition By This Publisher. CWC book #289 - BURTON, Miles (1884-1965; Pseudonym of Major Cecil John Charles Street; AKA= John Rhode); - Early Morning Murder (mystery; 1st paperback; Scarce; Line Drawn with Wash Cover Art ;later USA edition retitled "Accidents Do Happen"; Inspector Arnold/ D. Merrion series); >> This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; wear to paper spine; pen to front end page; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.
Publicado por Collins for The Crime Club, 1939
Librería: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Good+. Light page tanning, a little foxing to edges, else internally in very good condition; cover has slight wear and foxing.
Año de publicación: 1933
Librería: Jean-Paul TIVILLIER, MEYS, Francia
Jean Bernard PARIS, Librairie des Champs-Élysées [23, rue Marbeuf /// IFE, Imprimerie Française de l'Édition, 12, rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée] - Copyright 1933 - C.18,5x12x2,1 cm - Cartonnage éditeur jaune titré et orné du masque à la plume emblématique de la collection en marron; jaquette au premier plat illustré en couleurs par Jean Bernard et titré en gris et blanc, dos blanc titré, numéroté et orné en rouge et noir, 4e de jaquette blanc au texte de présentation de 'Mémoires de Guerre secrète' en noir; catalogue intérieur in-fine des 129 titres parus (1 à 129); 249 et (5) pages. (Collection Le Masque - Collection de Romans d'Aventures - N° 130 [306.000.141], dirigée par Albert Pigasse - 6 fr). Jaquette avec petits manques de papier aux dos et premier plat. Bon état général. LA PHOTO AUGMENTE LES DÉFAUTS DE LA JAQUETTE, surtout les rousseurs. BIEN COMPLET DE SA JAQUETTE illustrée. Première édition dans la collection. Français Livres.
Publicado por Berlin. Rudolf Mosse., 1925
Librería: HENNWACK - Berlins größtes Antiquariat, Berlin, Alemania
1. Auflage. 8vo. 306 S. OHLn. Einband begriffen, Kanten berieben, Kapitale angeplatzt, Schnitt etwas fleckig, Besitzvermerke auf Vorsätzen und Vortitel.
Publicado por Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1928
Librería: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Cloth. Condición: Very Good -. 1st American edition. 1st American edition. A Very Good - copy. 8vo., viii, 278 pp., illustrated with a b&w photographic portrait frontispiece 2 2 other b&w plates. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles. The spine is sunned, with the lettering dulled. Light age-toning to the text. From the publisher's series: Famous Trials Series. This is one of the few non-fiction books written by Rhode (aka Cecil Street).
Publicado por Collins White Circle (of Canada) Pocket Edition., Toronto, Ontario, Canada., 1944
Librería: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: UNSPECIFIED. M. Paull - Painted Cover Art; Ilustrador. First Edition By This Publisher. later USA ed retitled "Who Killed the Doctor"; Inspector Arnold/ D. Merrion series; >> This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; 1/2 apaer spine is missing; tape to covers & pine; corners clipped to front & back cover; minor pen to frotn end page; 2" x 2" piece missing from title page. staining to interior pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.
Publicado por White Circle Pocket NOVEL., Canada, 1942
Librería: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: GOOD+. First Edition By This Publisher. 190 pages. "Criminous tale of the unknown man found dying in the Channel Islands boat-train at Waterloo." >> Cover creasing; wear to cover edges; name & address in pen to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.
Publicado por Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1938
Librería: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Condición: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; [8],294pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, spine slightly cocked, faint ring stains to upper cover, latter half of textblock toned (evidently the printer used two batches of stock of varying quality), else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. A locked room murder, the room in this case the victim's niece's bathroom. Forms part of the author's popular series of novels featuring the armchair detective Dr. Lancelot Priestley.
Publicado por Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1942
Librería: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Condición: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in black; [6],264pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, spine slightly cocked, tiny loss to front pastedown, old review pasted to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. First published in the U.K. as "Night Exercise." Detective novel set during the Blitz when a member of the Home Guard vanishes during a night exercise. From the rather conflicting pasted-in review: "Well-written tale of the Home Guard at work, preparing for the day when Nazi paratroops might land. For readers who do not like to be too ruffled.".
Publicado por Odhams Press Limited, London, 1933
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. Owner's neat ink name on front pastedown, dated in year of publication. Binding modestly cocked with the spine toned, page edges and preliminary and terminal leaves with some foxing, very good in an about very good dust jacket with tiny chips and tears, a slightly larger L-shaped tear on the soiled rear panel, and two internal reinforcements. Cecil John Charles Street also wrote under the pseudonym Miles Burton. Hubin, *Crime Fiction*, p.334.
Publicado por The Mystery League Inc Publishers, New York, USA, 1931
Librería: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with green lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 286pp. Pictorial endpapers. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (32/2).
Publicado por Collins for The Crime Club, 1941
Librería: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Good-. Light page tanning, a little foxing to edges and pages adjacent ot cover, else internally in very good condition; cover has slight wear, foxing, a few small nicks to the spine ends and a very short split to the heel.
Publicado por Collins White Circle (of Canada) Pocket Edition., Toronto, Ontario, Canada., 1946
Librería: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Line Drawn Cover with Wash Cover Art (gives Painted Cover effect) Ilustrador. 1st Edition. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 274). 192 pages. Murder in a Haunted House // book #39 in the Dr. Lancelot Priestly , the Scientific Detective - Leading fictional forensic investigator & professor of Mathematics (w Inspector Jimmy Waghorn) Murder in a Haunted House; Moody Pop-art style cover; >>> RARE book Number, for Collectors trying to assemble a Set of the Highly Collectible Original Vintage Canadian Collins WHITE CIRCLE Paperback Series; RARE Title in ANY Printing; First Canadian /North American Paperback. >> Minor creasing to covers; spine slant; wear to bottom edge of paper spine; Book.
Publicado por Dodd, Mead & Co, New York, 1930
Librería: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. First US Edition. Published in the UK as Pinehurst. 278pp. Orange cloth stamped in black on the front and the spine, decorated endpapers. Tiny bookstore label on front free endpaper. A couple of small spots to cloth, light toning to spine panel. A bright very good+ copy. In Hubin, 2003, p. 1266. ; Octavo.
Publicado por Geoffrey Bles, London, 1930
Librería: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Condición: Very Good-. London: Geoffrey Bles, [1930]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue buckram, upper cover and spine lettered in black; 287pp. Cloth rather rubbed along extremities, spine a bit faded, front free endpaper neatly excised, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper stock, contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Forms part of the British author's popular series featuring armchair detective Lancelot Priestley.
Publicado por Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1953
Librería: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1953. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); [6],247pp. Moderate wear to jacket and board margins including a few small closed tears and chips at spine ends of the former, light dust-soil to rear panel, spine slightly cocked and corners bumped with brief exposure; a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy overall. A Dr. Priestley detective novel, first published in the U.K. as By Registered Post.
Publicado por Geoffrey Bles, London, 1957
Librería: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Condición: Very Good -. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1957. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red boards, black spine titling; 255pp. Boards rubbed and rather bumped along margins with brief exposure at corners and spine ends, occasional soiling to binding and textblock, textblock additionally rather toned due to inferior paper quality, spine a bit creased and cocked; a Good to Very Good copy, albeit lacking uncommon jacket. One of seventy-two detective novels pseudonymously written by Cecil Rhodes featuring the investigative prowess of Dr. Priestley.
Publicado por Dodd Mead, New York, 1942
Librería: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A widely disliked officer disappears during an anti-invasion drill by the British Home Guard during World War II. First U.S. edition, published the same year in the U.K. as "Night Exercise." Lightly bumped and rubbed with a touch of wear at the spine ends, spine a bit darkened. Hinges slightly loose.
Publicado por Collins Crime Club, London, 1957
Librería: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Inspector Henry Arnold and Desmond Merrion investigate the murder of a schoolboy. Boots Library sticker on the front, no other indications. Bumped and rubbed with wear at the edges, two beverage rings with two drip marks on the front. A few ink scribbles on the front end papers, binding square and solid. Ex-Library.
Publicado por Geoffrey Bles, London, 1960
Librería: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. First Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket. One of the last Lancelot Priestley novels by this prolific writer.
Publicado por Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949
Librería: Barker Books & Vintage, Helena, MT, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: UNSPECIFIED. First edition. First edition, very good cloth hardcover shows mild shelf wear and soil to covers inlcluding rubbing and couple of bumps at edges, mild soil and touch of stain at page edges, ink stamp and ownership marks at front endpaper, small scotch tape mend at spine tail of jacket reverse, small pieces of scotch tape and bit of staining at front endpaper with scotch tape blemihses to pastedown opposite, tiny closed tear at top of half title and some other light trace wear, in good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows mild rubbing and soil, couple of scotch tape blemishes at fore edge of front inner flap, bit of exposure toning along spine, wrinkles at bottom corner of rear flap, and edgewear that includes tiny open chips and small closed tears, large closed chip at spine tail and large open chip (3 inches wide by 3 inches deep) at top edge of rear panel and some other mild wear. 248 pages, Still a solid copy in jacket that will look good on the shelf of this Red Badge Mystery featuring Dr. Priestley.