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Publicado por Dover Publications, 1984
ISBN 10: 0486247201ISBN 13: 9780486247205
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
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Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5.
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Usado desde EUR 5,77
Publicado por Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, U.S.A., 1985
ISBN 10: 0486249778ISBN 13: 9780486249773
Librería: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, Estados Unidos de America
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condición: New. 1st Edition. 1st US edition. [Originally published by John Westhouse Ltd., London, 1945] First Dover Edition. New unread copy featuring Prof. John Stubbs; Scotland; Academia. Campbell is the pen name of the eminent art critic, poet and fantasy novelist Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978). Professor John Stubbs is the eccentric amateur investigating murder at an international conference of geneticists. He is reminiscent somewhat of Gervase Fen, or Dr.Fell. Stubbs is a fan of locked room mysteries, particularly those of JD Carr, but the first murder here is the opposite, taking place in an open laboratory to which there was unfettered access. An infamous fraud is poisoned at a gathering of geneticists and the possible killer includes a dozen vindictive former assistants and humiliated colleagues. The gallery of suspects ranges from a brash American, Dr. Swartz, and the victim's sniveling associate, Professor Silver, to a lovely young genetics student, Miss Mary Lewis, and even Stubbs' nephew, a reporter covering the convention. The novel's brisk pace, witty dialogue, and flavorful recreation of English university life during the mid-twentieth century combine to form an exciting and amusing page-turner. Book.
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Publicado por Stirling: Lomax Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 0956028845ISBN 13: 9780956028846
Librería: Hodmandod Books, Sandy, BED, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 254 pages. Frontispiece a b&w photographic portrait of the author; several b&w figures within the text. Introductory material includes a Foreword by Gibb, who also provides extensive annotations to the text; "Ruthven Todd: Some Personal Memories" by Christopher Todd, Ruthven's son; "The Novels of R. T. Campbell" by Peter Main. Included at the end of the novel is "When the Bad Bleed", an unfinished early run at the story which was thought to have been lost. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has a little creasing to its edges, particularly around the spine ends, and several faint marks on its faces.
Publicado por Lomax Press, Stirling, UK, 2013
ISBN 10: 0956028888ISBN 13: 9780956028884
Librería: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Libro
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine / Near Fine. Limited edition. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.25 in., pp. 206. Limited edition #149/300. Black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Unmarked interior. Protected in mylar. First published in 1946 by John Westhouse (Publishers). This is the first re-publication. Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author, in US from 1947-1958, and then Majorca; his most important nonfiction work, Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art (1946), effectively argued the imaginative power - when conjoined - of the two subtitled categories, instancing at length the work of William Blake (1748-1827) and John Martin; as R T Campbell, he wrote several detective novels, beginning with Unholy Dying (1945) [none contain fantastic elements, and are not listed below]; and as Todd, two metaphysical tales, both labouring under the 1930s misconception that Franz Kafka wrote allegories. The quest plot of Over the Mountain (1939), which takes its protagonist into a kind of Lost World, is heavily consanguinous with a search for political self-understanding; the protagonist of the surrealist The Lost Traveller (1943), stranded (perhaps posthumously) in a strange Dystopia, finds himself ordered to quest for a brace of auks, becoming - at the moment of his (final?) death - one himself. In his introduction to the 1968 reprinting of the latter, Todd recognized influences from Wyndham Lewis to Rex Warner. The Space Cats sequence for children, beginning with Space Cat (1952), features a runaway Cat who stows away on a Spaceship. (from Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).
Publicado por John Westhouse (Publishers) Ltd, London, 1945
Librería: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Original Cloth. Condición: Good. First Edition. The boards have a little bumping to the corners, slight fading to the lettering on the spine, a small stain at the top of the rear panel, another near to the spine and a lean to spine. The pages are a little browned. The front pastedown has two circular patches of surface damage each about two inches in size and there is a thin strip of label residue at the top of the front free endpaper suggesting the book has been in some kind of lending library. There are similar marks to the rear pastedown and the rear free endpaper has been removed leaving only a one inch stub. No library markings however and the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing.
Publicado por John Westhouse (Publishers) Ltd, London, 1946
Librería: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Original Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. The boards have a little bumping to the corners but are otherwise unmarked. The page edges are a little browned with some spotting to the endpapers. The pages are browned around the edges but otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has a two inch closed tears to the top left and bottom right corners of the front panel which also has a one inch tear to the top right corner, a small tear to the bottom edge and a little chipping to the bottom edge. The rear panel has a two inch closed tear to the top edge, some chipping to the bottom edge and some surface discolouration. The spine has chipping at the top and bottom with a quarter inch piece missing at the bottom. The jacket also has some edge rubbing and chipping to the corners. First printing.
Publicado por John Westhouse, London, 1945
Librería: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. First Edition. 166pp + [2]pp of publisher's advertisements. Cloth. Name in pen on the front free endpaper (C. G. S. McAlester, probably a colonel of the East Surrey Regiment). A note in pencil also on the front free endpaper reads: "Todd wrote 10 detective stories in six months under the name R. T. Campbell to pay off some debts. These were all published by the small and soon defunct firm of John Westhouse and are all very scarce." Light wear to corner tips. A near fine copy in good- dustjacket with a large chip to lower edge of front panel, one to heel of spine panel, and a few minor chips along the edges. Uncommon. In Hubin, 1994, p. 128. ; Octavo.
Publicado por John Westhouse, London, England, 1946
Librería: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good Plus / Very Good. First Edition. 12mo., 7.5 in. x 5 in., pp. 182. Beige boards with gilt title to spine. Rubbing to dustjacket edges; chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Age-toning to pages. Slight spine lean. Protected in mylar. R.T. Campbell is the pseudonym for Ruthven Campbell Todd. Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author, in US from 1947-1958, and then Majorca; his most important nonfiction work, Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art (1946), effectively argued the imaginative power - when conjoined - of the two subtitled categories, instancing at length the work of William Blake (1748-1827) and John Martin; as R T Campbell, he wrote several detective novels, beginning with Unholy Dying (1945) [none contain fantastic elements, and are not listed below]; and as Todd, two metaphysical tales, both labouring under the 1930s misconception that Franz Kafka wrote allegories. The quest plot of Over the Mountain (1939), which takes its protagonist into a kind of Lost World, is heavily consanguinous with a search for political self-understanding; the protagonist of the surrealist The Lost Traveller (1943), stranded (perhaps posthumously) in a strange Dystopia, finds himself ordered to quest for a brace of auks, becoming - at the moment of his (final?) death - one himself. In his introduction to the 1968 reprinting of the latter, Todd recognized influences from Wyndham Lewis to Rex Warner. The Space Cats sequence for children, beginning with Space Cat (1952), features a runaway Cat who stows away on a Spaceship. (from Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).
Publicado por John Westhouse (Publishers) Ltd, London, 1946
Librería: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Original Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. The boards have a little bumping to the corners, a dent to the fore edge of the front panel, some discolouration to the front panel and the gilt lettering on the spine is partially worn off but are otherwise unmarked. The page edges are browned. Light spotting to the endpapers. 'Reference Copies No Commercial Value' stamped across the title page. The pages are quite heavily browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has small tears to the top and bottom right corners of the front panel which is also a little discoloured in places with rubbing along the right edge. The rear panel also has some surface discolouration. The spine has chipping at the top and bottom and has been reinforced at the top and bottom with brown paper. First printing.
Publicado por John Westhouse, 1946
Librería: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Reino Unido
FIRST EDITION, pages browned throughout, pp. 182, crown 8vo, original cream cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, faint spotting to endpapers, dustjacket tatty and a little soiled with a faint pink blotch to front panel, good. The second of seven hastily-written crime novels written by Scottish poet Ruthven Todd. They follow amateur sleuth Professor John Stubbs, 'famous botanist and beer-drinker' who whilst 'on a spree' visits a nightclub and discovers a murder (blurb).
Publicado por John Westhouse, 1945
Librería: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Reino Unido
FIRST EDITION, pages a little browned throughout, pp. 166, [2], crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, endpapers faintly spotted, the front pastedown with ink stamp of 'Philog Library, Whitchurch, Cardiff' (also a couple of small bits of paper residue and an ink shelfmark, dustjacket a little chipped and creased, good. The first in a series of crime novels by the impecunious Scottish poet Ruthven Todd, the pseudonym employing his middle name, featuring botanist and amateur sleuth Professor John Stubbs. Scarce.
Publicado por John Westhouse, London, 1946
Librería: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Original Cloth. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Plante Ilustrador. First Edition. The boards have a small patch of fading at the top of the spine and top left corner of the front panel and light corner bumping. Previous owner's book plate to front free endpaper where he (Prof. Wiliam A.S. Sarjeant) has written a gift message to another collector of detective fiction, André Michielsen. The pages are heavily browned with a narrow inch long strip torn from the bottom edge of the first page after the front free endpaper and small creases to the top corners of pages 73 to 88 in the second story. The book has been in the house of smoker so there is also a little odour to the pages which are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has a little chipping to the corners and a half inch triangular piece missing at the top of the spine and top left corner of the front panel. The jacket has been reinforced to the reverse with small pieces of sticky tape to the folds at the top and bottom. Browning to the spine and the rear panel. Jacket illustration by Plante. First printing.
Publicado por John Westhouse, London, 1946
Librería: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition.A FINE book ( a couple of tiny dings to bottom edge of boards) in a NEAR FINE ( light age soiling to white rear panel and the usual fade to spine) dust jacket. This publisher , at the time, had ,IMHO, the absolute worst jacket designs ! BUT it is "a locked room mystery about a book collector who discovers the body of a book seller in the private office of his bookshop." ( ref. "Bibliomysteries" by Otto Penzler) Uncommon especially in nice condition !.