thieves nights chronicles delancey king de harry stephen keeler (7 resultados)

1 Very good. moderate shelf wear, mild fading to the cover.

Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London. 1931. First Edition. Hardback. No DW. Red cloth, black lettering. Boards are spotted, spine is faded and extremities are a little worn. Pages browned otherwise a sound copy.

Hard Cover. Condición: Reading Copy. No Jacket. 331 pages. Binding soiled and worn, but text block is solid and complete. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Fifth Printing. 8vo, red cloth, inked name on endpaper This sequel to SING SING NIGHTS went through at least five printings in its first month. This is The Chronicles of DeLancey, King of Thieves. [Andrews, CHICAGO IN STORY, p.352].

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Very good tight copy, owners ink gift inscription from 1949 inside, wrapper has small tear to edges, occasional slight loss, price clipped.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 5th printing. (no dust jacket, although the front panel of same has been trimmed and affixed to the ffep) [moderately worn copy, light bumping/fraying to bottom corners, portion of jacket text affixed to front pastedown, small stains on a couple of pages]. "This is Mr. Keeler's most breath-taking achievement.full of unexpected denouements in startling succession, so that the reader has the experience of waking up from dream within dream"; in amongst this fervid dreaminess unfolds "the legend of Bayard De Lancey, King of Thieves, whom lesser thieves feel honor to have known." "Here Mr. Keeler's genius for the mystery-plot comes into an amazing perfectness." (And doesn't a phrase like "amazing perfectness" make you suspect that Keeler also wrote his own jacket blurbs?).

Condición: Good. Rare first edition. Boards are good with minor wear. Content is clean with a slight even tone throughout. DJ is in good condition for age with a bit of edge wear and a few light marks.