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Published by Modern Library, New York, 1928
Seller: Winding Road Books, Templeton, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint 1st Thus. Modern Library No. 144., Rare, Reprint First Thus Edition, First Printing from roughly 1942 to 1944 due to the price of the "Giant Editions" on the back dj cover being $1.45. True hardback, not one of the earlier decaying leatherette softcovers. Probably the first real hardback. Slight musty odor. Mottling on book covers. Book has straight stiff spine, pointed tips, no leans or dings. Blue boards and top stain.Vincent Starrett does the introduction in this edition and that was also changed in the 1949 edition. Original aqua and black dust jacket with picture is not price clipped (.95) and has Modern Library catalog listed on the back. Earlier jackets were brown with no picture, just lists of authors. This jacket has no lists on the front cover. The later 1949 jacket reintroduced the lists. General overall wear with slight crumple and loss at spine ends, tips and most edges. Looks spiffy in new plastic cover protector. Not Signed.
Published by London: George Newnes, March and April 1903, 1903
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two octavo magazines (27 x 18cm), pp.lxxvi; 241-360; lxxvii-lxxxiv; pp.lxxx; 361-480; lxxxi-lxxviii. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue, stapled twice. Presented in black cloth-covered chemise case with gilt titles to spine. First volume exceptionally crisp and clean, with just a few nicks to covers, and a large loss to final advert leaf. Second volume more heavily rubbed, with some toning, spotting and a few chips and tears to covers, as well as a loss to tail of spine. Very good. Both parts of Adams' weird tale 'The Flying Death,' in which a mysterious beach-murder turns out to have been committed by a rogue dinosaur, together with some later parts of Doyle's 'Etienne Gerard,' two short stories by Jacobs, and a short story by Wells.