G W E Davison (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Contributors include: Fredson Bowers; David G Hale; Stanley Boorman; David C Chibbett; Conor Fahy; Barry Gaines; W G Day; H E Meyer. Contents include: Multiple Authority - New Problems and Concepts of Copy-Text; Aesop in Renaissance England; Upon the Use of Running Titles in the Aldus House in 1518; A Fourteenth-Century Japanese Printed Edition of the Leng-Chai Yeh-Hua; A Note on the Printing of the 1505 Aldine Edition of Pietro Bembo's Asolani; A Textual Emendation in a Yorkshire Tragedy - Confusion of s and f; Tristram Shandy - The Marbled Leaf; Tristram Shandy - Sterne and Bishop Hall; James Purser, Printer in Bartholomew Close 1737; Reviews; Recent Books and Periodicals etc. Crisp grey covers, sound binding, clean pages and plates. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12216041148.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 447 pages (complete). A terrifically interesting book for anyone interested in the apres guerre / pre-Union South Africa. In general poor to fair condition. The cover is half-bound in leather. The leather corners are much worn. The leather spine is cracked, worn and damaged. The cloth covers are scuffed and marked. Despite all of these the covers have considerable character and geniality. Marbled pastes on the inside covers. The frontis and end papers have been removed. The early and late pages have some storage and handling marks. Compellingly illustrated with photographic plates and illustrated plates. These are all fascinating and in excellent condition. The pages are clear, clean, very confident, clubbable, easily referenced and read, classy and tidy. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. 1946 first thus, Toledano G069.1, binding/jacket style G5/Gd, $1.95 jacket price, list of 316 titles on verso, blank endpapers. Very good in good jacket. Stain along about 4 inches of jacket base, jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips and tears. xviii, 995 pp. Edited and with an introduction by Ellery Queen. CONTENTS: The Purloined Letter; The Mystery of Mrs. Dickinson; The Lenton Croft Roberies; The S.S.; The Dublin Mystery; The Problem of Cell 13; The Absent-Minded Coterie; The Red Silk Scarf; The Puzzle Lock; The Secret Garden; The Man Who Spoke Latin; The Doomdorf Mystery; The Sweet Shot; The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage; The Pink Edge; The Long Dinner; A Chess Problem; The Owl at the Window; A Matter of Taste; The Cyprian Bees; Solved by Inspection; The Avenging Chance; The Border-Line Case; The Two Bottles of Relish; A Man Called Space; The Resurrection of Chin Lee; The Mad Tea Party; The Crime in Nobody's Room; The Tea Leaf; The Mackenzie Case; Introducing Susan Dare; The Treasure Hunt; The Disappearance of Mrs. Leigh Gordon; The Mystery of the Missing Wash; The Criminologists' Club; Arsene Lupin in Prison; Blind Man's Buff; The Stolen Romney; Paris Adventure; The Clock; The Most Dangerous Game: The Eleventh Juror; Philomel Cottage; Faith, Hope and Charity; The Hands of Mr. Ottermole; Treasure Trove; Suspicion; The Silver Mask; Ransom; The Perfect Crime.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 960 pages in total. Clean and unmarked with minimal wear. Dust jackets now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart covers. Excellent condition.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Van Der Heyden, Gerald; Fitzgerald, W.O.; McConnell, Charles L. (illustrator). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Coming Home - A Poem; Removing the Smoke Screen From America's Warships; Use Your Hands to Save Your Head; Churches are Building Skyscrapers from Coast to Coast - article with photos of Broadway Temple in New York, Mizpah Temple in Syracuse, and Baptist Temple in Rochester, NY; The Conquest of the MIddle Ages; The Lustrous Lenglen - French tennis pro Suzanne Lenglen - article with illustration; News out of Washington; Henry Ford's Page - He argues the Marines should be used to root out those Americans who visit Central and South America only to bind their nations with loans, exploit them in commerce and mislead them in industry; Editorials - Will Rogers is recommended as Sec. of State for Pan-American Affairs, Criticism of Charlie Chaplin, poor Army grub leads to many desertions, the Civil Liberties Union, led by Ernst Freund, opposes the Alien Deportation Bill; When France got Back Her Favorite Daughter, Alsace the Lovely - photo-illustrated article of the beautiful region; Strange Men Who Could Not Keep Straight (part 2) - Charlie of the Quantrelle Gang; The Balloon That Never Returned - a mystery story of the Arctic; One-page illustrated ad for the Venice Company of Venice, Florida; Alfred Brunson was Wisconsin's First Methodist Circuit Rider; Chats with Office Callers; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - college news in France, Montreal rabbi Rev. Isaac de la Penhe claims ownership of Labrador, Robby Burns' advice to his brother; News Bits. Average wear. Nibbling along top of coverfold. Unmarked. Page 9 loose but present. A worthy vintage copy.