Saunders and Otley, London, 1839. Hardcover. Maroon half-leather with gilt titles and decoration. Boards rubbed, bruised and frayed to corners, with minor chipping at spine head. Spine square. Top inch of outer hinges starting; binding sound. Marbled page edges, marbled endsheets. Previous owners' book plate, and scarring as though from.....
The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., N/A. Hardcover. N.d., circa 1920s. No additional printings mentioned. Publishing imprint credits 'The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.' at title page, with 'The Evergreen Library' dust jacket and emblem to cloth. Cloth spine and jacket indicate Simpkin as the publisher (Simpkin, Marshall, and Company).....
Lord John Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. The special edition bound in leather and limited to 100 copies, each signed by the author and bearing a sketch by Gardner at flyleaf. #88 of 100 signed, limited, numbered copies. 138 pages in red leather. No jacket, as issued. Clean and bright.....
Atheneum, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 1973, first edition. 288 pages in black cloth with dust jacket. First Edition US. Fifth book by the 2008 Nobel Laureate in literature. Book is clean, tight and devoid of any marks. Dust jacket shows mild shelf/edge-wear, but is otherwise bright, unsoiled, unfaded. An exceptionally.....