The Dark Island by SACKVILLE-WEST, V - 1934

New York, Doubleday Doran, 1936. 1st published in 1934 in England, this is the 1936 edition by Doubleday, Doran, New York. 308 pages in good condition, no DJ. Some marking in pencil on free page...name written front & back. 6x8".

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. 1936 ptg . Hardcover. very good++. No names, clean text. Handsome spine decorations. map frontis. very good++, no dj, silver-stamped navy cloth. Tight 308 pgs

Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday , Doran & Company, Inc., 1936. Navy cloth boards are scuffed and rubbed, lightly chipping at spine tips. Fep is missing. Text pages beginning to tan in margins, no markings, binding is sound.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran, 1936. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good -. 308pgs, dust wrapper shows moderate edgewear, in mylar, presentable copy

Very Good. Doubleday, Doran and Co (1936) VG blue cloth in no DJ. Silver fading bright on spine. Some corner bumps. Silver embossed archer statue and cityscape design front cover. Unmarked inside.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Early printing of this title. Bound in black cloth, stamped in silver. Sans dustjacket. Several light stains along bottom edge of rear board, else a very good+ copy.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Edition not stated. Very good or better in like dustjacket. Nice copy. (box 54)

Germany: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1935. Good. Later. Good. Soiled cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934. Blue cloth. Front free endpaper mostly torn out, else VG/ no dj. 7vo. map frontis. 1st [American] edition so stated

NY: DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, 1936 Book. GOOD MINUS. Hardcover. TITLE: THE DARK ISLAND By V. SACKVILLE-WEST 1936 AUTHOR: V. SACKVILLE-WEST PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, NY 1936 EDITION: Reprint Edition with the DOUBLEDAY ONE DOLLAR BOOK CLUB pamphlet present CATEGORY: Adventure, Mystery, Reprint BINDING/COVER: Hardback with dust jacket COLOR: Dark Blue Almost Black Looking CONDITION: The jacket has some chips and splits along the top and bottom edges; the front flap has small clips to the top and bottom corner edges. The pamphlet has left an age shadow on the back of the frontispiece. Book is without marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 308 pages. Good-/Good- dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: Reprint Edition with the DOUBLEDAY ONE DOLLAR BOOK CLUB pamphlet present. DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, NY 1936. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid,… Read More

New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.

NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.

Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).