The House of Defence by E F Benson - 1000

New York NY: The Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906 Good Plus condition with moderate soiling on top edge, light cover edge wear, owner's name, date on front end sheet, and scattered light soiling inside. Binding strong and tight, full color illustrations, decorative front cover in brown, red, black and white colors. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

AUTHORS AND NEWSPAPERS ASSOC.. Hardcover. USED Good.

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 382 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. Hardcover. Used - Good. Book is completely intact, but shows wear, nothing excessive, the book is perfectly readable.

London: Heinemann, 1907. 2nd Edition. . Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. Slight roll to spine. Bumped spine and corners. Marks to boards. Discolouration to pastedowns and feps. Dedication in ink to half title page. Foxed.

NY: AUTHORS & NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION PUB. Very Good. 1906 tp & verso. FIRST EDITION AMERICAN. HARDCOVER. 5x7". VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid, bright.; Intricate cover design by HB?...COVER ART in red & black & white on brown cloth hard covers .WHITE ENDPAPERS..COLOR FRONTIS OF WOMAN (protected by original glassene sheet) ...tipped in facsimile page of the manuscript from Benson's "The Image in the Sand") ..Book has 4 glossy color lates. 1 SHOWS WOMAN FLY FISING IN SMALL STREAM.. Some Christian Science material in story liine.; 318 pg+2 pg advert pages; Meticulous detail of character and behavior..particularly in the dialogue..NO LATER PRINTINGS LISTED ON VERSO, SUGGEST THIS 1st Ptg, of first edition. Solid, copy with some ex-library distinctions. Title has following inside red border box "MILLER & RHODES (Inc) SPECIAL EDITION, For Sale exclusively by us in Richmond, VA" .

1907. BENSON, E.F. The House of Defence. Original cloth. London: Heinemann, 1907. First English edition (the BM Catalogue lists a Canadian edition for 1906). A very good copy.

William Heinemann, 1907. ~Owner's signature. Original green cloth, spine slightly faded. Spine leans forward very slightly. ~Robust packaging. . 1st edn. Hardback. Very Good. viii, 293pp. No dustwrapper. Binding tight, text unmarked.

NY: Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. First Edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. First American Edition. Brown cloth with elaborate cover design. Illus with a facsimile from the manuscript. Color plates by H. Richard Boehm. Very good plus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by H. Richard Boehm. 8vo.. Illus.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1906, 1st American Edition. (hardcover) 318pp, +[2pp adverts]. Good, no dust jacket. 12mo. In original publisher's illustrated cloth binding. Binding with light rubbing at extremities from shelfwear. Tiny gouge at top-edge of rear board. Small, faint red stain to cloth on rear board. Binding a little shaken; starting at PP178 / 179 and pp258 / 259; early signs of starting else wear. All leaves and gatherings remain entirely secure. Illustrated with four colour plates (including the frontispiece.) after watercolors by H. Richard Boehm. Frontispiece with protective tissue guard. "Facsimile page of manuscript from the Image in the Sand" [p.3], lacking tissue guard. Internally, with only occasional light dirtying to margins (from the turnings of dirty fingers, no doubt). Else internally clean. An acceptable copy of this first edition..