Ludmila A Legend of Liechtenstein by GALLICO, Paul - 1959

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. Trade Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks and rubbed spots. There are chips at both ends of the dust jacket spine. The bottom edges, spine and front flap edge of the dust jacket have tidemarking. "In the late 1930s, he abandoned sports writing for fiction, first writing an essay about this decision entitled "Farewell to Sport" (published in an anthology of his sports writing, also titled Farewell to Sport (1938) ) , and became a successful writer of short stories for magazines, many appearing in the then-premier fiction outlet, The Saturday Evening Post. His novella The Snow Goose, and other works, are expanded versions of his magazine stories. Gallico once confessed to… Read More

Michael Joseph Ltd, 1955. 4th Impression. Hardcover. Good. ***please read*** INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR - book is in good condition while the DJ is torn and tattered with part of the backside missing (it is now in a mylar wrap - pencil notes inside front board and following the flyleaf - no marks on text - 48 pages - my shelf location -28-e-9

Illustrated by Franz Deak. Michael Joseph. London. 1960 (Reprint). 8vo. In protected d/w, gift inscription on title page o/w text in vg cond. From the author's present home.

London: Michael Joseph. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Some tape repairs to shelf wear and tear of price clipped DJ with some loss at spine extremities, corners lightly bumped and rubbed with slight sunning to spine where DJ missing, gift message dated Christmas 1955 to front endpaper. ; Decorated green and white boards quarter bound red cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy. ; B&W Illustrations; 48 pages; A charming pastoral legend of old Liechtenstein. As always, Gallico charms and surprises. .

London: Michael Joseph, 1955. 1st Edition. hardcover. F. Drawings by Franz Deak. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. Fine copy

Published by Michael Joseph, 1955. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by Deak, Franz. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. The charming tale of a little Liechtenstein cow. Red cloth spine, green patterned boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper is price-cut and torn with loss.

London: Michael Joseph, 1955. Some tears to the edges, mostly to top edge, of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to bottom end of red cloth spine strip, original owner's gift message dated Christmas 1955 on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book, the tale of a dairy cow in Liechtenstein. "First Published 1955" on rev of title page, with no other printings or dates listed. 48pp, b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Illus. by Deak, Franz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.