MORTMAIN by Train, Arthur - 1928

Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dustjacket. 1928. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 314 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 314 pages. Hardcover bound in embossed green cloth. Binding is worn and rubbed, with bumped spine, but overall a sound copy. Secure inner hinges and clean text.

Charles Scribner's Sons , 1928. Hardcover. Good. Pages are clean and unmarked. Minor to moderate rubbing along the edges and corners. The page side bottom corners are slightly bumped.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, no DJ. Green cloth. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked, though lightly tanned. Binding is tight, Hinges strong. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

New York, New York, U.S.A: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2. GOOD / NO DUST JACKET. ix, [1], 314 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Pages slightly toned. Illustrated with a frontispiece in b/w. Dark green buckram boards with blindstamped decoration at front, gilt decoration at spine, red compartment at spine, lettered in gilt. Spine slightly faded, spine tail slightly rubbed. Joints and hinges good, binding firm.

New York: Scribners - Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 12mo. 314 pp. First Thus - re-issues the 1907 Appleton edition. Green patterned cloth decorated in gilt on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the boards with fading in the gilt on the spine; short tear along the edge of the rear pastedown; hinges tight, gutters intact; no interior markings; no dustjacket. Illustrated with seven black and white plates by uncredited artists, all present and accounted for. Arthur Train was reasonably well known for his legal thrillers and courtroom intrigue, maybe the first but definitely not the last lawyer to write about what he knew. Mortmain was filmed in 1915, directed by Theodore Marston and starring Robert Edeson, Donald Hall, Edward Elkas, Joseph Weber, Muriel Ostriche, Karin Norman and others. Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-grafting, and shows proofs as he successfully… Read More

New York: Scribners, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Green stamped cloth. Illustrated with black and white plates. Very good with a cocked spine, wear on the corners and the spine ends, and fading on the spine.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green blind-embossed leatherette with gilt spine lettering. 314pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 6 called-for full-page plates. Near fine. Quite tight and lovely later printing of this 1907 novel, Train's second and one of the first to spotlight "Dr. Strangelove syndrome" -- alien hand syndrome (AHS). Train (1875-1945) was a New York County assistant district attorney and as a mystery novelist pioneered the courtroom thriller genre and immortalized attorney Ephraim Tutt.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2005-04-01. Paperback. Good.