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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good+ with no dust jacket; Ink & light foxing front endpaper. Top corner . slightly bumped throughout. Spine ends bumped, light crease to spine.. 1923. Hardcover. A novel of African adventure.; 12mo; 306 pages .

Alfred A Knopf, 1923-08-01. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. First American Edition. Good+ hardcover. Pages are lightly tanned with light soil to page edges. Lavender boards have bumped corners, light general wear, fading to spine and wear to spine ends. Spine is very lightly cocked. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. pp. 306.,8vo,,Bound in original pale lilac cloth. No dust jacket, Extremities of boards rubbed. Some light soiling to cloth and foredge. Contents clean and tight: good+ to very good condition.

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Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1923. No Edition Remarks. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Pink cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Water staining to top edge of text block. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining to rear board. Wear marks overall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Precedes the London edition. Clean and free of sunning or rubbing, and unmarked. In a heavy archival Mylar jacket. Scarce.

NEW YORK NY: ALFRED A KNOPF CO. NF/NONE. PUB 1923. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK IS FINE BUT FOR SOME LIGHT RUB TO THE CORNERS. AN EXCELLENT COPY. . Keywords: FANTASY NOVEL, FANTASY, INVISIBLE, ABCDEF.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Octavo.5.25 x 7.75 in. 306 pp. Very good in original purple cloth with some light page toning, in good dust jacket with several chips and tears, some sections missing, some toning. A lost race adventure novel in which a lost white heiress takes over an African tribe. A later work by Shiel, who is best remembered for his supernatural horror and science-fiction romances.

New York: Knopf, 1923. First edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Good. Fine. null Fine book in jacket. Chip to dj's spine tip taking out the letters "Chil" from title. Shallow chip at spine foot not affecting text, and minor loss at fold ends. Else jacket very good. No signatures or bookplates to book.

CHILDREN OF THE WIND, Grant Richards, 1923, first edition, fore edge margin and upper margin of the front panel somewhat lightened, light wear to the lower corner tips, else just about a vg copy. A tale of a white Queen of Africa. (As new facsimile dust-wrapper is available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you.)

LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS. VG+/NONE. PUB 1923. FIRST EDITION. OTHER THAN AN ABRASION AT THE MIDDLE OF THE FRONT SPINE EDGE, SLIGHTDARKENING TO THE SPINE, AND SOME INCONSPICUOUS COLOR FADING AT THE BOTTOMFORE-EDGE CORNER, THIS IS AN EXCELLENT VERY CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY.. Keywords: FANTASY, NOVEL, INVISIBLE, ABCDEF.

New York: Knopf, 1923. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Bound in full brown cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in blue. Blue topstain. 306pps. First Printing (August, 1923). The upper tips and the spine-ends are midly bumped and there is a faint pencil-erasure (of price) on the ffep. Otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The price-clipped dust jacket, now glossy in a mylar sleeve, is slightly sun-darkened, lightly sullied, and has shallow chipping at the extremities (not affecting copy). A very nice, collector's-quality copy of this Shiel novel.<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request. 45-A.. First… Read More