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New York: Carrick & Evans. Good+; Cover Board Showing Wear, Ex. Library Book. 1938. Hardback. 327 pages .

Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 280 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Moderate crinkling to paper at gutter. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed with visible markings throughout. Binding remains firm. Pen and pencil inscription and markings to front free endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Minor wear marks to boards.

Victor Gollancz, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. No Edition Remarks. 319 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to title page. Front free endpaper cut out. Sticker to rear free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Slight staining overall.

Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 280 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards with lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and ink stamp markings to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Volume 104 Number 28. In great condition and is unmarked, edges lightly yellowed.

London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) LTD, 1937. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black cloth, lacking dust-jacket. 292 pages, with 16 pages of publisher's ads appended. Index. Illustrated with 16 full page plates. Published (1937), [from copyright page], no other dates extant. A history of the famous London insurance house. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Head and heel of spine chipped, affecting title (upper) and publisher (lower). A sound, internally clean and tight copy. Good reading copy. .

London: Gollancz, 1928. First. . Hardcover. Good-. 8vo. A reading copy. Tears to joints. Ex boots library copy. Darkening to boards. Cracked spine. Frontis loose.

Constable & Co., 1942. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1942. First Edition. 309 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue 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 moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.

Victor Gollancz, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. First Edition. 319 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Remnants of prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Burt Franklin, 1968. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 407 pages. Light discoloring and wear; a sound binding; very good shape; no jacket. Reprint of 1910 book. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Criticism & Essays; Inventory No: 188377. .

Londion: Constable & Company Ltd, 1942. Hardcover, dark blue cloth, no dust-jacket. 309 pages. Appendix of a Bibliography of Sala's works, Index. Illustrated with a frontispiece in color and 16 plates of illustrations and others in text. Second impression, published one month after first printing. Evidence of bookplate removal on front free end-paper. Biography of the writer, journalist, dramatist, and painter [George Augustus Sala], who, along with his family, was closely tied to Charles Dickens. Sala's works were often mistaken for those of Dickens. No previous ownership marks but for slight glue residue from bookplate. Spine lettering worn but readable. A clean, square, copy with no underlining, marking or writing. Near very good.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Carrick & Evans. 1st printing,1938. Good/- hard cover. 8vo,cloth,327pp,illus. no dust jacket. shelfwear,rubbing,darkening,cover. edges and end pages tanned. clean and tight text. business.

Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1936. Reissued. 272 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Lighter cracking to hinges. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

NY: Carrick & Evans, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. A history of the international Insurance company. b&w Illustrations, 327 pages. Light wear to covers. Endpapers soiled. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 75254

Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Limited to 1,000. No jacket; mild shelfwear - but nothing severe.

London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. . Clean, general yellowing, edge chips to dust jacket. . Cloth. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Cosmopolitan. VG book, VG DJ. FINE inside. Paper labels on cover.. 1928. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, VG D/J(in Brodart). Bright book/DJ. Tight. Spine ends rubbed. Inked name. DJ edgeworn, 1/2" spine end chips. .

Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928-01-01. Hardcover. Very good. Robert McBride/ Chapman & Hall, 1928. Hard cover, 256 pp. Very good/NO dust jacket. One of 1000 copies (not numbered) for England and America. Tan and red cloth covered boards with gilt detail and top edge. Binding tight. Previous owner's name, address and date in ink on front free endpaper together with two small attractive stamps. Original bookseller stamp on back paste down. Otherwise pages are lightly browned by clean and unmarked. Includes 8 b&w ink illustrations. A lovely little collection of writings from 18th century England.

Gollancz, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1928. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1928. 1st Very good. , Hardcover, Original dark red cloth. Pictorial endpapers. 340 pages. Clipping pasted to flyleaf. Half-title page tanned from newspaper clipping. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.