New York: Fleming H Revell, 1908. Red cloth hardcover without dust jacket,, with front cover embossed pictorial and embossed white lettering, gilt spine lettering and deoration ever so slightly faded, 415 pages; tight in binding, light to moderate shelf wear to cover corners and spine ends, free front endpaper removed, interior very clean and unmarked, no foxing. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. Yellow cloth hardcover without dust jacket, "Popular edition, January, 1931", 272 pages; lightwear to cover edges and corners, light faded soiling to covers, but tight in binding, overall gently used, , text pages clean and unmarked. See also our listing for Bodenheim, 's Replenishing Jessica.. Hard Cover. Very Good -.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Clarke, Irwin, 1955. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, second (1955) printing, 328 pages; just a hint of shelf wear to spine ends, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked; DJ heavily chipped, but intact and about 95% complete.. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Fair.
London: Pan, 1970. Mass market paperback, "3rd [1972] Printing, 158 pages; just a hint of shelf wear, ink signature and "3B" on half title page, otherwise in very clean and unmarked unread condition.. Soft Cover. Fine.
New York: Jove, 1988. Mass market paperback, 823 pages. spine creased and concaved, tears to front cover tape repaired inside, covers creased, bookstore stamp on first page, text pages clean and unmarked, overall used but not abused.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Good.
New York: Bantam Books, 1954. First Edition Bantam F1284 mass market paperback, copyright date "January, 1955, 1st Printing December, 1954", 397 pages; very gently used with light rubbing to exterior and only one light spine crease, rubber stamped sale price on top edge, date and initials in faded ink inside front cover, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout, but there is a gentle vertical curve due to poor storage.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good -.
: The Sapphire Romance Club, 1982. Mass market paperback, 158 pages; pages edges faded, otherwise in very clean and unmarked unread condition, essentially as new.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Fine.
London: Collins, 1976. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 160 pages; very gently used ex-library copy with two pieces of tape from mylar protector on each cover, a barely visible rubber stamp to top edge, two more overlapping on free front endpaper, a bizarre 5-line row of 2-letter ink initials on half title page, card pocket (showing only 3 issues) secured to back free endpaper, but not a trace of shelf wear to cover edges, tight in binding, all text pages very clean clean and unmarked; DJ in removable mylar protector has the usual spine label and the ghost of a tiny price stickerl, but has no chips or tears, otherwise very bright, clean and attractive with the colourful illustrations to front panel and spine. See also our listing for Elsna's equally scarce The King's Bastard.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good.
London, United Kingdom: John Dicks Hardcover in plain dark red covers (spine faded, including any and all lettering), undated (other than "Before the Curtain" dated 1848), 328 pages including "numerous illustrations"---this is a cheap reprint by Dicks, known for his popular, affordably priced fiction and drama, and printed probably between 1850-1885; this is the only Dicks issue currently for sale online as of this date (October, 2019);--light rubbing and shelf wear to covers, but very gently used, tight in binding, possibly rebound as the white endpapers are of better quality than the cheap age darkened text pages, strange combinations of numerals and what appear to be shorthand symbols written in pencil over all of the first blank page, margins of the title page, and a few scattered margins throughout, one page noted with an amateurishly closed tear, scattered traces of pale foxing, but for the most part, all text pages are very clean and unmarked. . Hard Cover. Good.
Lewes, Sussex, UK: Book Guild, 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket, 513 pages; book very gently used, only tiny traces of bumping to covers, foxing spots to top and fore edges, interior very clean and unmarked, pages fresh and white; DJ gently bumped along edges, bottom third of front panel rubbed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Very Good -.
New York: Bantam, 1951. Mass market paperback, 278 pages; tiny traces of shelf and reading wear, but very gently read, spine has one crease and wrinkling due to drying of old binding glue, still tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good -.
New York: Tor Books, 1995. Mass market paperback, 297 pages; some very light spine creases, otherwise very gently used, very clean and unmarked, tight in binding. . First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.
New York: The Century Co. , 1902. Brown cloth hardcover with top edge gilt and bright and clear spine panel gilt lettering, without dust jacket, xxxii + 444 pages; light cover edge wear, fore and bottom edges age darkened, but tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listing for a very scarce copy of Guy Mannering ["The New Oxford Library" edition].. Hard Cover. Very Good.
London: Harvill, HarperCollins, 1992. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 294 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition; DJ now in new mylar protector. . First British Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
New York: Atheneum, 1980. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 279 pages; spine slanted, otherwise gently used, not abused, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ spine panel slightly sun faded, but no chips or tears . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good ++.
London: Secker & Warburg, An Alison Press Book, 1986. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 214 pages; book has just a hint of a bunp to spine top, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ now in new mylar protector, also fine other than the price clip.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good ++.
Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2002. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, second printing of the First Edition, 486 pages;---signed by Johnston on the title with an inscription by him dated "2002";---other than inscription book is in very clean and unmarked, apparently unread condition. For more Newfoundland fiction, see also our listing for a very scarce hardcover edition of Johnston's The Time of Their Lives.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
New York: Cardinal Pocket Books, 1960. Mass market paperback, third printing thus (1960), 234 pages; spine creased and slanted, but tight in binding, otherwise very gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our other Buck titles, and for more forbidden love, Kyle Onstott's The Tattooed Road, and Falconhurst Fancy, or for a nonfiction account of " interracial love", Karl Eskelund's My Chinese Wife : An entertaining and exciting story of an international marriage.. Soft Cover. Very Good -.
New York: Fawcett Crest, 1960. Mass market paperback, #M1053/95cents, later (1969) printing, 382 pages; spine lightly creased, other tiny traces of shelf and reading wear, but very gently used, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listings for Onstott's Falconhurst Fancy, and for more forbidden love, Pearl S. Buck's classic The Hidden Flower : A challenging novel of interracial love.. Soft Cover. Very Good.
New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1966. Mass market paperback, #ML698/95cents, probably later undated printing, 446 pages; spine creased and concaved, other tiny traces of shelf and reading wear, a few ink marks on first page, but gently used, tight in binding, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listings for Onstott's The Tattooed Road, and for more forbidden love, Pearl S. Buck's classic The Hidden Flower : A challenging novel of interracial love.. Soft Cover. Good.
