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1st Edition. Hardcover without dust jacket as issued. Folio with 537 pages. The book is in good condition with some slight bumping to the covers edges and foxing to the top pages edges. There is some foxing to the front title page and several pages in the back (pages 528 to the back pastedown). The interior is tight. The spine is sage/black.

First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. No extraneous markings. All pages are intact and binding is strong. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. DJ shows moderate signs of shelf wear with scuffing and heavy tearing along the corners. DJ is now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation. Boards show light scuffing and bumping to the corners. Binding is sound. Endpages are lightly scuffed. Page edges are lightly age-toned with light scuffing and smudging. Interior pages are unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; Nice first printing abridgement by Readers Union for sale to its members only in 1955, previously published by Museum Press, London in three vols. No names, closed tears or soil seen in the fine 261pp text. Only one micro chip out of half title page fore edge. Original orange/cream printed dust wrapper is unclipped, darkened on spine, shows short chips on spine ends and a 1" bit of cello tape over a like sized claw scratch in the frt gutter/spine corner of dj and mylar. Autobiography of Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (8 October 1878-17 July 1959), who was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken enemy of Modernism (when inebriated), also past president of the Royal Academy. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious commissions after the Great War that made him wealthy.

Signed and numbered [55/285] first edition, which is also inscribed by Manhood on the ffep. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt, nude pictorial on front cover. Cloth shows light soiling. A tad bit of foxing; minor soiling on endmatter. 20 leaves. Dust jacket has small chips at corners; in an archival mylar sleeve. Printed and made by The Garden city Press, Letchworth. A warped little story by Harold Alfred Manhood (1904-1991) about a randy, young man in Dublin, his uncle's printing shop, a bucket of prawns, and a mysterious room decorated with lusty tapestries which contains a hideous girl holding a revolver.

Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some chipping and tearing. Moderate wear to the boards with some fading and discoloration. Foxing along the spine. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First edition stated. Hard-cover, Die Schweiz und die Fluechtlinge 1933-45German text, near fine/VG DJ Free of any markings and no writing. Minor shelf-wear. For Additional Information or pictures, Please Inquire.

Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. DJ shows moderate signs of shelf wear with scuffing and heavy tearing along the corners. DJ is now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation. Boards show light scuffing and bumping to the corners. Binding is sound. Endpages are lightly scuffed. Page edges are lightly age-toned with light scuffing and smudging. Interior pages are unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Limited, numbered first edition of 1000 copies, this being copy 933, signed by Lloyd Reynold. Covers show some light soiling and very mild waviness. Interior is clean and unmarked. ix + 86 pages. 12 x 12 inches. A tribute to the master-calligrapher and Reed College professor, Lloyd J. Reynolds (1902-1978), with contributions from an exceptional array of calligraphers, poets, artists, and scholars, including Alfred Fairbank, Gary Snyder, John Cage, William Stafford, James Dickey, Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, Mary Barnard, Edward Catich, Raymond DaBoll, Jaki Svaren, William Dickey, Lou Harrison, Carolyn Kizer, Lucien Stryk, Vern Rutsala, and Jonathan Williams. Preface by Philip Whalen, who helped originate this volume along with the Reed senior (and author of the introduction), Mark Loeb. Additional contributors include: Jacob Avshalomov, Lois Baker, Arnold Bank, Ben Barzman, Yvonne Bianco, Robert Boardwell, Frank Paul Bowman, Bong Wai Chen, V.L.O. Chittick, Curtiss Cowan, Robert D. Crowley, Dorothy Dehn, Mark DeVoto, Jesse Green, Anne Gregory, Erik Gronborg, Kenneth O. Hanson, James Hayes, Jenny Hunter, Dell Hymes, Manuel Izquierdo, Frank Jones, Charles Leong, Mark Loeb, Sister Loyola Mary, Byron J. MacDonald, Edward Martin, James McGarrell, Monica Moseley-Pincus, Phiz Mozesson, Charles Munch, Maury Nemoy, Norman Paasche, Cindy Parker, Alton Pickens, David Ray, M.C. (Mary Caroline) Richards, Robert Ross, Sister Grace Taylor, Joshua C. Taylor, Ralph James Turner, and Clyde Van Cleve.

8vo., 330pp. Sharp Stated First Edition of this uncommon earlier Crime Club titlePublished by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK earlier the same year. Bound in black cloth with titles in red on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout save some off-setting to gutters. No interior toning or foxing. Some softness to spine ends and a small, gentle bump to the top rear board. Still well preserved. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.00), has a couple of tiny chips to the spine ends. Some rubbing to hinges and a couple of short closed edge-tears. Tiny tape mend on the reverse. Still bright and fresh and scarce in any condition. A very pretty collectable copy. (Hubin, p.278).