The Image in the Sand by Benson, E. F - 1905

Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 472 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Bookseller sticker stuck to front pastedown. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

J B Lippincott. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Owner's name on front pastedown. Spine cracked. (Literature, Fiction)

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Phild.: J.B. Lippincott. VG+. 1905. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. First US edition bound in green andwhite mottled cloth with tan decora tions and black lettering. 364 pages plus three pages of ads at the re ar. Probable first state binding. A VG+ copy. The head of the spine is lightly rubbed and the spine itself is darkened. Former owner's name and the date of July. 1905 are inked on the front endpaper. Mild tonin g to the pages. A supernatural novel of the occult, based on Egyptian archaeology. See Bleiler's Guide to the Supernatural. .

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Decorative green cloth attributed to "H", stamped in tan and black. Pages with modest scattered soiling and foxing, gutter cracked before title, spine lightly cocked, very good lacking the dustwrapper.

William Heinemann; London., 1905. Second impression. . Hard. Good-. 8vo. 7 4/5".. Good-. Lacking dust jacket. Covers darkened with light wear and marking. Endpapers a touch grubby. Owner inscription neatly penned to fly-leaf. A spot of foxing to far extremeties. 334pp.

London: William Heinemann, 1905. [6], 334pp. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards lettered in black, with the black and grey design stamped to the front board. Splattered staining to top edge (extending to boards and margins of text block), the bumped spine slightly toned. Endpapers lightly toned with a few marks. The first edition of a classic tale of occult amulets and archeologists in Egypt from E. F. Benson. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was an extremely prolific English writer, completing over fifty novels, four novel series, short stories, plays, biographies, and other non-fiction works on subjects as varied as golf and grave digging. His last work, his third autobiography, was delivered to his publisher just ten days before his death. . First edition. 8vo.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1905. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Small stain (possibly a binding flaw) on the front board, else near fine.