Search Results: British Literature from Lost Paddle Books, IOBA

New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1970. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/N/A. First Paperback Printing. Creases to spine and front hinge, small abrasion to top of front cover. Nice sharp corners.

New York: Modern Library, 1940. Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. In red cloth and black title panels and tinted top page ends. Gilt to type. Corners dinged/softened and smudge to front board. Interior clean and binding solid. Jacket is unclipped with small chips and sort tears mainly to spine ends and corners. Small stain to bottom of spine. 383 Books listed on inside of jacket. Modern Library #102.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition stated. In blue cloth with gilt to spine. Minimal wear. Some light foxing to top page ends and a few very small stains to front page ends, otherwise clean with sharp corners and solid binding. Jacket is unclipped ($10.00) with edgewear, nicks/short tears and a few short tears to spine ends reinforced on inside with tape. Very faint fading to spine and tiny chip to top rear corner.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition stated. In blue cloth with gilt to spine. Minimal wear. Some small dark spots in gutter of endpapers from glue. Jacket is unclipped ($10.00) with edgewear, nicks/short tears and a small chip to top rear corner. Fading at spine with a couple tiny spots.

New Jersey: The Unicorn Publishing House, 1991. N/A. Hardcover. Good/N/A. Three small slim and abbreviated volumes of children's classics wonderfully illustrated by fantasy artist Greg Hildebrandt. Some scuffing, soiling and wear. Edition not stated.

New York: The Junior Literary Guild and Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc., 1936. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. In brown cloth with blind stamping to cover and gilt to type and design motif on spine. Rubbing at corners and spine ends. Interior clean and binding tight. Jacket has chipping at corners and spine ends as well as llarge tears to front spine crease and shorter tears to panel edges and some corners. Small scar to bottom of spine.

New York: Bramhall House, 1962. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Annotated by Martin Gardner. Foxing to top page ends and a few spots to front edge.

New York & Boston: Twelve, 2011. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First Edition stated with full number line 10-1. In black boards and yellow spine with black type. Light wear at spine ends from storage. Sharp corners, clean interior and tight binding - obviously unread. Jacket unclipped and lovely.

London: John Murray, 1949. First UK Edition/9th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/N/A. Beautifully rebound and recut in India in the 1960's with leather spine and corners with gilt, marbled paper to covers and endpapers and silk ribbon marker. Some rubbing/nicks mainly at corners, edges and spine ends. Previous owner's name to page following ffep. A lovely one-of-a-kind edition.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. Signed by author on title page.. First Edition stated. In blue boards with dark blue spine cloth and silver foil. Slight cock to spine, otherwise nice copy in unclipped jacket. Small loss of lamination to bottom of front jacket panel.

Garden City: The Literary Guild, 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fair/N/A. In black pictorial boards with grey spine cloth and black type. Corners dinged/bumped with a few spots rubbing through. Heel of spine frayed with 3/4 inch split to front spine crease. A few smaller spots of fraying to head of spine. Staining/soiling to rear board and tanning to spine. Endpapers tanned as well with some carry over stains to rear endpapers from rear board. Small pen mark to ffep. Wonderfully illustrated throughtout by Edward Gorey.

Garden City: The Literary Guild, 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/N/A. In black pictorial boards with grey spine cloth and black type. Corners a little dinged and some edgewear/tiny marks. Some tannin/spotting to front page ends and a lesser extent top page ends and endpapers. Some rubbing to spine. Interior clean and binding solid. Wonderfully illustrated throughtout by Edward Gorey.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. Second US Edition/Later Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. A later printing of the Second US Edition of the classic with the wonderful E. McKnight Kauffer cover, likely from late 60's/early 70's. An ex-library copy and edition in yellow cloth with black type and design motif to spine. Some tape shadows to tops and bottoms of boards, stamps to top page ends, title page and rfep. Foxing to page ends. Due slip, sticker and some notation to rfep and and few sticker shadows to pastedowns. Jacket is laminated and clipped at top of front flap, but price of $9.97 evident at bottom. Some scuffing, abrasions and scratches with very light fading to spine.

New York: Compass Books/The Viking Press, 1962. First US Edition Thus/5th Printing. Paperback. Very Good /N/A. A trade paperback. With same cover as the original US hardcover by George Salter. No creasing to spine, but some creases to 3 of 4 corners and edgewear/rubbing especially along spine and at spine ends. Tanning to covers. A nice copy.

New York: Viking Press, 1938. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fair/N/A. In salmon and black cloth with silver foil type and design motif. Top page ends tinted black. Some spots of rubbing through cloth at spine ends, corners, top front edge of front board and bottom of rear board. Tanning to spine, page ends and endpapers and some light soiling mostly to board edges. Small puncture to cloth near top of spine. Sticker shadow to front pastedown, small pen scribble to rear pastedown and shallow moisture stains to tops of rear endpapers and verso of rfep. Interior otherwise clean and binding solid. In brand new high quality facsimile jacket.

New York: The Viking Press, 1969. First US Edition Thus/Fifteenth Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. A later Viking Compass Edition. In nice orange cloth with black type. Unfortunate red marker streak down front page ends, otherwise clean with sharp corners and tight binding. Jacket is unclipped ($5.00) with 2 1/2 by 1 3/4 inch chip to bottom of rear panel and spine. Associated punctures/small splits alongside rear edge of spine and creasing to rear panel. Some small spot stains to inside of jacket spine.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. In grey cloth and type to spine. Clean with sharp corners and tight binding. A couple short tears to top and bottom of rear panel and top of front panel. Light edgewear and some shallow edge staining to bottom of front panel. Light fading to spine.

Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1934. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. A very nice high quality reprint of the De Luxe Edition.In light brown cloth with brown tinted top page ends, blind stamped title, tipped on image and title plate. A little wear and staining to board ends. A few marks/stains to spine and title plate on same which is tanned. Clean with tight binding. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent.

New York: Covici Friede, 1934. First US Edition Thus/First Printing. Hardcover. Good/N/A. In tan cloth with brown type and brown tinted top page ends. Some light soiling to spine with a few spots to front cover. Previous owner's name to half-title page, otherwise clean with sharp corners and solid binding.

London: Bloomsbury, 2012. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Full number line down to and including 1. Red boards with gilt. Jacket is unclipped with light wear/rubbing.