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London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1921. The Book of All Power is a 1921 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It is an adventure story set around the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Malcolm Hay is a young man in London about to become an engineer for a Ukrainian-English oil company in the period before the First World War. The novel is set between the period 1914 to 1919.. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
Book has no date, but shows on Wikipedia as 1st Edition, 1921.

London: Constable, 2000. Synopsis: Rose McQuinn returns to Edinburgh from the American wild west of 1895. Her baby has died while her husband Danny, working with Pinkerton Detective Agency in Arizona goes missing. She has little time to grieve before she unwittingly takes on a new career by agreeing to investigate the strange behaviour of the husband of her childhood friend Alice.. But what appears to be an adulterous affair suggests something much more sinister, the brutal and still unsolved murder of a servant girl. . Signed by Author. 1st. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8" x 5 3/4".

London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press
4 little burgundy leather bound books, all in burgundy boxes. Gold gilt lettering on spine and along page edges. All boxes are stamped bottom right "British Made". Not dated but circa late 1800's, early 1900's.. Library Classics. Full-Leather. Good to Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 7" x 4". Boxed Set
All books in clean very good condition. The Pickwick Papers has pulled away from spine on inside 2nd page, not totally, but almost.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. Swiss novelist Ramuz delivers a taut, engrossing tale about Alpine villagers whose decision to tempt fate ends in disaster. Ignoring the pleas of their elders, some young men take their flocks to summer in an upland mountain pasture that is reputed locally to be a cursed place. It turns out that the reputation is well earned. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8" x 5 1/2"Stated First Edition. Card inside book "Upon request of the Embassy of Switzerland, Washington, DC, With the compliments of the Consulate of Switzerland" and a round stamp. This was found inside the book.Book in very good clean condition. Turquoise boards with black lettering on spine. Dust jacket has a tear on front middle and tears at top and bottom of spine. In clear brodart covering for protection.

London UK: The Folio Society, 2013. Gentleman detective, Albert Campion, is on the trail of a mysterious man posing as the dead husband of a war widow with a wealthy new fiance, but his expedition into the city's criminal underworld reveals something far more sinister than blackmail....
Folio. Pictorial Hard Cover. As New/Boxed. Illus. by Finn Campbell-Notman. 8" x 5 3/4".