Search Results: Titles starting with F from The Mortuary Korps

2012. Listing in progress, complete details and photos coming soon."

True First Edition (Doran publication with GHD colophon, not Garden City reprint) with rare original dust jacket.319 pages. Red cloth blindstamped hardcover with smyth-sewn binding and gilt lettering to spine exhibits minor edgewear, including slight bumping to tip and heel of spine, and is slightly shaken but has a lovely deckled edge while, internally, there is a previous owner's inscription in pen (dated 1928) to endpaper, some seller notations to corner of ffep, a crease/2mm tear to bottom corner of ffep, and a small 1" closed tear to half title, but appears otherwise in Near Fine condition, clear, bright, and clean. (See images.) Dust jacket has various markings, wear, and many tears and chips, etc., but is housed in a removeable protective sleeve to prevent further damage. From the dust jacket: STORIES of great trials written with clarity and dramatic force by one of the truly great lawyers of all time. FROM Mary Stuart to Roger Casement the Earl of Birkenhead traces in story form the progress… Read More

Harper & brothers. Listing in progress, complete details and photos coming soon." (jimdisc)

Advance uncorrected page proof. 197 p.; ill. (maps). Includes Appendix, Notes, Glossary, and Bibliography. Mild shelfwear, including but not limited to impressions and sticker residue, but internally Fine, seemingly unread. From the back: Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous sailors, slaves, adventurers, and soldiers who manned the ships.The author contends that these initial transglobal voyages occurred by chance, beginning with the launch of Magellan's armada in 1519, when the crews dispatched by the king of Spain to claim the Spice Islands in the western Pacific were forced to seek a longer way home, resulting in bitter confrontations with rival Portuguese. Kelsey's enthralling history, based on more than thirty years of research in… Read More

First edition. 354 p. Bright orange cloth hardcover with black lettering to spine and textured yellow endpapers, has negligible edgewear, a few minor markings, a few faint spots to top foredge, and is very slightly shaken, but is internally Fine. The dust jacket, however, has some wear, including small closed tears, wrinkling, price sticker residue and abrasions, but has been housed in a protective removable plastic sleeve to prevent further wear. Please see listing images. From the dust jacket: Abe Ross is a man in search of meaning. He is middle-aged, rebellious, and adrift. The rigid religiosity of his youth has hardened him equally against both friend and faith. He has just returned from the wilds of Northern Canada to discover, if he can, a personal answer to man's eternal question. Still unsuccessful in his search, Ross leaves civilization, accepting a new life with an isolated band of Ojibwa Indians in upper Ontario. Here he is caught up in a maelstrom of magic and superstition; in sharp… Read More

English language.

87, [14] p.; ill. (colour); 31 cm. Includes 2 pieces of ephemera.

Softcover magazine/journal with dust jacket, showing moderate edgewear and aging, but is internally clean and clear. The binding is cracked away from the textblock in the front, with the first page being partially unattached, but the textblock is still attached to cover at the rear, otherwise Very Good.
The artwork mentioned on the dust jacket flap is included as a separate plate in Near Fine condition, and there is also a pamphlet (NF) which apparently held a souvenir handkerchief at one point.

The periodical covers Expo '67, tourism, film, music, fashion, toys, furniture & decor, hunting, camping, art pencils, Pilsner drinks, aircraft, jazz, gymnast Věra Čáslavská, motorcycle championships, postage stamps exhibitions, marketing, and more.

Many more images available upon request.

Scholastic, 1995 1818. Paperback. Mass Market Paperback Listing in progress, complete details and photos coming soon." (bus)

First Edition, first printing. 112 p. ; ill. (some colour); includes an Index (p. 112). Covers have some wear at corners, a faint crease to bottom corner of front cover, marker has been applied over price on back cover, and a portion of the spine edge has some minor damage, but the book is internally Near Fine. Includes 51 colour photographic images, as well as other images and maps. See listing images for table of contents.

[160] p. [unnumbered]; ill. (colour). Very, very mild shelfwear, otherwise Fine. Humorous, unaltered photographs of signs that have had the swear stickered over key words.