Doyle dr c w (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Shelf wear/rubbing/staining. Corner and edge wear/bumping. Small tear at top of spine along gutter. Interior pages have foxing. Rough-cut pages. 200 pp. > Language: English | > Size: 12mo - over 6 3/4 in - 7 3/4 in tall | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Later printing. knick to spine 16mo browned pages. Book.

Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. An article/advertisement from a vintage journal and not the complete magazine ; 6 x 9; 3 pages; Please note: This is NOT A BOOK, but an article/ad from a vintage journal.

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No DJ. Second Edition. Lightly toned with faded spine lettering, otherwise a VG hardcover second edition copy, tan cloth, t.e.g., no DJ. 267 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Dustjacket. 1st edition, 2nd Issue. First edition, second issue, hardcover, part of the Yellow Peril Crime Series, has very light lean to spine, light bumps with slight fraying to spine ends, slight bumps to corners, some light shelfwear to edges, a few small stains to boards, slight sunning to spine, and light rubbing, otherwise a solid Good+ copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Stated second edition bound in tan cloth with dark brown spine lettering. Title page printed in black & red. A Very Good copy. The binding has some soiling, spine darkened. Small bumps to the upper corners. A few pages are roughly opened else the interior is fine. Uncommon Yellow Peril story collection set in San Francisco. No dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VG. First Edition. First printing. 12mo in publisher's cloth. 267 pp. plus ads at rear. VG. Moderate rubbing and soiling to boards. Small nick to lower edge of rear board. Binding is sound. Interior is clean. No writing or markings of any kind.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first issue hardcover, bound in yellow cloth, with illustration in light green, dark green and red on front cover, and faded dark green lettering and faded red decoration on spine, is in G condition, having the aforementioned fading to cover and spine, slightly bumped and worn corners, slight slant to volume, surface wear to covers (most noticeable on front cover and spine), some staining to back cover and rubbing; slight cracking to binding, most noticeable from first endpaper to about p. 7; book was apparently published with deckled edges and with uncut pages, so here and there are very slight tears to edges where former owner used some type of blade to open pages; former owner's name written in ink on first free endpaper. Novel set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Fiction. Novel. American. DB.…

2nd edition. Very Good condition.

Zustand: Fair. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1899. 1st edition. 12mo Hardcover. 200pp. Fair book. Front hinge cracked. Stamped on front pastedown. (literature, fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

First Edition. Octavo, original G. L. H. illustrated cloth and dustjacket. Rare Hubin listed mystery, "A 'yellow peril' novel chronicling the evil career of the sadistic and powerful Quong Lung in San Francisco's Chinatown underworld. Portions of the book originally appeared in 1897 and 1898 as prize-winning short stories in the San Francisco Examiner and the Argonaut. Quong Lung's pastimes include extortion, kidnapping, subversion of the Chinese Exclusion Act, slavery, prostitution, revenge, and murder. Late in the book, it is revealed that Quong Lung is Yale-educated. Coincidence? Although many Chinese characters are portrayed sympathetically as innocent victims, insight into the author's point of view can be found in a brief but telling preface: 'This book does not set forth to be that detestable thing, a 'book with a purpose'; but if it should incidentally draw attention to the terrible conditions of life of the slave girls in Chinatown, and if any amelioration of those conditions should ensue, I shall feel that I have not written in vain Of course, the best thing to do with Chinatown would be to burn it down; but the scheme is too Utopian to be discussed in a mere preface.'" Very Good, surface wear to cover image, in Good dustjacket, white cloth tape at verso of top and lower spine ends, lower rear panel chipped a centimeter deep along edge, top front panel with few inches of loss.…