Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Revised Ed., 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 345 pages. Clean and bright except for faded spine.
Hardcover. Boston, Pilgrim Press, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages, 4 b&w plates by Hiram Putnam Barnes. Terra-cotta cloth with two color design, previous owner's inscription, stamp to front fly leaf. otherwise very good, clean. Light wrinkle to cloth on cover. Scarce.
Hardcover. New York, Albert and Charles Boni, 2nd, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 162 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. With illustrations throughout by Hermann Paul. Heavy fading and light chipping and edgewear to dust jacket. Fading and bumping to top board edges, bumping to spine as well. Slight cocking to front panel. Fading and age toning to text block, mostly to top edge. Unmarked. A scarce copy.
Hardcover. New York, Literary Guild of America, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Minor wear to cover, top and bottom of spine, but very little fading or foxing. Front hinge beginning to crack, but otherwise clean copy. Small black and white illustrations throughout by Fischer.
Hardcover. Boston , Little, Brown, and Company , 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages. Hardcover. Some stains to front cover. Foxing to all edges. Some fading to spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Park Forest IL, Ken Pierce, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 72 pages illustrated in b&w by Holdaway. Clean, bright copy. Modesty Blaise is a fictional character in a comic strip of the same name created by Peter O'Donnell (writer) and Jim Holdaway (art) in 1963. The strip follows the adventures of Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. Many critics see the early years of the strip as a classic of adventure comic strips. The novels are regarded by some as being among the classics of adventure fiction. Modesty Blaise debuted in the London Evening Standard on May 13, 1963. The strip was syndicated among a large number of newspapers ranging from the Johannesburg Star to the Detroit Free Press, the Bombay Samachar, The Telegraph, (Calcutta, India), The Star (Malaysia), The West Australian (Perth, Australia) and The Evening Citizen (Glasgow, Scotland).
Softcover. Park Forest IL, Ken Pierce, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages illustrated in b&w by Holdaway. Clean, bright copy. Modesty Blaise is a fictional character in a comic strip of the same name created by Peter O'Donnell (writer) and Jim Holdaway (art) in 1963. The strip follows the adventures of Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. Many critics see the early years of the strip as a classic of adventure comic strips. The novels are regarded by some as being among the classics of adventure fiction. Modesty Blaise debuted in the London Evening Standard on May 13, 1963. The strip was syndicated among a large number of newspapers ranging from the Johannesburg Star to the Detroit Free Press, the Bombay Samachar, The Telegraph, (Calcutta, India), The Star (Malaysia), The West Australian (Perth, Australia) and The Evening Citizen (Glasgow, Scotland).
Softcover. Park Forest IL, Ken Pierce, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Holdaway. Clean, bright copy. Modesty Blaise is a fictional character in a comic strip of the same name created by Peter O'Donnell (writer) and Jim Holdaway (art) in 1963. The strip follows the adventures of Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. Many critics see the early years of the strip as a classic of adventure comic strips. The novels are regarded by some as being among the classics of adventure fiction. Modesty Blaise debuted in the London Evening Standard on May 13, 1963. The strip was syndicated among a large number of newspapers ranging from the Johannesburg Star to the Detroit Free Press, the Bombay Samachar, The Telegraph, (Calcutta, India), The Star (Malaysia), The West Australian (Perth, Australia) and The Evening Citizen (Glasgow, Scotland).
Softcover. Park Forest IL, Ken Pierce, 1st US, 1981, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Holdaway. Clean, bright copy. Modesty Blaise is a fictional character in a comic strip of the same name created by Peter O'Donnell (writer) and Jim Holdaway (art) in 1963. The strip follows the adventures of Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. Many critics see the early years of the strip as a classic of adventure comic strips. The novels are regarded by some as being among the classics of adventure fiction. Modesty Blaise debuted in the London Evening Standard on May 13, 1963. The strip was syndicated among a large number of newspapers ranging from the Johannesburg Star to the Detroit Free Press, the Bombay Samachar, The Telegraph, (Calcutta, India), The Star (Malaysia), The West Australian (Perth, Australia) and The Evening Citizen (Glasgow, Scotland).
NY, Harcourt Brace, 7th pr., 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w line illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. Light edgewear to covers. Light library stamping to front endpaper other wise very good. No dust jacket
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages, 10 color illustrations by Grace G. Wiederseim (creator of The Campbell Kids). Red cloth covers with color illustrated label on front, gilt lettering on spine faded. The front hinge has cracked and exposed the thread beneath. Binding is still sound and text and plates bright.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 266 pages. Remainder marking on bottom book edge.
Hardcover. US, McSweeney's, 1st, 2011-05-17, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 955 pages. Decorative gilt titles on front cover and spine. Edge wear to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Heritage Press, Rep., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. . 8 color illust. by T. M. Cleland.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, T. M. Cleland, in rear, number 794 of a limited 1500 copies. Embroidered cloth cover with gilt title on brown leather, 3/4 slipcase, illustrations and decorations throughout, overall, bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages, b&w plates. Rough-cut pages. Light edge wear to covers, small stain on rear. Front hinge starting to crack. Else a very clean, tight copy.