Hardcover. Chicago, Werner School Book Co., 1st, 1897, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, 23 b&w illustrations, black lettering and line illustrations to front cover. Light wear to cover, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper; otherwise a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, IN, The Bobbs Merrill Co. , 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owners inscription to front flyleaf. Minor soiling to textblock edges. Wear to boards. Minor soiling to spine. An otherwise tight copy. Navy blue pictorial boards with read lettering. 5 full black and white illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg.
Hardcover. NY , Crowell, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 b&w plates by Frank Merrill. Light green cloth with 2-color decoration, 147 pages.
Softcover. Kathmandu, Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 2nd, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 46 pages. Stiff cardboard covers. Black & white illustrations by Amar "Kalakar". Dust jacket with chipping along top edge of front cover - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill Co., 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages illustrated with 12 color plates by Clarence F. Underwood. Decorated cloth covers with pictorial pastedown.
Hardcover. New York, Street & Smith, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 218 pages. Very small print inside. Creases to first few pages. Front hinge loose. Corners bumped. Soiling to covers.
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).
Hardcover. Indianapolis, IN, The Bobbs-Merrill Comparny, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 163 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with sun-fading. Grey boards. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 300 pages, with a dust jacket that has light fading to spine and top edge of front panel. Unclipped. The final Colin Gray novel, set in the Indian Himalayas. Contains elements of mysticism and fantasy. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Boston , Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated cardboard covers. 145 b&w engravings. 484 pages. Light chipping to paper-covered boards along spine.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, b&w illustrations by Jack Russell. What space travel was going to be like (from the perspective of 1961). Requirements for astronauts, spaceships and capsules, space pioneers. Book has small red star stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good. Dust jacket with chipping, light tape repair.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white Illustrations by Tee-Van, Map on end papers, also has color illustration opposite the title-page. Very light edgewear, soil to the back.