Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. , 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 172 pages. Hardcover. Flap from original dust jacket laid-in. Dime size faded stains on edges of pages 80-83. Brick colored cloth covers with title on spine and front in dark blue. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 89 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on front endpapers. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Pages/edges yellowed with age throughout, but in good shape. Light chipping to top and bottom of spine. Some wear and discoloration due to age. From front dust jacket cover: "'The Box of Gold' which has been warmly praised by Marguerite Wilkinson, Carl Sandburg, Louis Undermeyer and other high authorities, shows us in impressionistic pictures the struggle in the soul of Joe Spruce, an Indian, between his old pagan God of the big windy spaces and the 'God who lived in a box' (the Mission chapel) in the wilderness."
Hardcover. New York, Wise-Volland Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on half title page. Full color illustrations by Lucille Holling. Creasing along edge of pages 15-18 from top to bottom. Dime size piece of paper missing at bottom of page 65/66. Otherwise light wear. No dust jacket.
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. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 57 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Jane Rietveld. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at top left corner, chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Catalan Communications, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages, illustrated in b&w by Manara. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates & Co., 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages. Hardcover. Number 3 of the "Forest and Prairie Series". Black & white illustrations. Light rubbing to cover corners and edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 843 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge wear and light staining, one or two closed tears, and has been price clipped. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Front end page stamped by previous owner. The third volume in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, this book is a love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier all in one. Journey to the dusty Texas town of Lonesome Dove, and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic. Clean copy. Record # 33873