Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1897. Quarto [9¾ x 8¼ inches, 248 x 210 mm], original glossy colour pictorial wrappers, 12 pp + covers, stapled at spine. Illustrated throughout in black & white & full colour chromolithography. Splitting along spine panel (about halfway) with some light associated wear, glazed covers with..... More
Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1897. Quarto [9¾ x 8¼ inches, 248 x 210 mm], original glossy colour pictorial wrappers, 12 pp + covers, stapled at spine. Illustrated throughout in black & white & full colour chromolithography. 3- inch closed split along spine panel with some light associated wear, glazed covers..... More
New York: Playboy Press, [1980]. First Edition Thus. Octavo, original piuctorial wrappers (paperback format). Issued as Playboy Press 16586 ($2.25). A fine, bright copy, unread and uncreased; pretty much in perfect condition. Rare thus. ¶ First printing of this New Edition. Ooriginally published by Essex House in 1966. The adventures..... More
New York: Playboy Press, [1979]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original piuctorial wrappers (paperback format). Issued as Playboy Press 16557 ($2.25). A fine, bright copy, unread and uncreased; pretty much in perfect condition. Rare thus. ¶ First printing of this New Edition, which collects both IMAGE OF THE BEAST..... More
![Item #313046 THE MYSTERY MISSION [in] THE THRILLER, No 30, Vol 1, August 31st, 1929 Issue. Sidney...](https://thompsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/313046.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1730247585)
London: The Amalgamated Press, Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, E.C.4, 1929. First Edition (& 1st printing). Quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers. Pp. 758-780. August 31st, 1929 issue. Contains a ''Gripping Book length novel'' THE MYSTERY MISSION by Sidney Horler, plus an installment of the serial "The Crook's Game" by George Dilnot..... More
London: Viking. 1987. First Hardcover Edition. First hardcover edition, and the first edition of the revised text. An earlier version was published in paperback by Daedelus in 1983. Octavo, original blue boards, gilt titles to spine panel. Pictorial endpapers, full-page illustrations, title page vignette. Hairline crack to front hinge at..... More
New York: The Viking Press. [1965]. Early Printing. Octavo, original brown boards with black board spine lettered in silver. xxvii + 246 pp. This Edition was specially created in 2003 for The Stephen King Horror Library, and bears a lengthy New Introduction by Stephen King. A near fine copy in..... More
London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, Northumbeland Avenue, Charing Cross, W.C.1; Etc. No Date [1892] ? First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original grey pictorial cloth blocked in green, red, black & gilt, patterned floral endpapers. 377 pp + [1] leaf adverts + [4] pp publisher's catalogue, undated, at rear..... More
New York: DAW Books, Inc., 2017. First Edition Thus. Large thick octavo, original black boards lettered in copper on spine panel, front panel lettered in blind, decorated endpapers, all edges stained bright red. 729 pp., Interior Illustrations by Daniel Dos Santos, Maps by Nathan Taylor. The true first printing of..... More
Edinburgh: Otto Schulze & Company, 20 South Frederick Street, 1911. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original card wrappers, black lettering on front cover, top edges gilt, silk ribbon bookmark. 32 pp., Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus one additional plate with tissue guard inserted in the text. A...... More
London: The New English Library. 1966. First Edition Thus. Octavo, original green card wrappers (paperback format). 160 pp. Issued as volume No. 109 in "The Olympia Press Traveller's Companion Series". "125" stamped in ink on front cover (for $1.25?), minute rubbing at edges, a fine copy. ¶First published in 1954..... More