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Asheville, NC: Village Printing, 1976. Illustrated. First Edition. Paperback. FIRST EDITION, 1976. Paperback, illustrated, authors' signatures on title page. There is no other writing in the book. 202pp., Full refund if not satisfied. 0x0x0.
Item #023376
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1964. Second Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth with black lettering and design, author's signature on title page, there is no other writing in the book, 76pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #026034
Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1982. Hardcover. Bound in teal cloth with gold lettering on the cover and spine. xviii, 431pp. Beige and teal dustjacket. CONDITION: Very light shelf wear, covers otherwise unmarked. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are square and tight. Dustjacket is only very lightly.....
Item #076526
Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Co, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth with gold lettering. Author's poetic inscription on front free end-paper. Previous owner's stamps on title page and inside rear cover. Inner hinge split. 36pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #027314
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth covers with red lettering. [x] 300 pp. Red top stain. Deckled edge. Foxing on end papers. Covers have wear, rubbing and scratches. Spine is sunned. Overall a very nice copy. Full refund if not.....
Item #070637
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Reprint. paperback. Paperback. Reprint Light blue cover with red lettering and illustration. The papers in this volume, a multidisciplinary collaboration of anthropologists, linguists, and psychologists, explore the ways in which cultural knowledge is organized and used in everyday language and understanding. Employing a variety of.....
Item #073146
Vantage, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated dust jacket with a price of $4.95. The book has an ink date on the first page and foxing on the top edge. The jacket has a bit of edge wear. A very pleasing copy of.....
Item #007893
New York: Bourbon Street Books, 2014. Paperback. A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery. Paper covers with pictorial illustration against red, blue and black background. Title on cover and spine; synopsis of story on rear cover with author information. 301 pp. Fine condition. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #071554
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First American Edition. Hardcover. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First American edition. Gilbert 21bIBlack cloth boards with blue stamped text. 469 pp.VG condition with edge wear to the boards and the book is slightly cocked. Lacking dust wrapper. Shelley and Son.....
Item #042337
Perennial Library, 1986. Hardcover. Softcover rebound by library as hardcover. EX-LIBRARY. This is NOT a collectible copy. Binding is tight and wonderful for reading. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #076788
London: Gollancz, 1948. Sixth Impression. Hardcover. This is the sixth impression and is marked boldly on the dust wrapper "Cheap Edition." Blue cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 178 pp. Yellow dust wrapper with black and red text. The book is VG+ with very little wear and no.....
Item #078626
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1940. In the Teeth of the Evidence and Other Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. A book of short stories including two Lord Peter Wimsey short stories. Blue cloth boards with light blue text on the front.....
Item #068394
St. Martin's Press / Dorothy L. Sayer's Society, 1996-2002. First Editions. Hardcover. The fifth volume is uncommon and is called "Dorothy L. Sayers; Child and Woman of Her Time; A supplement to The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers." [Volume I]: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 421 pp. Volume II: St. Martin's.....
Item #063322
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Letters chosen and edited by Barbara Reynolds and with an introduction by P. D. James. Light brown cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 421 pp. Indexed. Dust wrapper has a photo of Sayers and text in brown and black. Book.....
Item #078625
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Chosen and edited by Barbara Reynolds and with a preface by P. D. James. Black cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 450 pp. Indexed. Dust wrapper has a photo of Sayers and background of red and black. Text.....
Item #078624
Perennial Library, 1986. Hardcover. Softcover rebound by library as hardcover. EX-LIBRARY. This is NOT a collectible copy. Binding is tight and wonderful for reading. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #076793
New York: Harper Collins, 2020. A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery. Pictorial cover against green, orange and black background. Title on cover and spine. Synopsis and author information on rear cover. [xiv] 301 pp. Fine condition. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #071553
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1928. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. A Lord Peter Wimsey novel. Purple cloth boards with green text on the spine. 345 pp. The dust wrapper has a purple background with gruesome art and text in green.....
Item #068395
New York: Bourbon Street Books, 2012. Paperback. A Lord Wimsey Mystery. Paper covers illustrated against red, black and orange background. Title on front and spine. Short synopsis on rear cover. Like New condition. [viii] 276 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #071551
London: Victor Gollancz, 1944. Softcover. The Zeal of Thy House by Dorothy L. Sayers. Eleventh printing of the first cheap edition (the second edition. This play is about the reconstruction of Canterbury Cathedral after a fire. It stresses the high value of good work, as Sayers has written elsewhere. A......
Item #069262
New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1930. This is the only mystery that Sayers wrote which does not feature Lord Peter Wimsey. Robert Eustace is a pen name for Eustace Robert Barton. Barton was a doctor and scientist. For this book, he supplied.....
Item #071284
Cambridge: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 165 pp. Dust wrapper is light yellow with a photo of Sayers as a child in the center. Text above and below is black and dark yellow. Book and dust wrapper are both fine. A great.....
Item #076512
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003. First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. FIRST U.S. EDITION, 2003. Sayers left an unfinished manuscript when she died. Jill Paton Walsh finished it and it was published as Thrones, Dominations. After the success of that book, Walsh took on another Lord Peter Wimsey project. In this one.....
Item #071852
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First American Edition, Second P. Hardcover. At the time of Sayers' death, an incomplete manuscript was left. Jill Paton Walsh completed it "to widespread praise." This book is from the library of noted Sayers scholar Stephen P. Clarke, though there are no markings in.....
Item #073966
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. In this book of eleven essays, Sayers contribution comes first. It is The Priest's Tale: The Journeyman.Tan cloth boards with paper label on the spine. Lacking dust wrapper if there was one.Book is soiled and the paper label on.....
Item #064187