The Mystery of the Blue Train by CHRISTIE, AGATHA - 1928

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1916. hardcover. near fine. Smith, Jessie Willcox.. Color frontispiece, 11 color plates, and many other illustrations throughout by Jessie Willcox Smith. 362pp. Large 4to, handsomely rebound in 1/4 dark green morocco. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1916). A near fine copy.<br/> <br/>

New York: Dodd Mead, 1912. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Reeve, Arthur B. THE SILENT BULLET. New York: Dodd Mead, 1912. First Edition. A near fine copy of this uncommon Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. 8vo., decorated upper cover, stamped yellow spine & cover lettering. Reeve is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy [professor of chemistry at Columbia University], sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes," & his Dr Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in eighteen detective novels. The Silent Bullet is the first Craig Kennedy novel. DSS, Blieler pg. 232. A very nice example.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1930. SCARCE in the Arthur Hawkins Art Deco dustjacket( the American 1st in jacket is scarcer than the British.). Peach-colored cloth boards printed in green and black, and with Art Deco printed endpages and pastedowns. Small, neatly-printed prior owner name in ink front endpage. Top edge lightly faded. Dustjacket is darkened at spine, and has chips at head and heels of spine and at flap folds. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Dodd, Mead, 1899. Three quarto volumes. xxvi, 330pp. From an edition of 268, this is one of thirty copies on Imperial Japon. In addition, this is a unique copy with an extra set of the 126 color photogravure plates printed on white satin and backed in celadon silk. The colors of the blue and white pottery, as well as some sepia and multi-colored ware, seem to glow and take on a three-dimensional quality. Bound in a full blue morocco "Adams Mosaique" binding, with an oak-leaf and acorn pattern within a rococo oval frame, inlaid in cream and teal morocco. The oak garland motif is repeated in gilt in the six spine compartments. Gilt turn-ins, with satin doublures illustrated with blue-and-white Harvard dishes, and moiré silk endleaves complete the binding. A fore-edge painting represents a blue-and-white Staffordshire pitcher. The extra suite on satin is laid into two blue morocco drop-back boxes bound with spines to match the book, with oak garlands on front and back, and with doublures and… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. First Edition. Illustrated throughout by Bradley. 166 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original cloth backed pictorial paper boards, designed by Bradley. Board edges show wear as usual, some spotting to final leaves,else a Very Good Copy. First Edition. Illustrated throughout by Bradley. 166 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A CLASSIC. Bambace A68

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1916. hardcover. near fine. Smith, Jessie Willcox.. Color frontispiece, 11 color plates, and many other illustrations throughout by Jessie Willcox Smith. 362pp. Large 4to, handsomely rebound in 1/4 dark green morocco. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1916). A near fine copy.<br/> <br/>

New York: Dodd Mead, 1912. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Reeve, Arthur B. THE SILENT BULLET. New York: Dodd Mead, 1912. First Edition. A near fine copy of this uncommon Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. 8vo., decorated upper cover, stamped yellow spine & cover lettering. Reeve is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy [professor of chemistry at Columbia University], sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes," & his Dr Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in eighteen detective novels. The Silent Bullet is the first Craig Kennedy novel. DSS, Blieler pg. 232. A very nice example.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1930. SCARCE in the Arthur Hawkins Art Deco dustjacket( the American 1st in jacket is scarcer than the British.). Peach-colored cloth boards printed in green and black, and with Art Deco printed endpages and pastedowns. Small, neatly-printed prior owner name in ink front endpage. Top edge lightly faded. Dustjacket is darkened at spine, and has chips at head and heels of spine and at flap folds. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Dodd, Mead, 1899. Three quarto volumes. xxvi, 330pp. From an edition of 268, this is one of thirty copies on Imperial Japon. In addition, this is a unique copy with an extra set of the 126 color photogravure plates printed on white satin and backed in celadon silk. The colors of the blue and white pottery, as well as some sepia and multi-colored ware, seem to glow and take on a three-dimensional quality. Bound in a full blue morocco "Adams Mosaique" binding, with an oak-leaf and acorn pattern within a rococo oval frame, inlaid in cream and teal morocco. The oak garland motif is repeated in gilt in the six spine compartments. Gilt turn-ins, with satin doublures illustrated with blue-and-white Harvard dishes, and moiré silk endleaves complete the binding. A fore-edge painting represents a blue-and-white Staffordshire pitcher. The extra suite on satin is laid into two blue morocco drop-back boxes bound with spines to match the book, with oak garlands on front and back, and with doublures and… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. First Edition. Illustrated throughout by Bradley. 166 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original cloth backed pictorial paper boards, designed by Bradley. Board edges show wear as usual, some spotting to final leaves,else a Very Good Copy. First Edition. Illustrated throughout by Bradley. 166 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A CLASSIC. Bambace A68