Follow the Saint by Leslie Charteris - 1938

Gold Medal Books #1153, 1961. Paperback, Paperback ORIGINAL, stated 1st Edition, Sept. 1961, water stain back cover & few pgs back book, minor crease Cvr, VG-,AS-IS, SOFTCOVER. First Edition. Soft Cover.

New York: Harrison of Paris, 1934. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition, No. 475 of 895; SIGNED by Porter on title page; later issue with error corrected by a cancel; 8vo, rust cloth in green slipcase; vg (small stain on front board; faint black smudge and mark on rear board; spine sunfaded; spine ends bumped; small black mark on spine tail; eps and pages toning) in good+ slipcase (rubbed and worn; panels toned and sunned; chipping on and near foreedge; edges torn; corners bumped and worn; tears along edges). Note: this was probably signed at a much later date than publication; the signature is not on the limitation page, and it employs a light blue permanent marker-type pen, like a Flair or Pentel. Also, included is The New Mexico Quarterly Review: Volume XV, No. 3, Autumn, 1945 which includes the article 'The Art of Katherine Anne Porter' by Vernon A. Young (good only: covers heavily creased; number written on front cover; tear to front joint; spine torn and splayed;… Read More

Leiden, Netherlands: A.W. Sijthoff, 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Dutch edition, vg in green cloth, no dj. Book is slt. cocked and has a shelf-rub where the pages sag. INSCRIBED on ffep: "For Bill de Kooning with best wishes" (famous Dutch artist Willem de Kooning). 381 pp.

London: George Redway, 1899. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Cruikshank, George, et al.. First Edition, no statement of Second Edition on title page; 4to; green cloth; re-cased in original green cloth boards w/new endpapers; good (spine ends bumped; fading to joints and edges; soiling to boards; foxing to first and last five pages; faint foxing to side edge; cracks throughout; Plate XXXVII and its tissue guard detached; chips to side edge of pp158-9 due to way pages cut). 22 portraits and facsimiles of 70 original drawings. Artists include Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes. 256 pp.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1885. Hardcover. Good+. 340pp; Half-leather with maroon cloth, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, wear to corners of boards, front hinge starting, toning to endpapers, foxing to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Collection of roadside songs of Tuscany translated and illustrated by Francesca Alexander and edited by John Ruskin. In ten parts with 20 illustrations.

Gold Medal Books #1153, 1961. Paperback, Paperback ORIGINAL, stated 1st Edition, Sept. 1961, water stain back cover & few pgs back book, minor crease Cvr, VG-,AS-IS, SOFTCOVER. First Edition. Soft Cover.

New York: Harrison of Paris, 1934. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition, No. 475 of 895; SIGNED by Porter on title page; later issue with error corrected by a cancel; 8vo, rust cloth in green slipcase; vg (small stain on front board; faint black smudge and mark on rear board; spine sunfaded; spine ends bumped; small black mark on spine tail; eps and pages toning) in good+ slipcase (rubbed and worn; panels toned and sunned; chipping on and near foreedge; edges torn; corners bumped and worn; tears along edges). Note: this was probably signed at a much later date than publication; the signature is not on the limitation page, and it employs a light blue permanent marker-type pen, like a Flair or Pentel. Also, included is The New Mexico Quarterly Review: Volume XV, No. 3, Autumn, 1945 which includes the article 'The Art of Katherine Anne Porter' by Vernon A. Young (good only: covers heavily creased; number written on front cover; tear to front joint; spine torn and splayed;… Read More

Leiden, Netherlands: A.W. Sijthoff, 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Dutch edition, vg in green cloth, no dj. Book is slt. cocked and has a shelf-rub where the pages sag. INSCRIBED on ffep: "For Bill de Kooning with best wishes" (famous Dutch artist Willem de Kooning). 381 pp.

London: George Redway, 1899. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Cruikshank, George, et al.. First Edition, no statement of Second Edition on title page; 4to; green cloth; re-cased in original green cloth boards w/new endpapers; good (spine ends bumped; fading to joints and edges; soiling to boards; foxing to first and last five pages; faint foxing to side edge; cracks throughout; Plate XXXVII and its tissue guard detached; chips to side edge of pp158-9 due to way pages cut). 22 portraits and facsimiles of 70 original drawings. Artists include Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes. 256 pp.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1885. Hardcover. Good+. 340pp; Half-leather with maroon cloth, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, wear to corners of boards, front hinge starting, toning to endpapers, foxing to a few pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Collection of roadside songs of Tuscany translated and illustrated by Francesca Alexander and edited by John Ruskin. In ten parts with 20 illustrations.