THE DARK SECRET OF JOSEPHINE. A Roger Brook Story, SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR by Wheatley, Dennis - 1955

Arrow, 1965. Paperback. Good. 1965. 2nd Arrow Edition. 447 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Arrow Books, 1965. Paperback. Acceptable. 1965. Second Arrow Ed. 447 pages. Paperback book. Clean pages. Minimal tanning to pages throughout. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear to spine, cover edges and corners. Notable staining, soiling and creasing to covers and spine. Book has a forward lean.

London: Hutchinson, 1955. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (20cm by 14cm), 447pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Light mark to the leading edge of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (slight chafing of the extremities). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

London: Hutchinson, 1955 price clipped dust jacket has heavy chipping loss at head and tail of spine, rubbed edges and corners, some splits to folds, name to verso of fep. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Sax. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Hutchinson. 1955. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Sax illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh but the gilt titles oxidised to blue. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has a chip to the top edge of the rear panel and a couple of short closed tears. Not price clipped (15s net to the front flap). Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "For / J. Francis / With kindest remembrances / from / Dennis Wheatley". The fifth Roger Brook novel. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.

New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478

200 copies were published by Quill & Brush for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Features Octavia E. Butler, Michael Chabon, Maxine Clair, Annie Proulx and Jane Smiley.

Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.

New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 292pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, gilt on spine. Signed by the author on half-title page. Book has a complete number line from 1-10 and is a stated First Edition: February 2004. Book is straight, bright, unmarked, unclipped, unread, and has a Brodart jacket protector. Author also wrote "The Ice Harvest" and "The Walkaway.

Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.

Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.