Elegant Edward by Wallace, Edgar - 1929

The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 182 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 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. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Independently published, 2017. Paperback. New. 86 pages. 9.02x5.98x0.24 inches.

LONDON: READERS LIBRARY PUBLISHING COMPANY. EARLY REPRINT . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Clean volume, rubbed to extremities, slight wear to base of spine, slightly cocked. A good reading copy, clean and uniformly mellowed inside.

London: The Readers Library Publishing Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo., 182pp. plus 6 pages of ads. Solid First Edition of this anthology of stories about a criminal. Clean throughout with fairly moderate page edge toning. Binding a bit shaken but firm. Light edge-wear. Unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket, has a couple of large pieces out of the heel and rear panel. Closed tear on front panel. Spine toned. Edge-wear and rubbing. Not perfect for sure but still presentable. A collectable copy of at a great price. (Hubin, p.411).

London: Reader’s Library, n.d. [1928]. First Edition. Front hinge cracked; a very good copy of a poorly made book, in a dust jacket with interior tape mends.

London: The Readers Library Publishing Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Very Good. 12mo., 182pp. plus 6 pages of ads. Beautiful just about Fine First Edition of this anthology of stories about a criminal. Square, tight and clean throughout with fairly minor page edge toning. Trivial wear at the spine end. A remarkably well-preserved copy from a publisher notorious for their cheaply produced books. Very attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket, has a couple of small chips at the spine ends and some edge-wear. A couple of short closed tears. Still quite bright and complete and uncommon in any condition. A very pretty collectable copy of an uncommon title, particularly on this side of the Atlantic and in such nice condition. (Hubin, p.411).