A Fallen Idol by F. Anstey - 2009-04-10

Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company 0 Book. Fair. Hardcover. No date. ca 1900. Red cloth with black titles & decoration. Binding cracked at rear hinge with webbing visible; a few lighter cracks throughout contents. Pages well toned and brittle. Small chip at corner of title page. Front end paper with small closed tear at upper gutter. Boards with some dust soiling, flecks of discoloration. Scarce. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

Philadlephia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1893. Later printing of the first US edition. Bleiler [The Guide to Supernatural Fiction page 8 "Irony on the life of a society artist in London and a spoof on the Theosophists...Amusing, with many good touches and types"]. Bleiler [1978 Checklist page 9 coded EY4X6 for Occult/India/Parody, humor]. Reginald 00357. Dark reddish buckram type binding with gold gilt spine lettering/rules and with the boards bordered in blind, top edge gilt, 334 pages plus 18 pages of ads at the rear. Otherwise Good to Very Good copy with scattered staining [mostly to the exterior binding and to the bottom edge with some penetration. .bed2/2

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A Fallen Idol. [A Novel.].

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1886. 320pp. Half-title [1 title listed on the reverse] but no adverts to the rear. Volume 2415 in Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors. Orig. half calf green binding with marbled boards and end-papers. All edges marbled. A fine binding by Bickers and Son, Leicester Square. Foxing to end-papers and neat hotel stamp on the title-pages. Gilt dec. spine. Fine morocco label.. Copyright edition. Hardback. V.g.. small 8vo.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.