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The Times Office Marlborough , N.D. . Very worn copy. Boards & backstrip are damp marked, as are corresponding areas of pastedown & endpapers. Corners are bowed. Binding still holds, but looks shaky. However, the book is complete & the colours of the illustrations are still bright.

University of the Philippines , 2006 . 9789715425100 Inscription from author to book's dedicatee on ffep. Spine sunned, corners bumped.

C. Arthur Pearson , 1941 . damp mark in lower corner of book through entire pageblock, cover creased & worn, still looks good

Cthonios , 1990 . Hardback, no jacket

Workers' Music Association , 1952 . Some wear to corners, worn patch near the lower edge of the front cover, publisher's address crossed through on front cover & updated with a rubber stamp on both front & back covers. Top corner of thin book lightly creased, lingering scent of tobacco.

Henry Young & Sons , 1930 . First printing. Heavy card covers with unlettered cloth backstrip. Lower edge of page-block dust-marked.

Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1972 . Set of three books. No jackets, cloth covers are lightly worn & marked. Lower edges of page-blocks a little shelf-marked. Previous owner's blindstamp on rear endpaper or preceding page of each book.

Henry Marshall , 1955 . Second impression. Unclipped jacket is torn & creased, with considerable loss to its edges. The lettering from the book's cover has transferred onto the reverse of the jacket, with showthrough to the front of the jacket. The front cover is set a little forward, & the outer edges of the page-block re rather worn & marked. The text pages remain in very good condition.

Henry Marshall , 1962 . First printing in unclipped jacket. Loss to top edge of jacket. Gift inscription on first blank page of book: an accompanying letter, loosely inserted, mentions Wainwright telling the donor about a forthcoming volume.

Gollancz , 2011 . 9780575097568 Second impression in unclipped jacket. A handsome copy, with its front cover set very slightly forward.

Beat Scene , 1998 . One of an edition of 100 copies. Crisp pamphlet with rusted staples, old selling price marked on ffep in pencil.

n.p. , n.d. . A single sheet of paper, approx. 25.5 x 16.5 cm, folded in half to make a 4 page publication, with text on the two central pages. The sheet has been folded over a second time, presumably so that it would fit inside an envelope. Faint lingering scent of tobacco.

Detective Story Club, Wm. Collins , n.d. . Reading copy in damaged cover, missing very top of spine & a portion of the lower edge of front panel. Back panel damp-marked. No problem with text block other than the invitable darkening of the paper with age.

Magnum Opus , 1980 . Second edition of the first title in the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series. Minor wear to card covers, name on ffep.

I. B. Tauris , 2000 . 9781860644702 Hardback in unclipped jacket. Outer edge of page-block lightly foxed.

Merlin , 1977 . 0850362032 UK 1st in unclipped jacket. Fingernail nick at inner edge of front panel, small pressure mark on back cover. Date & a brief note on endpapers, some pencil marking in text. Front cover set a little forward.

Faber , 1934 . First printing. Pale cover is worn & marked, spine scuffed, endpapers foxed. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1983 . 0374182639 Intermittent blotchy foxing on edges of page block & in margins.

Granada , 1979 . First printing. Nice fresh copy.

Fontana , 1964 . Minor wear to cover & edge. Title faded on spine. Paper tanned with age, edge foxed