Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Ash Rare Books

London : George Allen & Unwin, (1933). First edition in English. The sequel to "Thirty Years in the Golden North" - hunting for gold and furs, principally in Arctic Alaska and Canada. Introduction by Bedrich Golombek and Edvard Valenta. Translated from the original Czech edition of 1930 by Marie & Robert Weatherall. Demy 8vo (23cm). 352pp. Original canvas; spine a little mottled, but otherwise a very good copy in a lightly tanned dust-jacket.

London : William Heinemann, (1953). First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed, signed and dated (1953) by Fitzgerald. "I came back to my flat an hour before my normal time and entered my sitting-room at the moment poor Edwards was being shot by a gloved man in a stocking mask" - trusted head of government department engaged on secret work disappears - traps, betrayals, Spanish bandits, and the sinister brotherhood of Los Pobrecitos Locos - the Poor Little Crazy Ones. Crown 8vo (20cm). [iv],(212)pp. Original red boards, lettered in gilt; device in blind on lower cover; faint spine crease; mild spotting of edges, but a good and sound copy.