Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$3.19 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
King, Richard. Some Confessions Of An Average Man. The Bodley Head, 1924.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are a bit rubbed and marked.A little tanning.One previous ownership inscription.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
James Lewis May. Anatole France: The Man and His Work. John Lane The Bodley Head January 1924, 1924.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: spine is age darkened and wear to top and bottom of spine
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
May, James Lewis. Anatole France: The Man and His Work. John Lane : The Bodley Head, 1924.
Price: US$8.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York, 1924; red cloth covered boards; corner and spine edge wear; 8vo, 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; illustrated end papers; top edges red; Interior is clean and unmarked; 262 pages.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Harry Furniss. Some Victorian Men. John Lane The Bodley Head 1924, 1924.
Price: US$10.19 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1924 first edition on blue illustrated cloth
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Tripp, H. Alker. Shoalwater and Fairway. John Lane The Bodley Head, LTD., London, England, 1924.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The casual explorations of a sailing man in the shoal seas and tidal waters of Essex and Kent. Illustrated by the author.
Seller: Sea Fever Books, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Harry Furniss. Some Victorian Men. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924.
Price: US$12.73 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1924. First Edition. 242 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated blue cloth. 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.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$13.18 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Spine and hinges weak, cloth of spine loose, pages not too bad, slight foxing. 292pp.
Seller: Theologia Books, La Charite sur Loire, France
Furniss, Harry.. SOME VICTORIAN MEN.. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924.
Price: US$14.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1924. John Lane The Bodley Head. First. Hard Cover. Book- Good, black titles on front board and spine, green boards, spine sunned, library sticker on front board. 8.5x5.5. 242pp. Frontis and many b/w illus by author. Ex-libris.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Beerbohm, Max. The happy hypocrite : a fairy tale for tired men. John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1924.
Price: US$15.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: c1924 John Lane, the Bodley Head hardback; Good reading copy, no inscriptions, clean inside, no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
Price: US$15.93 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Pages a little tanned, else internally in good condition, cover rather rubbed and worn with a darkened backstrip. No wrapper.
Seller: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.44 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1924. First Edition. 292 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened. Rough cut pages. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Small brown staining to front board. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'So long as man sucks milk of woman, so long will he be consecrated in the temple, and initiated in some sort in divine mystery. He will dream. And what matter if the dream be false, so it be beautiful?' Translated from the French. John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd 1924. xvi + 286pp hb pages browned, vg
Seller: Occultique, Northampton, United Kingdom
Furniss Harry. Some Victorian Men. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924, London, 1924.
Price: US$23.13 + shipping
Description: Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. For its age this book is near fine with just a couple of minor watermarks on the top edge that have not affected the pages, jacket is very good though tanned and worn around the edges. PP 242, frontis, 59 line drawn portraits Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Archive, Sth Hobart, TAS, Australia
Harry Furniss. Some Victorian Men. John Lane The Bodley Head 1924, 1924.
Price: US$24.28 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1924. First Edition. 242 pages. Brown dust jacket with navy lettering over dark blue cloth. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with soiling, staining and marking to boards. Unclipped laminated dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Christie, Agatha. The Man in the Brown Suit. Bibliotech Press, 1924.
Price: US$25.82 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnThe Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head on 22 August 1924 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.nAnne Beddin.
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: FINE book, FINE DJ(in Brodart). Red cloth, spine gilt lettered & front stamped in blind. Red tinted top edge. 9"x6".Pp.xi,262. Book's lower tips bumped. Else flawless. Even the pastedowns bright & fresh. Book stays closed when stood on spine, a sign of having been read with care. DJ design duplicates the cover. DJ rear tip with an 1/8" chip. With laid in publisher's card. FINE book, FINE DJ. Immaculate book & DJ. TP in red & black.
Seller: Quiet Friends IOBA, Lyndonville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd.; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., [printed by Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton and N.Y.], 1924. [14], 262 pages. Original red cloth, spine stamped in gold. Top edge stained red. [22.3 cm.] A bright, very nearly fine copy in dust jacket with small chips to head of spine panel slightly affecting two letters of title and several internal repairs with archival tape. Jacket otherwise in very good or better condition. Book shows slightest rubbing. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's reply card (offering free illustrated booklet about the present work) laid-in.
Seller: Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC, I.O.B.A., Durham, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates. Cover art by Steinlin. Very good with bumped edges, toning on the endpapers, and faint foxing throughout in a good dustwrapper with large chips and rubbing.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 262 p. Index. Black and white illustrations and photographs. A critical biography of France's life and work. Exlibrary markings include labels, stamps, pocket, and date slip. Moderate shelfwear. Very good.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Furniss, Harry. Some Victorian Men. John Lane, The Bodley Head London 1924, 1924.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy octavo x + 242pp., illusts., Short essays written & copiously illustrated by Harry Furniss. Cloth a little dulled o/w nice, tight, square copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Furniss, Harry. Some Victorian Men. Bodley Head, 1924.
Price: US$42.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Lavishly illustrated by Furniss, covers faded, main text good condition throughout, small hole on Dust Jacket spine,otherwise good stout condition Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: Harry Furniss. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; England; 19th century; Biography & Autobiography. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 2273. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.
Seller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books, Katoomba, NSW, Australia
Price: US$57.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A later printing of the first edition in English translation, published in 1924 in the Popular Edition of the Works of Anatole France. Translated from the French by A. W. Evans. The John Lane translation was originally published in 1909, a year after the book came out in France, published by Calmann-Lévy as "L'Île des Pingouins". ***Very good in pale orange cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles and rules on the spine, and blind-stamped titles and rules on the front board. The gilt is still beautifully bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. The boards are clean and undamaged, with just some light dust soiling at the edges. No bumps or tears to the cloth, just slight creasing to the top and tail of the spine. Corners sharp, with just a slight crease to the top corner tip of the front board. Top edge of page block slightly darkened but not foxed. Fore edge slightly foxed. Internally also very good with a contemporary gift inscription - 'Kathleen Mary Hill from Dad, Jan 27th 1925' - on the front pastedown. Pages clean and fresh without any creasing. Printed on thin but nice quality paper. ***In a very good original printed dustwrapper, which is priced 2/6 net on the spine. The dustwrapper is complete without any chips or tears. There is some edge wear and rubbing but no loss. Light strips of fading around the spine of the dustwrapper, and some slight browning to the spine of the dustwrapper. Dustwrapper bright. ***345 pages including a two-page publisher's advertisement at the back of the book. 190 mm x 130 mm. ***'Anatole France, born François-Anatole Thibault (16 April 1844 - 12 October 1924), was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament.' ***'"Penguin Island" is written in the style of a sprawling 18th and 19th-century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk lands on the island and perceives the upright, unafraid auks as a sort of pre-Christian society of noble pagans. Mostly blind from reflections from the polar ice and somewhat deaf from the roar of the sea, having mistaken the animals for humans, he baptizes them. This causes a problem for The Lord, who normally only allows humans to be baptized. After consulting with saints and theologians in Heaven, He resolves the dilemma by converting the baptized birds to humans with only a few physical traces of their ornithological origin, and giving them each a soul. Thus begins the history of Penguinia, and from there forward the history mirrors that of France (and more generally of Western Europe, including German-speaking areas and the British Isles).' [Wiki] ***A later printing of the first edition in English translation, published in 1924 in the Popular Edition of the Works of Anatole France, complete in its original dustwrapper. A nice production of this famous work of French literature - preceding the more commonly found 1929 illustrated edition. A well-preserved copy of this famous work in an attractive format. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Anonymous. The man who never understood. London : John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1924.
Price: US$82.36 + shipping
Description: Very good copy with faint marginal scatterd foxing in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; Physical description. : 319 p. ; 19 cm. Notes: A series of letters by the anonymous writer, who styles herself a Frenchwoman. Includes some French. Subject: Unrequited love - Fiction. Man-woman relations - Fiction. Idealism - Fiction. Socialism - Fiction. Suicide - Fiction. Authors - Biography - Fiction. Feminism - Fiction. Sex role - Fiction. Social problems - Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-53 [54-55: ads] [56: blank], eight inserted plates with color illustrations by Marcia Lane Foster, smaller black and white illustrations in the text, original pictorial light orange boards with black cloth spine panel, front panel stamped in dark orange and black, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained orange, pictorial endpapers. First edition. A short fantastic allegory about the gift of life. Overworked, successful, but spiritually dead English barrister wins a bet with an itinerant musician and awakes in France as a vital, younger man with a caravan and peddler's license. After several days spent analyzing his past life, "the dawn found him, with the shinning eyes of one awakened to Life's promise, jogging southward on an irrevocable way, never, in this life, to retrace his steps." Typical of Locke's gay romanticism; his favorite fictional type was the vagabond who is the despair of dull and pompous people. This story was collected in STORIES NEAR AND FAR (1927). Bleiler (1978), p. 125. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). A bit of scattered foxing to first gathering (preliminary leaves), a near fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with several short closed tears at edges and some dust soiling. (#106767)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Anonymous. The man who never understood. London : John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1924.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy with faint marginal scatterd foxing in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; Physical description. : 319 p. ; 19 cm. Notes: A series of letters by the anonymous writer, who styles herself a Frenchwoman. Includes some French. Subject: Unrequited love - Fiction. Man-woman relations - Fiction. Idealism - Fiction. Socialism - Fiction. Suicide - Fiction. Authors - Biography - Fiction. Feminism - Fiction. Sex role - Fiction. Social problems - Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Bullett, Gerald. MR. GODLY BESIDE HIMSELF. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1924.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-ii: blank] [iii-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-310 [311-312: ads], original gray cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained yellow, other edges untrimmed. First edition. A man exchanges places with his fairy double and goes to Fairyland, which he finds in political turmoil, verging on revolution. "Like several other notable fantasies of the period, the novel pleads eloquently for a healthy reconciliation of reason and imagination, lest modern human life become utterly arid." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 148. "A fine book, exploring the same moral territory as Mirrleess's LUD-IN-THE-MIST and Irwin's THESE MORTALS, but in a more ironic vein." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-55. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 299. Bleiler (1978), p. 34. Reginald 02125. Tiny early owner's signature and date at the top edge of the front free endpaper. A fine copy in very good 7/6 decorated dust jacket (designed by E. P.) with wear along top and bottom edges and some general dust soiling. (#171833)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
BURDEKIN, Katherine.. THE REASONABLE HOPE. John Lane, The Bodley Head,, London,, 1924.
Price: US$382.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Copy From The Family Of K.b. 8VO.PP.328. Fiction. Signed presentation from the author's brother, Charles Maurice Dukeyne Cade (1891-1966:) "With love from Maurice. 10.11.66." Inscription written five days before his death in Switzerland on 15th November, 1966. Small clipping from his newspaper obituary notice is taped to the free endpaper. Loosely inserted hand-written picture postcard from Greece, addressed to a "Miss Burdekin" in London, & dated 6/5/69. From "Olga" & "Juliet." 'The Reasonable Hope' is K.B.'s second novel, written shortly after the break-up of her marriage; her return to England & her sister, Rowena Cade, creator of the Minack Theatre; and Cornwall, where the novel is set. The title refers to the dedication, a quote from Johnson to Boswell: "There is but one solid basis of happiness; and that is the reasonable hope of a happy futurity." Passages in the novel question society's conventional relationships for both men and women "Marriage is a damned unnatural institution anyway, And damned ugly very often." Original publisher's cloth binding in blue with decorative borders in black & slightly faded black lettering at spine. Katharine Burdekin, ne Cade (1896Ð1963) was an English novelist who wrote speculative fiction concerned with political, social and spiritual matters; frequently categorised as feminist utopian/dystopian fiction.Her later work 'Swastika Night' written under the pseudonym ÔMurray Constantine,Õ focuses her critique on the Ôcult of masculinityÕ and the fascist dictatorship to which it can lead. in the Bodley Head publishers advertisements at rear the book is mentioned briefly - "A romantic story of Bohemian life in Chelsea." Very good. Slight wear & slight marking of covers. Endpapers slightly foxed.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Christie, Agatha. THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1924.
Price: US$1146.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK Edition stated on verso of title page ' First Published in 1924' with half title, title page and dedication page followed by 310 numbered pages plus 2-page publishers advert at the back. Grey cloth with brown stamped border and title on front and on spine. Some light wear to corners and edges. M.G. written in top corner of front pastedown. Front free endpaper missing with exposed netting, rear endpapers yellowed and stained also with netting exposed making the boards loose but still firmly attached. Apart from the odd blemish pages are clean and tightly bound. Over all a Good Copy of this scarce UK First Edition.
Seller: C & J Read - Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Christie, Agatha. The Man in the Brown Suit. The Bodley Head, London, 1924.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition - first isue. "First published in 1924" on copyright page. Tan cloth stamped in brown on front and spine. One blank leaf, 3 leaves, 310 pages plus 2 pages of ads at back. Foredges and bottom page edges uncut. Top page edges stained brown. Contents very good or better. Cloth splitting along spine almost entire length of front and couple inches along middle of back. Cover tip worn at one corner. Small red stain approx. 1/2" x 1 1/2" on front cover. Small previous owner's name on flyleaf. Endpages tanned. Spine slightly faded. no jacket.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. The Man in the Brown Suit. Bodley Head, London, 1924.
Price: US$1274.04 + shipping
Description: (London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1924). First UK Edition, First Issue "First published in 1924" to the copyright page. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in brown on front and spine. One blank leaf, 3 leaves, 310 pages plus 2 pages of ads at back. Fore and bottom page edges uncut. Top page edges stained brown. A good only copy. Rubbed and creased with a neat former owner's name to the front free end-paper, several marks to the boards, hinges starting, spine tips softened, some foxing which has crept into the text block Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$3499.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: AGATHA CHRISTIE - THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT, published by UK publisher Bodley Head/John Lane, copyright 1924, First Printing (states "First Published in 1924" on copyright page with no references to subsequent printings), lists to "Poirot Investigates" on list of Christie books to left of title page (i.e. doesn't list the 6th and last Bodley Head Agatha Christie book "The Secret of Chimneys" published in 1925), double sided page of recent Bodley Head books at rear of book, white endpapers, light tan cloth boards with dark brown lettering & art deco boarder design to spine & front board. Book has no crease page corner, no former owner or used bookstore markings/stamps inside, clean original endpapers with no markings or tape residue, no foxing to pages, endpapers, or outer page edges, very slight dust soiling/age darkening to outer page edges (no foxing), no tears/repairs to internal hinges, tight flat pages, NO SPINE DARKENING, NO CLOTH WEAR-THROUGH TO BOARD EDGES, tiny wear spot to bottom right board corner otherwise no wear to board corners, NO WEAR TO SPINE TIPS, NO WEAR/TEARS TO EXTERIOR HINGES, NO DUST/HANDLING DISCOLORATION TO BOARDS (book looks like the original dust jacket was only recently removed). Book also comes with a color facsimile of the UK Bodley Head 1st issue Dust jacket to provide protection from damage and to improve its appearance on a shelf. Overall a N-FINE book of a very rare 1920s era UK Bodley Head/John Lane Agatha Christie U.K. first printing of her 5th book. I have a number of other U.K. and U.S. Agatha Christie 1st printing hardcover books up for sale.
Seller: Far North Collectible Books, Anchorage, AK, U.S.A.
Christie, Agatha. The Man in the Brown Suit. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1924.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition, rare. In original decorated cloth. Very good condition. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Agatha Christie. The Man in the Brown Suit. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1924.
Price: US$4076.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An excellent first edition of this early work by the Queen of Crime Fiction, Agatha Christie, being the first to feature Colonel Johnny Race. The first edition, first impression, with 'first published in 1924' to copyright page. Published in the US later the same year.With a leaf of publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work.A standalone work, The Man in the Brown Suit tells the story of a young woman, Anne Beddingfield, who picks up a mysterious piece of paper after she witnesses the death of a man in a tube station. The novel is the first to feature Colonel Race, a lion hunter and spy for the British Government. Race would become a recurring character, featuring in a number of novels alongside her fan-favourite Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.Upon release, the work was met with mixed reception, with many hoping for another novel to feature Poirot. The work has since been praised both for its thriller feel and as the only work to explore a more emotive side of Colonel Race.From the library of Rolling Stone, Charlie Watts.A smart copy of this early standalone Agatha Christie novel. In the original decorative brown cloth binding. Externally smart, with marks to the boards. Slight rubbing to the extremities and minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with age toning due to paper used and the very occasional spot. Offsetting to endpapers. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom