…but the cloth and binding are crisp. The contents are fine, with a private library sticker on the front pastedown and a tiny bookshop sticker on the front free endpaper….
A very good Book Club Edition in a lightly shelf-worn dust jacket. The top fore-edge has faded and the front free endpaper bears a personal bookplate with the signature of…
…with a 1/4-inch closed tear at at the bottom of the rear face.. The front free endpaper has been excised and there is a resulting front hinge break. Else fine….
A very good Ex–Library copy in a price-clipped dust jacket. A jacket flap is glued to the front free endpaper and a library card pocket is glued to the last…
This is a very good copy of the Book-of-the-Month edition, in an unclipped dust jacket. The front free endpaper has an elaborate bookplate featuring a Viking ship and the signature…
…Later Printing of the First English Edition in an unclipped dust jacket. The contents are fine, with a former owner’s dated initials discreetly inked and on the front free endpaper….
…handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute….
…the front pastedown and a dated inscription is written in green ink on the front free endpaper. Else fine. The original International Collectors Library prospectus for this title is laid-in…
…dust jacket, unclipped and intact, with creases and light edge-chipping across the upper edges but fresh overall. The contents are fine, with a vintage bookplate on the front free endpaper….
…and signed by the author on the title page in ink: “We shall never surrender, Michael Dobbs.” There is a former-owner’s seal debossed on the front free endpaper, else fine….
…and tail. The book is virtually mint and the contents would be fine, save for a large glue shadow from the removal of a bookplate on the front free endpaper…..
…dramatic dust jacket, which has fractional losses and tape-repaired closed tears but is overall intact. The contents are fine, with a former-owner’s circular seal blind-stamped on the front free endpaper….