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Published by Constable & Co, London, 1991
ISBN 10: 0094703108ISBN 13: 9780094703100
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 257 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Another chapter in the Victorian Age adventure of no-nonsense Sergeant Bragg and his aristocratic partner Constable Morton, as the two maneuver the hazards of London's police bureaucracy while trying to solve the stabbing murder of industrialist Andrew Livesey. There's evidence that Livesey, in collusion with other businessmen-engineers, was trying to steal the patent on Alfred Nobel's new gunpowder--as well as evidence that Livesey consorted with child prostitutes and had not lived with his wife Sarah for most of their ten-year-marriage. The discovery that Mary Tompkins, a 12-year-old prostitute, was killed with the same distinctive weapon as Livesey leads Bragg and Morton through some sordid byways of London society, their burden increased by two more murders, until the tangled motives behind Livesey's death come clear. Literate and informative, as always with this series, but too disjointed and discursive to rank with the author's best. Condition: Back heal edge bumped, remainder mark at heal end pages. Jacket closed tear at back heal corner and hinge else a near fine copy in like jacket.
Published by Stadium Publishing Company, New York, 1951
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Hannes Bok; Frank R. Paul; Vincent Napoli; Harry Harrison; Carol Burgos; (illustrator). 1st Edition. Light rubbing on the corners; no interior markings. Cover art by Hannes Bok; interiors by Frank R. Paul; Vincent Napoli; Harry Harrison; and Carol Burgos. This issue contains: Where Will Our First Spaceship Go? 7 Out of 10 Astrogators Choose Venus by William Tenn; Seed by Raymond F. Jones; Skag With the Queer Head by Murray Leinster; An Easy Little Puzzle by Philip Latham writing as R. S. Richardson; This Joe by A. E. van Vogt; At No Extra Cost by Peter Phillips; Where Will Our First Spaceship Go? Mars, New World Waiting by Judith Merril; Where Will Our First Spaceship Go? First Goal, Luna by Willy Ley; and Yes and No by Kris Neville; along with the usual features, including a letter from A. J. Offutt, Jr. in Under the Lens. Book.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012
ISBN 10: 1258257076ISBN 13: 9781258257071
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.