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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy, my joy! Ingle-go-jang, my joy!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.
First American edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's finest collections. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 122446
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George Bell's Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815
HOOPER, George.
Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904.
First edition, new impression of Hooper's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon’s last. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137102
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Original Star Wars Limited 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition Monopoly Game
[LUCAS, George].
Monopoly: Star Wars Limited Collector’s Edition: Twenty Years 1977-1997.
Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Hasbro, Inc./Lucasfilm Ltd., 1996.
Star Wars Limited 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition Monopoly Game. In the original shrink wrap and with a £69.99 price tag from Forbidden Planet London. In near fine condition. Accompanied by a first edition Star Wars Episode I Play-a-Sound book [Lansing, Margaret. Illustrated by DiCicco Digital Arts. Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 1999]. In fine condition and in the original shrink wrap.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 145241
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First edition of Lawrence Durrell's Quinx or The Ripper's Tale; Signed by Him
DURRELL, Lawrence.
Quinx or The Ripper’s Tale.
London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
First edition of the fifth and final volume in the author's Avignon Quintet. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "Lawrence Durrell 1985." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket watercolor by David Gentleman. Jacket design by Pentagram.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 115874
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First Edition of Sven Hedin's The Wandering Lake
HEDIN, Sven.
The Wandering Lake.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1940.
First edition of Hedin's third volume in his acclaimed trilogy of his accounts of his journeys in Central Asia. Octavo, original cloth, with 32 illustrations, 76 sketches and 10 maps. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front free pastedown. Translated by F.H. Lyon.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147486
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First Edition of Philip Pullman's I Was A Rat! ...or The Scarlet Slippers; inscribed by him
PULLMAN, Philip. Illustrated by Peter Bailey.
I Was A Rat! …or The Scarlet Slippers.
London: Doubleday, 1999.
First edition of Pullman's classic adventure story. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Peter Bailey. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Eileen - greetings! Philip Pullman." In fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 114586
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First Edition of John Gardner's For Special Services
GARDNER, John.
For Special Services.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.
First edition of this Bond novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Bill Botten.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 28021
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"There was a blizzard early in November and, while the snow still lay unthawed in the gutters and gardens, another fiercer and colder." First edition of John Christopher's The World in Winter
CHRISTOPHER, John.
The World in Winter.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962.
First edition of the author's post-apocalyptic work in which an new Ice Age descends on England. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Stein.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96196
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First Edition of Thomas Piketty's Monumental Work Capital In the Twenty-First Century
PIKETTY, Thomas.
Capital In the Twenty-First Century.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2014.
First edition of Piketty's magnum opus. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design Graciela Galup. Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 144345
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finely bound 19th century printing of Le Rime Di Dante Alighieri Fiorentino with Giovanni Boccaccio's Vita Di Dante
ALIGHIERI, Dante; Giovanni Boccaccio.
Le Rime Di Dante Alighieri Fiorentino Precedute Dalla Vita Di Lui.
Parma: Per Pietro Fiaccadori, 1842.
19th century printing of this collection of poems by Dante Alighieri, preceded by the first formal biography of his life written by Giovanni Boccaccio. Duodecimo, purple half cloth over green marbled boards. In very good condition with very light toning throughout, contemporary ownership signature to the title page.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146434
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First edition of Hugh Thomson's illustrated rendition of William Shakespeare's the Merry Wives of Windsor
SHAKESPEARE, William. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1910.
First trade edition of Hugh Thomson's elaborately illustrated rendition of Shakespeare's famed comedy. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with 39 colored plates by Hugh Thomson. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 135149
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First edition of The Theory of Interest Rates: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association
EDITED BY F.H. HAHN AND F.P.R. BRECHLING,.
The Theory of Interest Rates: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association.
New York: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1965.
First edition of this collection of talks delivered at the 1962 International Economic Association Conference held in Royaumont, France. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership signatures. Jacket design by Sarah Shervington.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 101480
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"The calmest voice and coolest mind in American public life": First Edition of John W. Gardner's No Easy Victories; inscribed by him
GARDNER, John W. Edited by Helen Rowan.
No Easy Victories.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
First edition of "the father of campaign finance reform", John W. Gardner's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mariam and Andrew - affectionately, from their friend John W. Gardner." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Herb Weitman.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 110909
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"Through the naked words and mean, May ye see the truth between, As the singer knew and touched it in the ends of all the Earth!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co, 1896.
First British edition of Kipling's collection of songs and poems dedicated to voyages on the high seas which includes A Song of the English and Hymn Before Action. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and vignette to the front panel. In good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121559
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"HOLMES' MOST CELEBRATED WORK": finely bound example of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table.
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1905.
Finely bound example of Holmes' famed work of prose. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum with gilt tooling to the spine, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 111034
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"They toil, argue, starve and siffer, hope and fear, love and hate": First Edition of Co-op: A Novel of Living Together
SINCLAIR, Upton .
Co-op: A Novel of Living Together.
Pasadena, CA: Published by the Author, 1936.
First edition of Sinclair's Co-op. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, lacking the front free endpaper.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146055
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First Edition of Oliphant Smeaton's Edinburgh and its Story
SMEATON, Oliphant. Illustrated by Herbert Railton & J. Ayton Symington.
Edinburgh and its Story.
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1904.
First edition of Smeaton's history of Edinburgh. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over green cloth, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt with others uncut, marbled endpapers, colored frontispiece with tissue guard, copiously illustrated with colored tissue-guarded engravings. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96044
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First edition of George A. Henty's Yule-Tide Yarns
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Yule-Tide Yarns.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with forty-five illustrations. In good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 122632
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First Edition of Moshe Safdie's The city after the automobile: An architect's vision; Inscribed by Him
SAFDIE, Moshe with Wendy Kohn.
The City After the Automobile: An Architect’s Vision.
New York: Basic Books, 1997.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Moshe Safdie on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill Douglas.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 68024
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In the Wake of the Crisis; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
STIGLITZ, Joseph; Olivier Blanchard; David Romer and Michael Spence.
In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.
Early printing of this work in which prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 10900
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"Please may I come in? I am Boots. I am son of Kildonan Brougue - Champion Reserve - V.H.C. - very fine dog": First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Thy Servant A Dog
KIPLING, Rudyard.
“Thy Servant A Dog” Told by Boots.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930.
First edition of Kipling's beloved children's classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121841
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"Wine, women and dice kept him ever hungry, ill, and poor": Finely bound example of Richard Head's The English Rogue
HEAD, Richard and Francis Kirkman.
The English Rogue Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant: Being a Complete History of the Most Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1928.
Finely bound example of Head's famous satirical autobiography. Quarto, bound in full tree calf with green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, illustrated with plates after the originals. In very good condition. Stamp to the half-title page.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 109026
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First Edition of Shirley Eaton's Golden Touch: An Intimate Diary of Poems; Signed by Her
EATON, Shirley; Foreword by Roger Moore.
Shirley Eaton’s Golden Touch: An Intimate Diary of Poems.
Tennessee: Concept Productions, 2006.
First edition of this diary by the famed actress of James Bond's Goldfinger. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, "Best wishes Shirley Eaton Enjoy." In fine condition. Foreword by Roger Moore.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 123244
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"Here will I sit and wait, While to my ear from uplands far away The bleating of the folded flocks is borne, With distant cries of reapers in the corn– All the live murmur of a summer's day": First edition of Matthew Arnold's The Scholar-Gipsy and Thyrsis
ARNOLD, Matthew.
The Scholar-Gipsy and Thyrsis.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906.
First edition of this collection of two of Arnold's most notable works. Octavo, original cloth stamped in gilt, with illustrations by E. H. New including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124356
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Rare First American edition of henry james' theatricals: two comedies
JAMES, Henry.
Theatricals: Two Comedies.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1894.
First American edition of Henry James' book of two plays which were never produced. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 81261
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First Edition of John McPhee's The Deltoid Seed; Inscribed by Him
MCPHEE, John.
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author, "For Mike Hutcheson many thanks and all the best John McPhee Bradford 1/23/89." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 2544
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First Tauchnitz edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1926.
First Tauchnitz edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 126441
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First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Rosecrans' Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps
BICKHAM, William Dennison.
Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations, with a Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River.
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co..
First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 132443
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Finely bound example of Berchoux's classic poem La Gastronomie ou L'Homme Des Champs A Table
BERCHOUX, J.
La Gastronomie ou L’Homme Des Champs A Table. Poeme Didactique En IV Chants.
Paris: Chez Giguet et Michaud, 1805.
Finely bound example of Berchoux's epic gastronomical poem. 12mo, bound in one quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece and other engravings throughout. In near fine condition. Tasteful bookplate to the front free endpaper. A charming example.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96179
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First Edition of Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn
BAKER, Dorothy.
Young Man with a Horn.
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.
First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 127005
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First edition of Beverly Cleary's Ramona Forever
CLEARLY, Beverly.
Ramona Forever.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984.
First edition of the seventh book in the Ramona Quimby series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146171
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"She was so deeply impressed by his grandeur that she thought it impossible to do him honor enough": Henry James' The Last of the Valerii; one of one hundred numbered copies
JAMES, Henry.
The Last of the Valerii.
London: Boydell Press, 1974.
Limited Artists' Book edition of Henry James' The Last of the Valerii. Number 46 of one hundred numbered copies printed on Wookey Hole handmade paper by John Baskett in 16 point Blado italic font, the same font used in the original publication in The Atlantic Monthly for January 1874. Frontispiece by Julia Trevelyan Oman. Octavo, gilt title and tooling spine and front panel. In fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 81263
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Signed Limited First Edition of John O'Hara's Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian's Story
O'HARA, John .
Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian’s Story.
New York : Random House, 1969.
Signed limited first edition of this novel by the author of Appointment in Samarra, number 166 of 200 examples. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in the original acetate dust jacket in the fine publisher's cardboard slipcase.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 120671
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"Soul, be my song; return arrayed in white; lead home the loves that I have wronged and slain": First edition of Siegfried Sassoon's The Heart's Journey
SASSOON, Siegfried.
The Heart’s Journey.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1927.
First edition of Sassoon's classic poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 126713
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First edition of Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein's Allegro
RODGERS, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Allegro: A Musical Play.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
First edition of the book companion to Rodgers and Hammerstein's third collaboration for the stage. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Portrait of Hammerstein by Lupas.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137245
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First Edition of Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek
[FRIEDRICH VON AUGUSTE HAYEK] [F.A],.
Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.
First edition of this collection of essays on the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Hayek. Edited by Erich Steissler, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich A. Lutz and Fritz Machlup. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, ownership name.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146448
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"Patriotism, honor, glory, and national prosperity are terms to which the Christian and the mere politician attach different ideas": Second edition of American abolitionist William Jay's A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War
JAY, William.
A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co, 1849.
Second edition of American abolitionist and jurist William Jay's classic antiwar treatise. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In good condition with some wear to the crown and foot of the spine.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 82412
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"Give a chunk to a monkey, give a chunk to a fighter": Later printing of Michael Rosen's Nuts About Nuts; Signed and dated by him
ROSEN, Michael. Illustrated by Sami Sweeten.
Nuts About Nuts.
London: Diamond Books, 1999.
Early printing of British children's author Michael Rosen's illustrated book of poetry about nuts. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Signed and dated by Michael Rosen on the verso of the front panel, "Michael Rosen Aug 15 2004." In near fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 88124
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First Edition of Capitalism, Communism and Coexistence; Inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth & Stanislav Menshikov.
Capitalism, Communism and Coexistence: From A Bitter Past To A Better Prospect.
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988.
First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to a Vermont friend and publisher, "For Carol with love John G 1988." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 1601
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First Edition of Giving Good Weight; Signed by John McPhee
MCPHEE, John.
Giving Good Weight.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
First edition of this collection of McPhee's classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John McPhee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145881
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First Edition of The Fiscal System of Venezuela; Inscribed by Carl Shoup
SHOUP, Carl S.
The Fiscal System of Venezuela: A Report.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Carl Shoup on the front free endpaper, "To A.R. Ilersic with regards- C.S. Shoup." Also laid in a signed letter from Shoup to the same recipient. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Edited by Carl S. Shoup. Contributors include John F. Due, Lyle C. Fitch, Sir Donald McDougall, Oliver S. Oldman and Stanley S. Surrey.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 75023
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Jacinto Benavente's Cartas de Mujeres
BENAVENTE, Jacinto.
Cartas de Mujeres.
Madrid: Librería Y Casa Editorial Hernando, 1932.
Finely bound example of this work from the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist. Duodecimo, bound in full marbled calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, patterned endpapers, engraved headpieces throughout. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145262
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First Edition of Jacques Piccard's The Sun Beneath the Sea
PICCARD, Jacques [Wernher von Braun].
The Sun Beneath the Sea.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
First edition of this official account of the thirty-day Gulf Steam Drift. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated from the French by Denver Lindley.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 147092
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Harriet Martineau's Feats on the Fiord; illustrated by Arthur Rackham
MARTINEAU, Harriet. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Feats on the Fiord.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, n.d.
Early printing of Martineau's classic collection. Octavo, original publisher's blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, color pictorial onlay to the front panel, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with eight lithographic plates in color. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 142418
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Ruth Plumly Thompson's Kabumpo in Oz
THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly; Founded on and continuing the Famous Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum.
Kabumpo in Oz.
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1922.
First edition, early printing of Thompson's second fantastical continuation of Frank Baum’s 'Oz' stories. Octavo, original cloth with colored pictorial paper onlay, illustrated plates by John R. Neill. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145101
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Julia Ellsworth Ford's Imagina; illustrated by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford
FORD, Julia Ellsworth.
Imagina.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923.
Second edition of Ford's melancholic children's tale. Quarto, original cloth, with illustrations in color by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. Very good in the original dust jacket which shows significant wear.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 142358
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First Edition of Giving Good Weight; Inscribed by John McPhee
MCPHEE, John.
Giving Good Weight.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
First edition of this collection of McPhee's classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Len Byrd all best John." Additionally signed by John McPhee on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 2133
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Rare First Edition of Mrs. Jameson's Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad; volume III finely bound
JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna Brownell].
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected and a New Edition of the Diary of an Ennuyée.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834.
Rare first edition of Mrs. Jameson's Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad. Octavo, volume III only of four volumes bound in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece, headpieces, and tailpieces, all edges red. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 114061
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"The breaking of the wave cannot explain the whole sea": First Edition of the reissue of Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Introduction by Conrad Brenner.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959.
First edition of the reissue of Nabokov's first novel in English. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff. Drawing by Michael Train. A nice example.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 89025
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"Nobody knows anything about what will work": William Goldman's Tinsel; Inscribed by Him
GOLDMAN, William.
Tinsel.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1979.
First edition, second printing of Goldman's novel regarding Hollywood. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by William Goldman opposite the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Huebner.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 81342
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First Edition of P.D. James' Death of an Expert Witness
JAMES, P.D.
Death of an Expert Witness.
London: Faber and Faber, 1977.
First edition of this mystery by the author of A Mind to Murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Terry Trott. Photograph of the author by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 147305
