Search Results: the house of defence by e f benson

New York NY: The Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906 Good Plus condition with moderate soiling on top edge, light cover edge wear, owner's name, date on front end sheet, and scattered light soiling inside. Binding strong and tight, full color illustrations, decorative front cover in brown, red, black and white colors. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 382 pages. No dust jacket. Red 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.

Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. Very Good. Benson, E. F.. The House of Defence. Boehm, H. Richard. NY: Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. 1st edition. 318pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Dark green cloth with mosaic style front cover. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed and bumped edges. Yellowed textblock. Lightly soiled top edge of textblock..

London: Heinemann, 1907. 2nd Edition. . Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. Slight roll to spine. Bumped spine and corners. Marks to boards. Discolouration to pastedowns and feps. Dedication in ink to half title page. Foxed.

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. Hardcover. Used - Good. Book is completely intact, but shows wear, nothing excessive, the book is perfectly readable.

London, UK: Nelson, 1000. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. h/b 382 pages, condition is very good, minor edge wear,

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

William Heinemann, 1907. ~Owner's signature. Original green cloth, spine slightly faded. Spine leans forward very slightly. ~Robust packaging. . 1st edn. Hardback. Very Good. viii, 293pp. No dustwrapper. Binding tight, text unmarked.

Paperback / softback. New.

NY: Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. First Edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. First American Edition. Brown cloth with elaborate cover design. Illus with a facsimile from the manuscript. Color plates by H. Richard Boehm. Very good plus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by H. Richard Boehm. 8vo.. Illus.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1906, 1st American Edition. (hardcover) 318pp, +[2pp adverts]. Good, no dust jacket. 12mo. In original publisher's illustrated cloth binding. Binding with light rubbing at extremities from shelfwear. Tiny gouge at top-edge of rear board. Small, faint red stain to cloth on rear board. Binding a little shaken; starting at PP178 / 179 and pp258 / 259; early signs of starting else wear. All leaves and gatherings remain entirely secure. Illustrated with four colour plates (including the frontispiece.) after watercolors by H. Richard Boehm. Frontispiece with protective tissue guard. "Facsimile page of manuscript from the Image in the Sand" [p.3], lacking tissue guard. Internally, with only occasional light dirtying to margins (from the turnings of dirty fingers, no doubt). Else internally clean. An acceptable copy of this first edition..

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Heinemann,, 1907. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; beige cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, uncut, top and covers lightly dust-soiled, a very good, bright, clean copy. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: William Heinemann, 1907. [vii] 293pp. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards lettered in black. Boards lightly marked, with bumping to corners and spine ends. Foxing to fore edge, bottom edge untrimmed, some creasing to spine. Bright throughout, save a little toning and marks towards the rear. Benson's nineteenth stand alone novel, exploring Christian Science as a cure for protagonist Lord Thurso Raynham's migraine-induced opiate addiction. E. F. Benson (1867 – 1940) was an extremely prolific English writer, completing over fifty novels, four novel series, short stories, plays, biographies, and other non-fiction works on subjects as varied as golf and grave digging. His last work, his third autobiography, was delivered to his publisher just ten days before his death. . First edition. 8vo.