Search Results: the curse in the colophon by goodspeed edgar j

Chicago: Willett, Clark & Co., 1935. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. First Printing. One Of The Author's Copies, Passed Down In His Family. A Few Notes In Pencil At End By One Of The Family. Fading To Cloth, Mostly To Spine, But All Lettering Very Clear; Wear And Fraying To Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine. No Dust Jacket.

1/1/1935. Hardcover. Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1935. 1st edition. Inscribed by author. No dust jacket; blue cloth; spine faded; endpapers tanned; binding good; text clean and bright. G

Willett, Clark & Co. A lovely tight crisp hardcover copy in good plus condition, light foxing to textblock and light age toning to pastedowns. DJ, clipped, in good minus condition with small bits of taping and sunning to spine, now in protective mylar cover. Inscribed by author. First edition, second printing. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2nd Printing. 1935.

Chicago & New York: Willett, Clark & Company, 1935., 1935. First edition. First edition. Lightly sunned on spine and edge perimeters else very good in dust jacket with light professional restoration to the spine ends and corners. A curse in the colophon of an ancient manuscript is discovered by a scholar. Then people that come in contact with the manuscript begin to die. An American scholar and his young female assistant defy the curse, decipher the book's hidden message, and race to find the lost library of Constantinople.