Search Results: the short stories of saki by morley christopher

Viking Press, 1930. No dust jacket. Just minor wear. Pages lightly age toned. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.*** . Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Viking Press, 1934. Cover is scuffed and lightly worn. Pgs. are faintly tanning in margins. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

New York, New York: The Modern Library, 1958. Book. EX-LIB. Hardcover. EX-LIB. EX-LIB with usual library markings pockets. Very good hardcover in very good dustjacket. Nice clean tight copy. All hardcovers are covered in protective Demco mylar..

John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. Reprinted. 720 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be slightly loose. Light water staining to edges of last few pages. Some light creasing to pages. Binding is shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly forward leaning. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Bodley Head, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Modern Library. Good. 1958. Hardcover. No jacket; Modern Library; 6 X 2 X 12 inches; 718 pages .

New York: Viking Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Hardbound.

New York: The Modern Library, 1958. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 6x2x12. 1954-59 printing, Toledano 280.1, binding/jacket style 8i with 415 titles on verso, $1.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Good in fair jacket. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, jacket soiled, more heavily on rear panel, ink name stamp on front endpaper. 1958 Hard Cover. xiii, 715 pp. Introduction by Christopher Morley. "Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 – November 13, 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives.

Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Jacket Condition: Good+. The Modern Library, New York, NY 1966. Ex-Library, Usual Markings. 715 pages. Moderate general wear. Piece torn from front endpaper. Marked Discard. Jacket price-clipped. Size: 7 x 6 x 2. Classics/Collectors Series::Modern Library Fiction Modern::Short Stories 6106

NY: Modern Library, 1958. dj w/lite wear, unclipped price, in mylar; navy Blumenthal binding w/gilt titles on red; Rockwell Kent end papers; (#280 in series, liss to 403 on dj reverse); 718 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vo.

New York: The Modern Library, 1958. Hardcover. pp. 718. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good in vey good plastic protected dustjacket.

New York: Halcyon House, 1939. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket.. xiii, 718 p. illus. 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. "First published, September, 1930...ninth printing, February, 1939." "Halcyon House edition, February, 1939." Reginald. --Reginald in Russia. --The chronicles of Clovis. --Beasts and super-beasts. --The toys of peace. --The square egg. --Biography of Saki, by E.M. Munro (p. 637-715)

Viking Press. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (humor, short stories, british literature) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

New York. : Viking Press. , 1946.. Reprint. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy (owner inscriptions on end paper) in near fine (light edge wear, price clipped) dust jacket (in mylar).. Octavo. . Very scarce in this condition.

John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1949. 718 pp including index, fine copy in maroon cloth boards.. First published 1930.

John Lane. hardcover octavo (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

New York: Modern Library. Vintage Copy. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; with a Good dust jacket. Edgewear to jacket including bumps, chips, short tears, and one longer tear along the edge of rear cover. A few small stains to jacket. Minor edgewear to boards, including a few small bumps. Text is clean and unmarked. No date, circa 1960. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

Modern Library, 1977-07-11. Hardcover. Like New. 7x4x1. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xiii, 718 p., 18 cm. <br> Saki, pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro, was a Scottish writer and journalist whose stories depict the Edwardian social scene with a flippant wit and power of fantastic invention used both to satirize social pretension, unkindness, and stupidity and to create an atmosphere of horror.

New York: Viking Press, 1940. Reprint . Blue Cloth. Very Good Book/Very Good. Xiii, 718; 452 Pp. Two Volumes, Reprints, Abt. 1943. Well Preserved, Dust Jackets With Less Than Usual Browning, Each Volume Priced $3.00. Pencil Ownership Names Dated 1944 (We Can Erase These On Request).

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, 1932. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Boards rubbed and marked, spine cocked and darkened, pencil inscription to front free endpape. Clean throughout. Good reading copy, fair.