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By: Pain, Barry
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, George G. Harrap: 1928
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN0765
Condition: Good
Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, on spine tips, very faint marking on front board, good. Not a selection from Pain's earlier work, but a final collection of his short stories, issued in the year of his death: The Tree of Death, Not on the Passenger List, The Harvest Moon, The Reaction, Miracles, The Serpent in the Garden, The Man of Mystery, The Missing Years, Friendships and Enmities, A Sure Thing, The Thief of Thieves (3 linked stories). View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Martin Secker: 1914
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86029
Condition: Good
Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in white, gilt on spine. Spine sunned, boards edges lightly sunned, foxing on early pages, good. Short stories both comic -- and detective. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Henry & Co.: 1891
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04136
Condition: Very Good
Undated First Edition [1891], The Whitefriars Library of Wit & Humour, Volume VI. Frontispiece photograph of Pain. Original deep maroon cloth, blocked in gilt and off-white; black endpapers. Lightly scuffed, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, very good. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Cassell & Co: 1892
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03613
Condition: Very Good
Late C19th rebinding in brown cloth; brown leather title label on spine, name ("Shavington") in gilt on bottom edge of front board. Clean, tight copy: very good. A mixture of parodies, comic sketches and short stories. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1910
Seller ID: 80095
Condition: Good
Sixpennies. Undated, (c1910). Original grey cloth on light card, lettered in black. Edges scuffed, good. A form of paperback, with a thin cloth layer laid on the card. A skit in which the long-marooned sailor returns to the Edwardian England View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & co.: 1928
Seller ID: VN1390
Condition: Very Good
[Second Edition]. Original light green cloth, lettered and framed in black. A few light marks, light foxing, undated signature on front free endpaper, very good. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1910
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 93084
Condition: Good
Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Light splash marks on board and spine; pink stain on edges of endpapers, fair/good only. One of Pain's most admired novels: a group of criminals on a desert island form their own model of society, which gradually breaks down. Publisher's catalogue for February 1910 bound in at end. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, W. Collins & Co.: 1919
Seller ID: 04358
Condition: Good
Second Impression. Illustrated. Original red cloth; title blindstamped on front board, in black on spine. Spine lightly sunned with small chip to top corner, and a little fraying at foot, a few foxing spots, good. Collection of 12 "puzzle" stories: mysteries without crime. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie: 1913
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04426
Condition: Good
Undated first edition [1913]. Title page printed in blue and black. Original flecked green cloth, framed and lettered in dark green on front board, in gilt on spine. Corners bumped, boards lightly marked on edges, faint inscription (1915) on front pastedown, good. Collection of short stories: The New Gulliver, In a London Garden, Zero, When I was King, The Satyr, The Choice, The Piano-Tuner & The Pearls and the Swine. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1907
Seller ID: VN0226
Condition: Very Good
Small format paperback edition, bound in brown cloth covered boards, with leather title label on spine. Retains original illustrated green cardboard wrapper. Light grazing to cloth, bookplate and signature on front endpapers, very good. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1912
Edition: Copyright Edition
Seller ID: 04242
Condition: Good
Original card wrappers. Corners turned, some darkening on edges, good. Todd [4350]. First/only issue. Dated July 1912 on rear cover and with catalogue for same month bound in at end. A collection of 25 stories followed by a further 20 brief Moral Stories. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1904
Edition: 3rd Edition
Seller ID: VN2556
Condition: Very Good
Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. CSpine lightly sunned, undated signature on front free endpaper, very good. The story of a man who squanders his talents and (almost) wrecks his life. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, W. Collins & Co.: 1921
Seller ID: VN2636
Condition: Good
Third Impression. This edition is not illustrated. Original red cloth. framed and lettered in black. A few light marks, good. Collection of 12 "puzzle" stories: mysteries without crime. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1927
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 92082
Condition: Very Good
Original beige cloth, framed and lettered in black. Minimal scuffing: a clean, bright, tight copy, very good. View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie: 1922
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91123
Condition: Good
Undated first edition [1922]. Original yellow cloth, lettered in black; first and last leaves used as endpapers, with advertisement for Pain's Robinson Crusoe. Spine sunned, pages lightly tanned on edges, good. The cover reads: Barry Pain's Parody of "If Winter Comes". If Summer Don't. A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H. NOTSOMUCHINSON. BARRY PAIN. Pain's target is A. S. M. Hutchinson's bestseller If Winter Comes, which he accuses of misusing the First World War for the purpose of fiction "It is altogether too easy. It buys the emotional situation ready-made". View more info
By: Pain, Barry
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1903
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91124
Condition: Very Good
Undated first edition [1903]. Full maroon leather; no title on spine; owner's initials (E. M.) in gilt on front board. Lightly scuffed, page edges faintly tanned, otherwise very good. A collection of brief short stories. Issued in both card and cloth bindings: this rebound copy was presumably originally in card. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1916
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 93033
Condition: Good
Contains: The Gay Hazard by Halliwell SUTCLIFFE. First six episodes. Short stories include: Above the Bidding, The Leopards of Ulundu & The Jungle Law by Harold BINDLOSS, The Heart's Awakening by H. De Vere STACPOOLE, A Wretched Imitation by Barry PAIN, The Revenge, The Turbot's Aunt, Cornwallis and Me and Fate & A Good Cause by Eden PHILLPOTTS, The Soul of Jeannie Duncan by Marjorie BOWEN, The Apple-Green Plate, A Question of Money & Out of Season by Fred M. WHITE, Pack-Horse Bells by Beatrice GRIMSHAW, One Good Turn by Florence WARDEN, Hannah's Son by Orme AGNUS, With the Colours by May KEND... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson: 1911
Seller ID: VN2523
Condition: Very Good
Contains: A Queen of Castaways by John Barnett. Complete serialisation. The Marriage of Captain Kettle by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. Start of serialisation. Short stories include: THe Making of Jim Dunn. A Cricket Story by H. Hesketh Prichard, Death on the Girdler[A Thorndyke story] by R. Austin Freeman, Olive Lestrange by Barry Pain, The Man with the Green Eyes by Max Pemberton & Arthur Lampton. Articles include: Workers or Shirkers by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, The Irtonwood Ghost by Elinor Glyn. Early C20th brown moire cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Light foxing, otherwise clean ad bright, very... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, 1911
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91066
Condition: Fair
Contains: The Strange Cases of Dr Xavier Wycherley, Mental Healer by Max RITTENBERG. 5 (of 6) psychological mystery stories. Skeleton Island. A Romance of the Florida Coast by H. De Vere STACPOOLE. Complete novella. The Ninth Wave by Agnes & Egerton CASTLE. Complete novella. The House of Fortune by Max PEMBERTON. Complete novella. A Drama in Venice by Morley ROBERTS. Complete novella. The Lost House by Richard Harding DAVIS. Complete novella. A Live Wire by Madame ALBANESI. Complete novella. Short stories include: The Fifth Message from the Tideless Sea by William Hope HODGSON, Educating Aubre... View more info
