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The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens: Available Copies

Spine sunned.

19.5 x 13 cm. 12mo. vii 304pp. Bound into tan cloth. A bit of scuffing to the top of the back cover boards. Some light soiling to front cover. Internally clean.

sm 8vo, light brown cloth covers with black lettering, cr. 1931 with printer's colophon on cr page. No internal markings.

Tanned edges o/w VG+ condition with firm hinges, clean prelims, very lightly bumped corners, nominal wear to spine. VG+ copy overall. TM/Fiction

Bound in the publisher's original tan cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in black. A pocket has been removed from the rear pastedown endpaper and a bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown endpaper. Previously in a non-circulating library with an embossment on the title page.

THE TRAVEL TALES OF MR JOSEPH JORKENS, Putnam, 1931 first American edition, some wear and rubbing to a small area at the top margin of the front cover, 3 of the 4 fore edge corner tips gently bumped, else vg in attractive dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and some chipping, mostly to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. Jorkens #1.

THE TRAVEL TALES OF MR JOSEPH JORKENS, Putnam, 1931, first English edition, a tight, bright, vg+ copy. Jorkens #1. (As new facsimile dust-wrapper is available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you).

First edition. London (Putnam) 1931. Blue cloth with gold titling. Slight fadng of backstrip else a very nice copy.

The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens, the first collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published, containing thirteen short pieces. The Jorkens stories are set in the London gentleman's or adventurer's club of which the title character is a member. They usually open with another member mentioning an interesting experience he has had; this rouses Jorkens, who in return for a whisky-and-soda (merely to "moisten his throat," you understand!) goes the other member one better with an extraordinary tall tale, supposedly from his own past. His stories often tip well over the boundaries of the plausible, into the realms of fantasy, horror, or even science fiction, and his auditors can never be quite sure what proportion of what he relates was truly experienced and to what degree he might have embellished.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii, [1], 304. Publishers' tan cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips a touch creased; and a few light marks to upper board. Scattered foxing, almost exclusively to endpapers and textblock edge, otherwise contents clean and crisp. Dust-jacket scuffed and surface soiled with foxing to flaps, a few nicks & creases, with a little loss to lower edge. A very good copy in good jacket. Weird tales featuring intrepid global traveller and raconteur Mr Joseph Jorkens, by the influential Irish writer Lord Dunsany (1878-1957).

Good; Hardcover; Moderate wear to the covers; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; Good binding; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.7 lbs; Reddish-brown covers with title in black lettering; 2004, Night Shade Books; 334 pages; "The Collected Jorkens, Vol. 1: The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens and Jorkens Remembers Africa," by Lord Dunsany & S. T. Joshi.

Original Blue Cloth binding. A clean tight copy of this title. First published April 1931.

Red-brown faux-leather covered boards with black lettering on spine & illustrations/lettering front panel. Light brown streaks of soiling top textblock edge. [334 pages]

First Edition. xxiv, 334 pages. 8vo. Publisher's brown boards with embossed black decorations. Original price sticker and ISBN code on rear panel. Lightly bumped head/tail spine, several small blemishes to the rear board. Boards. The first in a series of three volumes. Now quite desirable in the marketplace.

Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 1.61

Very Good; Hardcover; Light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be stored and delivered in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); Reddish-brown covers with title in black lettering; 2005, Night Shade Books; 334 pages; "The Collected Jorkens, Vol. 1: The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens and Jorkens Remembers Africa," by Lord Dunsany & S. T. Joshi.

First EdItion (stated). "The Collected Jorkens, Vol. 1: "The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens" and "Jorkens Remembers Africa," by Lord Dunsany & S. T. Joshi. San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2004. 334 pp. Fine bonded leather hardcover. Ships fat with tracking.

VERY GOOD+ IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE FIRST JORKENS BOOK GREEN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH BLACK TITLES TO THE SPINE AND FRONT COVER. BOOK'S GREEN CLOTH HAS A BIT OF MODEST SPOTTING WITH ENDPAPERS AND FORE-EDGE OF THE TEXT BLOCK MODESTLY FOXED. D.J. IS WORN AT THE CORNERS WITH SHALLOW CHIPPING OF THE ENDS OF THE COLOR-FADED SPINE PANEL, MODERATE SOIL TO THE REAR PANEL, A FEW SHORT EDGE TEARS, AND IS PRICE CLIPPED. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

First Us edition hardcover. Tan cloth titled in black. Points lightly bumped, some insecting to block edge. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine, nicked to spine ends, lightly edgeworn, creased to front panel. $2.00 flap price. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

London, G.P. Putnam's, 1931. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. The first Jorkens collection. Collects 13 tales, with preface. Large chip to the lower spine tip of the jacket, a few knocks and bumps elsewhere. Large ragged tear to the lower jacket, with associated creasing, all fixed with aged tape; essentially the section has been detached and reattached, with a few bits of loss. Pretty ugly. A little edge wear. Some toning. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was a prolific writer and one of the architects of what has now cemented itself as the fantasy genre. His work, along with Eddison, Macdonald and Morris, was key in creating the channels from folklore and mythology to entirely synthetic secondary worlds. [11805, Hyraxia Books].

Good first edition signed by Lord Dunsany on the front endpaper. Binding square and tight. Some wear and bumping to spine ends, corners. Some light wear to edges. Some rubbing to boards. Fading to spine. Pages clean and bright but for some light age-toning and foxing throughout. A nice first edition copy, scarce signed.