bailey r ernest (29 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: acceptable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may be missing bundled media.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover; this is NOT ex-library; in very good condition. Book.

Condición: Very Good. No notes or highlights. Used - Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 381 pages, gray quarter-cloth. A very good, clean hardcover with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper slightly yellowed, slight soiling to the fore-edges. In a good, edge worn dust jacket, with small chips at the flap fold edges and back strip top and bottom, with original price present. A very nice reading copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDOCOVER; this is NOT ex-library; owner's bookplate and blind stamp; scattered + marks drawn in pencil on margins; o/w in very good condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER; this is NOT ex-library; owner's blind stamp on (blank) front free endpage; o/w book in near fine condition. Book.

Condición: Good. 1936. No Edition Stated. 128 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with red lettering over red cloth. Colour frontispiece. Notable tanning to pages throughout. Previous owner's name & date stamps to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Moderate sunning to spine and board edges. Unclipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Notable foxing, staining and soiling to DJ.

paperback. Condición: New.

Condición: Good. 1960. First Edition. 166 pages. No dust jacket. Colour illustrated boards. Illustrated inside with black and white drawings. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Condición: Fair. 1936. No Edition Remarks. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated paper covered boards with lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Lettering is clear.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No date - circa 1950's? Front covers depicts enemy plane and beach scene with men looking skyward. One scribble on front board. Covers are a worn and scuffed. Internally in Good overall condition other than endpapers a bit grubby. Excellent colour frontis with 3 further full page colour illustrations. First story is "The School of Missing Boys" 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. No Published date mentioned. The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn and scuffed in places. There are marks and chipped pieces on the board. The spine is chipped and slightly worn. There is tanning throughout the book and around the block. On some of the pages there are a few light marks. Previous ownership inscriptions. There are annotations within the book. Despite the above the text remains clear. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing # 103 of this collection of short stories by various authors. Featured are The Man in the Passage by G.K. Chesterton, The Disappearance of Marie Severe by Ernest Bramah, The History of Bel from The Apocryphal Scriptures, The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Little House by H.C. Bailey, East Wind by Freeman Willis Crofts, The Cyprian Bees by Anthony Wynne, The Lenton Croft Robberies by Arthur Morrison, The red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim by Agatha Christie, Man Bites Dog by Ellery Queen, The Treasure Hunt by Edgar Wallace, The Avenging Chance by Anthony Berkeley, The Aluminium Dagger by R. Austin Freeman, The Unknown Peer by E.C. Bentley, The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle, The Haunted Policeman by Dorothy Sayers. Heavy edgewear to the spine. In good condition.

first edition octavo illus boards, frontis, 128pp VG (boards clean and bright, contents tanned with owners dtails to fep).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. decorative blue cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing. pages tanned, profusely illustrated.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Fair used condition, old tape repair to front cover/spine edges, corners heavily rubbed, pages age tanned, some marks to covers etc.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. NO JACKET. 1948 reprint. Hardback. 21.5x16cm. 696 pages with 16 black & white illustrations. SPINE LETTERING IS VERY DULL. Clean & tight book. SOME FOXING. Flat pages. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H201.

Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Green cloth binding with gilt spine. Dulling and slight rubbing to spine. Small stain to outer margin of pages 128 and 129, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xxx, 394, [2], 8 (ads).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good Plus to Very Good. E. Shelley Ilustrador. First ( No Additional printings). Original bright blue cloth on boards. DJ has rubbing and tiny tears head and foot. No writing. Cover shows glider pilot casting off tow rope attached to open car. Frontispiece shows glider pilot witnessing fistfight on ground below. 128 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Condición: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original panoramic colour illustrated covers with a seaplane flying low over a fishing port, terracotta cloth spine. Quarto 9½'' x 7½''. Contains 172 printed pages of text with colour frontispiece and monochrome illustrations throughout. Light rubs to the edges and corners, pencil ownership marking to the front free end paper and in Very Good clean condition, pages clean and white, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Ernest C. Withers Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 1991, Soft cover with illustrated wraps, 88 page book. This is a very scarce and rare signed only copy by Ernest C. Withers ( 1922-2007 ) on the title page . Illustrated with black and white images taken by this Memphis Photography and civil rights pioneer. Condition : Near Fine with light edge rubs. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed By Photographer. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. Illustrated by Prater, Ernest; Fraser, Peter; Woodville, R. Caton; Inns,Kenneth; Wood, Stanley L.; Vedder, S.H.; Sutcliffe, Norman Ilustrador. First Edition. Pages 86-168+ 20 pages of nice ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, "The Muscle Builder". Features: Mazulla and His Sahib, part 1 - moving Indian adventures, with photos; Neilson's New Man -a story of country life in New Zealand; The Tale-Teller of Algiers - the strange adventure of a visitor to Algiers in October, 1925; Mussolini's War Against the Mafia in Sicily - describes the first stage of the great 'clean-up' - a most dramatic and exciting business - article with photos of Police Commissioner Spano, Signor Mori of Palermo, Gaetono Ferrarello, Carmelo Andaloro, Salvatore Ferrarello, and Nicolo Andaloro; Mr. Stepper, I.D.B. - a diamond story; The Trouble in Coeur D'Alene - part 2 - going undercover to investigage labor-management conflict in the mining district of Northern Idaho - with photos; "Free-Trading" in the Arctic - great photo-illustrated article about white traders living in remote Indian and Eskimo territories; Photo of Korean wedding; One Thing After Another - troubles on the Inyoka Tobacco Estate in Rhodesia, with photo of author and trouble-making jackal; Across North America in a Motor-Boat, part 4 of this record-setting 6,000 mile trip - with maps and photos; The Cleverest Thieves on Earth - The Criminal Tribes of India - a photo-illustrated account of the 'crims' and their hereditary war against society. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, December (Dec.) 1926, Vol. LVIII, No. 344 - Mussolini's War Against the Mafia Gangi Brigands Sansiah photo of Earle E. Liederman, "The Muscle Builder". Features: Mazulla and His Sahib, part 1 - mov.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Campbell, Sir Malcolm; Willis, Charles (cover); Morrison, A.; Brock, H.M.; Ilustrador. First Edition. Pages 449-512. Features: In Peril Among the Riffs - How Sir Malcolm Campbell and Flight-Lieut. Don nearly lost their lives in North Africa - article with photos; With the Seal Hunters - photo-illustrated article on the heroic and arduous labours of the gallant fishermen for seals amongst the ice-floes of the coast of Labrador; Famous Figures in Football - G. (Geoffrey) N. Foster and Dr. R. Cove-Smith - article with photo; Sixty Years of Soccer - article with photos of William McCracken, Fanny Walden, G.O. Smith, Victor Watson, and Clifford Bastin; The Secret of Druid's Cross (mystery story); Why Keep a Log Book?; Field Hockey Tactics - article with photos; Making Morris Motors - photo-illustrated article on the manufacture of Morris cars; The Poacher's Wirelss (fiction); The Reversed Watermark (fiction); The Hooghly River - the World's Worst (article); The Story of Stamp Collecting. No table of contents. Covers loose but present. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. Illustrated by Prater, Ernest; Carruthers, G.P.; Hiley, F.E.; Holloway,Cyril; Wigfull, W.E.; Briault, S.; Gale, W.G.; Goss, G.W.; Tresilian, S.;Potts, Leonard; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, H.M. Ilustrador. First Edition. Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No. 13 - remarkable robbery of the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Oregon, October 11, 1923 - article with photos of Hugh De Autremont, Ray Charles De Autremont and Roy A.A. De Autremont; Saving a President - the author spirited President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico from Mexico City to the coast when he adbicated in 1911; Ning Wo Intervenes - a Chinese Sherlock Holmes with methods all his own; Diver v. Devil-Fish - a Puget Sound battle in 1927; Life in a Land of Death - Part 1 - adventures among Papuan head-hunters - article with amazing photos; A Matter of Slave-Raiding - the white man goes up against a ruffianly border chieftain along the Abyssinian frontier of the Sudan; "Square-Pegs" - part 1 - the misadventures of a middle-class London family which uprooted itself and relocated to a Canadian prairie farm; Saved by an Iceberg - two Newfoundland fisherman were adrift for 11 days; The Lost Tusker - occult powers of the primitive Kurramba tribesmen of the Malabar forests; O'Hara to the Rescue - incident on board a steamer; Tom Threepersons - article with photo about a 'wild west' gunman; On Tour with a Puppet-Show - part 2 - odd experiences through the West of England; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, March (Mar.) 1928, Vol. LX, No. 359 - Slave-Raiding Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police offi.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. 398 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography.tears at top & bottom of spine, tape residue along spine, cover is age-toned, bookplate inside front cover, pencil notes on table of contents, small chip on back cover edge, binding is loose but all pages are bound, includes 5 page reprint of "Exploratory flights of Admiral Byrd (1940)" by Roger Hawthorne. Expedition on auroral phenomena, bacteriology, botany, cosmic rays, glaciology, magnetism, medicine, meteorology, micropaleontology, ornithology, petrography and petrology, physiography, physiology, seismology, structural geology, and zoology.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Very Good. de Walton, John; Robinson, T.H.; Whitaker, W.G.; Reynolds, Warwick; Prater, Ernest; Wigfull, W.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Small, A.G. Ilustrador. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part II - Tragedy befalls French troops overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; The Disappearance of Ivan Varlamoff - an epic fight in Uleaborg, Finland; Locked in a Freezing Chamber - a meat inspector's ordeal in South Africa; "UMRI" - the tragic story of a panther, once a police officer's pet, which becomes a terror of the district in India; The "White Man's Grave" - Filming The "Gold Coast" of Africa - article with great photos; The Friend of the Birds - photo-illustrated article on Jack Miner, Ontario's friend of the Canada Goose; My Jiu-Jitsu Combats - Captain S.L. McLaglen is a Jiu-Jitsu expert; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part III - an exciting trip to the "Mysterious Richtersveld" of Southern Africa - article with photos; Adrift in the Atlantic - Grenfell of Labrador sets down a remarkable experience related by a former engineer of his; A Man's Luck (conclusion) - the author met the girl of his dreams and tried to build a dream home for them in Alaska, but he keeps being jailed; A Film-Hunter in the Amazon - Part V - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies - article with excellent photos; The "King of the Brushwood" - the brigand chief of Corsica; Roping a Bear - foolish youngster ropes a cinnamon bear; A Barbed Wire Frontier - people not allowed to pass between Hungary and Czechoslovakia; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3] 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Very Good. Holmes, Fred; Elcock, Howard; Prater, E.; Tennant, Dudley; Peddie, Tom; Elcock, Howard; Sindall, A.; Peddie, Tom; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, E.; Hiley, F.E. Ilustrador. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Great Green Eel - three-day battle with a Conger eel in Trinidad; De Rougemont Right After All! - Shortly after his passing, the incredible stories by Louis de Rougement of adventures with the wild blacks (aborigines) of Australia are proven true! - article with great photos; The Lure of the Jewel - The Forcing of the Duke of Brunswick's safe; Crossed Trails - A remarkable tale of linked lives; The Midnight Visitor - A grim tale of the famous North-West Mounted Police of Canada; Trapped in a Well - two men in Nebraska set out to deepen a well; The Moffat County Mystery - an odd tale from Colorado; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part II - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interest of film-making - article with interesting photos; A Christmas Hunt in East Africa - sometimes 'exiles' can have a good Christmas; A Double Escape a thrilling royal tiger hunt in India; A Man's Luck - Part V - the true story of a man who set out to build an Alaskan home for the girl of his dream but kept being jailed; The Accursed Lake - The strange story of David Burton and Charles Snisted in New Zealand; The Living Death - an explorer's grim story from the South American jungle; Anthropop - Apology; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 268-351, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue.