Cyril h coles (4 resultados)

Condición: VERY GOOD. Vintage book club edition. A Tony Hambledon spy adventure. 250 pp., Very good condition in red boards (some offsetting to endpapers), no dustjacket.

Condición: VERY GOOD. Book club edition. Omnibus edition containing 3 classic Tony Hambledon spy adventures - Drink to Yesterday, A Toast to Tomorrow, and Alias Uncle Hugo. (The first one in the series, 'Drink to Yesterday' was a Haycroft-Queens Cornerstone.) A Crime Club selection. 480 pp. Dust jacket by Ronald Clyne. Very good in very good dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated thus (preceded by the two 1940 separate hardcover releases, and the separate 1952 hardcover release) first printing of a fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket with a bit of spine fade to the top and bottom, and minor wear to the extremities. An omnibus edition which collects the 1st, 2nd and 14th novels in the Tommy Hambledon spy/adventure series, a master spy working for the British government, operating all over the world.…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First edition. A smart first edition of this charmingly illustrated novel, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates and many in-text and full-page images. Collated complete. Written for young adults, this novel follows the trail of a missing bracelet stolen from the British Museum. From London, the story travels to the West African coast and to the lost land of Perdita, a city whose inhabitants are directly descended from the Romans. Written by Manning Coles, the pseudonym of two British writers, Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles, who wrote many spy thrillers from the 1940s through the early 1960s. Illustrated by Henry Matthew Brock, a British illustrator and landscape painter. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor bumping and light fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine with a 1" closed tear to the head of the spine. Light sunning to the spine with the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good. H. M. Brock (ilustrador). book. …