Francis edward grainger (44 risultati)

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his name in pencil on front flyleaf. Spine creased and leans forward a bit. 318 pp. Frontispiece by Oscar Wilson. Pseudonymous mystery by Francis Edward Grainger, author of The American Duchess, The Duke Decides, Millions of Mischief, and By a Hair's-Breadth. He was known for thrillers and police procedurals. …

Condizione: New.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 32 pages. G A Henty sales @ Sotheby's 21st February, 1972 / Lord Baden-Powell sales @ Sotheby's / 19th Century Fiction auction sales @ Sotheby's 21 February, 1972 (8 pages) / Francis Edward Grainger (pseudonym Headon Hill) (3 pages) / Tauchnitz Of Leipzig publications 3002 to 3099-00 / Anthony Trollope titles sold at Sotheby's 21 February 1972 (3 pages worth) / Zephyr Books & Mervyn Peake.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: New. In English.

PF. Condizione: New.

Condizione: Good. Nelson ?1920's? Slightly bumped at top and base of faded spine with a small cloth tear at head, boards slighrtly marked, 'LENHAM HOUSE' in biro on front fixed end paper, rear free end paper roughly removed and page edges lightly age-darkened - Good? book Very uncommon detective/police procedural. Book.…

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First edition in publisher's embossed and gilt titled cloth. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Raymond Potter. Original bookseller label to front pastedown. Endpages somewhat brown, otherwise a clean tight copy, some shelfwear to covers and head and heal of spine.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Decorative burgundy cloth binding rubbed at spine ends, corners; boards & backstrip lightly smudged; gift inscription pencilled on front endpaper; a few leaves bent at top corner tips; leaf edges, eps foxed, else a very crisp, tight & clean book, with bright, clear ils. No dj. ; Nice b&w ils. by Malcolm A. Strauss. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 379 pages. Illustrated by Malcolm A. Strauss (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 12mo. (20 cm.) [8]9--331[1]p. Plus 5p. advertisements. Frontispiece plus three full page illustrations. Red cloth blind stamped in black with green decorations and letters on the front cover and green letters on the spine. London edition, 1903. Born in Lowestoft, England in 1857, Francis Edward Grainger was educated at Eton and then joined the Army. He soon found writing more to his liking and produced more than 60 detective novels under the pen name "Headon Hill". Incidents from his travels in India, Egypt, and the United States found their way into his fiction. He died in 1927 in Budleigh Salterton. [Obituary, THE TIMES, 2/5/1927] THE DUKE DECIDES is a mystery set in England and involves the exchange of American securities for English pounds by means of substituting false securities. Very minor wear to extremities, spine slightly faded, spot on fore-edge affecting last few pages, colors bright, all illustrations present and in fine condition, else very good and better/ No jacket.…

A Good clean sound copy of the red cloth pocket edition. 16mo 374 pps+ ten page publishers catalogue at rear. A Crime Novel first published in 1906 all editions of which are now uncommon.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b The Queen of Night.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Hill, Francis Edward Grainger; br/b/b 1896.br/b/b 252 p. ; 8º.br/b/b 012626.ee.27.br/.…

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. In this suspenseful tale of greed and deception, a war hero plagued by debt is targeted by a ruthless gang. After a fateful encounter, he finds himself entangled in a high-stakes scheme to forge and pass millions of dollars worth of government bonds. As the protagonist navigates a web of clandestine meetings and threats, he must confront the consequences of his past and the moral decay that has crept into his path. The author explores the themes of honor, temptation, and the price of loyalty as the protagonist grapples with his perilous predicament. This gripping narrative delves into the dark underbelly of crime and the desperate choices people make when pushed to their limits. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 332 | Sprache: Französisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Includes the Radford Shone sequence, a parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Part of George Vanderburgh's "Lost Treasures from the Pulps" series. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#174949).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Part of George Vanderburgh's "Lost Treasures from the Pulps" series. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#174948).

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 330 | Sprache: Französisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

first edition, octavo, yellow cloth boards with black lettering and illus of man on camel to front board, gilt lettering to spine, top edges stained brown, vi + 425pp + 14pp adverts, VG- (binding sloppy esp around gutters, light to moderate staining to boards, heavy tanning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems, slight bruising to board corners, owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, heavy tanning to eps).…

1913, 1st edition. (12mo, cloth) Very good. 320pp. Decorative cloth. Frontispiece. Light general wear. Former owner's name clipped from endpaper. Just a trifle shaky. Pseudonym of Francis Edward Grainger.

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Leather. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. The very scarce first edition of Headon Hill's thrilling mystery novel about a criminal murdering syndicate which helps people get rid of their unwanted relatives. The very scarce first edition, first impression.In a half calf binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece.A very scarce first edition from Headon Hill, an author of popular adventure, detective, and spy stories.A contemporary review in The Spectator remarked upon this novel as 'a most ingenious story of the breathlessly sensational sort [.] the fundamental "idea" is a startling one, being that of a " murder syndicate" composed of persons whose interest it is to get rid of relatives, and who for this purpose send their victims off to sea in 'The Queen of Night'.With the armorial bookplate of British Liberal politician John Wynford Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids to the front pastedown. With the inscription of A. G. Lewis to the front free endpaper. In a half calf binding, with cloth covered boards. Boards bright. Fading and rubbing to back strip, most concentrated to back strip head and raised bands. Front hinge a touch strained to head, but firmly held. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown, with inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with spotting throughout, and instances of foxing. Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good/Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 320pp. plus 16pp. publisher's catalogue in rear. Sharp First Edition of this Golden Age mystery about two seemingly unconnected murders in London with only a similar hourglasses found at each scene. Bound in black cloth blocked in blind and red decoration. Gilt lettering on front board and spine. Square and tight with some softness and rubbing to spine ends and tips. A few scattered spots. with some foxing to bottom of the text-block. Off-setting to end-papers and mild scattered spotting.to prelims with interior pages generally clean with little or no toning. Small, neat gift inscription on front end-paper. A very pretty, collectable copy and fairly scarce in any condition, particularly on this side of the Atlantic. (Hubin, p.198).…

Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-304 [1]-8: ads [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece, plus one other plate, with illustrations by Stanley L. Wood, original pictorial light gray green cloth stamped in brown, dark green, black, white and gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Sixteen adventure and crime stories set along the Kentish coast in England during the Napoleonic wars. Hubin (1994), p. 401. Not in Wolff. Endpapers tanned, faint scattered foxing, minor bubbling to a small section of the front panel (noticeable only from certain angles), a clean, very good copy. A scarce book. (#117158).…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 326 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.81 inches. This item is printed on demand.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 334. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1899 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 334.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 332. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1899 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 332.…