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Published by Chancellor Press, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0753705729ISBN 13: 9780753705728
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Briault; Lampitt; Frank Grey; Dudley Cowes; James Short; Leo Bates; C. W. Bacon; Clive Uptton; Tony Royle; Cyrus Cuneo; J. S. Goodall; C. Walter Hodges; Clark Fay; Norman Keene; F. G. Moorsom; (illustrator). First Printing - First Thus. 641 pp. Trade paperback format. Light rubbing on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrations by: Briault; Lampitt; Frank Grey; Dudley Cowes; James Short; Leo Bates; C. W. Bacon; Clive Uptton; Tony Royle; Cyrus Cuneo; J. S. Goodall; C. Walter Hodges; Clark Fay; Norman Keene; and F. G. Moorsom. This anthology contains: The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson; A Large Diamond by Lord Dunsany; The Dwarfs by Aldous Huxley; The Diver by A. J. Alan; The Ghoul of Golders Green - a novelette by Michael Arlen; The Murder of the Mandarin by Arnold Bennett; Powers of the Air by J. D. Beresford; Keeping His Promise by Algernon Blackwood; Dearth's Farm by Gerald Bullett; The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton; The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad; The Tiger by A. E. Coppard; The Looking Glass by Walter de la Mare; The Hostelry by Guy de Maupassant; The Cupboard by Jeffery Farnol; The Other Sense by J. S. Fletcher; Ghost of Honour by Pamela Hansford Johnson; Roads of Destiny - a novelette by O. Henry; The Trapdoor by C. D. Heriort; Ben Blower's Story by C. F. Hoffman; The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood; Guests from Gibbet Island by Washington Irving; The Mezzotint by M. R. James; The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome; The Woman Who Road Away - a novelette by D. H. Lawrence; Honolulu - a novelette by W. Somerset Maugham; Rooum by Oliver Onions; The Green Light by Barry Pain; The Iron Pineapple by Eden Phillpotts; The Demon King by J. B. Priestley; The Queen of Spades- a novelette by Alexander Pushkin; The Seventh Man by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; Laura by Saki; Goat Cry Girl Cry by W. B. Seabrook; The Mahatma's Story by May Sinclair; Deep in the Forest by H. de Vere Stacpoole; The Island of Voices - a novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson; Man of the Night by Edgar Wallace; Major Wilbraham by Hugh Walpole; The Inexperienced Ghost by H. G. Wells; The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E. F. Benson; A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley; and Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by The Economic Geology Publishing Company, Lancaster, 1961
Seller: Akademische Buchhandlung Antiquariat, Freiberg, Germany
Association Member: BOEV
äußerlich etwas unsauber, sonst stabil, komplett - guter Zustand.
Published by The Author, 1991
ISBN 10: 0473011972ISBN 13: 9780473011970
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Bright - clean copy 169pp.
Published by Kaiapoi Publications, Kaiapoi, 1972
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 203 pages. Dj worn. Initials on endpapers, flaps and title page.
Published by Kaiapoi Publications 1972, 1972
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Kaiapoi Publications, 1972
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). 203 pp. b/w plates. pages lightly tanned, t op corner bumped. wear & tear to d/j with small losses & faded sp ine, light soiling - stain & spotting to reverse. Signed & dated by author on title page.
Published by Kaiapoi Publications, Kaiapoi, 1972
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No signatures. Some staining to endpapers. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 203 pages. Blue boards with red lettering on spine. New Zealand regional history. "The author writes breezily of his early years, the war, his work on local bodies - with special attention to Invercargill, Queenstown, and Kaiapoi" - quoted from review on dust wrapper flap. ; 8vo.
Published by Kaiapoi Publications, 1972
Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, CANTE, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good hardback with jacket. Slight marks to boards. Jacket some chipping, scuffing and rubbing. Tales of a Town Clerk by C. W. D. Hodgson Publisher: Kaiapoi Publications, 1972, FIRST EDITION. 203 pages. Blue boards with red lettering on spine. New Zealand regional history. "The author writes breezily of his early years, the war, his work on local bodies - with special attention to Invercargill, Queenstown, and Kaiapoi".
Published by Kaiapoi Publications, Kaiapoi, 1972
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Dust-jacket in plastic jacket with adhesive edges.; 203 pages. Blue boards with red lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. New Zealand regional history, autobiography. "The author writes breezily of his early years, the war, his work on local bodies - with special attention to Invercargill, Queenstown, and Kaiapoi" - quoted from review on dust-jacket flap.
Published by Kaiapoi Publications, 1972
Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, CANTE, New Zealand
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tales of a Town Clerk by C. W. D. Hodgson SIGNED BY AUTHOR FIRST EDITION. Very good hardback with jacket. Slight discolouration to board edges. Pages tanned. Jacket is creased and marked with a faded spine, some chipping and a 3cm closed tear to front. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Amalgamated Press Ltd., Melbourne, 1861
Seller: Heath Hill Books Etc., Stowport, TAS, Australia
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Report to the Honourable the Commissioner of Mines. Foolscap-sized document does not quite fit scanner. Stitched binding. Some shelf wear to edges, most noticeable along the bottom. Slight discolouration to the front cover. Shallow crease to the top of the last 3 leaves (From a paperclip?) Any other imperfections minor. Very nice copy considering its age. 6 pages plus 2 appendices. See scans.
Published by George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1920
Book First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Somerfield, T.; Hodgson, E.S.; Sheldon, C.M.; De Walton, John; Sutcliffe, J.E.; Whittaker, W.G.; "Robin"; Elcock, Howard; Small, A.G.; Wright, Frank; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, Ernest; Paxton, R.B.M.; Morrow, Albert (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: My Rest-Cure - experience on a house-boat in Kashmir; The Saving of the "Cardium" - what happened with this oil ship caught fire with 12,000 tons of benzene aboard; The Hinton Murder Case, and George W. Pendleton; "Little Woman of Flame" - what happened with two solitary white women took up farming in East Africa; Photo of steeplejack Jack Hassler climbing a building in Philadelphia; "My Strangest Experience"; The Lifted Veil, part 6 of a strange story of two British officer POWs in Turkey; The Temple of the Tapirs - an exciting trip into the wilds of Mexico; "Draw Poker" - a detective recounts a New York story; Among the Bolshevists - an R.A.F. officers interesting sidelights on the operations against the Bolshevists in North Russia - with great photos; Into the Unknown - part 2 - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea; A Cowboy Adrift; A Kedah Buffalo-Fight - photo-illustrated story of this little-known Malay (Malaysian) sport; Photo of huge (dead) gorilla in the Cameroons; Anthropop-Apology; The Long Arm of the Law - murderers who were detected years after their crimes; The Battle of Ludlow - strikers battle state militiamen in the Colorado coalfields. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1920
Book First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Soper, G., Nicolson, W.C.; Holloway, W.H.; Hodgson, E.S.; Webb, Arch; Carruthers, G.P.; Prater, E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Valda, J.H. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue.
Published by George Newnes Limited, London, 1916
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Somerfield, Thomas; Hodgson, E.S.; Wood, S.L.; Evison,G.H.; Wigfull, W.E.; Leist, F. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 482-576 + 30 pages of ads. Features: The "Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - article with photos; The Wreck of the 'County of Anglesea' - fight for the life of a capsized ship; Wanderings in Northern Persia - II - article with first-ever published photos of Kelat-i-Nadiri, the Gibraltar of Persia, and many other photos; A Fiery Ordeal - surviving a 1904 volcano on Mount Kloet on the island of Java; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth, part VII; From Job to Job Around the World, Part II - fantastic travelogue of two young Americans in Japan and Korea with wonderful photos; The Saving Shadow - Rev. Wm. F. Rigge of the Creighton University Observatory uses shadows to help acquit a man facing serious charges; A Motor-Boat in Mexico - the villagers had never seen anything like it;; The Marchwood Ghost Mystery - A Highland Regiment soldier committed suicide in 1885 and his ghost was supposed to haunt the sentry's beat;;"The Heathen Chinee" - principally concerned with the Chinaman's attitude towards railways - also tells some quaint stories about the 'spirits of wind and water' which rule his actions during and after his life - article with great photos, especially all the Chinese aboard a Shanghai-Nanking Railway engine they had fled only a week before; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine for Men, April 1916, No. 216, Vol. 36 South Porcupine Ontario Forest Fire Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - art.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1916
Book First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Holloway, W.H.; Hodgson, E.S.; Gillett, Frank; Evison, G. Henry; Pape, Frank C.; Pryde, S.; Wigfull, W.E. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Doctor's Story - Thrilling narrative from Hudson's Bay country from the ship's doctor, Dr. Craig, of the Canadian survey steamer "Minto"; The Princess Haamoura - a stirring tale of love and adventure on the South Seas island of Aitutaki; Two Girls on a Ranch - Part I - City girl Miss Laura Colston describes how she and her sister Mildred adventured to run a ranch in the wilds of Arizona - article with photos; Under False Colours - A very strange story of life in the United States Army in which the author enlists with another man's papers and is rapidly promoted; A City in the Rocks - a photo-illustrated visit to the remarkable ancient city of Petra; Mr. X.'s Ghost - a decidedly creepy story; Raiding the "Moonshiners" - David A. Gates, a high official of the U.S. Revenue Service, describes an eventful raid on "moonshine" stills in the wilds of Kentucky, and the thrilling battle which followed; Down the Amazon From Source To Mouth - Part IV - J. Campbell Besley and his party continue their dangerous trip down the Amazon, losing one man who was shot with a poison arrow; A Persistent Stowaway - time and again an Irishman bobs up in most unexpected fashion; Housekeeping in Far Japan - A bright little photo-illustrated article describing the experiences of the first white woman to be seen or set up house in a village in remote Satsumaland, in the extreme southern corner of Japan; Five Men in a Boat - the terrible tale of mutiny and murder on the last voyage of the barque "Veronica"; Sensational six-page two-color ad for the Burlington Watch Company; and more. pp. 6 [ads], [3], 196-284, 7-40 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.