Sapper, Pseudonym of H C Mcneile (3 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. 319 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H). A collection of short stories by the author of the Bulldog Drummond books. Contents: When Carruthers Laughed; The Snake Farm; The Great Magor Diamond; The Broken Record; The Taming of Sydney Marsham; Dilemma; The Baronets of Mertonbridge Hall; Touch and Go; The Loyalty of Peter Drayton; The Madness of Charles Tranter; A Student of the Obvious; The Second Ride. Small bump at corners of board - one migrates into top corner of approx. first 20 pages, small edge tear archivally taped on page 11/12, a few pages with tiny edge creases, light browbing to edges of text block, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very small faint liquid mark on fron board, some darkening to spine color.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. No edition stated. Not dated, c. 1932. Page edges slightly foxed. Publishers orange gilt decorated cloth. Gilt decoration and lettering slightly tarnished. Cloth slightly faded through dustwrapper. The coloured dustwrapper has a slight stain down spine edge of front cover and is very slightly dusty and marked, but apart from this it is in lovely condition, un-chipped and not price clipped. Nice bright copy. Scarce in this condition. 61 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Oblong quarto. String tied black cloth titled in gilt on front board. Bound in are 35 double-weight gelatin silver stills from the film, hole punched in the wide lefthand margin. Soiling on the verso of a couple of images, tiny nick in the margin of one, modest wear on the boards, a couple of the holes are pulled through, overall very good; the images are slightly curled, else otherwise fine. Issued by the production company, likely for a participant in the film, for the 1925 English silent film featuring a popular and intrepid English detective hero (there have been approximately 30 films featuring the detective over several decades). This film, directed by Sidney Morgan and featuring Jack Buchanan as Drummond, apparently revolves around boxing and shady scientists - with several images of both, including much scientific apparatus. According to one summary from the British Film Institute catalog: "Merchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds." Vivid images, certainly rare, and possibly unique. Contemporary collections of images from any silent film are very uncommon.