Bailey Hiram P (15 results)

Condition: Good. 1934. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book. Significant damage due to wetness. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. no date (c. 1925), Good Plus/no dj, octavo, 187pp., blue cloth hardcover, backstrip and its gold lettering stained & spotted, b&w photo ill's gold gilt top outer leaf edges, binding tight, light foxing o/w text unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st cheap ed. 191pp. Deck plan + chart of voyage. Insc'n. on front paste hidden by dw flap. VG in torn & fyd. but nr. complete dw with a sunned spine. The true story of an english civil-engineer who was shanghaied to serve on an American four-master.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. B&W frontis and plates. No date stated. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, minor wear to corners and spine ends. Binding tight, text clean, unmarked. Naut. Stax.

Thread Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Light foxing. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Cloth. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Boston, MA: Charles E. Lauriat Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. ca 1925. . Cloth. Inscribed by the author . 8vo., 187 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, page toning, binding cracked, uncut pages . Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. A clean, tight, unmarked copy in bright cover gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Spine a bit cocked, edges v. lightly foxed, o/w good. Cloth 8vo. The author, a civil engineer, was Shanghaied as a sailor from Australia to North and South America. He learns the knowledge of sea life on board an American four-master in the late 1890s. 187pp. Glossary. B/w illustrations. > Language: English | > Size: 8vo | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |. …

Condition: Good. Shanghaied Out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P. Bailey, 1925, 1st edition.Illustrated: yes. All collated and complete.Hardback book.Publisher: Heath Cranton Ltd., London.Pages: 187 + plates.Condition: Some shelf wear/marks to boards; no jacket. Ownership inscription to first page. Light foxing to pages with some spotting in places. One plate detached and another partially loose.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A voyage on a four-masted barque across San Francisco Bay via Mexico, Chile, Australia and Fiji. A lively tale full of high jinx, a mutiny, the many rogues etc. CONDITION Brown bds (lightly faded, unworn) 187 pages with 9 illus. Bright and crisp copy with light foxing to ends and edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1925, true 1st edition. Octavo. 187pp. Illustrated. Original cloth, gilt title to spine. Minor wear. Spotting/dust-soiling to text-block. Booksellers stamp to end paper. Sporadic mild spotting and toning internally. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. 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. Illustrated by Prater, Ernest; Fraser, Peter; Woodville, R. Caton; Inns,Kenneth; Wood, Stanley L.; Vedder, S.H.; Sutcliffe, Norman (illustrator).…

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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: My Greatest Air-Thrill - A British airman 'blinds' a German sub with his revolver; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - Part III - Mary Gaunt continues her amazing travels in China, with many photos; The Bulging Wall - a scary story from outside Havana; The Cry of the Lioness - a nurse in the South African bush is confronted by armed Kaffirs and calls upon lions for help; Hiding in a Fly-Wheel Pit - a negro burglar in a Cincinnati power-station attempts to evade capture; Adventures of a Newspaper-Man - Part I - Trips to the Underworld by Frederic Martyn; Fishing as a New Vocation - How to run your own Smack - article with nice photos; Those Russian Eggs - attempting to dispose of a shipload of rotten eggs; Romance of the World's Largest Buffalo Herd - Buffalo National Park, at Wainwright, Alberta; How the Horse-Stealers Were Outwitted - a story from Charleville, Queensland's great droving centre; My Adventures With the Hippopotamus - John Aldred Jordan relates thrilling experiences; The Ship of Misfortune - Canada Steamship Lines' Vessel "Turret Chief" was unlucky; Tracking the Diamond Smugglers - a fascinating mystery is solved in Uruguay; The Mysteries of Rhodesia - Photo-illustrated account of Vera F. Raffalorich's trip to the ancient ruins of Zimbabwe, in Rhodesia; A Tortoise Farm - curious farm at Lurais in Central France - article with photos; Lures; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2], 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Covers detached as one but present. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue.…