Draycot (40 results)

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning, particularly to spine.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. The books is in very worn condition. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Condition: Good. Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear, minor creasing to spine. Book has clean age-toned contents, pen front endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and closed page ends.

Condition: Good. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning Owner message to end paper.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 28 pages. (M9).

Condition: Good. 1935. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Presentation plate to front free end-paper. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends, with fraying cloth and small splits. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Undated. 249pp, [7]pp publisher's ads. Red cloth-covered boards, black titles on spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine; loss to spine ends, spine detached at front joint, cloth fraying; corners rubbed, cloth worn through; boards a little soiled. Text block edges starting to tan. Free endpapers starting to tan. Gutter cracked and stretched at half-title page; volume very loose. Some light soiling and foxing to prelims.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Browne, Gordon (illustrator). x, 86pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards; some black and white illustrations. 12mo. Lightly bumped spine ends, split in front hinge from bottom to middle. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan and fox. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Gutters stretched in places, volume very tight. Internally clean, neat, bright and tight.

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Albert Lock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some moderate marks and staining to surfaces.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Missing DJ if issued, lightly sunned spine, some wear to edge of boards, Sunday School presentation plate dated 1935 with the name Kenneth Nowell to inside front cover. ; Assumed first edition, first printing with no other printings listed, 1927. Orange cloth boards with black lettering and decorations to front cover and spine. Colour frontis and cover illustrations by D. C. Eyles. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 320 pages; A wonderful adventure tale, of skullduggery on the high seas, by Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans KCB DSO SGM who was a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer, as well of a writer of rattling good tales for boys. This was first published in 1927.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. split at front top of spine approx 1 inch Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

1st edn., Hardback, no dust wrapper. Red cloth with yellow titles and decorations. 254pp Neat gift inscriotion on reverse of frontispiece. A Small slpit at top of spine else red cloth clean and sound. Binding tight. Paper toned and a few signs of use. Generally a clean reading copy.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Date. col frontisp, dec cloth with colour paste-on, pict spine, sl edge wear, pages yellowed on edges, vg. 8vo, 255pp. Printed author dedication dated 1922, inscr dated 1928.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. The boards are shelf rubbed and marked.Previous owner's inscriptions.Some tanning and foxing.Well bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A Capital Story and Jigsaw Puzzle solution in one book. Illustrated boards with red cloth to spine. 42 piece jigsaw in pocket attached to inside rear cover. Cover shows slight bumping to extremities & minor scuff to rear. Remains of old glue marks to verso front cover. Ownership inscription in ink to ffep. Minor foxing mainly to epps. text clean & bright. Jigsaw complete with only one tab partially missing, clean & bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardback bound in burgundy cloth with gilt titling and design to spine and upper board. 19 × 12.5cm, 254pp. Signed and dedicated by Draycot Montagu Dell to the ffep. "To dear old Lil, with all my love, Mont. Draycot M Dell, 1921". Dell (1888-1940) was an author specialising in boy's adventure yarns and was a close friend of Edgar Wallace. He is (according to Peter Haining) the author of an early King Kong story (in Boys Magazine, Oct 1933), and possibly finished the screenplay for the famous 1933 King Kong film for which Edgar Wallace had been commissioned but died in 1932. A rip-roaring adventure set on the ships of Queen Elizabeth's navy. Condition: Fair. The covers are rubbed, the pages are tanned, the inner binding secure but a little delicate, however it remains perfectly readable. Signed by Author(s).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 316 printed pages of text. Spine ends and corners creased, tan age spots to the end papers. Very Good condition book in repaired dust wrapper with 10 mm piece of paper missing to the foot of the spine, small chips to the corners and upper spine tips, not price clipped 7/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Glossop (illustrator). Undated HB, c. 1950s with pictorial front board, plain red cloth spine and neat prev owner inscription on FFEP. Boards are dulled/scuffed with edgewear with a few faint spots to prelims. 127pp. incl. b/w frontispiece. COMPLETE with all jigsaw pieces in rear pocket whic solves the puzzle in the story.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 253pp. HARDCOVER Very clean copy internally. No inscriptions. (Light browning to ffep.) Very tight & square bindingwith little sign of use. External cloth is bright & clean, but spine is sunned. (Title still remains bright & clearly visible.) Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.

Hardback. Condition: G+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Undated. Lacks rear endpaper.

First Edition. August 7, 1920 issue, No. 61. Tall octavo, original illustrated paper wrappers. Uncommon children's magazine, this issue with part of serial concerning "Dick Prince, a youthful film star, [who] is on a caravan tour with Muriel Heather, another film player". Also Charlie Chaplin comic strip at rear panel. Very Good but for stain to spine area.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no d/j. Blue boards have a slightly bumped spine and corners, prize sticker dated 1933-1934, o/w good.

Condition: Good. Ghosts of the Spanish Main by Draycot Dell, 1935, 1st edition + dust-jacket.Publisher: George Newnes, London.Binding: hardback cloth.Description / Condition: Some edge wear, tears and creases to jacket. Light edge wear to boards. Light foxing to pages with a little spotting in places. A nice copy.Please see pictures for further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No date, c.1934. Blue cloth boards with bumped spine. Bluebird sea and seaplane design. Minor foxing. No Jacket.

First Edition. Edition not stated but possibly 1st edition, 1939. Tightly bound in red cloth with black lettering to spine; spine browned and back faded and patchy. Internally, endpapers yellowed; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small tidy 'Falmouth 15/6/46' to FEP. Presents well in very good DJ.

Hardback. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Not dated but perhaps about 1917. 170 x 105 mm. Pale blue cloth lettered and decoirated in darker blue. LACKING THE SPINE. Clean text but SOME NOTICEABLE BRONWING OF PAPER. So Just a poor working copt.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good+ Blue boards with seaplane motif on front at the bottom and black titles to spine. Some slight mottling to boards. Internally clean, tight and bright. No inscriptions. Dust jacket no longer present.

Condition: Very Good. Jigsaw puzzle +illustrations by Glossop Large octavo red cloth spined pictorial boards (tips slightly worn/rubbed) 127pp+ envelope pocket to rear to contain the puzzle. Puzzle complete except for two processes broken & lost, a few others repaired. *The solution to the story lies in the treasure map puzzle 1 volume. Hardcover.