Heming Bracebridge (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, previous owner inscription to inside board, spotting to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 250 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some page corners folded. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and heavy staining to surfaces.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No date - circa 1930s. Octavo hardback. Pictorial cloth. Black and white frontispiece. vi, 250 pp. + 40 pp. adverts. Rubbed edges, otherwise Good condition. No dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 1939. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Previous owner's inscription and minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end-papers. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback assumed 1st ed. n.d. 250 pp Orange boards. Illustrated frontis plus 1 other full page illustration. The book is in good condition with no dust jacket. The boards are grubby and there is some foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+-to-Very Good. No Jacket. No publish date printed, possibly c.late 1940's to early 1950's (?) good-plus clean firm interior, no marks or inscriptions, contains a b&w f/p and one further b&w plate, a little dulled/light tone to page block, boards in vg clean firm condition showing only very slight usage, all tight and firm./.

1st ed. 1st edition, 1938. Lacks front free end paper; a few spots of foxing; binding tight; boards a little stained; spine lightly faded & worn. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

1st ed. 1st edition, 1939. A little light foxing; binding tight; spine faded, with bumping & wear at head & foot. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No Date (early 1940s). Hardback: dj is a little frayed on edges, price clipped, book is bound in red cloth with black lettering, spine tips and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, foredge foxing, a few page corners creased, else g. 8vo, 250pp. On rear flap is a justification for the news broadcasts to occupied Europe during WW2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. H/b; G+; ; 8vo; 250pp; red illustrated cover; splashes on rear cover; illustrated spine - man on parachute; b/w frontis; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Undated. Published circa 1937. Scarce in dustwrapper. An aviation novel.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First?. Red cloth titled in black on spine and upper front board, undated, 250 pp. Very tidy, just light foxing in foredges. Dust jacket is price clipped, tiny edge tears, slightly faded at the spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No print date, assumed First Edition, 1930s. A firm book with the usual signs of use and natural ageing. Black/wite Frontis. 250 pages,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of Heming s only crime novel. No dustjacket. Light edge wear. Page 171 is slightly wrinkled. The advertisement (on the last 38 pages) is slightly larger than the novel s pages causing the edges to wrinkle. In good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published by Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. of London in 1939. Hardcover. 1st edition. Book condition: Fair. Green boards with black titles to spine and to front board. Inside pages are intact but does suffer from foxing. No Dust Jacket. See photograph. Dims: 190mm x 130mm x 37mm. 288 pages.

Sampson Low London n.d. c 1930's. First edition. Red cloth, 250pp. Light foxing fep's, pages edges o/w good. Jacket- chipped & worn along edges, small piece missing lower spine & upper spine. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt.

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Hubin-listed crime fiction with a quasi-nautical element. Minor marginal toning to text-block, gift inscription to front pastedown; cloth very good; jacket neatly price-clipped with some edge wear and light soiling. Hubin-listed crime fiction with a quasi-nautical element. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A rare title indeed! Bracebridge Heming's only crime fiction title offered here in its original pictorial dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is price-clipped and has paper repair along the edges, as well as some closed tears and a long crease down the front The book is very good indeed with just the occasional spotting. A more comprehensive description and digital images available upon request. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Half-Calf. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 107 pages, consisting of 6 tales of the macabre & mysterious. Half calf, marbled boards, rubbed at extremes, olivine endpapers, blank half-title has name cut/removed from top outer corner, contents clean and fox free, hinge splitting at front edge of spine near bottom. Small slim octavo. A bracing adventure of mystery and ghost story writer and later creator of "Jack Harkaway", he died in 1901. He contributed most of the banned "Prostitution" section of Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor in early 1860's. Was educated at Eton and became a Barrister in Lincoln's Inn in 1862, saw so few cases he became known as "Briefless Bracebridge". Went on to a career as a writer and managing to put a fair amount of food on the table at it, his last work in 1899 was a Harkaway adventure. He was extremely well received in the USA and stayed there in the 1870's. ** The BL has only a reprint copy of 1866 with 2 titles joined "On the Line and Danger Signal". This single copy found seems to represent the only institutional copy located in the UK. Very Scarce. *SEE: Hubin Vol 4 of CRIME FICTION IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-2000.