Hendry Frank C (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Frank H. Mason (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition and printing, In fairly good black cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. The boards are firm and flat; a little marked each side of spine; cloth on spine ends torn. Foxed and lightly tanned free end papers and cut edges. The text block is quite tight, straight and with foxing on many of the pages, especially to end pages and Prelims. "With 17 oil paintings and 57 pen and ink drawings by Frank H. Mason". No dedications etc. Good condition. Without jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Frank H.Mason. (illustrator). 1st ed. Roy 8vo. 285pp. Illus col. frontis & 16 photogravure plates + pen & ink drawings by Frank H. Mason. The bulk of the book comes under the heading "mainly historical", the remainder "mainly fiction. Interesting book certainly enhanced by the illustrations. The boards are a little rubbed & stained. There is a name & date on the front paste & a little occasional foxing but generally clean & sound internally,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. WITH 17 OIL PAINTINGS AND 57 PEN AND INK DRAWINGS BY FRANK H MASON RI. NO DJ, SHELF WEAR AND MARKS AND STAINS ON BOARDS, CLOTH SUNNED ON SPINE, CLOTH WEAR AND CHIPS ON SPINE ENDS, WEAR AT OTHER EXTREMITIES, SOME PLAY IN HINGES, FOXING ON EPS AND TEXT BLOCK SIDES, OTHERWISE GOOD. 1100 GRAMS.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket, wear/marking to boards. Foxing/tanning to end papers and page edges. Photograph available on request.

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Hardcover. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed Oxford-blue cloth w/ unclipped mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 285, indexed. Illustrated with 17 b-w halftone plates from oil paintings and 57 pen and ink drawings by Frank H. Mason, R. I. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Hendy began his seafaring career sailing in four-masted barques around the Horn. He later sailed between Britain and Nova Scotia before trasnsferring to steamers in the Persian Gulf. He worked for the Cunard Line before moving east to command steamers in the South China Sea. During WW1 he served in the Indian Army on the North-West Frontier and Mesopotamia. He was with General Townshend on the ill-fated advance on Baghdad and narrowly escaped capture by being seconded to the Royal Navy to take a gun-boat down the Tigris. Henly also wrote under the nom de plume "Shalimar" In exceptionally good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. (Ref.V1+) Dark blue boards with one or two foxes to board edges else minimal signs of wear. Illustrated with oil paintings and ink drawings by Frank H. Mason. Previous owner's name and address to top of ffep. Greyed and foxed top and foredge. Contents otherwise good and generally unmarked. DJ is yellowed and darkened at edges with some rubbing to edges and a few short tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hard cover book in good- condition. No dust jacket. General wear and marks to boards, particularly to front board. Fading to spine with bumps to head and foot of spine. Book slightly rolled. Spotting to all edges of text block with extensive foxing to front and rear endpapers. Some foxing to edges of lightly tanned pages in places throughout. Bookplate to front paste-down. 8vo. 285pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frank H. Mason (illustrator). Limited Edition. 1938, Limited Edition - ONLY 50 COPIES. This being no.4. SIGNED by both the author and artist. With an original drawing by Frank Mason tipped-in at the limitation page. Small Quarto. 285pp. Original quarter leather, over cream buckram sides. Gilt title to spine. Rubbing to head and tail, some slight fading also. Minor dust-soiling to extremities. Spotting to text-block. Otherwise generally clean within. A 'Very Good' copy. Scarce. Signed by Author(s).