Hesketh H E (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1899, First Edition, Very Good/no dj, 12mo., 311pp., green cloth hardcover, bright gold decoration & lettering on cover & backstrip, binding tight, text unmarked, fiction.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9781566764131.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. E. A. Wilson (illustrator). Pp. 134. Lacking spine but spine inside book. Else good. 1921.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. H M Cundall "The Victor Rienaecker Collection" / E Hesketh Hubbard "Modern Houses in Chelsea" / A L Baldry "The Paintings of Mr W E Webster" / Alexander J Finberg "Turner's Etchings" / Stephen Gwynn "The Art of Miss W M Geddes" (U.P.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lady Helen Graham - E.G. Caldwell (illustrator). 1st Edition. One inch tear top of the spine.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lady Helen Graham & E.G. Caldwell (illustrator). 1st Edition. 274 pp.+ Photo Plt of Author at Frontis (With Tissue Guard) & 6 Color Plts & 48 Other BW Photo Plts, Orig Red Hardback with Caribou Head on F Cover, Gilt Spine Title (Bright), Top Edge Gilt, 4to, F hinge reinforced else VG, no DJ, 1st ed (Attractive) (Mainly Hunting in Northern Canada).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. A double sheet print, image area approx. 24 x 35 cms. A rural residence with symmetrical massing and landscaped setting, complementing the interior scheme. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the period's architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; Unframed Prints : Old; PRINTS : Buildings & Places. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. A double sheet print, image area approx. 25 x 35 cms. A country lodge with domestic refinement and welcoming layout, reflecting estate infrastructure. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the period's architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; Unframed Prints : Old; PRINTS : Buildings & Places. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Very Fine original fine-grain black cloth, red end-papers, in Very Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Jacket art by Deborah-McMillion-Nering. Limited edition of 500 copies. Originally published under the pen name 'E. and H. Heron' in Pearson's Ma gazine in 1898 and 1899, whereupon the tales were then collected into book form as Ghosts: The Experiences of Flaxman Low (1899) under the author's real names.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. With 72 illustrations by E.B. Minns. Introduction by Richard Dalby. Pictorial boards, issued without dust wrapper. 200 numbered copies printed, this being copy #171. An as new copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW UK HARDBACK. LIMITED to 200 copies. 196/200. 72 illustrations by E.B. MINNS. Introduction by RICHARD DALBY. Cover Artwork by ANDREW KING. NO DJ, as Published. NO remainder mark. | SHIPS AIRMAIL INTERNATIONALLY.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. B.E. Minns (illustrator). First edition. Copy 172 of a limitation of 200 copies published. Collects twelve Flaxman stories. Cover illustration by Andrew King. Seventy-two illustrations by B.E. Minns. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Minns B. E. (illustrator). Blue, black & cream illustrated front cover plus title. Cream title to spine. Number81 of a limited edition of 200. With 72 illustration. Internally as new.No damage to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Third impression of the Pearson Cheap edition, originally published in 1916 and written by Prichard and his mother. The book comprises several experiences of Flaxman Low, credited as being the first psychic detective. The stories had been previously published in periodicals and collected in 1899's The Experiences of Flaxman Low, of which this current volume contains selections only. The book is Near Fine in publisher's red cloth, with no fading or marking. There is some bumping and minor wear to the extremities. Very good dust jacket. The jacket is lovely, bright and crisp, with areas of modest wear and damage as befits an inexpensively produced 100-year-old book. There is no significant loss to the jacket at all. It is a lovely copy of a delicate book. Note that, despite Pearson's assertion on the spine, these stories are pure fiction, and delightful at that.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 117pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Grey cloth, lettered, ruled and decorated in black. Backstrip ends and corner tips gently rubbed. A somewhat shaken copy, with the binding cracked and tender at the title page and at one other gathering, and a single text leaf detached and laid-in. Paperstock toned. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and a US book dealer inkstamp to the base of the front pastedown. A fair copy. A pseudonymous collection of tales concerning an occult detective, one of the earliest such publications (these six stories were originally published in 'Pearson's Magazine').

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Multiple, inc. Frank Brangwyn, E. H. Hubbard, Percy Smith, Hugh Paton, Leslie M. Ward. (illustrator). First edition. An uncommon first edition of this detailed work on etching and its adjacent practices by members of The Print Society. The first edition of this work.Uncommon.With 10 monochrome plates including a frontispiece etching by Frank Brangwyn, and 5 vignette diagrams illustrating standard artistic printing methods. Collated complete. Includes errata slip at the Foreword (pp.8-9) and advertisements to the rear, as well as two copies of advertisements for subscription to The Bookplate Magazine titled 'The Bookplate Magazine during 1921'. Each of these advertisements feature a front page illustration titled 'Fallitur Hora Legendo'. This is a greatly informative work on etching and its adjacent practices created by members of The Print Society, with sections dedicated to exploring dry point, aquatint, and mezzotint. In the publisher's original quarter linen cloth binding. Externally, smart with just one noticeable mark to the rear board and some dulling to the colour of both boards at the edges, as well as to the spine. Slight bumping to the top corners. Some spotting and toning to the fore edges. Internally, firmly bound with a few scattered spots and light toning throughout, but otherwise pages bright and clean. One small annotation, not affecting readability (pp. 144). Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. 12mo. 116 + (2) + (2)pp. Publisher's original grey cloth covers with black lettering on front & spine, 4 vertical black stripes with small roundels every 5cm along on front. White eps. 2ppbook list at rear. Slight darkening to spine, front & rear bottom corners bumped, 0.2cm shelf knocks/rubs top/bottom of spine, slight grubby/fox marks on covers. Contents slight browning throughout else clean & tight. Attractive copy. ***. VG.

Condition: Very good. First abridged edition. Small 8vo. Original dark grey cloth blocked in black. Usual mild toning to margins; cloth a little bumped and rubbed at extremities, but overall VG. An attractive abridgment of the weird & supernatural tales of psychic detective Flaxman Low, written by mother & son team 'E. & H. Heron'. The stories first appeared in Pearson's Magazine (1899). Hesketh was a prolific turn-of-the-century author, creator of then then very popular sadistic bandit character Don Q., as noted by Bleiler now "deservedly forgotten". Book.

First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 117. Two pages of adverts at rear. Grey cloth decorated and lettered in black. Six stories of the occult detective Flaxman Low.On the front free endpaper is what seems to be a Japanese ownership inscription and on the title-page is a Japanese inkstamp. Very good. No dustwrapper.

Half title, 2pp cata.; browned. Orig. grey cloth lettered & blocked in black; a bit spotted & rubbed, extremities sl. bumped. Gift inscription 'Eve - Xmas 1917' on leading f.e.p., ownership inscription 'F. Hood 1917' on p.1. A good-plus copy. Copac records one copy of this impression in Senate House Library. First published in 1916. A collection of six ghost stories including 'The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith', 'The Story of Medhans Lea', 'The Story of the Moor Road', 'The Story of Baelbrow', 'The Story of the Grey House', and 'The Story of Yand Manor House'. The stories follow the adventures of the occult detective and ghost hunter Flaxman Low. Taking after Sherlock Holmes, Det. Low solves mysteries with no tools other than his extraordinary powers of observation. E. and H. Heron were the pseudonyms of mother and son writers Hesketh, 1876-1922, and Kate Pritchard (dates unknown). The stories first appeared in Pearson's Magazine in 1899.

First edition, first printing in the 12 individual original parts. Publisher's pictorial paper covers. 12 volumes, loosely laid into the publisher's original cloth cases. With 95 black and white illustrations throughout the text by Benjamin Edward Minns. Each volume in good or very good condition, the bindings firm with some rubbing and chipping to the extremities, resulting in areas loss to the spines of most volumes. The contents, with some toning to the cheap quality paperstock and foxing to the occasional page, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The covers of four volumes are detached (Jan 1899, April 1899, May 1899, June 1899), with two rear covers missing (Jan 1899, May 1899). The publisher's green cloth cases, decorated in green, brown and gilt, are in near fine condition with a little rubbing and bumping at the edges. All volumes are in entirely original condition, without repair or restoration. Rare in this form. A collection of supernatural mysteries featuring Flaxman Low, who is considered one of the earliest occult detectives. 'Real Ghost Stories' was issued in serialized form by Cyril Arthur Pearson in two series of six parts between 1898 and 1899 written by Hesketh V. Prichard and Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard under the pen name E. and H. Heron. Every six months the publisher would take the unsold stock of the individual monthly parts and bind them into decorated cloth boards supplying a new title page and discarding the original wrappers in the process. The first edition in book form, published by Pearson under the title 'Ghosts: Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low', collected all 12 stories, with a frontispiece and 12 illustrations (far fewer than the 95 published in Pearsons Magazine). (Bleiler) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Condition: Fair. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1916. Reissue of the 1899 Edition (sometimes seen described as a Second Edition or Impression), containing only the first six of that edition's twelve stories. 12mo; 117pp + publisher's imprint & 2pp ads. Publisher's blue-gray cloth with dark blue/black lettering, Boards heavily rubbed and pushed along edges, corners, and spine ends, with a good amount of soiling / smudging to surface and scuffing down joints. Front joint cracked. Half title, full title, and a couple interior pages cleanly separated but laid in, with a few other interior pages close to the same. Opens easily between gatherings with occasional gaps between. Binding feels a bit loose but otherwise holding. Pages toned and brittle, but unmarked. Rough copy, but complete. Collection of stories following the adventures of Flaxman Low -- fiction's first Psychic Detective -- published under pseudonym by Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and his mother, Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard. The stories originally appeared in Pearson's Magazine from 1898 - 1899, with a first book collection by Pearson in 1899. [Bleiler Supernatural 799].