Rupert Grayson (34 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. First Edition. Light foxing and fading, else VG-VG+ (no Dust Jacket).

Condition: Used: Very Good. This is a very good clean copy with no inscriptions. It has a very good dustjacket. It will be posted from the UK within 24 hours in a padded envelope by a family run bookstore Please let me know if you require photos of the actual book and I will send them through to you.…

1st edition, hardback, 183pp, illustrated, edges slightly browned, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper, not price-clipped. ISBN: 0854684522.

Hardcover. Condition: Worn. No Jacket. First Edition. The pages are lightly browned with some age spots. The cover is faded and worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. In bright orange boards with blue lettering. With blanik bookplate, faint date stamp on first free endpaper, very light soil to boards. A crisp, colorful copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Missing. George Newnes Limited [Published date: 1939]. NOT a first, but an early edition. Hard cover, 293 p. In acceptable condition/ NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Moderate to heavy scuffing and soiling to covers, with a few 1/4" tears at the top and bottom of spine. Pg 9-10 has been torn out, but is still present and laid in. Remainder of binding is still intact. Pages have moderate aging but are otherwise unmarked, with occasional spotting and soiling. NOT Ex-library. An acceptable reading copy only, but scarce in any condition. Sir Rupert Grayson (1897 - 1991), born into money and privilege, was educated at Harrow and then served with the Irish Guards in WWI, in which he was twice wounded. He served along with Rudyard Kipling's son and the same shell that wounded Grayson killed Kipling's son. Thereafter, Kipling treated Grayson as a surrogate son. Back in London after the war, Grayson began a career in writing and publishing. He wrote a popular series of thrillers about a precursor to James Bond named Gunston (Gun) Cotton. Gun Cotton was a secret agent whose takes desperate chances in order to thwart the schemes of those who threaten the peace and security of the British Empire, and still manages to find time for some romance. In the mid-1930's Grayson headed for Hollywood and became friends with, among others, David Niven, Clarke Gable and Robert Montgomery, to whom Grayson writes a short note at the beginning of Gun Cotton in Hollywood. This installment in the series has Gun Cotton matching wits with kidnappers in Hollywood.…

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. In protective mylar cover. (mystery fiction ).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "First Edition" stated on copyright page, hardcover in orange cloth printed in black, clean tight and unmarked, binding has a slight lean, rental library label on ffep but no other marks; pastedowns slightly browned from the acidic glue used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In orange cloth with slight darkening to cloth on spine. Small name stamp. No jacket.

hardcover. First Edition. VG+ (no Dust Jacket). No US edition.

Hard Cover. First Edition. First US edition, very good with no dust jacket. Orange cloth with black lettering on spine and front board. Small dampstain inside front pastedown which left a long, thin area of orangeish discoloration on about the first ten pages in the book. At most the line of discoloration is about 3" long and 1/8" wide, and it becomes progressively smaller each page. The orange cloth on the spine is slightly sunned, and there is a small black stain near the head of the spine. No names or other markings in or on book. The first Gun Cotton novel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Gun Cotton Adventure Nine by Rupert Grayson (First Edition) Ex-libris to front paste down. Inscription to FFE. Light foxing throughout. Presumed First Edition, no later printings mentioned. BOOK.

Hardback. Reprint. Clothbound hardback in good condition Pages clean a little wear to the edges 285 pp. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Secret Agent in Africa by Rupert Grayson (First Edition) Ex-libris to front paste down. Slight lean to text block. Light fraying to spine ends. First Edition (stated). BOOK.

Condition: Good. 1931. 2nd Impression. 291 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Fraying to cloth to spine edges. Boards are slightly warped.

1st edition, 2nd issue (by Newnes), in buff cloth with black lettering. page fore-edge a little foxed; text clean in firm binding; minor mark on front board Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Third Print (first printed 1928). Hardback copy in red cloth boards with black lettering to spine. No dustjacket. 287pp. Not library copy, neat ink inscription to half title page, some page foxing. (12/6).

First Edition. Pp. 218(last blank); boards a trifle faded; price-clipped dust wrapper, rubbed; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; Macmillan, London, 1969. First edition. *Autobiography.

, 284 pages, US edition titled 'Gunston Cotton in Mexico' Second impression , book has a slight lean, edges rubbed, few light marks to rear board, neat owner's name on front free endpaper, in good condition , blue cloth with black titles to spine Octavo Hardback ISBN.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 299 pp Bound in black cloth with gilt titles the book is in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Collectible first US edition, first printing of Sir Rupert Stanley Harrington Grayson, 4th Baronet of Ravenspoint's Gunston Cotton: A Romance of Secret Service, the first in a series of 13 Gunston (Gun) Cotton spy novels, also his first to be published in the US. "FIRST EDITION" so stated on copyright page. Includes scarce dust jacket with $2.00 price intact. Archival Brodart sleeve included. From Troubador: "Born into the wealthy Liverpool shipbuilding family of Sir Henry Grayson, Rupert, leaving Harrow, joined the Irish Guards and was wounded in WWI by the shell that killed Rudyard Kipling?s son, John. He married twice, but only for a brief period of time. He roamed the world as a seafarer, author, talent scout, king?s messenger, eccentric, romantic, epicure, wit, and friend of the colourful, gifted and famous. He wrote 16 thriller novels, was made a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre by the Pope, and dodged death from a drugged-up army officer on the Moscow-Leningrad Express. He jumped ship as a seaman in New York, suspected of murdering the captain, travelled the world carrying secret documents to British embassies, and encountered the traitor-spy Kim Philby. He devised a cocktail with Scott Fitzgerald in Paris one boozy night, and discovered verses by Noel Coward in a remote guest house in Peru. His life, oiled by charm, threads through a string of enchanting interludes. He claimed to have dedicated himself ?unselfishly and wholeheartedly to extracting as much pleasure from life as it has to offer? ? a pleasure to be shared." 320 pp. 7 3/4" x 5 3/8". Tight, unmarked copy with very light shelf wear. Unclipped dust jacket with tiny chip to head of spine panel and light fading to spine panel. A presentable copy of an early and hard-to-find spy thriller. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.…

1st edition in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Cloth a bit worn with light specks and small hole (insect nibbling?) in front board. Spine head/foot a bit bumped and worn. Front hinge cracked and repaired. Some creases/wrinkling and small remnants of labels on front free endpaper. Some light foxing and browning in front and rear of book. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).…

Rubbed black cloth with gilt lettering on spine; wear at head and foot of spine, and fore-corners; foxing on end papers and page edges; top edge red; binding tight. Used - Good. Good Hardback (No dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 553. Original publisher's cloth binding in red, lettered silver at spine. Dust jacket in red yellow, lettered black and red. Short stories listed by 19 authors. Contributors include Tolbot Mundy, Vernon loder, Marthe McKenna, Lawrence W. Meynell, Dennis Wheatley, Rupert Grayson and Captain A.O. Pollard. Very good in very good dust jacket. Covers mottled and faded. Dust jacket slightly discoloured and nicked at edges.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. The boards have a stain to the left hand edge of the front panel and two very small stain marks in the centre. Some other light surface marking to boards. There is a small patch of fraying to the edge of the spine next to the rear panel towards the base and a crease down the centre of the spine. The corners are bumped with fraying to the top front corner and the bottom rear corner. The page edges are browned with a light stain to the top edges. The endpapers are browned but other than a few light marks to a some of the pages they are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Hardback, no dust wrapper. Second impression July 1940 of the 1939 first edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to Eric Galley on tp. Blue cloth, black spine titles. 287pp. Top board has some light staining to cloth. Spine a little sunned and spotted. A few marks to edge of text block and paper somewhat toned. A sound, VG copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. First Edition. Light to moderate wear. No dust jacket. A nice copy! W3D.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Hardback. No Dust jacket. First Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound copy with browning to end papers, tiny book store label on bottom edge of inside back cover, some browning to edges of interior pages, slight spine cock, bumped corners, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. No Signature. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. PICTORIAL DUST JACKET (UNCLIPPED); PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND UNDER THE TITLE "GUN COTTON." FIRST EDITION (SO STATED) VERY GOOD.