William J Makin (78 results)

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. (spies, secret service).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Spine title rubbed and mostly illegible. Owner name label. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 327 pages.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Dayton / New York: The McCall Company 1935 First edition Pulp magazine in Pictorial wrappers,144 pages, illustrated. Edited by Blue Book Magazine with stories by William L. Chester, Leland Jamieson, Robert R. Mill, William J. Makin, Laurence Jordan, H. Bedford-Jones, William MacLeod Raine, Sidney Herschel Small, Francis Ide, Orval Chenevoeth. Contents page in Photos. Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops A very good copy with light cover creasing and wear, text paper lightly toned. Edges trimmed flush See Photos mag 21/E. Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. 1937. First Edition. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Some marginalia. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. "Being a Study Of And A Record of the King's Life Up-to-Date". Not dated. Edition and printing not known. In good plus russet coloured cloth boards, yellow titles to front and spine. The boards are quite firm and flat, top front edge a little marked; spine ends bumped. Lightly foxed and tanned free end papers; name and address of previous owner on front free end paper. Fairly clean cut edges. The text pages are in very good condition, tight and straight; end pages and one prelim foxed, otherwise clean. With "nearly 240 half-tone illustrations: (including frontispiece). Overall condition is very good. Without jacket.…

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Boards have some wear and sun fading to areas. Content has light toning. Toning to page ends. No DJ. Previous owner signature in ffep.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographs. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. …

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. End papers are more notably foxed. 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. Gilt lettering has become dull. Sunning to spine. Book has a slight forward lean.…

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Rear hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Sunning to spine.…

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Dayton / New York: The McCall Company. 1935 First edition Pulp magazine in Pictorial wrappers [about 6.5" x 10"], 144 pages, illustrated. Stories by William L. Chester, Leland Jamieson, Robert R. Mill, William J. Makin, Laurence Jordan, H. Bedford-Jones, William MacLeod Raine, Sidney Herschel Small, Francis Ide, Orval Chenevoeth. Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops Good only copy with cover creasing, small pencil mark/letter to the rear cover, text paper tanning/tanned with the margins browned and brittle and chipping with a bump to the top page edges with small margin tears. See Photos ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 144 pages . mag bx 3. cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 286 pages, illustrated. Moderate wear, fading to the spine; pages toned; a sound binding; good shape overall. No jacket. Contents include African Nights; Prancing N***ers; Barmaids and ladies; Diamonds; Tropic Prisons; East Coast; The Broken Men; Voodoo; America's Underworld; On Trek; With the Prince. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Countries & Travel; Inventory No: 204771. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stated First Edition. Solid hardcover stated first edition - black cloth boards with red cloth spine, gold lettering on cover and spine. Light soiling to boards, fading to spine background. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers, black top-stained upper page edges. Illustrated with photographs. 284 pages. …

Condition: Good. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 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. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Condition: Fair. 1935. No Edition Stated. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Blue 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. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hardback without dust jacket, size large 8vo, 288 pages. Illustrated with b/w plates. Boards are cocked & show edge wear & bumping + rubbing & marking. Cracking to front inner hinge. Browning & brown spotting to the fore edges & prelims + pencil name on the front end paper otherwise contents fair & complete.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First. pp.327 b/w plates deckled edge, clean tight copy with freckles to endpapers and front/back pieces, black cloth cover with gold gilt NTC symbol on front cover, faded gilt to title on spine, small tears/wear to top/bottom spines, bumped corners. spinge gutter broken inside back cover but all pages still attached Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dayton / New York: The McCall Company 1934 First Edition. Pulp magazine. Oversize [about 6.5" x 10"] pictorial wrappers, 144 pages, illustrated. Very Good copy with spine cocked a short tear to the head, scattered cover creasing, small underlined "dup" to the front cover, text paper tanning/tanned as usual but not yet brittle. See photos. mag9E. …

320pp. 8vo Illustrated in black and white Blue cloth First printing so stated Covers somewhat waterstained, spine tears reglued, spine top chipped, endpapers soiled, else clean tight copy: Good+/no dj.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 61, No. 5. Pulp magazine. Edited by Donald Kennicott. Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops for "Arms and Men, VIII: The Conquering Crossbow" by H. Bedford-Jones. Includes "Shock Troops of Justice" by Robert R. Mill; "The Gorge of Terror" (Red Wolf of Arabia series) by William J. Makin; "The Triple Flip" by Laurence Jordan; "The Worm Turns" by William MacLeod Raine; "Gypsy Blood" by William J. Makin; "The Glove of the Fox" by Sidney Herschel Small; "Hawk of the Wilderness" (serial) by William L. Chester; "The Pirate of Vaca Lagoon" (short novel) by Leland Jamieson. Prize Stories of Real Experience: "Six Die in Vain" by Francis Idle; "Ten Years in the Foreign Legion" by Orval Chenevoeth; "Banker's Luck" by Victor Standing; "The Warning" by F. W. Galloway; "A Son of the Frontier" by John Abernathy. Illustrated by Monte Crews, John F. Clymer, Harve Stein, Peter Kuhlhoff, L. R. Gustavson, John Richard Flanagan, and Jeremy Cannon [Herbert Morton Stoops]. Creasing; tanning; edge and corner wear with minor tears; a little rubbing; minor soiling. Book.…

1st edition. Pulp fiction magazine. Includes one featured series (Arms & Men VII - The Shield of Armgrim by Bedford-Jones), a serial novel (Hawk of the Wilderness-continued by Mill), a novellette (Guiana Gold by Coxe), seven short stories, five true stories including My Visit To the Stone Age by Stefansson). Nice bright tight copy of collector*s issue. 7 x 10, 144 pp, b/w illus & ads. Near Fine unmarked, very little wear, backstrip intact, very faint bookstore stamp on front cover. Pulp Magazine in color illus wraps (cover by Herbert Morton Stoops), side-stapled.…

Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Glassine wrapper. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles. 320 s., [1] k. tabl. : il. ; 26 cm. VG. Glassine wrapper is missing many pieces. Foxing to end papers. Otherwise clean and unmarked.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 65, No. 4. Pulp magazine. Edited by Donald Kennicutt. Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops. Includes "The Reurn of the Red Wolf" by William J. Makin; "The Ivory Butt-plate" by Luke Short; "The Blooming Turk" by Bill Adams; "Warriors in Exile" by H. Bedford-Jones; "Three Over Deep Water" by Leland Jamieson; "The Rookie's Rabbit" by Robert R. Mill; "One Against a Wilderness" by William L. Chester; "Ships and Men" by H. Bedford-Jones & Capt. L. B. Williams; "Gunpowder Gold" (serial) by Gordon Keyne; "The Island Monster" (novelette) by Arthur D. Howden Smith. Prize Stories of Real Experience: "A Head-Hunter Hero" by Maj. Edward (Tex) O'Rielly; "One Arctic Night" by George Stephens; "Always Face an Open Window" by Tracy Richardson; "A Texas Ranger" by Sgt. Ira Aten; "Made in America: The Dying Hogger" by Carl Sandburg. Illustrated by Austin E. Briggs, Paul Chapman, George Avison, Jeremy Cannon [Herbert Morton Stoops], Grattan Condon, Monte Crews, Yngve Soderberg, Frederic A. Anderson, Peter Kuhlhoff, John Clymer, and others. Tanning; edge and corner wear; minor creasing and rubbing. Magazine. …

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 65, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Edited by Donald Kennicutt. Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops. Includes "The Assassins of Angora" by William J. Makin; "Visitors from Venus" by Anthony Rud; "Warriors in Exile" (V) by H. Bedford-Jones; "The Right Kind of Tough" by Luke Short; "From Hangtown to the Sea" by Kenneth Perkins; "The Case of Young Steve" by Robert R. Mill; "Ships and Men" (X) by H. Bedford-Jones & Capt. L. B. Williams; "Freedom's Highwayman" (complete novel) by Ewing Walker; "The Valley Stronghold" (pt 2 of 3) by Gregorio Somers. Real Experiences: "A Wanderer's Scrapbook" by James Francis Dwyer; "The Dragon of Komodo" by W. Douglas Burden; "War in the Lava Beds" by Maurice Fitzgerald; "The Flying Headsman" by Roland D. Doane. Illustrated by Austin Briggs, John Clymer, Jeremy Cannon [Herbert Morton Stoops], Arthur Jameson, George Avison, Monte Crews, Frederick Anderson & Yngve Soderberg, Oscar Howard, and L. R. Gustavson. Minor edge tears; minor creasing; edge nicks and wear; tanning. Book.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. No dust jacket. Minor wear to cloth boards, with sun fading and slight fraying to the spine. A tan to the page edges. A previous owner's name on the flyleaf. The rear free end page has been removed. Minor cracking at the hinges, but textblock firm and unaffected. Contents clear and unmarked throughout. A good condition book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, surface of covers a little faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Wraps. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 58, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Edited by Donald Kennicott. Cover art by Joseph Chenoweth for "Murder Island" (novel; pt. 1) by Leland Jamieson. Includes "After Worlds Collide" (conclusion) by Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie; "The Rambling Ram-Lamb: by Arthur K. Akers; "The Gold Bar" by H. De Vere Stacpoole; "War in the Wilderness" by Vingie E. Roe; "The Drums of Omdurman" by William J. Makin; "The Secret of Banda Sea" by Clarence Herbert New; "Death for Cinderella" (novelette) by Forbes Parkhil. Prize Stories of Real Experience: "The Blizzard" by W. D. Gay; "White Hunter" by Roger Courtney; "Abandon Ship!" by Capt. Milton Hartman; "Drug-store Detective" by Bill Adams; "The Sky-High Wedding" by Fred Berkey. Illustrated by L. R. Gustavson, Everett Lowry, Margery Stocking, John F. Clymer, Robert Fink, George Avison, R. F. James, and Wilwerding. Mild upper end stain; with associated wear to front cover upper foredge corner; corner wear with minor losses; creasing; tanning; minor soiling. Book. …

Undated but possibly 1939; 1st edition with numerous B&W illustrations; tightly bound in maroon cloth with yellow lettering to front and spine; edges and corners a little worn; spine slightly faded; back cover panel faintly marked. Page fore-edges lightly discoloured. Internally, a little foxing to outer pages; a few tiny tears to page edges; otherwise, a good, clean copy. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Boards with moderate wear and with gilt spine lettering faded.; Impressions from the countries around the Red Sea. Chapters include: Harem Exiles, The House of the Grave-Robbers, Ethiopia, Coasting Arabia, The Pilgrims, Slaves, and Confessions of a Hashish Smoker.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 327 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. x, 288 pp., half-title, frontis. b/w plates, cloth, title gilt on spine, heavy foxing on the first & last few pages, weak spine. #4715.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. A largely photographic record of Edward VIII's reign. Includes almost 240 half tone illustrations. 320pp. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Light rubbing to boards. Foxing to endpapers.