Adelaide Manning (71 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. In the mid-1930s, Joseph Goebbels is being bribed by Jews to let them escape Germany, the Chief of the German Police doesn't want him to get away with it, and the British are receiving messages in an outdated code. The second Tommy Hambledon spy thriller, first published as 'Pray Silence" in 1940, and a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. Gently bumped.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Tommy Hambledon is in Switzerland to investigate a new explosive being devised by a German chemist. They are both reported killed in an explosion, but soon the chemist is in Berlin working for the Nazis. Oddly, he has the same fingerprints as Tommy! Spine head gently bumped.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Tommy Hambledon of British Intelligence has the help of two safecrackers in identifying Nazi spies. Reprint, first published in 1943. Very gently handled.

Condition: VERY GOOD. Vintage book club edition. A Tony Hambledon spy adventure. 250 pp., Very good condition in red boards (some offsetting to endpapers), no dustjacket.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good-. [1st printing] Jan. 1947; #76; endpages are illustrated maps of France and Germany. Cover art is uncredited. World War two espionage story. Spine sunned with a little creasing and minor soiling; laminate peeling at edges with scarring at three corners; tanning. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The second Tommy Hambledon espionage thriller, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Early reprint, published in England as Pray Silence. Lightly bumped and rubbed, front hinge slightly loose, with the previous owner's gift inscription on the front end paper, dated August 1942.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Tommy Hambledon breaks through the Iron Curtain to rescue a small boy, the future king of a European country, trapped in Russia. Bumped with a bit of wear at the spine ends, spine a bit sunned. Binding square and solid, faint 1" drip mark to the front board.

Condition: VERY GOOD. Book club edition. Omnibus edition containing 3 classic Tony Hambledon spy adventures - Drink to Yesterday, A Toast to Tomorrow, and Alias Uncle Hugo. (The first one in the series, 'Drink to Yesterday' was a Haycroft-Queens Cornerstone.) A Crime Club selection. 480 pp. Dust jacket by Ronald Clyne. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Canadian edition, first printing of the sixth novel in the "Tommy Hambledon" series. A 1 1/2-inch tear to the rear panel of the dustjacket. Sun fading to the spine. In very good / good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Canadian edition, first printing of the sixth novel in the "Tommy Hambledon" series. Earlier owner tape re-enforced the backside of the dustjacket along the folds. A 2-inch tear to the rear fold. First free end-page has a small spot of staining. Price clipped otherwise in very good / fair condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The Paris police view Tommy Hambledon as the prime suspect in a murder. First U.S. edition. Ex-library with internal markings and stickers on the jacket spine and lower front. Bumped and rubbed, spine cocked, with tape residue to the boards and pastedowns where a jacket protector had been attached. Jacket rubbed with light wear at the edges, loss to the fore edge of the front flap. Price intact, in Brodart. Ex-Library.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition First Printing. Book #8 in the spy series featuring MI5 agent Tommy Hambledon, his first postwar adventure set in London. Published as a Crime Club selection by Doubleday & Co. in 1947 (FIRST EDITION, first printing), this hardcover 8vo has matte black cloth-covered boards lettered in red to front & spine. Condition is VG+: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages moderately tanned, heavier to all endpapers, but completely unmarked. A hint of corner bumping. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $2 price lined through) is Good: bright & colorful, but with significant chipping at corners, rubbing to extremities; spine missing larger sections of paper; nicely protected in new mylar cover free! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. A Bantam Book, complete and unabridged. No. 76. 248, [4 p. 17 cm. Maps on endpapers. Paperback. Spine faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. FIRST U. S. EDITION hardcover, bound in black cloth, with faded red lettering on spine, is in VG condition, having slight crimping to top and bottom spine; corners slightly bumped and worn; a small whitish mark in the back cover hinge near bottom; normal age-toning to pages. Dust jacket, designed and painted by Suzanne Suba, enclosed in protective mylar (mylar not pictured), is in POOR condition, having small tearing at top and bottom spine; tear at top of front; small tears to edges and wear to corners; rubbing/scuffing to surface. A humorous and light-hearted ghost story novel written by two authors, Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles, and published in the United States as by "Manning Coles." Fiction. Ghost. Novel. British. 20th Century. Supernatural. Humor. DB.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Tommy Hambledon, on vacation in Stockholm, notices a man being followed and before you know it he is infiltrating a gang of fascists, trying to prevent another war. First U.S. edition. Lightly bumped with a touch of wear at the edges, including tiny tears to the spine ends. Pages well tanned, binding square and solid. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, detached at the rear spine fold. Spine sunned, in Brodart.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First Canadian Edtion. Fourth of a series of 26 spy thrillers featuring protagonist Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions to pages. Some light edgewear to dust jacket. Jacket is unclipped, with original price of $2.50 on front flap. Black boards with red print. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 279 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st thus; States on dj "no part of this book has appeared in any magazine or periodical in the Unitd states; dj w/lite chipping, flap corners clipped on both flaps. in mylar; grey c w/red decorations/titles; lite toning of end papers;, lite shelf rubbing; 270 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. 252 Pp. Black Cloth Lettered In Red. First Edition Stated, Actually First American Edition, With Author As "Manning Coles" (Pseudonym), First Published In The Uk Under Pseudonym Francis Gaite. Near Fine, Spine Leaned, Small Tape Ghosts On Endpapers And Tiny Lending Library Stamp On Rear Panel. Dust Jacket Priced $3.00, Bright And Clean And Fine, Small Tape Ghosts On Endpapers.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue cloth covers, pink title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 270 printed pages of text. Minimal wear to the covers, cheap paper browning. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with tiny chips to the corners and spine tips, wrapper has been reinforced on the inside with clear tape. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Tommy Hambledon breaks through the Iron Curtain to rescue a small boy, the future king of a European country, trapped in Russia. Lightly bumped and rubbed with a faint drip mark to the upper edge of the text block and foxing to the end papers. Jacket rubbed and worn with chips and tears, including a 4" jagged tear up the lower front spine fold, in Brodart. Laid in is an envelope containing a small note card imprinted "Manning Coles." Inside is a handwritten note, dated 21/12/53, which mentions Alias Uncle Hugo and is signed Cyril H. Coles. Inscribed By the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated thus (preceded by the two 1940 separate hardcover releases, and the separate 1952 hardcover release) first printing of a fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket with a bit of spine fade to the top and bottom, and minor wear to the extremities. An omnibus edition which collects the 1st, 2nd and 14th novels in the Tommy Hambledon spy/adventure series, a master spy working for the British government, operating all over the world.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good/Near Fine. First Edition, Thus. ASE #1038. 352pp. Sharp First Printing of the Armed Services Edition published the same year as the First Edition published by Doubleday's Crime Club. . Square, tight and clean throughout with fairly mild toning to page edges but no foxing. Some minor edge-wear. Bottom dears with shallow dog-ears. Spine toned. A very attractive collectable copy of an uncommon title in any condition.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); dark blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [8],9-256pp. Spine ends gently nudged, some foxing to endpapers, else contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), gently spine-sunned, showing modest external wear, a few tiny nicks and tears, and some faint foxing on verso; Very Good+. The sixth novel featuring Tommy Hambledon of British Intelligence. HUBIN, p.89.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. UK first impression, SIGNED by Adelaide Manning to ffep - 'Dennis and Peggy Manning - with affectionate regards from the author - Francis Gaite - January 1956'. The book is Good only due to some spotting to page edges and bumping to corners. The jacket is poor, with loss to bottom of spine, a hole to rear panel and general wear. Signed by Author. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK first impression, SIGNED by Adelaide Manning to ffep - 'Dennis and Peggy Manning - with affectionate regards from the author - Francis Gaite - March 1958'. The book is Good+ only due to some spotting to page edges, in VG unclipped jacket with some internal spotting and some dulling to spine. Signed by Author. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First UK edition. Binding cocked, dampstains on boards with tanned spine, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. *Haycraft Queen Cornerstone*.