Bailey Ernest R (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 381 pages, gray quarter-cloth. A very good, clean hardcover with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper slightly yellowed, slight soiling to the fore-edges. In a good, edge worn dust jacket, with small chips at the flap f…

Condition: Good. 1960. First Edition. 166 pages. No dust jacket. Colour illustrated boards. Illustrated inside with black and white drawings. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf…

Condition: Fair. 1936. No Edition Remarks. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated paper covered boards with lettering. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No date - circa 1950's? Front covers depicts enemy plane and beach scene with men looking skyward. One scribble on front board. Covers are a worn and scuffed. Internally in Good overall condition other than endpapers a bit grubby. Excellent colour frontis with 3 further full page colour illustrations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. No Published date mentioned. The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn and scuffed in places. There are marks and chipped pieces on the board. The spine is chipped and slightly worn. There is tanning throughout the book and around the block. On some of the pages there are a few light marks.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing # 103 of this collection of short stories by various authors. Featured are The Man in the Passage by G.K. Chesterton, The Disappearance of Marie Severe by Ernest Bramah, The History of Bel from The Apocryphal Scriptures, The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan P…

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. *** PLEASE NOTE *** The bookshop is currently closed for holidays. Items can still be ordered, but will not be dispatched until we reopen on Friday 21st August. Many thanks for your patience. *** First printing. Green cloth binding with gilt spine. Dulling and slight rubbing to spine. Small sta…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. NO JACKET. 1948 reprint. Hardback. 21.5x16cm. 696 pages with 16 black & white illustrations. SPINE LETTERING IS VERY DULL. Clean & tight book. SOME FOXING. Flat pages. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Good Plus to Very Good. First ( No Additional printings). Original bright blue cloth on boards. DJ has rubbing and tiny tears head and foot. No writing. Cover shows glider pilot casting off tow rope attached to open car. Frontispiece shows glider pilot witnessing fistfight on ground below. 128 pp…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original panoramic colour illustrated covers with a seaplane flying low over a fishing port, terracotta cloth spine. Quarto 9½'' x 7½''. Contains 172 printed pages of text with colour frontispiece and monochrome illustrations throughout. Light rubs to the edges and corners,…

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Illustrated pictorial still wraps; Oblong, 11 by 8.5 inches; 86 pages with a bibliography. The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with only a hint of corner wear. Showcases powerf…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 1991, Soft cover with illustrated wraps, 88 page book. This is a very scarce and rare signed only copy by Ernest C. Withers ( 1922-2007 ) on the title page . Illustrated with black and white images taken by this Memphis Photography and civil rights pionee…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Reprint. 1st Edition 1926. A volume of Detective and mystery short stories by various writers. Includes The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Purloined Letter - E.A. Poe -- The Adventure of the Red-Headed League - A. Conan Doyle , -- The Stanway Cameo Mystery - Arthur Morrison -- The Case of Osca…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 86-168+ 20 pages of nice ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, "The Muscle Builder". Features: Mazulla and His Sahib, part 1 - moving Indian adventures, with photos; Neilson's New Man -a story of country life in New Zealand; The Tale-Teller of Algiers - the stran…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 449-512. Features: In Peril Among the Riffs - How Sir Malcolm Campbell and Flight-Lieut. Don nearly lost their lives in North Africa - article with photos; With the Seal Hunters - photo-illustrated article on the heroic and arduous labours of the gallant fishermen for seals amongs…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 398 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography.tears at top & bottom of spine, tape residue along spine, cover is age-toned, bookplate inside front cover, pencil notes on table of contents, small chip on back cover edge, binding is loose but all pages are bound, includes 5 page reprint of "Exploratory fl…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last…