Barnett Reginald (3 results)

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original decoratively illustrated blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered black back and front. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains colour frontispiece, 255 pp with 4 monochrome throughout as called for. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Ink name to the front free end paper dated 1919. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. paperback, oblong 4to, 25pp, illustd, advert pages at front and rear, edges bit chipped and worn, has had a new paper spine taped on at some time, rear cover has carriage company advert bit darkened and foxed but fascinating , adverts very interesting of course, one of the illustrations is pictures of the newcastle journalists of 1893 on one page, a bit edge tatty and aged generally, with a paper spine taped on , but a fascinating booklet , hard to find. Book.

FIRST EDITION. Half title; the odd spot. Sl. later pebble-grained blue cloth, lettered in gilt, title on spine & 'ELLEL GRANGE' on front board. Ink signature of Helen C. Preston on leading f.e.p. A nice copy. Not in Glover & Greene. Hubin p.24, who lists three titles by this author. BL only on Copac and OCLC; OCLC records two copies of an 1890 New York edition titled 'Police Sergeant Power; the story of a crime' at UNC Chapel Hill and the University of Alberta. A man devotes himself to solving the 'mysterious and brutal' murder of a young woman that had taken place in a seaside town several years previous: 'patiently and resolutely he set himself to work to solve the difficult enigma; to throw light upon what was darkness, and to clear up what was incomprehensible'. Ellel Grange is a grand house in Lancashire built in 1858 by the Sandemann family; this volume, originally a cheap paperback, was evidently bound for the library.