Benson Claude E (37 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from the night. A seance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of Regent's Canal. From south of the Thames come chilling reports of a spring-heeled spectre, and in Stoke Newington rumours abound of an opening to another world among the quiet alleys.Join Elizabeth Dearnley on this atmospheric tour through a shadowy London, a city which has long inspired writers of the weird and uncanny. Waiting in the hazy streets are eerie tales from Charlotte Riddell, Lettice Galbraith and Violet Hunt, along with haunting pieces by Virginia Woolf, Arthur Machen, Sam Selvon and many more.

Paperback. Condition: New. As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from the night. A seance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of Regent's Canal. From south of the Thames come chilling reports of a spring-heeled spectre, and in Stoke Newington rumours abound of an opening to another world among the quiet alleys.Join Elizabeth Dearnley on this atmospheric tour through a shadowy London, a city which has long inspired writers of the weird and uncanny. Waiting in the hazy streets are eerie tales from Charlotte Riddell, Lettice Galbraith and Violet Hunt, along with haunting pieces by Virginia Woolf, Arthur Machen, Sam Selvon and many more.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Inscribed by the editor on the half title page. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering has become dull. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THE BOARDS ARE LIGHTLY RUBBED AND THE CORNERS ARE BUMPED. THE SPINE IS BUMPED AT BOTH ENDS. THERE IS FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES. THERE ARE SOME SPLITS TO THE BINDING BUT THE PAGES ARE ATTACHED. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. ix, 226, 45 photographs and line drawings with medical and equipment advice, lists of clubs and climbing centres and an index. Red cloth, black titles to spine and pictorial cover, spine and margins of covers slightly faded, owner inscription (1924) on fpd. Firm and clean internally. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Fair to good condition, clean, tight textblock, but a little shelf wear and page toning. No. dj. 316 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Undated but 1928. Brown boards with black titles and decorations depicting a group of men climbing a face. Small ink inscription to the rear of the title page. some light foxing and tanning. Some light bruising to the corners. 17 b/w plates. 0.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Near fine coloured illustrated paper covered boards, 10.00 x 7.5 inches approx. , front board shows a racing car moving towards the reader at speed, Tiltes in orange block leters with white edges, light blue rear board, spine illustated with small images of a sea-plane and two ships, no obvious wear, very good matching coloured dust jacket, faded to spine, chipped to top of spines some edge wear, clean and bright, not clipped, no inscriptions, front paste-down and two thirds of the endpaper have darkened over time, the fold in has kept the remaing third of the front endpaper much lighter, coloured frontispiece, 'Trumpeter Albert Twiggs entered the room and saluted. ' black and white drawing on the title page of the Sphinx, stories in chapters not paginated, four full page coloured plates, 2 full page black and white plates and numerous black and white drawings in the text, no rear endpaper. Internally clean with a few minute traces of foxing, easy to read with clean bright pictures,

Paper Boards + Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Colur Plates By Howard K. Elcock , Frank H. Mason , Gordon Browne & Others + Half Tone Plates & Drawings in Black & White (illustrator). First Edition of This Edition. Please Email for further details Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Signed "To Harold for Christma.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 316 Pages. No Date Stated But British Library Say [1923]. Complete And Soundly Bound Book In Worn Covers. Not Ex Library. Overall Not Quite "Good".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 87 pages, 20 photos on 7 plates (lacking one plate with 3 photos, and a diagram of the field.

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original printed, illustrated cloth boards, now somewhat dust-dulled and worn, particularly around the edges and the spine. Internally bright and clean; remains well-preserved overall. Reader autographs on front and rear endpapers. Physical description: xi, 226 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes: Glossary: pages 221-222. Includes index. Subjects: Mountaineering - Great Britain - History. Mountains - Great Britain. 3 Kg.

Illustrated Coloured Boards. Condition: Near Very Good. 2nd Edition (Revised and Enlarged). 226p + endpaper adverts. A solid tight and internally unmarked copy of this detailed round up of climbing in the UK in the early twentieth century. Rambling scrambling and climbing. From Cornwall to Harrisons Rocks and Skye. Illustrated boards a lttle faded as usual and a little marked. See scans.

Paperback. Condition: New. As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from the night. A seance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of Regent's Canal. From south of the Thames come chilling reports of a spring-heeled spectre, and in Stoke Newington rumours abound of an opening to another world among the quiet alleys.Join Elizabeth Dearnley on this atmospheric tour through a shadowy London, a city which has long inspired writers of the weird and uncanny. Waiting in the hazy streets are eerie tales from Charlotte Riddell, Lettice Galbraith and Violet Hunt, along with haunting pieces by Virginia Woolf, Arthur Machen, Sam Selvon and many more.

Illustrated Coloured Boards. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition (Revised and Enlarged). 226p + endpaper adverts. A solid tight and internally unmarked copy of this detailed round up of climbing in the UK in the early twentieth century. Rambling scrambling and climbing. From Cornwall to Harrisons Rocks and Skye. Illustrated boards a lttle faded as usual. See scans.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Brock, C.E. & Browne, Gordon & et al., (illustrator). 1921. Good condition with no wrapper. Cloth spine, green boards with front showing a lad with a fishing rod. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. First story is "Jealous in Honour" by Benson. 13th year. 176 pages Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Splits to spine edges, backstrip possibly glued into place, a little loss of cloth from top of spine. Cover a bit grubby, front cover scratched. Endpapers browned and foxed. Q1441 in pen to front endpaper and small smudge to top corner. Foxing, mainly to text block and prelims. A few marks to contents. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition without jacket on illustrated pictorial cloth some spotting with taseful ladies alpine club libris plate will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

Condition: New. As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. Waiting in the shadowy streets are tales from writers such as Charlotte Riddell, Lettie Galbraith and Violet Hunt, who delight in twisting the u.

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original printed, illustrated cloth boards, now somewhat dust-dulled and worn, particularly around the edges and the spine. Internally bright and clean; remains well-preserved overall. Reader autographs on front and rear endpapers. Physical description: xi, 226 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes: Glossary: pages 221-222. Includes index. Subjects: Mountaineering - Great Britain - History. Mountains - Great Britain. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. A fair ex-library hardcover copy without a dustcover. Rubbing and splitting to the cover cloth, sporadic spotting and some gutter cracking opposite the title page. The text is mainly clean and bright. More of a reading copy. Please see photos.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 2nd Edition. Red part pictiorial cloth. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Rear cover bit marked.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Not dated but perhaps about 1923. Grey-blue cloth lettered in gold on spine. 316 pages. No catalogue. Clean tight text but some noticeable spotting mostly to text edges, and early and late leaves. Spine reglued. Spine faded with darker patch at base where a library label has been removed. Some other light library marks removed. Now a good tight erading copy.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book assembles fifteen gripping narratives of mountaineering expeditions that capture both the exhilaration and the peril of manâs historical quest to ascend the worldâs highest peaks. From the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786 to the tragic events on K2 in 2008, the author interweaves adventure and historical context to examine our enduring fascination with mountains, the challenges they present and the human cost they can demand. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Paperback. Condition: New. As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from the night. A seance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of Regent's Canal. From south of the Thames come chilling reports of a spring-heeled spectre, and in Stoke Newington rumours abound of an opening to another world among the quiet alleys.Join Elizabeth Dearnley on this atmospheric tour through a shadowy London, a city which has long inspired writers of the weird and uncanny. Waiting in the hazy streets are eerie tales from Charlotte Riddell, Lettice Galbraith and Violet Hunt, along with haunting pieces by Virginia Woolf, Arthur Machen, Sam Selvon and many more.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Second Edition (Revised and enlarged). Name of owner at front of book. Red cloth, gold illustration in rectangular black border on front cover. In very good, clean, tight condition BUT some spotting to prelims and end papers, and to browned text edges. Spine is faded and a bit creased, covers have dark shaded markings in places.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, Hardback, no d/j. Green boards with gilt lettering and picture bave a bumped spine and corners and marks, previous owners name inside front cover, o/w good. Illustrated.