Claude Benson (111 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. circa 1906. Pages are clean and unmarked. Gilt page edges. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing. Hinge cracked but binding intact. Previous owner's inscription on end paper (with date of 1906 written).; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

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

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 24 # 128 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1954. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Case of the Irate Witness), Phyllis Bentley )The Tuesday and Friday Thefts), Bechhofer Roberts (Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts - The Persistent House-Hunter), A H Z Carr (, A Case of Catnapping), Charles B Child (Claude Vernon Frost - The Long, Thin Man), Margaret Millar - wife of Kenneth Millar (The Couple Next Door), John Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar - Wild Goose Chase), Ward Greene (Boy for Tea), , Melville Davisson Post (The New Administration), T S Eliot (Macavity: The Mystery Cat), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light browning to the edges of the front cover and the pages. Light creases to the lower right of the front cover. A good very good copy.

Condition: New.

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

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

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

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff color pictorial wraps. 93 pp. As issued. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 24 # 128 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1954. Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Case of the Irate Witness), Phyllis Bentley )The Tuesday and Friday Thefts), Bechhofer Roberts (Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts - The Persistent House-Hunter), A H Z Carr (, A Case of Catnapping), Charles B Child (Claude Vernon Frost - The Long, Thin Man), Margaret Millar - wife of Kenneth Millar (The Couple Next Door), John Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar - Wild Goose Chase), Ward Greene (Boy for Tea), , Melville Davisson Post (The New Administration), T S Eliot (Macavity: The Mystery Cat), and others. Light wear at the edges. Sharp corners & bright color. Creamy white pages. A very good or better copy.

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

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

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in brown cloth with black title lettering to spine and upper cover.This copy No previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Illuistrated with 17 b&w plates.There is some spotting present to the endpapers and to the fore-edge of the book.The binding remains firm with NO hinge weakness.Undated work but 1928 according to 'Loach' This copy was obtained from an impressive private collection of over 150 books from a former Cambridge graduate and member of the University's Mountaineering team and who was a prolific fellwalker and mountaineer,8vo 224pp First Edition 1st Impression (Uncommon) Size: 8vo - over 4¾" - 5¾" Tall.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. British Mountaineering; Book.

HRD. 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: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Red cloth on board with black lettering and a picture in yellow of a mountain face. The spine has been repaired in recent years and so is very re compared to the rest of the cover, bumping with slight show through to all four corners. Also some edge wear. Internally very clean and tidy throughout for year. Benson was a member of The Climbers Club of Yorkshire and an early member of the Ramblers club.

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

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: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book.

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

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. 1928 First Edition. 224pp, original brown cloth, very small tear to head of spine, light foxing, owner's signature, Good+. Includes Everest, The Matterhorn and many more. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

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,

1st. Good pp313. 28 illus. some by Abraham. orig. dark green cloth gilt faded. sections sprung and repaired. reading copy.

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.

Condition: Very Good. Bon état. Sans date. Very Good.