Grant E Stanley (16 results)

Hardcover. First edition, dark blue cloth, yellow lettering on spine, no dj, vg condition. Business; 3409.

Paperback. L92-553 very good paperback,

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Jacket is rubbed with edge wear. Cover is lightly scuffed. Pgs. are clean & tight. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Soft Cover. Stapled, booklet-style binding is tight. Pages clean, bright. Wraps have general handling wear. Short historical articles about sports and other recreational and leisure activities in North Carolina: Sumner, "Sports and Society in North Carolina"; Grant, "Colonial Games"; Wiggins, "Sports and Recreation in the Slave Community"; Ireland, "North Carolina's Recreation on Wheels from 1900 to 1960"; Lumpkin, "Estelle Lawson Page: North Carolina's Greatest Golfer"; Sumner, "Eckie Jordan and Eunie Futch"; Stanley, "Tar Heel Junior Historian Essay Contest Winner: Unlucky Thirteen for Angier"; Hassell, "A Day in the Life of Ranger Scott"; Harris, "UNC's Soccer Dynasty"; Sumner, "The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame."; 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 36 pages. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. FIRST ED. Spine discoloration. Top edge foxing. Side and bottom edge has light foxing. DATE PUBLISHED: 1959 EDITION: FIRST ED 174.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ Clipped Dust Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket lighty soiled and edge worn, book is in unread condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. J. Ambrose Walton / H M Paget / G P Jacomb-Hood / Stanley L Wood (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Four Stories Bound In One Cover , "Windsor Magazine Supplement". Green Cloth, Gilt Titles, Decorated Spine & Front Cover, 127 + 156 + 150 + 80 Pages, Plus Plates. A Bright And Soundly Bound Book, Unmarked. Some Shelf-Wear . A Heavy Book, Overseas Shipping Charge Will Exceed The Abebooks Default Rate - Please Email The Bookseller For An Overseas Shipping Quote.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Contains: A Deplorable Affair by W. E. NORRIS. Complete serialisation. A Strange Elopement by W. Clark RUSSELL. Complete serialisation. Articles and short stories include: Collaboration, Mrs Humphry Ward & Nona Vincent by Henry JAMES, Dumbledowndreary Come to Life Again by G. A. SALA, Memories of Fontainbleau by Grant ALLEN, A Girl of the Period by Mrs OLIPHANT, Muleback in Morocco by Stanley J. WEYMAN, Rustic Simplicity by Barry PAIN, On the Western Circuit by Thomas HARDY, Among the Western Song-Men by S. BARING-GOULD. Black leather over blue black cloth; raised band and maroon leather title label on spine. Light scuffing, undated signature on front free endpaper, very good. A heavy volume (over 2 kg wrapped) which will require additional postage. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Contains: The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey. First half of serialisation. Short stories include: King Pepin and Sweet Clive & The Deanery Ball by Stanley J. Weyman, The Old Woman of the Sea, The Romance of Paulilatino & A Slight Misunderstanding by W. E. Norris, The Backslider & The Reverend John Cready by Grant Allen. Original blindstamped red cloth, lettered in gilt. 4 cm split to cloth and 1 cm loss at head of spine, but contents clean and tight: fair only. A heavy item which will require additional postage outside the UK. Book.

Carta geografica della zona dei grandi laghi tra il Tanganica, il Congo e altre regioni confinanti. con legenda e tracciati dei viaggi. I laghi sono cromolitografati in verde. Cm. 28x24,più i margini.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. de Walton, John; Hiley, F.E.; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Cameron, John; Wood, Stanley L.; Brightwell, L.R.; Soper, G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton (illustrator). First Edition. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy.