W E Stanton Hope (19 results)

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Hume Henderson. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Boards are slightly bowed.

Condition: Good. Boards have some light wear, marks. Content has light toning. Prize label to end paper. Circa 1936.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Orange illustrated cloth showing a man about to be punished by two pirates on the front and another pirate holding a gun on the spine, covers and page edges a little dirty, not dated but prize label inside is dated 1933-34.

July 1945 reprint of the November 1944 original. 220 PP, plus 16 b/w plates and frontispiece. Fp: Veteran Harry Edwards, aged seventy-one. Soft cover, dj. Near fine. 21.6 x 14. Many exploits of sailors during the first years of WWII. Convoy to Malta, Murmansk, prisoner of a surface raider, training & conditions of merchant sailors.

Condition: vg. vg-vg+ book Clean solid complete spine etc Thomas Nelson & Sons edition 1910s? hardcover beige colour illus boards illus inside by Henderson ex Tatham Collection Wiltshire Library nice copy In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardback. W. E. Stanton Hope, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. Author: W. E. Stanton HopeBinding: HardbackPublished: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1111Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: FEP missingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tanning and foxing throughout.Derelict Gold chronicles a thrilling high-seas adventure, following a perilous quest for a legendary treasure hidden within a forgotten, derelict vessel. The narrative uncovers the dangers and mysteries of the open ocean, presenting a gripping tale of ambition and survival. It illustrates the lengths to which individuals will go in pursuit of immense wealth, detailing the cunning and courage required to overcome formidable obstacles. This captivating story transports readers to a world of maritime intrigue and daring exploits. Hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hume Henderson. (illustrator). Orange pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. A story of the Navy. Undated. COPAC dates to 1927 Item Type: Book. No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Hume Henderson. Category: Children; Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 004721.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good Plus. HENDERSON, Hume (illustrator). Pictorial orange cloth, no dustwrapper; viii, 314pp plus publisher's catalogue; b/w ills. Light rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners; prize certificate dated 1929 to front pastedown; foxing to endpapers and page block edges; small chip to rear hinge.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW. Hume Henderson (illustrator). Name (or inscription) of owner at front of book. dated 1929. Brown pictorial cloth with line drawing of three men on a boat. DW has full colour version of same scene.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor creasing/rubs top and bottom of spine surface rubs to bottom edges of boards with small rubs to all corners slight mark to front cover upper hinge. Textblocks slightly foxed internally small inscription with minor foxing to end papers other pages clean and VG. Dust Wrapper rubbed top and bottom of spine with nicks and tiny creases small nicks to four corners with some marks to rear panel complete with no loss or tears VG.

Cloth Spine Card Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. xvi, 124 pp. Sienna cloth spine over patterned card boards with gilt lettering to the spine, in a dustjacket. Illustrated throughout with photographs and in-text illustrations by Ronald Searle. Jacket edgeworn with enclosed tears around the edges and loss around the spine. Cloth and boards bright. Internally clean. An account published by Shell of the role oil tanker's and the crews that worked on them during the Second World War. Scarce. Large 8vo. Illustrated.

reprint 1/4 cloth Near Fine lge. octavo xiii + 125pp., b/w plates, text ills., appends., Honour roll, Shell War Achievements (1) Illustrations by Ronald Searle.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition and presumably the first printing with "First published 1951" stated to the copyright page. Original gilt-titled blue cloth 15x22cm, lacking the jacket. 335pp + 23 b/w photo illustrations on glossy paper including frontis, all present as called for. Covers about very good, rubbed to the spine ends and edges, lightly marked, with darkening to the spine tail. Interiors near fine with some spotting and occasional light creasing.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Thus. 720 members of the Royal Naval Division Officers' Association sailed aboard the Canadian Pacific liner, The Duchess of Richmond, on a Gallipoli Revisited cruise in 1934. This book is a firsthand account of that event. It is in virtually mint condition and is SIGNED, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. 8vo (64 pages, with three appendices, illustrated with 70 photographs, 3 maps and 8 thumbnail sketches.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Small 4to. 125pp. Bw frontis and numerous illustrations in text by Ronald Searle & Paul Hogarth. Brown wallpaper pattern boards, gilt lettering on brown cloth spine. Brown printed dw with black & white lettering incl ' SHELL WAR ACHIEVEMENTS ' and Shell cartouche on cover, not clipped. Covers : very clean & bright with unrubbed spine & sharp corners. Contents : foxing to margins of prelims and outside edges of pages else very clean & tight. Dw : tiny fox spot to front, slight patchy browning to rear else very clean & unrubbed & unchipped. Bright attractive copy with some foxing. VG+/VG+.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 41-80. Features: The Saddest Woman in the World - Marie of Russia - article with photos; Buried Treasure - a complete story; Photo tips of what not to do with your Gramphone; Most People Have a Double - but is sometimes means trouble - article with photos; Does Marriage Mean Going ThroughThe Mill? - a story that answers the problem; Lovers or Friends? - Woodbine Willie discusses the truth about companionship between the sexes; Wit of the Week; Open That Window! - and help yourself to health; "Stop & Look" pictures include Copenhagen church in the shape of an organ; Why George Tupper wished his wife many unhappy returns (fiction); In a Floating "Hell" - horses break loose aboard a storm-tossed ship enroute to Russia from Canada; Angel Esquire (continued); The Story of the Birmingham Municipal Bank; and more. Staples disintegrated. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce paperback in Good Plus to Very Good condition. Undated, ca 1934. Card covers have edge and corner wear/creasing, surfaces clean, head and toe of the spine bumped and very slightly torn, 64 pages of text with 22 pages of black and white plates, edges rough cut, contents clean, signed by the author to the inside fep, some bleed from the staples to rear. Price includes standard postage (airmail) worldwide. Comes with a typed, undated 4 page letter, titled 'My experiences since joining the army,' to which a previous owner has added a note (correctly or not) attributing it to the author and with a date in 1916.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. 336pp, with 23 black and white illustrations including frontispiece. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth is worn all over with a few small mild marks, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, sunned over spine, slight fraying at spine ends. Text block edges a little dulled and slightly spotted. Slight toned to first and last few leaves, previous owner's name neatly inked on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. William Williamson, born in Bristol in 1872, was a English adventurer and oil company representative. After spells on sea voyages and trading in the Americas, he became a trader in camels and horses in Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait, then joining a Haji caravan to Mecca. He converted to Islam, taking the name of Abdullah Fadhil al Musselman, before taking his horse trading business to India. This work recounts his adventures around the world, particularly in the Middle East in the late 19th century and early 20th century. A very hard to find title regarding the fascinating story of an early British convert to Islam.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 4to. 16 stapled typescripts with some pencilled corrections contained in a cream card folder. Unpublished accounts of murders and subsequent trials and verdicts. Stanton-Hope has addressed most of them from "Eltham", 4 Smith Road, Artarmon, N.S.W., some are dated during the mid-1950s. The content includes: 1. Presents from a Poisoner (Roland Molineaux). 2. The Intrepid Countess (Countess Scarbec). 3. When the Yukon River Went Mad (Tom Hockley). 4. Mr. Archer Versus the King (George Archer-Shee). 5. Mrs. Mary Reibey - She Helped Found a Nation. 6. Three Gun-Shots for a Chorus Girl's Honour by Lou Mordant (Harry Thaw). 7. The Murderers Whom Poets Honour (Nicola Sacco/Bartolomeo Vanzetti). 8. The Strange Death of a Parson's Girl-Wife (Parson Griggs). 9. The Crime of Peter Griffiths by a Special Correspondent. 10. The Devilish Deed of Dr Ruxton. 11. Murder in Camden Town (Phyllis Dimmock). 12. Murder on the Railway (Franz Muller). 13. The Murder of Edwin Rose (John Laurie). 14. The Ordeal of Oscar Slater. 15. The Dreadful Secret of Frederick Nodder. 16. The Shooting of Mrs. Knowles. Stanton-Hope (1889-1961) was a prolific author of novels, biography, travel, war books and numerous stories for boys. He moved to Australia after the end of World War II and spent the last years of his life there. Very good.