dell draycot m (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning Owner message to end paper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardback bound in burgundy cloth with gilt titling and design to spine and upper board. 19 × 12.5cm, 254pp. Signed and dedicated by Draycot Montagu Dell to the ffep. "To dear old Lil, with all my love, Mont. Draycot M Dell, 1921". Dell (1888-1940) was an author specialising in boy's adventure yarns and was a close friend of Edgar Wallace. He is (according to Peter Haining) the author of an early King Kong story (in Boys Magazine, Oct 1933), and possibly finished the screenplay for the famous 1933 King Kong film for which Edgar Wallace had been commissioned but died in 1932. A rip-roaring adventure set on the ships of Queen Elizabeth's navy. Condition: Fair. The covers are rubbed, the pages are tanned, the inner binding secure but a little delicate, however it remains perfectly readable. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Missing DJ if issued, lightly sunned spine, some wear to edge of boards, Sunday School presentation plate dated 1935 with the name Kenneth Nowell to inside front cover. ; Assumed first edition, first printing with no other printings listed, 1927. Orange cloth boards with black lettering and decorations to front cover and spine. Colour frontis and cover illustrations by D. C. Eyles. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 320 pages; A wonderful adventure tale, of skullduggery on the high seas, by Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans KCB DSO SGM who was a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer, as well of a writer of rattling good tales for boys. This was first published in 1927.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. The boards are shelf rubbed and marked.Previous owner's inscriptions.Some tanning and foxing.Well bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.