gowing sidney (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated by (frontispiece portrait drawing) Balliol Salmon (illustrator). First American Edition. (no dust jacket) [ex-circulating library book (marked as such with a single stamp on the ffep reading "Royal Court Circulating Library"), light external soiling, spine slightly turned] Popular fiction about a feisty young Englishwoman, Aimee (subject of the frontispiece portrait), who persuades a cousin to impersonate her for the purposes of spending a month with a strict aunt -- who's never seen Aimee, you see, so of course this works just fine. In the meanwhile, Aimee gallivants about and gets involved with Billy, a young American fellow who's promoting a new type of motorcycle, called the Flying Sphinx; he persuades her to join him to help promote the vehicle as "the finest mount for a girl yet put on the market." Various plot twists involve the cousin's romance with the aunt's nephew, notorious motorcycle thieves, stolen emeralds, mistaken identities, and so forth, with both Billy and Aimee ultimately becoming employed in her aunt's household, as chauffeur and maid, respectively. Also published under the title "A Daughter in Revolt" in England by Herbert Jenkins in 1922, and filmed (also in the U.K.) until title in 1928 -- a forgotten (and probably forgettable) silent film that has the one small distinction of having provided the first screen role for Hermione Baddeley, who played "Calamity Kate," one of the aforementioned motorcycle thieves. (Gowing published nine novels between 1920 and 1932, but this was apparently the only one that ever served as the basis for a movie.) An early instance of motorcycle-themed fiction.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

1st edition. 1st UK edition, in leaf-green cloth, with black lettering & illustration of a pugilistic man. Owner's name on front free end paper; end papers yellowed; back hinge cracked & repaired; page fore-edge browned. Cloth on spine darkened, with wear at head & foot Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American edition. A couple of spots on the front board, else about fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of internally repaired tears and some modest soiling on the front panel. Comic romance novel with a sort-of-Wodehousian plot about a flirty young female English aristocrat who goes on adventures while another women impersonates her during a stay with a previously unmet maiden aunt. Basis for the 1927 film *A Daughter in Revolt* directed by Harry Hughes. Very scarce in jacket.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. None (illustrator). A smart copy of this scarce mystery novel, in the publisher's original illustrated dust wrapper. First published at some point in the first decade of the twentieth century, this is a scarce work. In the very scarce publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped. A thrilling mystery about the murder of a notorious blackmailer by an unscrupulous millionaire.John Goodwin was the pseudonym ofSidney Floyd Gowing.Undated; dated c1925 via the list of titles to the dust wrapper flyleaves.The publisher's note on the leaf facing the title page that at the point of the publication of this copy, 175,000 copies of the title had been sold.With a former owner's inscription, dated July 1933, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, with boards exceptionally bright. Spotting to fore edge of text block. Inscription to front free endpaper. Minor chips to dust wrapper back strip head, with discolouration to back strip and handling marks to rear wrap. Small closed tears to rear wrap head. Small loss to head of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type, with spotting and instances of foxing throughout. Very Good. book.

First edition, first impression of this crime novel. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine and front board lettered in black. With dust jacket. Spine rolled, a little foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the jacket that has some nicks and chips to extremities.