HILL, HEADON PSEUDONYM OF FRANCIS EDWARD GRAINGER (6 résultats)

Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-331 [332-336: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], four inserted plates with illustrations by C. J. Budd, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gray and black, spine panel stamped in gray. First U.S. edition. Hubin (1994), p. 401. Binding slightly leaned, some foxing on first few leaves, else a clean, tight, very good copy. (#80532).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 12mo. (20 cm.) [8]9--331[1]p. Plus 5p. advertisements. Frontispiece plus three full page illustrations. Red cloth blind stamped in black with green decorations and letters on the front cover and green letters on the spine. London edition, 1903. Born in Lowestoft, England in 1857, Francis Edward Grainger was educated at Eton and then joined the Army. He soon found writing more to his liking and produced more than 60 detective novels under the pen name "Headon Hill". Incidents from his travels in India, Egypt, and the United States found their way into his fiction. He died in 1927 in Budleigh Salterton. [Obituary, THE TIMES, 2/5/1927] THE DUKE DECIDES is a mystery set in England and involves the exchange of American securities for English pounds by means of substituting false securities. Very minor wear to extremities, spine slightly faded, spot on fore-edge affecting last few pages, colors bright, all illustrations present and in fine condition, else very good and better/ No jacket.

Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-320 [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by S. H. Vetter, original decorated black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green and white. First U.S. edition. Hubin (1994), p. 401. A clean. tight, very good copy. (#80531).

1913, 1st edition. (12mo, cloth) Very good. 320pp. Decorative cloth. Frontispiece. Light general wear. Former owner's name clipped from endpaper. Just a trifle shaky. Pseudonym of Francis Edward Grainger.

Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-378 [379-384: ads], four inserted plates with illustrations by Henry Austin, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white and gold. First edition. "A novel and a series of six short stories. 'Seaward for the Foe' (pp. 7-195) is a future war thriller, England against France, emphasis naval, with a coal strike thrown in for good measure. 'The Perils of the Red Box' is a series of six non-fantasy thrillers of mystery and intrigue featuring a Queen's Messenger." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 61. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 29. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 231. Bleiler (1978), p. 278. Reginald 07212. Hubin (1994), p. 401. Cloth bubbled on covers, rubbed at spine ends and along bottom edges, corner tips worn, internally very good. Scarce. (#130315).

Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-304 [1]-8: ads [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece, plus one other plate, with illustrations by Stanley L. Wood, original pictorial light gray green cloth stamped in brown, dark green, black, white and gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Sixteen adventure and crime stories set along the Kentish coast in England during the Napoleonic wars. Hubin (1994), p. 401. Not in Wolff. Endpapers tanned, faint scattered foxing, minor bubbling to a small section of the front panel (noticeable only from certain angles), a clean, very good copy. A scarce book. (#117158).