ANDERSON, JOHN; STRANG, HERBERT [ED.]; EYLES, GEOFFREY [ILLUS.]

Let's Go Flying

London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press [OUP], 1937. First Edition. Illustrated hardback board cover with red cloth spine. 290mm x 230mm (11" x 9"). [78pp]. 16 colour plates.. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed .

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Book number: g7031

Catalogue: Aircraft

Keywords: Aircraft Illustrated Books

Various Authors; Herbert Strang (ed)

Stories of the Indian Mutiny (the Romance of the World)

London , Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press , 1931. Cloth. A scarce collection of accounts of the 1857 Indian Mutiny, a rebellion caused by resentment of the established British rule at the time. Scarce copy with decorative original cloth binding.Included are four coloured plates and a detailed map of India. Collated complete. This important work details covers the Indian Rebellion of 1857, using first-hand accounts and records of the uprising. This book is one part of a series titled 'The Romance of the World' edited by Herbert Strang. In the original decorative cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight bumping to head and tail of back strip. Contemporary price stamp to front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright with scattered spotting, heavier to the first and last few pages and the fore edge. Very Good . Ill.: Not stated. Very Good .

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Book number: 901Y3

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: History India Historical accounts India Not stated

CLEAVER, HYLTON; BRIDGES, T C; STRANG, HERBERT; &C

Herbert Strang's Annual. Thirteenth. 1921

London: Oxford University Press, 1921. First Edition. Green cloth spine with illustrated papered boards. 260mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). 176pp + plates. Colour frontis + 5 colour plates + 8 b/w plates + b/w illustrations.. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Edgeworn. Eps browned. Previous owner inscription to fep .

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Book number: stra22m

Catalogue: Children's Annuals

Keywords: Children's Annuals

Herbert Strang [ed.]

Gateway to Romance: Sixteen Stories for Girls

London, Oxford University Press, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Very scarce copy of this first edition short story anthology for girls edited by Herbert Strang. The first edition of this work, a very scarce copy. Containing a series of sixteen short stories and romances written by leading writers for girls including Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Winifred Darch, and Dorothea Moore among others.Featuring a coloured frontispiece. Edited by Herbert Strang, pseudonym for George Herbert Ely and Charles James L'Estrange, authors of adventure stories for boys. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, undated. Dust wrapper unclipped and smart with minor shelf wear, chipped to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge, not affecting pages that remain bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.

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Book number: 831A57

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: first editions short stories fiction short stories None

Herbert Strang [George Herbert Ely, Charles James L'Estrange]

Burton of the Flying Corps

London, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1917. Cloth. A very scarce reprint of this exciting adventure novel from Herbert Strang, illustrated throughout. Reprinted 1917 in Great Britain. Very scarce work. Illustrated with colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and twenty-two in-text images. Collated complete. An exciting work following the young pilot of a hydro-plane. Written by Herbert Strang, the pseudonym of two English authors, Charles James L'Estrange and George Herbert Ely, who specialised in adventure novels for young boys, many of which were historical. Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock, an English painter, line artist, and book illustrator who was widely published. In the original pictorial blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with chipping to the extremities and loss to the head and tail of the spine. The odd mark and tide mark to the wrap. Sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: C. E. Brock. Very Good/Good Only.

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Book number: 872T30

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Burton Flying Corps Strang Flying L'Estrange Brock C. E. Brock

Herbert Strang [George Herbert Ely, Charles James L'Estrange]

Humphrey Bold His Chances and Mischances by Land and Sea a Story of the Time of Benbow

London, Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition copy of this fictional work by Herbert Strang. With gorgeous and colourful illustrations by W. H. Margetson. The first edition of this work. An exciting novel by Herbert Strang following the adventures of Humphrey Bold. Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of two English authors, George Herbert Ely, and Charles James l'Estrange, who specialised in writing historical and modern stories for boys. A beautifully illustrated volumes, comprising eight colourful illustrations by W. H. Margetson. An uncommon and exquisite edition of this title. In the original publisher's quarter paper vellum binding with illustrated cloth over board. Externally very smart with only minor shelfwear. Minor faint handling mark to erar board. Spine has slightly darkened. Internally, firmly bound. Faint minor spotting throughout. Profusely illustrated in coloured plates throughout by W. H. Margetson. Very Good . Ill.: W. H. Margetson. Very Good .

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Book number: 762A51

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: herbert strang first editions fiction novel first editions colour W. H. Margetson

HADATH, GUNBY; BOURNE, LAWRENCE; &C.; STRANG, HERBERT [ED.]

The Oxford Annual for Boys. 1928

London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press [OUP], 1927. First Edition. Illustrated hardback board cover. 250mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). 240pp + plates. 6 colour plates. Includes excerpts on buying and repairing second-hand motorcyles Formation Flying amidst a collection of short stories ranging from 'On Patrol in Papua' to 'Torpid Bumping Races at Oxford'.. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed .

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Book number: oxa28

Catalogue: Children's Annuals

Keywords: Children's Annuals

Herbert Strang

Ahmed de jonge held; vertaald door van Son; illustraties van H.W.Koekkoek; een verhaal over de opstand in Engelsch-Indie

's-Gravenhage, Kruseman, zj. 24x17x4, 5cm; 341p; 1edruk; hardcover - goed

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Book number: 151375

Catalogue: Jeugd/Kinderboek

STRANG Herbert

The Air Patrol a Story of the North-West Frontier

Henry Frowde Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered pictorial blue cloth (a little worn at extrems - otherwise VG). Pp. ix + 442, illus with coloured plates by Cyrus Cuneo (prelims lightly spotted; previous owner's book-plate on front free endpaper). .

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Book number: 141652

Catalogue: Literature childrens

Keywords: Literature childrens

Herbert Strang

De heerscher der zeeen; naar het engelsch

Amersfoort, Slothouwer, zj. 21x16x3, 5cm; 1edruk; smoezelig; hardcover; 232p - redelijk

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Book number: 151382

Catalogue: Jeugd/Kinderboek

Herbert Strang

Herbert Strang’s Annual; 15th year; rijk geillustreerd (Engels)

London, Humphrey Milford Oxford university press, 1922. 26x20cm; 1edruk; 176p; hardcover band randen beschadigd verder goed - redelijk

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Book number: 151384

Catalogue: Jeugd/Kinderboek

Herbert Strang

In de wildernis van Oost-Afrika; bewerkt door Dermout-visser; illustraties T.C. Dugdale

's-Gravenhage, Kruseman, zj. 24x17x3, 5cm; 1edruk; 294p; hardcover - goed

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Book number: 151380

Catalogue: Jeugd/Kinderboek

Herbert STRANG

JACK HARDY or A Hundred Years ago

Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1906 232 p. +16 p. reclamegedeelte (NB: pakketpost), hardcover, in goede staat, deze uitgave is vrij zeldzaam.

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Book number: 4365

Catalogue: Literature: English

Keywords: Children's books: General Illustrated works/comics

Herbert Strang

De meisjes Robinsons; eeen verhaal uit de stille zuidzee naar het engelsch door Goudoever; met 6 gekleurde platen van Tenison

Utrecht, De Haan, zj. 21x16x3, 5cm; 246p; hardcover 1e druk - goed

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Book number: 151378

Catalogue: Jeugd/Kinderboek

Herbert Strang

Palmeneiland; in het nederlands overgebracht door G. Keller; illustraties van Webb

's-Gravenhage, Kruseman, zj. 24x17x3, 5cm; 247p; 1edruk; hardcover - goed

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Book number: 151376

Catalogue: Jeugd/Kinderboek