DRAKE, H. B.

Cursed Be the Treasure

NY, Macy-Masius. 1928, First Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. [1st printing] 1928. Green cloth; 310pp. In Reginald and '333'. Imaginative and well written adventure novel with weird elements. By the author of "The Shadowy Thing." Dj has tanned. Scarce in jacket. Very Good+ to Near Fine in Very Good color pictorial dust jacket. Very Good+ to Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: FY11

Catalogue: Adventure Hardcovers

Keywords: Adventure

DRAKE, H. B.

Cursed Be the Treasure

NY, Macy-Masius. 1928, First Edition. Hardcover. [1st printing] 1928. Green cloth; 310pp. In Reginald and '333'. Imaginative and well written adventure novel with weird elements. By the author of "The Shadowy Thing." Lacks dj; edge and corner wear; minor soiling; light tanning; gift note in pen on ffep.. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: UQ28

Catalogue: Adventure Hardcovers

Keywords: Adventure

DRAKE, H B

Cursed Be the Treasure

London: John Lane - The Bodley Head, 1926. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 310pp.. G: in good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Fep missing .

Barter BooksProfessional seller

Book number: L1466b

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History

H.B. Drake

Korea of the Japanese

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of HB Drake's discussion of Korea in the late 1920s, illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-three monochrome photographic plates. Collated, complete.The work of Orientalist and scholar H.B. Drake, the author of a small number of non-fiction works and fantasy tales.Drake discusses the Japanese emperor, Imperial Japan's rule over Korea, and offers a criticisms of colonial Korea's educational system.A December 1942 article in an Imperial Japanese newspaper discussed multiple British and American people who were caught by police committing the crime of trying to buy this work at a bookshop in Jongno, Seoul.With two pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Fading to back strip, with significant spotting to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, but with the spotting throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 867F15

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: asia korea japan hb drake korea Not Stated

DRAKE, H.B.; JOSHI, S.T. (INTRO.)

The Shadowy Thing

New York, Hippocampus Press. 2010. (ISBN: 9780982429686). Paperback. Used, Paperback - clean copy, in very good condition. With an introduction by S.T. Joshi. CM. Very Good.

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Book number: 542364

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: 9780982429686

THOMPSON, E.W.; BATTEN, H. MORTIMER; SIBLEY, C. LINTERN; BYERS, CHARLES A.; DRAKE, FRANK J.; JACKES, L.B.; CRAIK, W.A.; MARDEN, DR. O.S.; YEIGH, FRANK; VAN VORST, MARIE; FOOTNER, HERBERT; HENRY, O.; MCGRIFF, JESSIE A.; LONDON, JACK; CAHN, ED.

Maclean's Magazine, September [Sept. ] 1912, Vol. XXIV, No. 5 - the Frog in Canadian Diet

Toronto: The Maclean Publishing Company, Limited, 1912. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 256 pages including 123 pages of marvelous nostalgic ads, many illustrated and quite uncommon, representing long-forgotten firms and products. Some stories include black and white photos/illustrations. 9.75" x 6.85". Articles of "Special Canadian Interest" include: The National Political Situation - armaments and taxes as involved in the problem of Canada's attitutde on naval defense; Warders of the Silence - life among Canadian Forest Rangers; The Frog in Canadian Diet - the frog now holds an honored place on popular menu cards; The Community Court Idea - groups of bungalows erected in open courts present attractive features (photo-illustrated); Canada as a Land of Opportunities - investors may make safe and profitable use of capital in many lines in this country during its period of expansion; Before Dollars Came - how Directors of Bank of Upper Canada frustrated a plot to wreck it by rebels who made run on it in 1837; Breaking Irrigation Records - large system under construction in Southern Alberta; Dr. Marden's Inspirational Talks - What the World Owes Dreamers; Louis Riel's Religion of Rebellion - did the North-west agitator believe in the justice of his cause and have faith in the purpose of his mission? [not listed in Arora]. Fiction: Beautiful Sebastiana; The Movable Feast; The Gold That Glittered; Wooing Dorothea; The Mistake of Creation, by Jack London (first published in the Feb. 1912 issue of Cosmopolitan), An Odd Case. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound and complete copy of this marvelous vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Maclean's Magazine, September [Sept.] 1912, Vol. XXIV, No. 5 - The Frog in Canadian Diet, Frog as Food - Canada, Canada - Naval Defense, Forest Rangers - Canada, Canada - Residential Planning, Bank of Upper Canada - History, Irrigation - Alberta, Louis R. Good .

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Book number: 417h4164

Keywords: 's [. ] 1912 . . 5 Back Issues