adye general sir john (12 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1925. First edition. 312pp. plus an 8-page publisher's catalogue. "George Despard walks out of his house at Hampstead one evening for a game of billiards with a neighbour it is supposed, but he never returns, and no enquiry elucidates the mystery of his disappearance. That same nightHubert Strange is found murdered in his studio. Some valuables are gone, also a photograph of Rhoda Despard, George's wife. A burglar and no less than two other persons are known to have visited Hubert Strange that night. Who killed him? And what relation to the crime has the bearded stranger who has taken refuge in the house of the priest Sn Felice?" The book is bound in the original recd cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine and front board and a black illustration on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some light soiling to the boards. The corners are lightly bumped and the spine ends are a bit more heavily bumped. The spine is slightly faded. The contents are tight and clean with scattered light foxing and slightly heavier foxing to the half-title and title pages and the last 2 pages of the catalogue at the end of the book. The last page of the catalogue has a tear of about 2 1/4" on the bottom edge that extends onto the spine edge. A name has been written on the front fixed endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. With Numerous Illustrations in Color and Half Tone. Complete with all plates, 1925. Publications of 318 pages. There is bold black lettering on the spine and the front of the boards. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. There is light foxing on the early and last pages. The text remains bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. With Numerous Illustrations in Color and Half Tone. Complete with all plates, 1925. Bookplate tipped in on the front inner board by Ian Mackenzie. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publications of 318 pages. There is bold black lettering on the spine and the front cover. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. There is light foxing on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo.pp. 312. Faction. Original publishers cloth binding in cherry red, lettered black, weather illustration of a priest laying hands on a kneeling man. Very good. Slight fading at spine. Slight foxing of prelims and fore edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. . 1925, bright clean copy, cleaned & refurbished by bookbinder, no markings, binding tight, a lovely copy, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Black and white plates, folding map, 279pp, spine faded, some foxing particularly first and last leaves and map, neat signature of a prior owner front free endpaper. The aim of this work is to give a picture of Bonaparte's psychology at a period when the young general was at the full height of his mental and physical powers rather than a military history of the Marengo Campaign.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. Some foxing and dust stains. Some creasing to the folding map at the rear. Fading to tail of spine. Large losses to dust wrapper at ends of spine and top of rear panel. Tears ans some loss to top of front panel of dust wrapper. ; 279 pages + frontispiece + 11 plates + folding map. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 212 x 137mm. Military history. "A brilliant, and at the same time scholarly, accoutn of Napoleon's Marengo Campaign in the spring of the year 1800." - from dust wrapper blurb. Provenance: Hardwicke Night, with his bookplate "The Library of Hardwicke Knight" on front endpaper. [Seller Ref: KnightCol]; 8vo.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A bright example of the first edition of John Adye's memoir of his military life between the years 1854 and 1882. The first edition.British soldier and amateur artist General Sir John Miller Adye served in the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the Aghan Wars and the Anglo-Egyptian War.In this work, he describes his military experiences from 1854 to 1882.Illustrated with a frontispiece, three maps, and eleven plates. Collated, complete.With six pages of advertisements to the rear.With a tipped in publisher's notice to the front free endpaper.Adye further described his personal experiences in such works as 'A Review of the Crimean War' and 'Sitana: A Mountain Campaign on the Borders of Afghanistan in 1863'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright. Pencil notations throughout, most frequently to margins and to rectos of maps. Very Good. book.