captain evans (34 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. "The personal story of a special agent who was trained to kill and untrained to live." 220 pages. Light wear; some discoloring; a good solid book. Pieces of the jacket laid in. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 195342.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1st edition. Boards have little wear. Pages tanned with spotting. DJ has tears and loss to edges with light toning and some marks.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Undated c.1920s. A few small tears to the dust jacket. Mild tan to the page edges. Otherwise largely fine. A clear, bright copy within.

Hardcover. Zustand: Faiir. 1st edition. 326pp, small octavo, blue cloth, front and rear hinges are split, owner's name, no marks to the pages, boards mildly worn with soiled edges, spine fade, worn spine ends, toned endpapers.

Zustand: Good. 1957. First Edition. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has heavy wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces. A small label on front.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Spine lettering faded.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Reading copy only, blue boards with some marks and rubbing on the spine, front inner hinge starting to split, foxing and marks on some pages, small inscription, no jacket. An undated edition probably 1950s to 1960s.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Second edition. Large octavo hardcover in black cloth lettered in gilt and with gray image of a battleship front cover. 428 pp. With twelve full page color plates and 472 illsutrations from photographs. About very good, spine rubbed. 1927 gift inscrition top portion of front free endpaper. Handsome survey of American ships active in the 1920s, including battleships, dreadnoughts, destroyers, liners, square-riggers, ocean motorboats, yachts, merchant marine freight carriers, etc. With additional chapters on nautical training ships, "How The Ships Talk", the round the world tour of the "White Fleet" of battleships under President Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. naval Academy, ceremonies and uniforms, airships and aircraft carriers, etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Language: English. About The Book: "The English in India: Letters from Nagpore, Written in 1857-58" by Captain Evans Bell offers firsthand accounts of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 from the perspective of a British officer stationed in Nagpur. Through his letters, Bell provides insights into the political and social climate of the time, as well as the experiences and challenges faced by the British in India. The work is a valuable historical document that sheds light on colonial attitudes and the complexities of British-Indian relations during this turbulent period. About The Author: Captain Evans Bell (1825-1887) was a British military officer and author known for his writings on Indian affairs. He served in India during the 1857 Indian Mutiny and wrote extensively about his experiences. Bell was an advocate for Indian rights and criticized British colonial policies, contributing to contemporary political discourse. The Title 'The English in India: Letters from Nagpore, Written in 1857-58 written/authored/edited by Captain Evans Bell', published in the year 2024. The ISBN 9789364338769 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 217 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is British-Indian relations. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: 217.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Black & White photographs (illustrator). 244pp bound in the Publisher's faded blue cloth starting to split at the spine. Coloured frontis. and many photographs. Clean internally and unmarked with no inscription. Undated but 1930's. Thick 8vo.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 428 pages. Rebound in red cloth. Illustrated . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Blue Cloth. Zustand: Good. First Edition. xiv, 284 pages, [6 pages of advertising], frontispiece portrait, 3 folding maps, 1 folding plan. Dark blue cloth covers with author's name and title printed in red on spine. Wear at top and bottom of spine, one map has a closed tear, old name on front endpaper. This is the 5th impression of the first edition, published January 1922, identical with the first impression.Rare.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An original antique portrait, mounted (matted) and ready to frame. This is a print of a drawing of Captain John Evans Freke Aylmer, a newly-elected Member of Parliament in the 1880 General Election, for Maidstone.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. With dust jacket. Undated. Presentation book plate on front end paper dated 1935. Map fully intact. Photograph available on request.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First edition. The fourth and final book in this series written by an Army officer with a long and honored career in many parts of the world; he was a Major General at the time he retired. This follows two young officers into Alaska at the beginning of the 20th century and describes the role they played in the opening of the Tanana Valley. Illustrated by R. L. Boyer with a glossy frontispiece with tissue shield and 6 inserted glossy plates. First state binding in gray-green cloth with dark green lettering and illustration inset on front cover. 346 pp Very good (some rubbing on sides of spine, hinges beginning to crack, but still a straight and sturdy copy) Previous owner's name in pencil dated Dec 2015.

Zustand: Fair. 1920. No Edition Stated. 199 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Contains colour fold out map. Maps are moderately tanned, with creasing to folds and tears to edges. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Considerable bleach spotting to boards and spine.

8½'' x 4½'' single sheet with programme of music performed by The Coldstream Guards, programme priced at 1d. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Classical].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. . Robert Hale, 1st ed, clean copy, no markings, no dustjacket, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Language: English. About The Book: "The English in India: Letters from Nagpore, Written in 1857-58" by Captain Evans Bell offers firsthand accounts of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 from the perspective of a British officer stationed in Nagpur. Through his letters, Bell provides insights into the political and social climate of the time, as well as the experiences and challenges faced by the British in India. The work is a valuable historical document that sheds light on colonial attitudes and the complexities of British-Indian relations during this turbulent period. About The Author: Captain Evans Bell (1825-1887) was a British military officer and author known for his writings on Indian affairs. He served in India during the 1857 Indian Mutiny and wrote extensively about his experiences. Bell was an advocate for Indian rights and criticized British colonial policies, contributing to contemporary political discourse. The Title 'The English in India: Letters from Nagpore, Written in 1857-58 written/authored/edited by Captain Evans Bell', published in the year 2024. The ISBN 9789364337731 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 217 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is British-Indian relations. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol: 217.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback. 1st Edition 1920.Original Great War history, considerable detail, folding coloured maps, clear original illustrations. 198pp., maps, folding, ills., extensive appendices including honours and awards, rolls, including casualties. Foreword by Winston Churchill. Rubbing to corners and spine with points of wear to top and bottom of spine, usual foxing, named to an Alfred Thomas Williams November 1920. otherwise good condition, blue cloth gilt.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt stamped title and author lettering to the spine (dulled) and to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains portrait frontispiece, 327 pp with 15 full-page monochrome archive photographs throughout. Rubbing to the boards, contents in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. FIRST WORLD (Great) WAR.

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to. Two magazines bound in one volume, original wrappers bound in. Flyers Library volumes I & II. 1st/1st. Only volume I dated. Special services editions. Volume 11 inscribed by the author. Full navy cloth. 64; 48 pp. B&W photos in text. Light rubbing and foxing to cloth. Interior age toned. Signed by Author(s).

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Nicolson, W.C. (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. xxiv, 65-126 pages. Features: Return from the Dead - three fishermen face hell adrift for months in the Atlantic - with map and photo; Awakening to Nightmare (on Elephant Island); The Train Jumpers - Francis Dickie recalls a nightmare journey jumping a train from Portland to San Francisco - with photos of the author; The White Rhino Hated Cars - article with photos; 50 Tons of Gold - the ongoing search for "Valverde's" Inca gold - article with photos and map; Terrorists On My Tail - A reporter under attack in Morocco - article with photos; Ringing Gannets off the coast of Scotland; Men of Site "X" - the ice and blizzard-ridden existence of men on the DEW line across northern Canada and Alaska; The Terrible Carpet of Bones - the terrible slaughter of the buffalo herds; The Curse of Pulo Jehat - the evil of a witch doctor survives his death; The End of the Hoodoo 'Bambo'; Pirates Aboard! - China Sea pirates board the s.s. Hong Bee - article with map and photo of the ship; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.

hardback, large 8vo, xiv,284pp, 6pp adverts, portrait frontis., diagram, 3 maps, foxing on page edges, title page, frontis. and prelims, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth, corners bumped, Good condition, in Fair dustwrapper, wrapper browning, rubbed and edges frayed, some larger tears in several places but with only minor losses.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Webb, Arch.; Reynolds, Warwick; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Soper, Geo.; Elcock, H.K.; Waters, D.B.; Woodville, R. Caton; Robinson, T.H.; Lloyd, S. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Skelton, J.R.; Robinson, T.H.; Nicholson, W.C.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, G.E.; Hall, Tom; Woodville, R. Caton; Carruthers, G.P. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Story of John Jewitt - A young Englishman is taken as a slave by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island; The Children of the Wilderness - Part I - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated journey in little-known Mongolia; Winning a Wife - An incident involving an Englishman in Tirah; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-Out - Part I - The conclusion of Frederick C. Glass's adventures on a little-known Brazilian river; The Sea Devil - An extraordinary six-hour battle with a huge West Indian manta, or ray; Where the gold went - Charles Siringo describes the pursuit of two men who had robbed the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska; The Cannibal Islands - Part I - Clifford W. Collinson has spent several years in the Solomon Islands - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees (conclusion) - a couple with a donkey cart set out to explore the area without any modern luxuries; My Motor-Boat - what happend when a man tried to run a second-hand boat he purchased; How We Killed the "Rat" - a scheme to kill an intruding rat goes sadly wrong; A Woman in Unknown Albania (conclusion) - Rose Wilder Lane explores the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish; A Lonely Job - a young ship's officer acts as caretaker of a vessel wrecked off the Australian coast; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Sambrook, Russell: Cover Art; Grassick, C.A.; Shreve, Carl; Dinsmore, E.J.; Chambers, W.V.; Summers, Dudley Gloyne; Sellen, H.E.M.; McCrea, H.W. (illustrator). First Edition. 84 pages. Features: Nice mini-golf cover illustration; Heinz vinegar and olive oil colour ad inside front cover; Nice vintage full-page photo ad for Clark's Tomato Ketchup features grocer behind counter speaking with lady customer dressed in contemporary fashion; Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late J.Pierpont Morgan - discusses modern women - ad with photo of Miss Morgan as part of Pond's ad; Some Truths about Wheat - W.W. Swanson argues that there has been no "foolish overproduction of wheat"; Backstage at Ottawa; The Dark Road (fiction); Pigeons on Patrol - the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force pigeon service whose winged messengers have pulled many a pilot out of a tight hole; The Hyams Twins Case - Did the Hyams brothers kill Willie Wells in Toronto in 1893?; Barry's Clarissa (fiction); The Silver Scale (fiction); Patrick "Pat" Burns - One of the West's Dominant Business Figures; Bonds of Danger - the story of "Surge" the steelhead; Canadians in Hollywood - great article with five nice photos of stars Fifi Dorsay, Walter Huston, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer (photo of Pauline Garon appears later); The Devil in the Jade - a strange tale of mysterious Burma; The Western Mennonites - a graphic description of life among a group of New Canadians now in the throes of the conflict between orthodoxy and modernism - with photos; Sir Oswald Mosley and his New Party cause stir in Britain; Nice full-page photo ad for Kraft cheese and Velveeta; Nice full-page ad for the Chrysler Eight De Luxe; Nice full-page illustrated ad for REO speed wagons and trucks; The Brome Lake Duck Farm of Knowlton, Quebec - article with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Swift's bacon; Great colour full-page art deco ad for Calay soap; Full-page illustrated ad for Studebaker Trucks features a 2-ton model for $1125; Nice photo ad for Spud cigarettes features a pilot lighting up; Fashionable full-page ad for Penmans new silk hosiery; Excellent full-page colour ad for International Harvester commemorates the centennial of the McCormick reaper; Nice colour full-page ad for Keen's mustard; Woodward's "Gripe Water" ad; Excellent two-colour full-page ad for Dodge Trucks shows row of trucks backed up to loading gates; Nice full-page two-colour ad for the book Murder at Belly Butte; Humour; Nice full-page ad for the Graham Prosperity Six car; Lux soap ad features photos of Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Mary Brian, Lillian Roth, and William Powell; Hot weather supper dishes - recipes; Nuce full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Convertible Cabriolet; Outdoor furniture; Colour ad for Parker pens on back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent issue.

First edition. Octavo. pp xiv, 284. Diagram and three maps. Six pages of adverts at rear. Original blue cloth lettered in red. Ironically, it was a life-threatening illness which prevented Evans from suffering the same fate as the other members of the expedition.Free endpapers partially tanned. Prelims spotted. Very good indeed in the rare dustwrapper which is slightly rubbed with several nicks and small chips.