captain gilson (27 Ergebnisse)

hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. hardback, undated but about 1916. Octavo, red cloth lettered black, fading to spine and with small ink splash marks to same, rubbed to extremities. Tightly bound, previous owner details excised neatly from the front free endpaper. illustrated by Arch Webb, 254pp.

Zustand: Good. . Hardcover. 8vo. Reasonable copy in original cloth with worn dustwrapper. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: good. Boys Own Paper 1920? Prize inside Hardcover red illustrated boards good book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Zustand: Good. . Hardcover. 8vo. Reasonable copy in original cloth with worn dustwrapper. . . . .

viii+288pp. 8vo. Original boards with pictorial inlay, light wear to extremities and some fading to backstrip. Colour frontispiece and plates. Gutters beginning to loosen. Foxing to edges and preliminary pages. A very good copy. Juvenile "Lost Race" novel. Bleiter pg. 82.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Book hardcover First Edition No DJ Pictorial Boards 8 colour plates (see seller's images) pp295 + advertising. Condition Good Handwritten dedication 'To Harry Saunders Christmas 1916' on endpapers. Tanned throughout. Edges tanned. Little internal foxing. Ample thumbing. Solid copy, firm and otherwise unmarked.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Brock, C.E. & Ford, H.J. & Cuneo, Cyrus & et al., (illustrator). Circa 1925. Good condition with no wrapper. Orange and pale blue pictorial boards. 9 colour plates. Numerous b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, corners worn. Cover edges rubbed. Scuffing to rear cover. Name and date in ink to belongs to box. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to textblock and some page margins, some fingermarks to pages. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Brock, C.E. & Ford, H.J. & Cuneo, Cyrus & et al., (illustrator). 1922. Very good condition with no wrapper. Orange and pale blue pictorial boards. 9 colour plates. Numerous b/w illustrations. Book: all plates present, Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Corners worn. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Some rubbing to head and tail of spine. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Robinson, T.H. & Cuneo, Cyrus & et al., (illustrator). Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Stories and things to do. Blue boards with pictorial onlay. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Unpaginated but 1.5" thick. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Prize plate to front pastedown. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear. Complete with 6 illustrations. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Archibald Webb (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, 1919. 4 colour plates by Archibald Webb. First serialised as "In the Power of the Pygmies. A tale of the great African forest" in The Boy's Own Paper, Nov 1914 - May 1915. Slight tanning to endpapers otherwise in fine condition with no marks or inscriptions. Very much "of its time".

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Boards have moderate shelf rubbing with scuffing and smudging as well as bumping. Binding is sound. End pages have age-toning and smudging. End pages have age-toning and smudging with foxing. Page edges have age-toning and smudging with foxing. Interior pages are age-toned and smudged. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Brock, H.M. & Brock, C.E. & Rowlandson, G.D. & Cuneo, Cyrus & et al., (illustrator). Circa 1914. Good condition with no wrapper. Green paperboards, pictorial onlay to front shows boy rescuing another from a cliff fall. Pictorial spine. 8 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. First story is "The Coward" by Rhoades. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly damp stained. Prize plate to front pastedown. Vertical crease to edge of front free-endpaper. Joints starting to crack. Heavy foxing and grubby fingermarks to contents. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton. London. Early reprint, No date, circa 1920. Hardback with DW. Very attractive pictorial cloth. Colour frontis and 5 further colour plates. Light tear marks to inner hinge of front endpapers, contents slightly shaken, occasional foxing otherwise a clean copy in a very worn and torn wrapper that lacks portions at head and tail of spine and top edge of front cover and also lacks portions of mounted coloured illustrations to spine and upper panel. SCARCE IN WRAPPER.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Christopher Clark (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated adventure story for young readers from Captain Gilson. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and five colour plates. Collated complete. An early aeroplane adventure novel, following young Jack Wilks, the son of a blacksmith, who signs up to join the British Army. Written by Charles James Louis Gilson, who published as Captain Charles Gilson, Major Charles Gilson, and Barbara Gilson, a British officer and a popular author of science fiction, adventure stories, and historical fiction books for children. Illustrated by Christopher Clark, a British artist and illustrator. Dated from the British Library. In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages, and light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. book.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1914. Very good condition with no wrapper. October 1913 - March 1914. Maroon/red decorated cloth. Spine faded and slightly bumped. Page edge browning throughout else contents clean. Folding plates of "Firearms of all Centuries" has been misfolded. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated in Colour by Christopher Clark. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. Contains previous owners inscription in pen on FFEP. Spotting to front few pages. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Hbk with blue cloth boards; thick 8vo; prize sticker on fep dated 1940; prelims have a little light foxing; b/w frontis; d/w has some loss, mainly around the bottom edge; quite a scarce title; ; Newnes' Bluebird Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in dark blue pictorial cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 283pp + 16pp book catalogue to rear. Colour frontispiece, 5 colour plates, fold-out b/w map. Blue stain to page edges. Not library copy, missing ffep, previous owners bookplate to front pastedown, foxing to half title page, tanning to pages of catalogue to rear, reinforced hinges to endpapers. (34/4).

The Spy. A tale of the Peninsular War and the Storming of Badajoz, founded upon the personal Memoirs of Sir Jeffery Jones, Bart., of Heatherford Hall in Hampshire. London, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1923. New Edition. Mit 8 Farbtafeln von Cyrus Cuneo, 379 S., schwarzgepr., grünes OGLn.mit mont., farbiger Deckelillustr., Kapitale etw.berieben, Schnitt etw.fleckig, kl.Stempel auf vord.Spiegel; sonst schönes Expl.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Pages especially clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. Contains previous owners inscription in pen on FFEP. Reminents of a bookplate on FFEP. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

8vo, 295 pp. Hard back green cloth covers with over printed illustrations to spine and upper panel. 8 full page colour illustrations including frontispiece and title page by George Soper. Name and personal stamp to free front end paper, edges dusty, small rubs to corners of spine tips and corners, spine titles faded. Acetate protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. SUBMARINES.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. W. E. Webster; James Durden; Cyrus Cuneo; N. Sotheby Pitcher (illustrator). A smart four-volume collection of early 20th-century illustrated adventure novels, illustrated with colour plates. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings. This is a charming collection of four early 20th-century illustrated adventure and historical works, with two first editions, each illustrated with colour plates. This set consists of: King of the Air, Or, To Morocco on an Airship by Herbert Strang (1908). This is a first edition. This copy is illustrated in colour by W. E. Webster. Sadly the final colour plate and frontispiece are missing from this copy, all other colour plates are present. "Herbert Strang" was a joint pseudonym used by George Herbert Ely (18661958) and Charles James L"Estrange (18671947). Their works are often critiqued for containing the attitudes of their time surrounding class, race, empire. Bridget of All Work by Winifred M. Letts (1909). This volume is a first edition. This volume is illustrated by James Durden with six colour plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. The Lost Empire: A Tale of Many Lands by Captain Charles Gilson (1910). This work is illustrated in colour by Cyrus Cuneo, with eight colour plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Charles James Louis Gilson (1878-1943), a British soldier and prolific author of adventure, science fiction, and children"s historical fiction. The Romance of the King"s Navy by Edward Fraser (1913). Illustrated in colour by N. Sotheby Pitcher, featuring four colour plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings.Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight rubbing to boards. The odd slight handling mark to boards. Prize plate to the front paste down of "King of the Air" scribbled over in pencil. Previous bookseller"s blind stamp to front free endpaper. Front board and spine of "King of the Air," disbound, holding at rear joint, with slight cracking to upper extremities of joint. Prize plate to front paste down of "The Romance of the King"s Navy" from Woodhouse Sunday School, presented to Charles Flanders, 1913. Previous owner"s pencil inscription to front free endpaper of "Bridget", partially rubbed out. Internally, generally firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained in places, but holding firm. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to first and last few leaves and the odd handling mark to fore edges. Final colour plate and frontispiece are missing from "King of the Air," all other colour plates are present. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. 1st edition. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1927. 308 pages, 7.5 x 5.25 inches. With color frontispiece. Not listed by Hubin Book in very good condition. Binding with full size illustration on front cover, matching the illustration on the dust jacket With the very rare Dust Jacket unclipped, with some faint shelf wear, to the edges, a repaired tear on the back panel and some small damage to the bottom of the spine. otherwise no tears, no damage. Protected by a Mylar cover.