captain pollard (41 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1939. New Edition Revised. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with school insignia stamped to front board. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Pages and plates are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier foxing to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Insect damage to front free endpaper. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Splits to joints.

Zustand: Fair. 1937. No Edition Stated. 299 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. The clipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, tears and chips. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Heavy loss to all parts of the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Undated edition, 1940s authorized economy standards. Firmly bound, heavily faded red cloth bards without a jacket, light handling wear including lightly bumped corners of the cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. [1946] 192pp. Red publisher's cloth boards (worn, marked and rubbed at edges, rounded at corners & spine tips). Lending sheet on front endpaper but no other library markings. Well-thumbed pages, some spotting. In its original pictorial dust jacket (rubbed and chapped at extremities, a few small scuffs, creasing on spine, shelf wear). Pollard, awarded the Victoria Cross, became a prolific author in later life; once popular many of his titles are now very hard to find, especially in their original dust jackets, although this particular title does turn up from time to time.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard. Zustand: Good. Illustrated from photographs. (illustrator). First printing. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown. A touch of foxing to outermost leaves. 326pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First?. Red cloth binding, undated. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Orange boards undated but printed to war economy standards Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. ND. 1946 - WorldCat. Inheritance fraud, murder, the Belgian Resistance, Captain Pollard's romantic thriller has it all. Bar light toning to top of block all is in VG clean and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Smart red boards showing very light shelfwear only. G+ unclipped d/j, a little worn to edges and dulled to rear. Hard to find in this condition with jacket. 12mo. 192pp.

First Edition. Well-kept copy; lbue cloth boards with lettering blind stamped on front board; gilt on spine; spine a touch faded; name and date inked on frot free end paper; department stamp on front pastedown; binding tight. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Good red cloth hardcover with good unclipped dustjacket. 251p. Slight foxing to endpapers, dj edgeworn. Russian (red!) spies, murder, sabotage and thrills galore.

Hard cover, dust jacket, 244 pages, good.

1st edn. 8vo. Original yellow lettered green cloth (page edges spotted; extrems lightly scuffed), dustwrapper (extrems scuffed and chipped - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 272, illus with coloured frontispiece and b&w drawings in text (front and rear endpapers and prelims spotted; pages foxed; no inscriptions).

Paper Back. Signed by Author to the ffep Paper covers good despite sunning to the spine and light shelf wear Contents clean Overall good 252pp. book.

Zustand: New. In.

12mo. pp 253. In illustrated wrappers. Crime-Book Society No. 69. Fair with rolling to the spine, tape repair to the crown and a weak front hinge.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st edition. Ex-library- have a few rubber stamps. 187 pages. The boards are edge worn, torn on spine, chipped, cocked and damp marked- through to some back page edges- not affecting the text. Tanning, foxing, minor marks. Aside from these, the book is still in fair condition, tightly bound and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard back binding in publisher's original air force blue cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 319 printed pages of text with monochrome diagrams and photographs throughout. Fraying of the cloth to the rear gutter, spine ends turned-in with shallow rubs and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AVIATION & AERONAUTICS.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd printing, following first edition in 1945. 176pp. Red cloth boards (worn and rubbed at edges, slightly cocked). Lending sheet on front endpaper but no other library markings. Some spotting. In its original pictorial dust jacket ( rubbed and chapped at extremities, faded, worn through at corners). Features Wing Commander Martin Wentworth, set in the mythical Balkan state of Estavania. Pollard, awarded the Victoria Cross, became a prolific author in later life; once popular many of his titles are now very hard to find, especially in their original dust jackets. Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. 12mo.

8vo. 224pp. Original bright red boards in slightly chipped dustwrapper. A very good copy. First edition.

First Edition. 1st edition, ex-school library bound in red cloth with black lettering to front and spine. Cover has various marks, particularly to back, minor bumps to corners and slightly faded spine. Title page bears school library stamp and front paste-down has a reference in biro; no other library marks. Binding a little fragile. Page edges foxed; tears to pp 209-211. Otherwise, a perfectly readable copy. Used - Acceptable. Ex-library hardback.

Hard back binding in publisher's original yellow backed colour illustrated paper covered boards, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 288 printed pages of text. Small ownership marking dated 1949 to the front free end paper, cheap paper browning to the margins and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ESPIONAGE (Clandestine).

8°, Hardcover. Zustand: Befriedigend. 63 Seiten Lagerspuriger und angeschmutzter Einband sowie altesgemäss gebräunte Seiten. Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 182.

Zustand: Good. The Royal Air Force : A Concise History by Captain A. O. Pollard, c.1939HardbackPublisher: Hutchinson, LondonPages: 276 + platesIllustrated. Yes. All collated and complete.Condition: Wear, tears, browning and spotting to jacket with some parts missing. Light edge wear to boards. Light foxing to pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co., (1940), 287 plus 24 pages. The interior is clean and solid with many black and white plates of planes in flight and on the ground. There a very small plate from a previous owner on the front fixed endpaper. The binding is blue cloth with silver stamped lettering and decoration on the spine and front cover. The spine is sunned very slightly and there are a few small bumps to the board's edges. Overall a very good copy in a a good, slightly creased, price-clipped dj.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Scarce publication describing in grahic detail the functions of the Army (1941) 48pp., coloured card covers. vgc 0.0.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xii, 324 pages. Original publisher's cloth, spine lettered gilt. The author is described on the title-page as 'Late of the staff of the Chief of Police, Ireland'. His intelligence role in Ireland was just one episode in the colourful life of this devout Catholic, vehement anti-communist and firearms expert. With the bookseller's stamp of 'Dublin Bookshop, 32 Bachelors Walk, Dublin'. Slight foxing to edges of text-block, otherwise a fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. Images available on request.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed, 1st imp. 256pp. Red cloth boards (worn and rubbed at edges, with small indentation mid way along lower front edge). Lending sheet on front endpaper but no other library markings. Old repair to rear endpaper. In its original pictorial dust jacket (a little rubbed and chapped at extremities, lightly fraying at head of spine). When her car breaks down on the Winchester-Alton Road, April Bowden sees two men carrying a corpse from a lonely cottage. Pollard, awarded the Victoria Cross, became a prolific author in later life; once popular many of his titles are now very hard to find, especially in their original dust jackets. 12mo.