Captain walter parker (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 272 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Boots library rebind with associated stickers and markings to pages and boards. Black and white photographic plates. Believe signature to frontispiece to be printed. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking and staining to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with prominent staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor tanning with soft splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Lettering remains bright and clear.…

Zustand: Good. Boards have some wear and fading. Content has light toning. Some spotting to end papers. No DJ.

Cloth. Zustand: Fair. First edition. A first edition of this illustrated autobiographical commentary on the author's experiences at sea. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten images over nine plates. Collated complete. An autobiographical account of the author's active career at sea over forty-eight years, with details from childhood, boat work, promotion to Second Mate at eighteen, H.M.S. Humber, the Royal Mail, and more. Written by Captain Walter Henry Parker, of the British Royal Navy. Dated from the British Library. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and significant marking and staining to the boards. . Rear hinge tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light scattered spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Fair. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…