colonel cook (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. The first shell that fell on the elegant town of Lipik wrecked the roof of the town's orphanage. Within three months Lipik had been destroyed, the people killed or driven from their homes, and the orphans evacuated under fire to another part of Croatia. The author, sent out to command the British contingent of the UN Protection Force in Croatia, had no idea of ther emotional impact the scenes of devastation would have on him. Nor did he anticipate meeting and falling in love with the beautiful, troubled young doctor of Lipik, Marina Topic. When Marina was rushed into hospital and told she could die within months, her one wish was to see the ruined orphanage rebuilt ot its former glory. Colonel Cook made a promise to her and the children to rebuild their home. Sixteen months after making his promise, Colonel Cook watched the children return to a building which had become a symbol of hope. He resigned from the army in order to keep his promise and found himself agonizingly torn between his life in Croatia, and his understanding and loving wife and their sons in Britain. This book is a story of determination and achievement amidst despair and destruction. Illustrated. 238 pp. Slight crease to bottom edge of front of D/J.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Moving account of the author's experience with the UN in Croatia and his work for the children's home in Lipik. 238pp., ills., list of donors. Signed presentation copy in very good dw. 0.0. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Wolstenholme; Alken et al (illustrator). A new edition of this autobiographical series of observations on fox-hunting across the turn of a century, with lovely coloured plates. A new edition with coloured plates.In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper covered boards.With a frontispiece and ten further coloured plates. Collated, complete.Colonel John Cook writes of his fox hunting experiences and observations during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.With fascinating anecdotes and and overall a fantastic insight to English country life of the period. In the original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart. With dust-dulling to the boards and slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. A few marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with offsetting to the endpapers and scattered spotting. Very Good. book.

pp. xv, (i), 144. Coloured frontispiece, 10 plates, mostly coloured. Quarter black cloth over orange boards, uncut and unopened, the cloth on the boards surface eroded by silverfish, otherwise a very good copy.

Zustand: Good. Jacket covered in plastic. Signs of fading/wear/delamination with tears at spine dedges. Boards edgeworn with bumps to corners/spine. Spine is split both ends. Tanned textblock edge/endpapers. Newspaper article glued to one page. Content good/clear.

Full Calf. Zustand: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Book measures 9 1/2 x 6 inches. Collation, xvi,292pp, engraved frontis, 2 full page plates. Bound in full red marocco, by Bayntun of Bath, boards have gilt lines and gilt image in each corner, raised bands, image or lettering in compartments, full gilt edges, marble endpapers. Binding very slightly sprung. Binding in very good clean firm condition.Internally, pages clean throughout. Excellent copy, in a fine Bayntun binding. Size: 8vo.

Hamish Hamilton, London. 1994. First edition. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Hardback with DW + Selfridges wraparound band. Illustrated. A lovely clean and fresh copy in very slightly worn wrapper.

London, printed for the author, by William Nicol., 1826, in-8°, xvi pp + 292 pp + 3 lithographic plates (including the frontispiece). Uncut copy. Bound in contemporary unassuming paper covered boards, paper at spine worn and partially missing. Inside with some slight foxing (sic), especially at the endpapers. Still a good copy of the original first edition.

London: Printed for the author by William Nicol . and sold by Rowe and Waller. 1826. Royal 8vo. Late 19th-century red morocco, boards panelled in gilt with 2 triple-filleted borders and corner pieces, spine richly gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt in one, rich gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, red silk place marker; pp. xvi, 292, with a steel engraved frontispiece and two plates; extremities slightly rubbed, hinges splitting at head; some variable spotting but overall very good.First edition, handsomely bound, of this treatise on foxhunting and hound management, addressed to "a young sportsman, about to undertake a hunting establishment".The author, John Cook, served as a colonel in the 28th Regiment of Light Dragoons, a cavalry unit raised in March 1795 and disbanded in 1802.The twelve-page list of subscribers preceding the text serves as a veritable "who's who" of Regency England.