edited joe mccarthy (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. Very good with poor dust jacket. Dust jacket is well worn at spine tips, corners and edges with five edge tears of from one to four inches, a one inch chip at top front edge, and some surface rubbing. 108 pages with many photographs. 4to size.

Zustand: GOOD. First American edition. "The Exploits of a Modern Soldier of Fortune, British Agent, Danger Hunter and One-Man Task Force" - an autobiography by "one of England's great adventurers . .Spanning two wars and the exciting years between, [this] recreates his exploits - using logbooks, scrapbooks, letters, and the captain's own astounding memory. At 21, Orsborne was the youngest captain in the British Merchant Marine and ready for the extraordinary life that was to involve him, at one time or another, in pearl hunting, a safari to destroy a man-eating tiger, an escape through a crocodile-infested river, espionage for British Intelligence, and almost anything that looked like danger." Edited and with an introductory note Joe McCarthy. ix, 278 pp. Good overall in rust-colored cloth in a fair only dustjacket with several tears, creasing and price-clipped (now in an archival cover).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. First Edition. [ex-library (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Script Department "File Copy"), marked as such only by a label and pocket on the front endpaper, and aside from that the book is only lightly worn and would grade Near Fine; the jacket shows some wear and some tiny nicks along the top and bottom edges, with one tiny chip at the top of the rear panel]. Memoir by "one of England's great adventurers -- a man who made a business out of danger! Spanning two wars and the exciting years between, [the book] recreates his exploits -- using logbooks, scrapbooks, letters, and the captain's own astounding memory. At twenty-one, Orsborne was the youngest captain in the British Merchant Marine and ready for the extraordinary life that was to involve him, at one time or another, in pearl hunting, a safari to destroy a man-eating tiger, an escape through a crocodile-infested river, espionage for British Intelligence, and almost anything that looked like danger." (The "Girl Pat," by the way, was a small fishing trawler that Orsborne took on an unauthorized voyage across the Atlantic in 1936 -- an escapade for which he was tried and imprisoned, on the charge that he had stolen the boat. He claimed to have been on a secret undercover mission for British Naval Intelligence.).