King hall commander stephen (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good+. First. 12mo. A nice copy with some foxing to cover. Book.

Zustand: Good. 1959. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.…

Zustand: Good. New edition. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine. Book has slight forward lean.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 8vo, 252pp, plans, page tips a little age foxed, a vg tight copy in dustwrapper which is a bit edge chipped and aged and bit foxed to back but near complete.

Zustand: Good. Third impression (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 223pp. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. there is some foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block; overall, the book is i n good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good minus condition (edges chipped and torn with a little loss). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it. Signed by Stephen King-Hall on the front free endpaper.…

Zustand: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 224pp. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. Light bumping to the lower corners of the boards, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good plus condition (some chafing of the edges). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it. Signed by Stephen King-Hall on the front free endpaper.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback, 1958, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket tanned to spine (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - retains the original Gollancz sheet of comments on the book from the likes of Field Marshall Viscount Alanbrooke, J. B. Preistley, Bertrand Russell etc.; text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Pages clean, no markings, light wear to edges. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, 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.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. Uncorrected Proof. 21 x 14 cm. 224 pages. Paperback proof copy with title on front board. In original unclipped yellow dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling throughout. Some edge wear to dust jacket, now in archival jacket. Dust jacket front and title page are stamped 'UNCORRECTED'. With a typed letter to Field Marshal Alanbrooke, signed by the author. The author also added typed paper sections stapled to various pages and containing corrections made between the proof phase and printing phase. Provenance: From the Library of Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Field Marshal Alanbrooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke. William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall (21 January 1893 - 2 June 1966), was a British naval officer, writer, politician and playwright. The son of Admiral Sir George Fowler King-Hall and Olga Felicia Ker; theirs was an artistic Naval family. He was educated at Lausanne in Switzerland and at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He fought in the First World War between 1914 and 1918, with the Grand Fleet, serving on HMS Southampton and 11th Submarine Flotilla. He gained the rank of commander in the service of the Royal Navy in 1928, before resigning in 1929. He wrote several plays between 1924 and 1940, including Posterity accepted by Leonard Woolf for the Hogarth Essays. He joined the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1929, having previously been awarded their Gold Medal for his 1920 thesis on submarine warfare. He entered the House of Commons in 1939 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ormskirk unopposed, standing as the National Labour candidate. He later changed his affiliation and continued to stand as an Independent, subsequently losing the seat to future Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the 1945 general election. During the Second World War, he served in the Ministry of Aircraft Production under Beaverbrook as Director of the Factory Defence Section. In 1944 he founded and chaired the Hansard Society to promote parliamentary democracy. He presented a programme for children on current affairs on both BBC radio and television. He was invested as a Knight Bachelor in 1954 and was created Baron King-Hall, of Headley in the County of Hampshire (Life Peer) on 15 January 1966. He lived at Hartfield House, Headley until his death on 2 June 1966.…

Zustand: Good. Publisher's printed white paper stapled tabloid. 12½" x 10". Monochrome photographs throughout. New short stories and articles by: H. E. Bates 'Country Matters' and 'Acidulous Short Stories'; Mary Crosbie 'The Eternal Village'; Robert Lynd 'Churchill and Hitler'; Olga Venn 'The Status of Man' - Commander Stephen King-Hall (Photograph) and Julian Huxley (Photograph). Cheap paper browning and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 52 pages. Features: We're fumbling victory - Allied bickereing and indecision is wrecking Europe and sewing the seeds of another world conflict; Tell Them the Truth - a very philosophical and interesting piece by G. Brock Chisholm, M.D.; Romance in the Dark; Disease Killer from the Soil - Dr. Selman A. Waksman and streptomycin; CCF Show Window - after 18 months of socialist government, Saskatchewan is a small-scale display of what the CCF Party would like to do with the rest of Canada - article with photo of Saskatchewan's CCF Cabinet at work; Fish 'n' Ships (fiction); Prodigy at Sixty - author Tom Costain - article with photo; House that Sun Built - article (with photos) on passive solar construction; They Make Money - The Canadian Mint - article with photos; Keep 'Em Happy (fiction); fantastic full-page colour ad for White trucks shows a highway full of their products; 3/4 centerfold ad for Firestone Champion tires; Nice Carling's beer ad inside back cover shows winter horse-logging scene; Coke ad on back cover shows friends at a soda fountain; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Moisture staining to top edge of most pages. A worthy vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, January 15, 1946 Tommy Douglas Allied bickereing and indecision is wrecking Europe and sewing the seeds of another world conflict; Tell Them the Truth - a very philosophical and interesting piece by G. Brock Chishol. Illustrated by Lambert, Harold M.; Parkhouse, Stan; Jousset, Albert;Eldridge, Harold (illustrator).…