lt col williams (27 Ergebnisse)

Chips and creases to the DJ, protected in mylar wraps. Pages are tanned but are clean and free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. KRM/Animals.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Good. 1963. Reprint. 246 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Zustand: Good. 1956. No Edition Remarks. 246 pages. Paperback with orange striped paper cover 1120. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Zustand: Good. 1956. First Penguin Edition. 246 pages. Paperback with orange striped paper cover 1120. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Zustand: Good. 1963. Reprinted. 246 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. A Peacock book. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Green cloth with elephant head on front cover.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. With a foreword by Field Marshal Sir William Slim. Name of the previous owner written on the front free end paper page. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Frontispiece. Publication of 319 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There is foxing around the block and little within the body of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: Good. 1953. Ninth impression. 319 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Zustand: Good. 1950. 3rd impression. 319 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Considerable loss to jacket edges and corners.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fair. First Edition. 192pp quarto, illustrated. Red ink spots on foredge, name on front fly leaf. A very good copy in well worn chipped dust jacket. Laid in is facsimile reprint of a letter from J C Snuts to the author.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Elephant, Animal Trainers, Burma, History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. 1950. First Edition. 250 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Plates are bright and clear, with some light tanning and foxing to edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing.

As photographed; green cloth bds with gilt spine lettering; owner's name to ffep; otherwise unmarked and clean throughout; private ownership; 320pp. + 36pls + folding map of Upper Burma. The author tells the story here of his involvement with elephants in Burma during the Second World War when he was elephant advisor to the XIVth Army under Field Marshal Slim. The elephants were vital to the logistics of the successful campaign against the invading Japanese.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 367 pages plus indexes (complete). A passive copy. The boards are grubby. They retain a weary elegance. There handling and storage marks and wear all about. They are sure. The contents are very clean, clear, benign, confident, authoritative. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Clean hardback tightly bound in quarter brown cloth over yellow cloth with gilt titles and decoration, cloth has minor rubbing with previous owner's name & date (1944) on front endpaper, marks on pages 175-180 from pressed flower. 368 pages, photos on plates, diagrams in the text, appendices, index.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: acceptable. Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage. D/w spine missing upper/lower, much worn.

Hard back binding in publisher's original emerald green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 340 pp with 4 hand-drawn maps and monochrome archive photographs on coated paper throughout. Rubs to lower edges, mottling to covers, front hinge cracked, ink name dated 1952 to front free end paper. Poor condition book in Poor condition dust wrapper with 15 mm piece of paper missing from top of spine, nicks and chips to lower spine and corners, not price clipped 21s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. NATURAL HISTORY.

1947, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp367, four colour plates, black and white illustrations, tan cloth spine over beige boards in dustwrapper. Small damp mark on front cover, top of spine of dustwrapper slightly pulled, otherwise good.

Zustand: Good. Dust cover is worn and faded, book is in very good condition underneath.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60069158: 1951. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 245 pages. Dessin en noir et blanc en page de titre. Illustré de photos héliogravées en noir et blanc hors texte. Tranche de tête grise. Tampons en pages de garde (ex-libris). . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. EDWARDS, Lionel et alia. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed limited first edition, in all 375 this being number 7 of the first ten not offered for sale, signed by the editor on the Publisher's Note and the coloured tipped in frontis piece signed by Lionel Edwards, octavo, full blue leather, light wear to corners, two small bruises on front sunning to spine, gilt decoration on front and titles across spine, top edges gilt, toning to untrimmed edges otherwise internally clean and bright, illustrated with 61 tipped in plates of which four in full colour, 368 pages. a very handsome beautifully produced volume. Heavy item (1.5kg net weight) may require additional for shipping. [QH] [QP]. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. vol 1 lacks part of spine covering hinges repaired vol 2 in good order.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Very good hardcover. First edition. From the collection of Ian Angus (British Librarian and a scholar on George Orwell), whose name and date are faintly pencilled to FEP. Unclipped jacket, designed by John Minton. Edgeworn jacket with a couple of small chips to the spine foot, plus one or two nicks to the edges. Jacket fitted with a loose mylar covering (but with portions of the lower edges missing). Spine is cocked. Foxing on the page block and a few page edges. A few lightly creased page corners. The binding is sound and all content (including a fold-out map) is clear. With a foreword by Field-Marshal Sir William Slim. CM. Used.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. No date [c1985? (page x, Introduction includes reference to a publication from 1980)].This is the text of an 1864 diary by Lt.-Col. Edward Arthur Williams. Edited by B. J Dalton. [1], xv, [3], (2)-65 leaves. With 22 tipped-in laser printed illustrations, of which 1 is an illustration of the author, and 21 are colour photocopies of the sketches in Williams's diary. Red plastic "Gestetner Velo-Bind" stationery binding, with clear plastic covers. Leaves printed on one side only. Page dimensions: A4 (297 x 210mm). Appears to be a photocopied typescript. No publisher's imprint. Presumably only a few copies printed in this form. "I am grateful to T.P. Garrity, Curator of Pictures, Hocken Library for permission to produce this edition of the Williams' Journal, and to Rosemary Entwhistle who introduced me to the other splendid Williams' paintings in the Hocken collection." - from the Acknowledgements, page xv. Dalton's Introduction is on pages i-xiv. At the rear are notes numbered 1-99, 1-37 on pages 48-63, "Sources" on pages 64-65, and "Further Reading" on page 65. The Hocken Library's PDF "New Zealand Wars : Sources at the Hocken Collections : Part 2 1860s and 1870s" notes: "We have a large collection (126 items) of Edward Arthur Williams' watercolour sketches, which include images of soldiers, camps and military constructions in the Waikato and Taranaki. Williams was a commander of the Royal Artillery who served in New Zealand from 1864 to 1866. You can view many of these sketches online via Hakena. There is also a diary of Williams [Misc-MS-1085] describing, possibly in an exaggerated or fictional style, a colonel's journey through the Waikato in 1864."] B. J. Dalton was the author of "War and politics in New Zealand, 1855-1870" (1967). He was a Professor at James Cook University.