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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents, prize label frontpastedown 1924, 336pp with colour frontis and 7 B&W plates.

Zustand: Good. Boards have some wear. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Zustand: Fair. 1913. First Edition. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.

Zustand: New. In.

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, pictorial green cloth lettered gilt, A very good tightly bound copy, foxing to the rear endpapers, browning to the front endpapers, the text clean and free of markings. Covers bright, coloured frontis, viii + 336pp.

Octavo, xii+314pp, 32pp publisher adverts, original red cloth with gilt titles, spine a bit faded, a very good to near fine copy. First edition.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnWhile admittedly somewhat limited (about the width and height of an aircraft windscreen) and woefully short of the big picture , the pilot s perspective offers some unique insights into the vagaries of life. Those insights are pr.

Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Some light spotting to first few pages, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Previous owner inscription in pen to title page. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) 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.

Stahlstich. ca. 13 x 21 cm. Im Passepartout. N/W 78.39. - Leichte Gbrsp.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. 12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada October, 1942. Contents: Life in the R.A.C. - tank crews in training; The Tanks at Dieppe - actual dialogue of R.T. wireless conversation between members of the tank crews of B and C Squadrons of the 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment (The Calgarys); Finding New Officers; Index for numbers 1-26 of this publication. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Very good. Bound in full calf. Slightly foxed and toned. The book is extensively annotated with expansive hand-written notes and additions in the half-a-page-wide margins alongside the printed text, as well as with typed loosely inserted notes. Also further to the original 234 pages and 40 plates (some folded, some color) of published material have been bound-in to the rear around 200 pages of hand-written material on Gunpowder - 'General Description of Gunpowder', with subheadings such as 'Explosive Power', Advantages of Gunpowder and other Explosive Mixtures', 'Refining Process', 'Charcoal', ' and Manufacturers'.We then have chapters sections headed 'Manufacture of Ordnance', 'Manufacture of Carriages etc', 'Manufacture of Ammunition', tables recording ammunition practice and the findings thereof (round shot, common shell, ricochet) dated Woolwich, 7th Sept, 1863. Lastly, there is 4 fold-out plates to the rear and 1 full page, entitled 'Mode of Breaching a Revetment' (with several diagram figures), 'Armstrong 12 Pr Gun, shewing the Coils etc - scale 1/6' etc. 4to. 11".

Half Leather. Zustand: Good binding. Travel narrative by Thomas Boteler, of the survey expedition of HMS Barracouta and Leven as they survey the East African coast, and the River Gambia. Upon their return, they had surveyed 30,000 nautical mailes of coast, prepared 83 charts, and lost half their crew to tropical diseases. With four plates and few text illustrations. Wear to the joints, rubbing to the boards, surface loss to the edges of the boards, and spots of surface loss and creasing to the spine, especially one spot affecting the titling of Vol. II. Hinges feel fragile, though appear to be holding and are not cracked at the time of description. Half leather over marbled paper boards, with gilt lettering and designs along the spine. Good binding.

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original vivid navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover, top edge gilt. 8vo. 9'' x 6¼''. Contains 204 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece and some photographs throughout. In very near Fine condition with minor rubbing to the high points of the boards, no dust wrapper as issued, now protected in clear acetate. SIGNED by the author to the second free end paper 'O. C. Holleran.' Member of the P.B.F.A. FIRST WORLD (Great) WAR.

Size : 610x475 (mm), 24x18.75 (Inches), Black & White Good; several tears along the lower and lower-left margins.

Size : 646x985 (mm), 25.375x38.75 (Inches), Black & White; lighthouses colored originally Very Good; some minor repair at the lower part of the fold.

Performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Baracouta. First edition. 2 vols. 5 lithograph plates & 4 engraved charts, with vignettes in the text. Contemporary calf, gilt with morocco labels, bookplates to front pastedowns. xxiii, 434; viii, 420pp. London, One chapter describes Muscat and the conquest of Patta by the Imaum of Muscat, a similar account of which is given by Lieut. Boteler. The author describes in detail his survey work on the coast of Africa, the first volume being particularly useful for its account of the East African coast around Zanzibar. Mendelssohn II, p133.