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Zustand: New. 2019. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 300 pages. 8.23x5.47x0.67 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Owner name to end paper. DJ with some edge wear, fading to spine and creasing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 8.50x5.83x1.02 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. 1988 copy. Pages in good condition. Some light marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> It would be hard to find two men born with the same surname so totally different in circumstance as S.C. Rolls the author of this book, and the Hon. C.S. Rolls of Rolls-Royce fame. The former a lowly-born tough little artisan motor mechanic; the latter the inspired young aristocrat with a passion for motor cars and a Cambridge University engineering degree - who joined F.H. Royce to establish Rolls-Royce in 1904. Sam died, well into his nineties, in a Northampton nursing home, whilst Charles crashed to his death the first Englishman to be killed in a flying accident - in 1910, when only thirty-three. Both achieved lasting fame from their very special relationship with the immortal Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost motor car, which by 1914 had achieved world acclaim and had justly acquired an unsurpassable reputation and the soubriquet 'The Best Car in the World'. Sam Rolls was one of that generation of noble and passionate young patriots who thronged to the recruiting offic.…

Hardback. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good to Very Good. Revised. This lovely 1988 revised edition of Steel Chariots in the Desert The Story of an ArmouredCar Driver with the Duke of Westminster in Libya and in Arabia with T E Lawrence by S C Rolls is now in the possession of St Marys Books Beneath the charming blue dustjacket which features a black and white photograph of Rolls chaufferring T E Lawrence this hardback book is bound in navy mock leather with gold gilt lettering to its spine Inside one finds 286 pages of text supplemented with some black and white photographs and maps detailing the wartime escapades of S C Rolls as an armoured car driver This book is in very good condition though there are some slight bumps to the dustjacket the book itself has no notable imperfections This book is looking for a new home and would be the perfect gift for the military history enthusiast or the RollsRoyce fannbsp. book.…

Zustand: Good.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Exciting Episodes In Libya and Hejaz, and Especially Railway-raiding Exploits With Lawrence' Yorkshire Post'Rolls, the driver, our strongest and most resourceful man, the ready mechanic, whose skill and advice largely kept our cars in running order, was nearly in tears over the mishap. The knot of us, officers and men, English, Arabs and Turks, crowded round him and watched his face anxiously. As he realised that he, a private, commanded in this emergency, even the stubble on his jaw seemed to harden in sullen determination.'T.E. LAWRENCE - THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Klappentext Exciting Episodes In Libya and Hejaz, and Especially Railway-raiding Exploits With Lawrence - Yorkshire Post - Rolls, the driver, our strongest and most resourceful man, the ready mechanic, whose skill and advice largely k.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; 8vo; 285 pages. First edition. Very scarce. Pale orange cloth hardcovers with gilt on spine. Fairly scuffed near edges and spine. Lightly bumped corners. Lightly age-toned but bright and clean interior. Several b&w plates. VG/--. Book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Brown cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine, with the publisher's russet top-edge stain. Illustrated with two maps and six captioned photographic plates. A little wear to the backstrip ends and a single tiny circular scorch-mark to the upper board. A little surface abrasion and tape residue to the pastedowns and endpapers from the wrapper protector, and also the ghost of several brief inked and pencilled notes. A little light spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves, and also to the plates and plate-adjacent leaves. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good in fair dust wrapper, marked and soiled, quite browned at the spine panel, chipped at the spine ends with some internal repair, and with a little tenderness to several natural folds. All four corners of the flaps have been clipped, impacting two areas of the printed text. A small corresponding scorch-hole to the front panel. A respectable copy of Sam Cottingham Rolls' uncommon Great War memoirs. Most uncommon in the dust wrapper. O'Brien E114.…