the earl howe (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Noticeable foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Scuffed corners, marked cover.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Paperback. Stapled binding. 12pp. Illus. nd. [circa1960]. Covers a little scuffed to edges. A decent copy. (p10).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. the boards are shelf rubbed and a bit marked. foxing. binding is sure and intact. no date present. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. undated. the boards are scuffed and edge worn. foxing and markings. fairly good copy. complete and intact. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Motoraces Book Club. 1964. First edition, thus. Hardback with DW. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Boards are slighty mottled o/w a good clean copy in slightly worn and lightly soiled wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Lonsdale Library series. Professionally rebound in navy cloth with gilt titling. Original dust jacket is price punched, wear to corners, 3 small edge gaps, in a clear film protective sleeve. A heavy book.

Zustand: Very Good. Publisher's original wire stitched colour illustrated paper wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 96 pages + covers with monochrome period photographs throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. MOTORING, SPORTS CARS.

FIRST EDITION 8vo. red cloth hardback in unclipped dust jacket. [ix] + 229pp., indexed, illustrated with b/w plates plus photo endpapers. One previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and another's ink signature to title page. Light foxing to edges, dust jacket somewhat worn with chips and tears to edges and some light soiling to rear cover. Overall a VERY GOOD COPY IN Good dust jacket. (SHELF 10) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Piet Olyslager; Bryan de Grineau (illustrator). A highly illustrated set of six informative guides, hints, and introductions to automobiles, driving, and motors. A fantastic set of six volumes on transport, vehicles, cars, and driving.In the original cloth bindings.Comprising of:[1929] The Austin Seven BookA work by R.T. Nicholson. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, and in text illustrations throughout. Including advertisements to the front and rear of the volume. TheAustin 7is aneconomy carthat was produced from 1922 until 1939 in theUnited KingdombyAustin. At that time it was one of the most popular carsproduced for theBritish market and sold well abroad. With sections such as 'Cost of Running', 'Grooming and Tending', 'Tyres', 'Learning to Drive'. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library.[1932] The Art of DrivingThe new, revised, and enlarged edition. By The Times Motoring Correspondent. Including driving tests: what and how to learn. Including illustrations and advertisements. With a section of the original glassine wrapper. Undated, dated from a copy held at the University of Oxford libraries.[1932] Full ThrottleA work by Sir Henry ("Tim") Birkin with a fore word by The Earl Howe. Illustrated with a frontispiece, 15 double sided plates, and 4 plates of drawings by Bryan de Grineau. Collated, complete. With section such as 'A Car', 'Myself', 'A Race', 'Some Foreigners', '1928'. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library.1958 Scooters and MopedsA work by I.R. Hingston. In the original dust wrapper. With in text illustrations, and advertisements to the rear. An informative volume, giving advice for scooter and moped owners. Including sections such as 'How to choose your machine', 'What happens inside the engine', 'ignition and lighting'.1967 Good Driving- the B.S.M WayA work by Ronald Priestly and Tom Wisdom. In the original dust wrapper. With 16 plates, and in text illustrations throughout. Collated, complete. A guide to learning to drive, with sections such as 'The Gears', 'Two-Pedal Control', 'On the Move', 'Baptism by Traffic', 'Night Driving', and more.1967 Illustrated Cars of the WorldA work by Piet Olyslager, with an introduction by Jack Brabham. An abundantly illustrated volume, with coloured depictions of cars throughout. In the original cloth bindings. With two dust wrappers and a glassine wrap. Externally, smart. Odd fading to spines. Light shelf wear to the heads and tails of the spines. Split to head and tail of the front joint of The Austin Seven Book, with rubbing to joints. Sticker to front paste down of Illustrated Motor Cars of the World. Light spotting to endpapers of Full Throttle. Ink inscription to front free endpaper of The Austin Seven Book, with offsetting. Dust wrappers are smart, with chipping to extremities, and slight loss to the heads and tails and the odd closed tear. Glassine wrap is poor, with less than half being in tact, only covering half of the rear board, and the inside rear flap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Leather bound. Zustand: Very good. First edition of A Narrative of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Fleet, Under the Command of Earl Howe, published in 1796. The first major sea battle of the Revolutionary War. (illustrator). First Edition. Quarto, [8], 118pp. Full red crushed levant, thin gilt trim. Spine professionally rebacked, five raised bands, title in gilt. Green silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Previous ownership bookplates to front endpapers. Errata on verso of title page. Solid text block, worn corners, foxing to edges of leaves, a very good example. Complete with a detailed frontispiece portrait of King George III, tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Earl Howe, and two large fold-out plates of battle plans bound in at rear. Binding by L. Staggemeire and Welcher of London. (NMM Catalogue V, 1798). Richard, The First Earl Howe (1726-1799) was a Royal Navy officer who served Great Britain in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, and the French Revolutionary War. This work describes Howe's success in commanding the British Fleet during the "Glorious First of June" naval battles in 1794, with the British defeat of the French fleet of Villaret de Joyeuse in the North Atlantic. The first British naval victory of the Revolutionary War.