West major (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition. 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Printing. Very mild fade to spine and rear margin area of bds, with small edge marks to part bottom edge of upper panel, light spotting to side text block edge, dw has tanning and spotting mainly to rear cover, with some to the fore-edge fold-over flap, wear, nicks and sl chips to some extremeties, price-clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 300 pages. 5.50x0.75x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Navy blue cloth boards. Front inner hinge cracked. Scuffing and dust spotting on cover and spine. Pencil scribble on the back of title page, marks on some pages. One illustration is missing. No jacket. with 18 illustrations from photographs (illustrator).…

1st edition. 8vo. xi + [291]pp. Coloured illustrations from photographs, e.p. maps. Original boards. Pictorial d/w. lettered in red and black. Very good. ISBN 055380376X US$10.

Single Sheet Engraving. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. ALEXANDER GORDON LAING, MAJOR 2ND WEST INDIA REGIMENT, ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1840 , ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1840ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1840 AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, CIRCA 1840. A FINE ANTIQUE PORTRAIT CIRCA 1840, AN ORIGINAL ENGRAVING ], MOUNTED AND READY TO FRAME, VERY GOOD CONDITION, DETAILED LIKENESS, SPENDID VALUE AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. A book from one of the most famous westcountry game fishermen, indeed he often used the nom-de-plume "Westcountry".

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, scarlet lining papers. 8vo. 9¼'' x 6''. Contains (xliv), 267 pp with map, monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped, 50s. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORTH AFRICA [Sudan].…

1st edition. "The object of the book is to enable an officer on a visit to the country to understand, and make himself understood by, all classes of Abyssinians, and for that reason only words in common use have been employed.Amharic is a language of Semitic origin and is akin to the Bega language of the Hadendoa. Although it has no present connection with Arabic, it has, nevertheless, some of the Semitic features of that language." 16cms x 10.5cms. Pp.213, 3 cloth-backed folding tables with minor creased edges. Black cloth spine over dark green/blue boards which have wear to fore-edges. Scarce. G+.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated. 158pp. Blue cloth, slightly faded to spine.

Zustand: Very Good. Original Publisher's Copy Fiction:"This MS is the property of G. Cornwallis Ð West, 8, Sterling Street, Knightsbridge, S.W.7." Circa 1938; no date given. Small slim 4to. pp.17. Brown cord folder with lilac raffia string as hinge and typed title labels. Handwritten publisher's note "Copyrighted in USA all rights reserved,' with a publisher's stamp on the front cover and first page 'Must await American release date.'/Major George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West (1874Ð1951) was a British Army officer, author, and prominent society figure,best remembered for his 1930 memoir Edwardian Hey-Days: Or, A Little About a Lot of Things, and his high-profile marriages to Lady Randolph Churchill and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Life. .Career: Served as a British Army officer. He went on to work as a financial consultant, but suffered severe financial difficulties and was declared bankrupt in 1916 before later repaying his debts.Major Works Edwardian Hey-Days (1930): An entertaining, anecdotal memoir of high-society life, notable figures, and his own experiences in early 20th-century Britain. PLOT - '.a short story about a man living in /ceylon, home in the UK to visit his mother, who as the result of rescuing a child girl from a wave on the sea shore meets a woman he finds attractive, and they become friends. She tells him she is married to a man she despises, a convict who is shortly to be released. She has to make a decision whether to go to Ceylon with the man or stay with her child. There a bit more about a signal from a lamp that will let the man know whether she is going with him, that goes wrong.' Very good. Slight wear.…

8vo bifolium (leaf dimensions 30 x 18 cm): 4 pp. Fair, on aged paper with slight wear to extremities, and minor damage to the area around the breaking of the black wax seal, which adheres, with a clear impression of a crest, to the reverse of the second leaf. Damage to a couple of words: otherwise text clear and complete. Circular 'F' postmark in red ink. Docketed. An impassioned, anguished letter, long and unguarded, and unusual in the valuable light it casts on the state of West Indian colonial affairs. The first three-quarters of the letter from 12 February and the rest from 13 February. 'Colony is in a most horrible State of con but thank God tolerably healthy - but Party Prejudices venemous [sic] Plots Leagues & Feuds have sapped the Vitals of Intercourse of mutual Social Intercourse - [sic] I am the marked Object, Target & sooner than undergo another twelve months such incessant, heartrending Persecution I would return to undergo the Horrors of Brixton Tread Mill -'. He wishes John Reeves had answered him. 'I must have it again pressed upon Him I should have endeavoured indeed was making Arrangements to have returned to England in March by the Brig Donald Captn Johnston but dreadful & but mark, mark well - a troublesome mischievous radical to annoy & disturb the Colony prosecutes me for receiving Exorbitant Fees since my First Arrival'. Describes how he has been 'examined before House of Assembly & after most cross, foul Examination were upon Oath from those thought my real Friends a Bill was endeavoured to be passed in the House of Assembly to House or Council above'. Describes a legal 'Tug of War', culminating 'Bench in Confusion my Lord the Governor enraged & it being stated I should add to the Confusion, Misery & Disturbance of this dreadfully divided Colony I did acquiesce I did agree to Travers & until next Sessions - now mark - I can not return this Season - my great Friend Chief Justice Gloster has thro Earl Huntingdon positively forbid me entering his House Earl H - is most severely cruel - telling me I am the Cause of all & every Trouble, vexation &cc in the Colony'. Berates Reeves for not sending 'the much desired Information'. '[.] but why will not Mrs L write - but not a word more on that subject I forgive Her from my inmost Soul & Heart - but for Gods Sake do not let Her forget me the Coat is almost a dead Burthen, Loss - Thirty Two Pounds Eighty Pounds Currency - merciful Father - my good Lord hurries me worries me about my half Pay - declares my signing the Affidavit absolute Perjury & will not sancition it'. The last part of the letter is mostly made up of instructions and requests. Concludes: 'I almost forgot most absolute requisite articles Spectacles or double Eye Glass in Steel or Tortoise Shell any mounting of the strongest magnifying Power I can [sic] see without a borrowed Glass what I have wrote. I can not read a Letter or news Paper | I expect an answer about 13 May.' The only record of Lodington's fate is contained in two later letters (12 June and 3 July 1824) by him, in which he describes the departure for England of the Earl of Huntingdon just before his (i.e. Lodington's) trial, commenting 'Gaol in this Town, death is preferable'. (According to the DNB Huntingdon resigned the Governorship in 1824, as a result of 'a misunderstanding with the other authorities on the island'.).…

4to. Three pages, approximately 275 words, in part: "There is not to my mind, outside of Divine Writ, so convincing an evidence of the immortality of the soul, as is furnished by the growth and development of the mind and character of this greatest of American Presidents to meet the exigencies of the direction and control of a great Revolution, on the successful issue of which depended the happiness of one fifth of the world . as his career differed from that of the other heroes of history, in that he lived and strove for reforms that would benefit mankind though his own life should be the price, in so far is Abraham Lincoln the greatest of Reformers, the noblest of Patriots, the ablest of men." This essay was published along with other tributes to Abraham Lincoln in The Lincoln Memorial (NY, 1882). Very good. Folded. (#6317). Wesley Merritt graduated from West Point in 1860, serving briefly in the West, before returning east for Civil War service in the Union cavalry attached to the Army of the Potomac, participating in its major campaigns and battles through Appomattox, ending the war commanding a division as a Major General. Following the war he commanded the 9th Cavalry in Texas for eight years; promoted to colonel in 1876, he took command of the 5th Cavalry in Wyoming, participating in the Custer campaign and other actions against the Indians and serving in that capacity until 1882 when he was appointed to a five-year posting as superintendent of West Point. He commanded the 1898 expedition to the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.…