yachtsman (13 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Well-illustrated (illustrator). 1st. Small 4to, 468 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: G+. First Thus. 8vo. Nicely bound copies (without covers) of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter 1955 editions, with green cloth spine and corners and decorative paper covers with slight scuffing to fore edges where boards showing. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: G+. First Thus. 8vo. Nicely bound copies (without covers) of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter 1957 editions, with red cloth spine which is slightly faded, and decorative paper covers with minor soiling. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Zustand: New.

See his entry, and that of his father the civil engineer, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On separate letterheads. The recipient is not named and there is no salutation (though the letter is complete). Signed 'Brassey'. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Begins: 'I have two maxims for [hourly?] use. / I do the little I can do and leave the rest to thee / What thou livest live well. The rest commit to Heaven / Nor should the last message of the greatest sailor since the world began ever be forgotten / England expects that every man this day will do his duty'. The quotation from Nelson is not entirely accurate.

2pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The letter begins: 'I have just come down here, and find my brother's hounds are hunting on Tuesday. I venture therefore to ask, if I may be allowed to change my plans, and to dine with you on Thursday next, instead of Tuesday.' He concludes by explaining why he hopes the change may not be inconvenient.

On 5 x 13.5 cm piece of paper, cut from the end of a letter and laid down on one side of part of a leaf from an album, the mount carrying a cropped cartoon on the other side. In good condition, lightly aged, with the mount a little ruckled. Simply reads: 'Your sincerely / August Courtauld'. Captioned on mount: 'August Courtauld - explorer'. The cartoon is intriguing. In black ink with pencil guide lines, and cropped at the bottom, it shows a bearded figure in military costume, standing on his doorstep with two trees beside him, confronting a young girl with the face and lorgnette of an old man with a sign which says 'CAUTION / NO ENGLISH / NEED APPLY'. See Image.

Hard back binding in original full green leather, five raised bands to the spine with gilt decorations, elaborate gilt tooling to the the front and rear boards, Lipton 'L', gilt dentelles, all page edges, raised silk end papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 7½''. In 1870 Thomas Lipton initially helped his parents run their small shop in the Gorbals. The following year he opened his first provision shop 'Lipton's Market' at 101 Stobcross Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow. This enterprise proved to be successful and Lipton soon established a chain of groceries, first across Glasgow, the rest of Scotland, until finally he had stores throughout Britain. While Lipton was expanding his empire, tea prices were falling and demand was growing among his middle class customers. In 1880, Lipton invested in the young stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska, founding a large packing plant in South Omaha which he sold to American interests in 1887. In 1888, when his empire had grown to 300 stores, he entered the tea trade and opened his tea-tasting office. He started bypassing traditional trading and wholesale distribution channels (most UK tea-trading was focused in London's Mincing Lane) in order to sell teas at unprecedented prices to the untapped poor working class market. In order to provide his shops with goods Lipton bought tea gardens and in doing so, he established the Lipton tea brand, which remains in business as a subsidiary of Unilever. A presentation retirement book to Mr. Scotcher for services rendered to the Lipton brand, who joined the company in 1936 and was presented this book on his retirement in 1951. Hand written in gold and black with lovely hand drawn colour illustrations by R. Barrett. First page reads 'The purposes of this book, Mr. Scotcher, are manifold. It is written to you, and about you, and, it tries to tell you what all of us in the Lipton business feel about you'. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOOKS (Binding, Collecting, Printing, Paper).