merchantman rearmed von bone david (16 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Book has a slight lean with little wear to boards. Light toning to pages with some spotting.

Zustand: Good. 1949. No Edition Stated. 331 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Blue cloth, 332 pages; Very Good in a foxed but whole pictorial dust jacket.

Zustand: Good. 1949. No Edition Stated. 331 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrations. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Prominent forward lean to text block.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Sir Muirhead Bone (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book has a pen name to the front paste down and light foxing to fore edges and prelims. The jacket has chipping to the head and foot of the spine and small closed tears. Not price clipped. A little foxing on the jacket. 332pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xx,332pp, illustrated, owner's bookplate on endpaper, edges browned and foxing, blue cloth, spine slightly cocked, Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Near fine with a short ink notation on the copyright page, in a very good dustwrapper with light edgewear.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1949 first edition on blue cloth.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1949 chatto firtst edition on blue cloth.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back over navy ground. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains (xx), 332 pp with 15 plates and 17 monochrome headpieces. Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL NAVY (RN).

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 15 fine plates and numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at head and tail of backstrip. The author's war service from master of TRANSYLVANIA to command of the troopship CAESAR. Classic illustrations by his brother, well-known artist Muirhead Bone. Enser, p.270; Law, 1376.

Zustand: fair, poor. Muirhead Bone (illustrator). First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 331, illus., index, DJ worn, soiled, and torn, front DJ flap price clipped. Illustrated by the author's brother, Sir Muirhead Bone. Personal recollections of World War II by a British merchant sailor who served in World War I as well. Includes information on Operation Torch, Operation Husky, Operation Shingle, and many anecdotes of naval action.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Muirhead Bone (illustrator). Limited Edition to 160 Copies. "In the Merchant Navy we were not quite unprepared for action when war came in 1939, and certainly we were not as ill-briefed for hostilities as in 1914." The recollections of Captain Sir David Bone (1874-1959) who began his seafaring on windjammers in Australia in 1890 and joined Anchor Line in 1899 where he ended up as Commodore retiring in 1946. Edition limited to 160 copies and signed by the author. xx, 332pp gilt top edge, foredge uncut. Illustrated in black and white by Muirhead Bone, the authors brother and official war artist to the Admiralty. Signed by Author(s).

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Muirhead Bone (illustrator). A fascinating memoir of Captain and novelist Sir Captain David William Bone. Limited edition of one hundred and sixty copies of which this is number twenty one. Signed by the author to colophon, with original etching of the author, signed in pencil by artist and brother, Muirhead Bone. Illustrated throughout, with fourteen full page monochrome plates, sixteen headpieces and one tailpiece. David William Bone was both a successful sea captain and novelist, and wrote a number of works detailing his time fighting during the First and Second World War. Merchantman Rearmed is based around his experiences during the Second World War, including his participation in Operation Husky, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from Axis power. He retired from active duty in 1946. In a quarter blue morocco binding with blue cloth boards. Externally very smart, with some slight rubbing to the extremities. A few marks to the boards. Spine is sunned. Slight offsetting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with just the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed. book.

Leather. Zustand: Fine. Muirhead Bone (illustrator). A lovely limited edition copy, signed by both author and artist, of this memoir by David Bone, profusely illustrated and in the original publisher's box. The limited edition of this work, published simultaneously as the first edition. This copy being number one hundred and thirty four of one hundred and fifty copies printed for sale. Signed by David Bone to the limitation page and by Muirhead Bone in pencil by frontispiece.A fascinating memoir by Captain and nautical fiction writer David Bone, recollecting his experiences around the Second World War and his participation inOperation Husky, campaign for Sicily to take back the Axis power.Profusely and beautifully illustrated by the author's brother and painter Muirhead Bone with fifteen full plates and various headpieces throughout.With the original publisher's protective box. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding with cloth covered boards. Externally lovel. Signed in ink by the author to limitation page and by the artist, in pencil, to frontispiece. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with most leaves unopened. Collating complete with frontispiece and fifteen full plates, as well as several headpieces drawn by Muirhead Bone throughout. Fine. signed by author. book.