Baxter Captain (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Illus (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. This is a fine, as new, hardcover first edition, first printing copy in a fine, mylar protected DJ, black spine. Signed by W. Baxter Byrd on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fair. 1968. No Edition Remarks. 190 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Dust jacket has been laminated to boards. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Contains black and white & colour fold-out illustrations. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards presumed to be in good condition as covered with library-laminated jacket.

Tan Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (in mylar). Folded Plates (illustrator). Textblock and binding is very clean and tight. Unclipped dust jacket, chipped at the foot of the spine, with several closed edge tears and overall scuffed extremities; 190p., including index. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Two volume set, complete; published 1952 and 1960. Volume one: light corner wear, slight toning to spine, no dust jacket. Interior pages slightly toned, unmarked. Volume two: moderate bumping to corners, soiling to textblock edges; in dust jacket with shelf-wear and edgewear, and tape repair to corners. DJ protected in Mylar. Pages lightly toned, text unmarked. This is a multiple-volume set, and may require additional postage to ship.

Condition: Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Tokyo: Sophia University (In cooperation with the Diplomatic Press, Tallahassee, Florida), 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Beautiful book in original dust jacket. Golden beige cloth boards with red title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear, slight rubbing to red title box background. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean, with clean patterned endpapers. Previous owner name neatly ink-stamped at top edge of half-title page. Frontispiece is a Japanese drawing of Captain Will, used by him as his bookplate. Lovely illustrations, many of them fold-out. 190 pages with index. Clean dust jacket with price intact (12.50 on upper corner of front inside flap), small clip to lower corner of front inside flap, no chips, one tiny closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Recollections of the author who was a pioneer in the development of Western navigation and commerce in Northern Japan. He worked in and out of Hakodate for most of his life as navigator, captain and trader. Illustrated with fold-out maps.

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. hardback, large octavo, a good tightly bound copy, free of markings, the dust jacket in a poor state, torn with loss and now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve. Published in an edition limited to 500 copies of which this example is numbered 278. Illustrated with b/&w plates, xv + 536pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xv 536pp decorated end-papers, wrapper laminated in clear adhesive film, front hinge webbing just showing, limited edition no. 21/500, printed by the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, well illustrated with bw plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. limited edition no. 24/500. xv 536pp hardback black cloth in laminated wrapper, illustrated.

(12),259 Pp. Frontis portrait of author, other photo illustrations Appendices at rear include Centennial Battery Rolls -1893, Field and Staff Officers, Officers Service Lists The 3rd. fly leaf is a printed presentation page 'by the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery, with the compliments of' the Corps. Spine darkened, edges worn and a small light blue stain to front cover, interior very good Blue cloth, gilt coat of arms to front with gilt titles to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 259, frontis portrait, 19 b/w plates, appendices contain Centennial Battery Rolls - 1893; Officers' Lists; etc. Original blind-stamped royal blue cloth with gilt-stamped coat of arms to the upper cover, gilt spine lettering, all edges stained red, dark grey/green coated endpapers. To "John T. C. McKean Esq." written in ink on the presentation page, compliments of "The Corps." McKean was a prominent New Brunswick architect and partner in the firm McKean & Fairweather [1877-81], noted for their Second Empire Style. The Old City Hall, Customs House and City Market (now considered a National Historic Site) are examples of their work. Minor 'thumbing' and a few light pencil ticks at some names, light rubbing to the coth at the site ends, otherwise a c lean, bright near fine copy.

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#332/500), imperial octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, xv + 536pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to board & spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional light creasing to some gutters) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate scuffing to spine & covers, sl tanning to flaps).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Limited edition. Limited edition #247 of 500 copies, very good black cloth hardcover shows rubbing at edges with rub though at bottom corners, creasing along spine, foxing to top page edges and some other mild trace wear, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows wrinkling, rubbing and edgewear that includes closed tears, small open chips and larger open chip at top corner of front panel. 536 pages with drawings, well over a hundred black & white plates, decorative endpapers and index. Good looking copy of this limited edition work from the antique firearms expert.