Beamish Derek (34 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. very nice copy.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Jacket. 5th. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Acc/Acc/Acc. y First Edition, 1st. Imp. HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1976* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and decorative gilt title to face. No bumps or rubs, top & bottom edge faded and boards somewhat damp-stained and marked. ACC* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £4.95. Some considerable shelf wear to edge and to head & tail of spine. Some tears, creases and chips. Spine and edges faded. Interior, particularly at rear, damp stained. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured, printed end papers showing map of Dorset, coloured flags and ships. Clean & tight with only minor reading wear but edges and margins badly damp stained. Top edge somewhat dusty. ACC* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, with b/w prints, maps and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 185 pp. text. vi pp. index at rear.* Description: In this book, the authors have told the stories of some of the merchants who were Poole people or men who came from Dorset, Hampshire or Somerset. Trading out of the port of Poole in their small sailing ships, they established a successful commerce with the European ports, The North American colonies and, more importantly and lastingly in the fisheries of Newfoundland. This trading lasted from Elizabethan times up until the middle of the nineteenth century. Poole?s share of this trade varied from decade to decade but, in the more prosperous period starting in the late 1700?s and lasting until about 1830, Poole had the lion?s share of the Newfoundland trade of the ?Western Adventurers? This volume covers the family history, the commercial interests, the newly built halls and mansions and the various epitaphs remaining to champion these old traders and entrepreneurs.* An ACCEPTABLE damp stained copy of the 1st. edition, suitable for reference, with tatty but essentially complete jacket.* 1976-12-01. …

Condition: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Condition: Good. 1976. 3rd impression. 226 pages. Black pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. 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. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 192pp hardback, blue boards gilt in wrapper, wrapper with tears, mark to front end-paper, map end-papers, illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 239pp. 680g. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Black cloth boards. FINE in V.G. d/w a little marked and edgeworn and in removable clear wrap.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. Foreword by Lord Mountbatten. Good condition.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fading to spine of DJ and rubbing to corners. DJ now in protective sleeve.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. VG+ DW. 7th Impression. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Special Anniversary Edition. Profusely illus.

5th edition. Condition: vg+/vg. 1983 5th print hardcover vg+ book in vg+ dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Minimal wear, a crisp and tight copy.

Large 8vo. 239pp, text illustrations, text maps. Original navy cloth gilt, bevelled edges, pictorial eps, glassine-protected d/w.

Hardback. 1 St UK. book.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. This copy is in fine condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and the upper board. The price clipped dust wrapper has some edge wear and one or two closed tears so best described as good. This copy is from the library of the late Sir Owen Aisher (1900-1993) who was the Chairman of Marley Ltd (1945-1982) and bears an inscription to him on the front paste down. He inherited from his father the ability to read widely, urged on with such aphorisms as 'to read much is to learn much', 'to learn much is to know much' and 'knowledge is power'. This book vividly recreates the history od the great merchants of commerce and their housesand heritage in Dorset. Ref LL1. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. A nice facsimilie edition of the 17thc 1st edition, bound in a deep maroon cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Spine and boards are in very good condition with minor wear. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is in very good condition with minor wear to edges and spine. All pages are free from notations. Top edge very lightly soiled. Slight red mark on title page, possibly made during printing. Nicely Illustrated end-papers. Small label of previous owner on front end-paper verso.A very interesting account.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This softback book " Poole and World War II - Special Anniversary Edition" has boards and binding which are square and tight, the text block is clean and bright , Illustrated Book price includes Track 48 postage in UK only. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The story of Poole throughout the war:- Commandos; Germans at the Casquet Rock; HMS Sona; the Home Guard : D-day ; HMS Turtle; "Pluto" pipelines; RAF Hamworthy and their Sunderland and Catalina flying boats; the Sea Flame Barrage; Evacuees; the Poole " Redoubt "; the Shipyards & LDVs; The GIs and Canadians; the blitz. Incl. a list of civilian war dead. HB. Dark-blue cloth boards with gilt lettering lettering to spine. 238 pages, including index, with numerous b&w photo. illus. DJ clipped with slight wear around edges and corners; has a 0.5 inch tear at bottom of dj spine neatly repaired with suitable tape on the obverse. Book tight and clean.…

1st edition. Illustrated. Fine in very good dustwrapper (small label marks & light crease). Price-clipped. 239 pp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition, First Printing. NrF/NrF. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY GRAHAM SMITH, without dedication or inscription on verso of front endpaper. Graham Smith was the book designer. Profusely illustrated with 226 photographs of Victorian and Edwardian Poole in Dorset. Neat unobtrusive previous owner signature on front endpaper; d/w has tiny losses to top two corners; else a near fine copy, in a near fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY GRAHAM SMITH. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf. Signed by Graham Smith.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Seventh Impression. Hardback in jacket 1991. 30x21cm. Clean & tight. Flat pages. Jacket is not torn. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref A24. An Album of Old Poole by Derek Beamish; John Dockerill; John Hillier; Graham Smith. Published by Poole Historical Trust, UK.…

9.5 x 7 inches. Hardback in black covers with gilt lettering to spine and original illustrated glossy dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrap. (DW very light rubbing on edges). Inside clean and tight. 239pp. Illustrated endpapers and B&W illustrations throughout.

Size 8.0 x 11.25 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dust wrapper. Illustrated endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. Pages not numbered. With 226 b/w photographs, and other illustrations. A history of Poole through old photographs. Black and white photographs throughout. Victorian and Edwardian photographs by professional and amateur photographers. The photpgraphs have all been researched individually by the authors and the text contains much information that has remained unpublished until now. Poole as it progressed from ?The Age of Sail? into the Twentieth Century. …

8vo., Second Edition, with illustrations and facsimiles (a number toned in sepia) in the text, and printed endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in 1974.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 7th reprint. This book is a unique record of life in Victorian and Edwardian Poole as seen through the eyes of the local amateur and professional photographers. It contains 226 original photographs from the earliest days of photography to the eve of the Great War. The boards, and text block are square, tight and clean, the dust jacket has light wear to the top front corner and scratching to the front panel. Book price includes 2nd class postage in UK only. This book are photographed as proof against in-transit damage.…

8vo., Second, Best and Limited Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout, and pictorial endpapers; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1980. This is the limited edition produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of VE Day, with new and altered illustrations and a fresh dustwrapper. Already scarce in its own right.…