Campbell Captain Malcolm (4 results)

decorative brown Cloth. Condition: Fine. 284pp. frontis, 29 b/w photos. A very nice copy but a little foxed. Binding very nice with a small blemish to font cover otherwise fine. Neat owners inscriptions.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very Good with bumped corners and spotting to most pages PP 284.frontis, all plates intact.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A clean sound copy of the First Edition. Bound in the original publishers cloth with 32 photographic illustrations.The book has the same content (and binding) as the adult version of The Life of Sir Henry Segrave but was published by Hutchinson under a variant title in order to attract the juvenile reader. Biography of the great land and water speed record holder who first broke the land speed record in 1926 at 152 mph and raised it several times finally to 231mph at Daytona Beach in 1929. He died attempting the water speed record on Lake Windermere in 1930. Segrave was a great competitor of Campbell, so it is fitting that Campbell should have co-authored this book which is undated but was published shortly after Segrave's death.…

An inscribed first edition of Capt. Malcolm Campbell's second motoring mystery novel. The inscription reads, ' To Russell G. Marr / With best wishes / From Malcolm Campbell'. First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo (19.5 x 14 cm); inscription to ffep, embossed ex libris stamp to ffep and title page; publisher's orange cloth, gilt-lettering to spine, spine sunned, corners bumped, a few marks to boards, lacking the dust jacket; [vi], 314pp.…