Capt Robert Dolbey (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback book (219 pages) illustrated with vintage black and white photographs and folded map of German East Africa. This is the second printing of the first edition, August,1918. Boards show scuffing/rubbing with several small nicks/dents along spine - browning/foxing on endpapers and fore edge. Bookseller since 1995 (ULG1-TS-R) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 1st ed. NAP. 248p. Red cloth. Spine sunned. Very Good Copy. Book.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Good. Condition Notes: A touch faded at the spine with mottling to the boards. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Previous owners' name and date to the pastedown; Hardback. Green boards with black titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 7¾" x 5" (0.7 kg); pp (xxiv) 219; 2nd printing, first published the same year. Includes: 4 pp. advertisements; Black & white photographs (plates); Fold-out maps (1); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #194647 ||.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Green cloth with black lettering,xxiv, 219 pages, plus adverts Illustrated with photographs on plates and a folding map of German East Africa at the end of the book. 5 X 7.5 inches. Externally the book is rubbed and browned on the spine and page edges, the top edge is dust soiled, a couple of small holes worn through at the rear side of the spine but on the whole a sound copy, all complete and clean througout, hinges sound and all illustrtaions present as called for, as is the folding map which is in good condition.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 219 pages. Rear EP is torn off at the bottom; fold-out map has small edge tear (nothing missing); slight edge wear on covers. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop to check availability etc.

Second  edition. 12 plates, folding map at the rear. Free endpapers browned, occasional ink stamps of the Royal African Society otherwise a very good copy in the original green cloth, a little rubbed and sunned, especially at the spine. xxiv, 220pp. 4pp. publisher's ads. Capt. Dolbey served in the Boer War receiving five clasps for his King's Medal, he returned to the service from his practice as a surgeon in British Columbia in 1914, seeing action in Belgium, East Africa and on the Italian Front.