Captain a Murray (8 results)

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 285, No. 6. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Chandler H. Whipple.] Cover art by Rudolph Belarski for "Dead Storage" (pt. 1 of 4) by Eustace L. Adams. Includes "The King of Halstead Street" (novelet) by Murray Leinster; "Isle of the Dead" by H. Bedford-Jones; "The Ship of Ishtar" (pt. 2 of 6) by A. Merritt; "Nomad's Debt" (novelet) by C. F. Kearns; "River Man" by James Kjelgaard; "Men of Daring: Ned Buntline - Stranger Than Fiction" (true story in pictures) by Stookie Allen; "Two Houses to Go" (pt. 5 of 6) by Theodore Roscoe; "Tough on the Gulf" by Captain Dingle. Standard wear and tear at edges and spine ends; creasing; stress; tanning; marks on front in pencil; minor soiling, bumps and dings. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 285, No. 6. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Chandler H. Whipple.] Cover art by Rudolph Belarski for "Dead Storage" (pt. 1 of 4) by Eustace L. Adams. Includes "The King of Halstead Street" (novelet) by Murray Leinster; "Isle of the Dead" by H. Bedford-Jones; "The Ship of Ishtar" (pt. 2 of 6) by A. Merritt; "Nomad's Debt" (novelet) by C. F. Kearns; "River Man" by James Kjelgaard; "Men of Daring: Ned Buntline - Stranger Than Fiction" (true story in pictures) by Stookie Allen; "Two Houses to Go" (pt. 5 of 6) by Theodore Roscoe; "Tough on the Gulf" by Captain Dingle. Checkmarks in pencil to contents page; mild staining at upper edges. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover. 25x17.5cm. 128 pages. Cover edges & spine ends have small chips & minor tears. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref a3. Argosy Weekly. November 5th 1938. Magazine. Volume 285. No. 6. Cover story: "Dead Storage" A New Novel by Eustace L Adams. Other contributors: Bedford Jones, Captain Dingle, A. Merritt, Murray Leinster. Published by The Frank A Munsey Co., New York, U.S.A.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Murray was Durham's nephew and a member of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. The book is a detailed account of the life and career of Admiral Sir Philip C. H. C. Durham, a Scotsman who was a distinguished naval officer in the Royal Navy during the 19th century. It covers Durham's early life, his entry into the navy, his rise through the ranks, and his various naval engagements and campaigns including mutinies, sinkings, meeting Lord Horatio Nelson, awards and so on. He was a young lieutenant on the HMS Royal George when it sank in 1782; he survived by jumping into the sea where he was rescued. He also served under Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Handsome hardcover, bound in full leather six gilt bands and gilt titles in a red band on the spine. 119 pages. Very good condition, small bit of leather missing top of spine. Someone has written notes in pencil on the page facing the inside front cover, noting the fact that the book originally was in the naval library of a C. Nortcote-Parkinson, a professor and author, and for whom the saying "Parkinson's Law" is named. The book has an interesting provenance, as it also has the armorial bookplate of Gordon of Aikenhead (John Gordon II 1815-1898) on the inside front cover. He came from a notable Scottish family; his father was a West Indies merchant for whom a street in Glasgow is named. Aikenhead was the family seat. More recently the book was owned by R. Burdett Mafit, a well-known American collector of British naval history. Rare volume; we can find no other currently available.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Original, blind stamped, blue cloth. The cloth is slightly rubbed and has a few marks. Page edges untrimmed. Bookplate to front paste-down of Sir Berkeley Milne Bart. The text is unmarked, no annotation or foxing. 346g. xi, 119 +16 ads. This book has been carefully described by an experienced, independent, bookdealer, it is not for sale on other sites and the pictures are photographs of the actual book. [Loc. J6-5].

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Holloway, Cyril; Sutcliffe, Norman; Tennant, Dudley; Wigfull, W.E.; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Sindall, A.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Holloway, Cyril; Sindall, A.W. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Miller, Ardeen (cover photo); Brule, Elmo; Leake, Franklin; Sweeney, Dan (illustrator). First Edition. 40 pages. Features: Colour Canada Dry ad features playing cards; Canada's Cabinet Crisis - and After; Photo of F/L Art 'Birt' Birtwhistle of Ottawa chatting with Dutch girls about wooden shoes; Sugar-Snow Slalom (short story); Knocking the World About - article with photos of massive world infrastructure projects; The Vertical Line (short story); Will Anthony Eden be Britain's Next Prime Minister?; Lovely Laboratory - brief photo-illustrated article on Kew Gardens mentions Winnipeg's Palm House at Assiniboine Park; The Reluctant Tutor; Jergens Lotion ad features photo of Maria Montez; Anaconda Copper and Brass ad features photo of employee Lou Weller of Port Credit, Ontario; Very colourful illustrated centrefold ad for General Motors of Canada entitled "Enterprise - and the Challenge of Tomorrow" includes text mentioning founder Robert McLaughlin; Recipe article; Chase & Sanborn ad with colour Charlie McCarthy comic; The Canadian Mothercraft Society; Newlywed photos of Lynette Emelyn Diedrick of Kingston, Jamaice, and Frank Leonard MacIntosh of the RCAF appear in Woodbury soap ad; Wartime conservation tips; nostalgic ad for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board inside back cover uses traffic lights to explain it will take time for all wartime goods restrictions to be lifted; Great back cover colour ad for Good Year features very futuristic auto/highway scene; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited. 526 pages (complete). Hand numbered 227 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Folio sized. A heavy, most handsome copy. Fully bound in leather. Gilt titling, bordering and edging. The gilt is benign and very lightly worn. The spine has five ridges. Titling and decoration are worn. The leather is also much worn. The spine is fit and healthy. The boards have storage / shelving wear about. Nonetheless, they are dignified and pleasing. Within, the tissue separators are in immaculate condition. Marbled end papers with gilt edge decoration that are in elegant, most pleasing condition. The gilt edging is a little worn but is otherwise gratifyingly smart. The contents have some amiable evidence of usage with occasional handling marks and wear, but in general and by far, the pages are wonderfully neat and tidy and amenable. The pages are clean, clear, confident, generous to a fault, clubbable, enjoyable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.