Captain Afb Carpenter (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Front hinge slightly shaken; in pewter cloth with light shelfwear; unmarked with crisp bright pages; 33 illustrations and 8 maps. ; 276 pages.

Sixth printing. With an Introduction by Admiral Earl Beatty and Appreciations by Marshal Foch and Rear Admiral Sims. Illustrated by 2 plans, 39 Reproductions from Unique Photographs & 5 Drawings by Charles De Lacey. xxiv, 295 pp. A few spots of foxing occasionally in text. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on front board and spine. Top and bottom of spine and corners rubbed. Overall condition VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. N.D. [c1926] 8vo, eighth printing, pp,xxiv,295, illustrated by 2 plans, 39 reproductions from unique photographs & 5 drawings by Charles De Lacey, black titled and panelled green cloth, pictorial unclipped dust-jacket which has some small tears, name on the leading free endpaper.

7th printing orig. cloth Very Good octavo xxiv + 295pp., frontis., b/w pls., maps, appendix, index, The famous naval blockade of Zeebrugge during the First World War. Some wear to boards with a chip in spine. Neat ownership inscription & nice maritime bookplate on front paste-down o/w VG reading copy. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Charles De Lacey (illustrator). London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1833, Second Edition. Half leather prize binding for The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, with their crest to the front board and bookplate to the front paste down, with gilt titles to twin red labels, gilt decorated compartments, blue calf and cloth covered boards, admiralty crest to the front board, marbled page edges and end papers, illustrated frontispiece, with 4 further drawings by Charles de Lacy, 39 photographs, 6 line blocks in the text and 2 maps and plans, text block tight, pages tanned and with minor foxing. Pagination: xxiv, 295pp. Provenance: prize plate for GHD Legard to the front paste down. Approximately 8 ½ inches (21.6cm) tall. Condition Report Externally Spine - very good condition - gilt titles to red labels, five gilt raised bands, gilt decorated compartments. Joints - very good condition - sound, rubbed and worn. Corners - very good condition - rubbed and worn. Boards - good condition - half calf and cloth covered boards, Admiralty crest to the front board. Page edges - good condition - top edges darkened, all marbled. Binding - good condition. See above and photos. Internally Hinges - very good condition - sound. Paste downs - good condition - marbled, prize plate. End papers - good condition - marbled, subsequently tanned and foxed. Title - good condition - tanned with minor foxing. Pages - good condition - frontispiece, tanned with minor foxing throughout. See photos.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Signed by Author (Unverified). 8th printing. No dust jacket. A tan to the page edges. Contents clear, bright and firm. A lovely, well-preserved copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. No DJ.

8vo. xxiv, 295pp. Illustrated by 2 plans, 39 reproductions from unique photographs and 5 drawings by Charles de Lacey. In green cloth with dark green ruling and titles. A near fine copy.

Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Halfbound black calf leather and blue cloth to boards. Gilt vignette to front, raised banding and gilt decorations to spine, with twin maroon leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, some rubbing marks to leather on front. Prize label to front endpaper ?Presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to N.M. Patterson, for Meritorious Work 1936.? Some occasional minor light foxing to pages. Folding plan of Port slightly darkened and rubbed along top edge, folded edge chipped. Plates clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xxiv + 295pp. Illustrated with 2 Plans (1 folding), 39 B&W Photographs & 5 Drawings by Charles De Lacey.