Captain Augustus Agar (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Small light brown dot on top edge of page margins. Some wear along the DJ edges and tips. Minor wear along the edges and tips of the book. Some rubbing wear to DJ covers.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1962 first edition hardback in very good condition. A little foxing to page edges and prelims. No other marks, clean and bright, tight binding. The blue cloth boards have a 'Boots Booklovers' sticker to the front, some rubbing away of the top coat of blue to the edges, otherwise fine. No dust jacket. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

Condition: Good. 1963. First Edition. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Photograph available on request.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Edition. 1983. 255pp., a map of the Baltic States on the endpapers, 2 other maps and 12 black and white illustrations. Augustus Agar (1890-1968) was a Royal Navy officer in both the First and the Second World Wars. He was asked in late 1918 to volunteer for a mission in the Baltic Sea, where CMBs were to be used to ferry British agents back and forth from Bolshevik Russia. The shallow draught and high speed of the CMB made it ideal for landing on enemy occupied shores and making a quick getaway. Agar set up a small base at Terijoki, just inside Finland and close to the Soviet frontier. From here he undertook a top secret and dangerous mission to retrieve Paul Dukes, a man he knew only by the MI6 codename ST-25, from the coast of the Bay of Petrograd. The last British agent left in Russia, Dukes had been infiltrating the Bolshevik government for some time and had made copies of top secret documents. In order to spirit Dukes away, Agar's boats had to cross Bolshevik minefields and pass by a number of forts and ships guarding the entrance to the Bolshevik naval base at Kronstadt and to Petrograd. The book is bound in the original black boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in excellent condition. Light foxing to edges. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has slight sunning to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good first edition copy with light foxing in edges and endpapers and owner's name stamp on title page and rear endpaper. The dust jacket is price clipped, otherwise intact and bright.

Condition: Good. 1963. First Edition. 255 pages. Purple pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 255 p. 21 cm. B&w illustrations. Blue cloth in dustjacket. Rear panel slightly soiled. Front flap price clipped. Light edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, dustjacket present also plastic cover protector, corner unclipped but original price crossed out and another written in pen, some light wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges a little creased and worn, some wear to covers and spine, top right corner of both covers bumped, tip of boards dented, top and bottom of spine bumped and a little worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, top right corner of all pages lightly creased, more so at end of book.

A good quality first edition ex-library hardcover copy in a fair to poor dustcover. The dustcover has edge tears and the book itself has ex-library stamps and some page end marks. The spine is straight and the text and photos are bright and clean. Please see photos.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. 255 pp. Crisp copy with numerous B&W photographic plates. Discreet bookplate to FFEP.

1st Ed. 336 PP, plus 32 pages with 1 map and 46 b/w photos. Fp: The Author. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 22.5 x 14. Memoirs. Born 1890 in Ceylon, on the tea plantation of his father. Joined the Royal Navy on H.M.S. Britannia. WWI, WWII.

Hardcover. 8vo. Evans Brothers Limited, London, UK. 1959. 336 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present (DJ is crease and worn) Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bookplate to half-title page, blind stamp to title page, stamp to reverse of the rear board. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The author, Captain Augustus Agar, VC. , RN. , entered the Royal Navy in 1905 and served for almost 40 years seeing action during both World Wars. During WWII he escorted large convoys across the Atlantic and delivered gold bullion to Canada. His last command was the cruiser HMS DORSETSHIRE which was sunk by a powerful force of Japanese dive bombers in 1943. In this book he describes the role of the Navy between the wars and extols Nelson's maxim that a fleet of British warships was the best negotiator in Europe. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condition: Bueno. 21x14 255 Tela con sobrecubierta y plástico pegado. Inglés Sello Feb/16/11 Tela con sobrecubierta y plástico pegado.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "Baltic Episode A Classic of Secret Service in Russian Waters", Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1963, first edition. Augustus Agar VC, DSO, RN (1890 1968) was a Royal Navy officer in both the First and the Second World Wars. He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for sinking a Soviet cruiser during the Russian Civil War. He was asked in late 1918 to volunteer for a mission in the Baltic Sea, where CMBs were to be used to ferry British agents back and forth from Bolshevik Russia. The shallow draught and high speed of the CMB made it ideal for landing on enemy occupied shores and making a quick getaway. Agar set up a small base at Terijoki, just inside Finland and close to the Soviet frontier. From here he undertook a top secret and dangerous mission to retrieve Paul Dukes, a man he knew only by the MI6 codename ST-25, from the coast of the Bay of Petrograd. The last British agent left in Russia, Dukes had been infiltrating the Bolshevik government for some time and had made copies of top secret documents. A master of disguise, he was known as "The Man with A Hundred Faces", but his resources had run out by this time. In order to spirit Dukes away, Agar's boats had to cross Bolshevik minefields and pass by a number of forts and ships guarding the entrance to the Bolshevik naval base at Kronstadt and to Petrograd, now St. Petersburg. Now (in 1963) Agar has been given official permission to give his own account of what happened in the Baltic that eventful spring and summer. This book, 255 pages, is bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. The dramatic dust wrapper design is by Douglas Hall. The book has map endpapers and has maps and photographs with the text. The book is in fine condition as is the dust jacket now in a protective mylar wrap. A beautiful copy of a scarce book.