Captain Clayton (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 188 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto in black cloth binding with color plate mounted on front cover. Color and B&W plates. Condition: a well-worn copy with spine ends worn & rubbed; paper spine label soiled and nicked; corners lightly bumped; first free endpaper and frontispiece illustration missing; else a good copy. 72 pages.…

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages, 2 plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2003). 2003 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppvi,154. B/w photographs. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine in very good dust-wrapper. "Ronnie Wallace is the one name in hunting that will be most remembered, certainly in the twentieth century." Collected interviews with the late Ronnie Wallace which were previously published separately in the sporting press. .…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good [price-clipped] Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners with chipping to the top and tail of spine. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 188 pages. Captain Clayton was born in a prison where his father was Deputy-Governor. The author joined the Prison Service in 1920 and was Governor of Dorchester, Maidstone, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Wandsworth and Brixton Prisons.…

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 70, [2]pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth gilt with applied illustration and spine title. Bookplate front fly, spine label chipped, overall modest wear, near very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean dark blue hardcover book with color paste-on illustration on cover, gold lettering on cover; clean paper label on spine. A little fraying at both top and bottom spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean endpapers, with tasteful previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper. All pages are clean. Size approx. 8-1/4" x 11-1/4". Preface by Clayton Knight. Foreword by Elliott White Springs. Introduction by Floyd Gibbons. Amazing full-page illustrations by Clayton Knight in both full color and black and white showing various dramatic moments in the lives of the men who flew during World War I. Excerpts from stories by Elliott White Springs, Captain A. Roy Brown, Floyd Gibbons, Norman S. Hall. 72 pages.…

Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 7th Reprint. Originally published anonymously one of the authors of this book was a controversial industrialist by the name Elliott Springs who wrote aviation books as a hobby They were only printed in limited quantities and today are very difficult to find This book is the edited diary of the other author John MacGavock Grider and follows his time as an American pilot during the First World War before his death in combat being shot down behind the German lines This lovely edition is the 7th reprint bound in blue cloth with a gilt illustration on the front cover and gilt lettering to the spine In the front of the book is attached a piece of paper indicating that this book was previously a part of a private collection It is beautifully illustrated throughout with black and white drawings Overall this book is in very good condition There is some very slight foxing to the pages throughout and the textblock but otherwise the pages are clean and bright The gilt on the covers has remained bright despite some fading to the spine the dust jacket is in good condition There is some wear to the edges and corners pp 277nbsp. Clayton Knight (illustrator). book.…

Hardback. St Marys Books is proud to present this 1929 edition of Pilots Luck featuring excerpts from storeis by multiple authors all brought to life by Clayton Knights imaginative illustrations Bound in navy cloth with gold gilt lettering and a vibrant fullcolour illustration of aeroplanes in flight on the cover this hardback book contains 72 pages of snippets of war stories by various notable authors supplemented by Knight fullpage illustrations which perfectly capture the emotional quality and the essence of each scene described This copy is in very good condition with few notable blemishes or imperfections it appears virtually asnew remarkable given the age of the book Pilots Luck is looking for a new home and would make for a perfect gift for any aviation enthusiast or lover of Clayton Knights illustrationsnbsp. Clayton Knight (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 72 pages. "Posed in the presence of death and paid for in pain, are these living drawings and paintings that Clayton Knight brings back from that No-Man's sky to which young fighting blood lifted the banner of chivalry from the gore and mud of mass warfare." - from Introduction. Handsome colour illustration and bright gilt lettering upon navy blue front board. Bright white label on backstrip is present and in superb condition. Uncirculated former military library copy. Fortunately the only markings are a bit of writing and a small ink stamp atop the front free endpaper. Exterior still amazingly bright and fresh with very light wear. An exceptionally well-preserved copy. Knight, Clayton (illustrator).…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.