Captain Dawson (103 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. CANBERRE: In the Wake of a Legend This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Tulloch, Maurice (illustrator). 1st. Light gray cloth binding with red title on cover and spine. Lightly bumped corners, slightly sun-faded. 112 pages of hunting stories and articles; well illustrated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 258 pages, oversize, maps, Very good in soft covers. edge wear and corner of cover bent.

Wraps. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Peter Dawson (illustrator). Edition Not Stated. 12 pages. The right side edge of the front cover is roubn.One smal spot in the text.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket 1st U.S. edition. Rear hinge cracked. (Hunting, Armed Forces, Great Britain).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Mills, R.G. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Cream colored cloth covers exhibit moderate soiling to top and bottom edges and spine. Light soiling and foxing to page ends and inside front and back covers. Illustrated with b&w full page cartoons and photos. Hinges are tight. Illustrated, price clipped dj is in a protective mylar cover with multiple small tears and chips to corners, edges and spine ends. Moderate soiling and shelf wear to covers and spine. "A racy volume of reminiscences dealing with events and adventures in the Mediterranean Basin, and elsewhere, during the three years following the Armistice." All of our books are individually inspected and never ex-lib unless explicitly described as such.

Condition: Good. 1938. First Edition. 112 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout, heavy in places. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, octavo, a tightly bound copy with some mild foxing to the title page and portrait frontis. The text is unmarked, the pictorial dust jacket is chipped and creased at the extremities. Illustrated, vii + 98pp.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light even toning. No DJ.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards with spotting. Content is clean with light toning. Poor DJ has loss with chips/tears and is price clipped.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First edition thus, Neptune Libray Edition. Hard cover . Published London: Rich & Cowan, 1935. 8vo., xv+233pp., plus appendix and publisher's ads. Cream cloth with blue titles. Some darkening to the cloth, age toning to edges of page blocklight wear at the upper tips, bookplate on pastedown. Very good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. annotation to text, Postage reduced within the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Tulloch,Maurice. (illustrator). 1st ed. Sm 4to. xii,112pp. Illus Maurice Tulloch. A collection of hunting articles mainly with a humorous slant which originally appeared in newspapers. The boards are faded & stained in places. Some foxing internally but generally clean & sound. A reading/working copy.

Condition: Good. 1935. 1st thus. 233 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, small folio measuring 13" x 10", red cloth lettered gilt to spine, lacks dust wrapper, rubbed to extremities, a tightly bound copy, some browning and foxing to the endpapers and closed page edges, gift inscription to a previous owner on the front free endpaper otherwise the text is clean and unmarked, colour plates & b&w illustrations by Lionel Edwards with a loosely inserted invitation to an exhibition of the original drawings, 98pp.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. xiii, 266 pages plus appendix, frontispiece and other b/w illustrations (all present). Some wear on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, spine and edges of cover faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, all plates present and in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated first edition from hodder illustrated by Bairnsfather on brown cloth with some intermittent spotting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Folio, hardcover. No dj, green cloth. Vg condition. NOT ex-library. Moderate sun-fading to spine, contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy and tight. 98 pp, numerous illustrations, some color.

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A Neptune Library Edition without Jacket on greebeige textile n cloth - collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. enerally clean and unmarked pages, but some foxing minor stains noted in text, thumb print at page 111. All 14 plates present. Binding is loose at pages 19 to 30. Previous owner's name penciled on front endpaper. Bookworm damage on inside of front and rear boards. Staining on front board, rear board has a bookworm hole. Spine slightly bumped at head and tail. One of a series of wartime publications written by Captain A. J. Dawson and the popular cartoonist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. Here the pair offer a tribute to the principal British ally on the Wester Front, providing reportage and sketches from the trenches of Verdun to wartime Paris. A propagandistic tribute from one ally to another with some vivid scenes from the trenches of Verdun as well as descriptions of Paris in war time and the training of French war dogs for sentry duty in the front lines, liaison work, carrying messages or guiding stretcher bearers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1933 first edition hardback in good condition. Foxing to page edges and prelims. No other marks, clean and bright, tight binding. The brown cloth boards have various small marks and wear to the top of spine, no major flaw. Alas no dust jacket. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

xii+244pp. 8vo. Original cloth, a little foxed and backstrip marked. Black and white frontispiece and plates, a little offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. EDWARDS, Lionel (illustrator). Good condition, quarto, sunned green cloth, illustrated,98 pages. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good --. No Jacket. Assumed First Edition. Fairly tight binding, clean interior. Assumed first edition since date on copyright and title page both 1918. Red boards worn on edges and corners, shelf wear and stains to both boards.Picture on front board has been compromised. Hinge cracks by front and back board. Red pen markings on inner front board and ffep, interior otherwise unmarked. Anonymous letters from an officer in France during WWI. 263 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Oversized hardback book (98 pages)with illustrations by Lionel Edwards. Boards show scuffing/rubbing with toning at edge - tips bumped - spine faded - name stamped inside front board. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-9-middle) rareviewbooks.

Condition: Fair. First edition (hardback). 4to (31cm by 25cm), 98pp. 6 colour plates, 6 monochrome plates and text illustrations by Lionel Edwards. Original red cloth. There is some sunning of the boards, the titling is dulled on the spine, and there is some foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is just about in good condition.