Captain Dod Orsborne (14 results)

Condition: Good. 1956. No edition remarks. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to spine.

Condition: GOOD. First American edition. "The Exploits of a Modern Soldier of Fortune, British Agent, Danger Hunter and One-Man Task Force" - an autobiography by "one of England's great adventurers . .Spanning two wars and the exciting years between, [this] recreates his exploits - using logbooks, scrapbooks, letters, and the captain's own astounding memory. At 21, Orsborne was the youngest captain in the British Merchant Marine and ready for the extraordinary life that was to involve him, at one time or another, in pearl hunting, a safari to destroy a man-eating tiger, an escape through a crocodile-infested river, espionage for British Intelligence, and almost anything that looked like danger." Edited and with an introductory note Joe McCarthy. ix, 278 pp. Good overall in rust-colored cloth in a fair only dustjacket with several tears, creasing and price-clipped (now in an archival cover).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Yes, with plastic cover. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are clean throughout although pages have yellowed from age and the outer page margins have finger soiling. Cover boards are in fair shape with shelf wear along the bottom edges. Dust jacket is in fair shape with noticeable fading to the colors. Former owner's signature on ffep. Top edges of pages are dusty. Former library book with usual library stamps, tape stains, labels and markings. (Please note any image provided in our listings are stock photos supplied by AbeBooks and do not match the cover of the actual item.).

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (sailing, ships, biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. First Edition. [ex-library (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Script Department "File Copy"), marked as such only by a label and pocket on the front endpaper, and aside from that the book is only lightly worn and would grade Near Fine; the jacket shows some wear and some tiny nicks along the top and bottom edges, with one tiny chip at the top of the rear panel]. Memoir by "one of England's great adventurers -- a man who made a business out of danger! Spanning two wars and the exciting years between, [the book] recreates his exploits -- using logbooks, scrapbooks, letters, and the captain's own astounding memory. At twenty-one, Orsborne was the youngest captain in the British Merchant Marine and ready for the extraordinary life that was to involve him, at one time or another, in pearl hunting, a safari to destroy a man-eating tiger, an escape through a crocodile-infested river, espionage for British Intelligence, and almost anything that looked like danger." (The "Girl Pat," by the way, was a small fishing trawler that Orsborne took on an unauthorized voyage across the Atlantic in 1936 -- an escapade for which he was tried and imprisoned, on the charge that he had stolen the boat. He claimed to have been on a secret undercover mission for British Naval Intelligence.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 278 pages. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 1949 as the published date. The price has been clipped from the DJ flap. The DJ is yellow with an illustration of a muscular man with a gun tucked into his shorts. The dust jacket is also in great shape with some light edgewear (No Chips). I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Clean blue cloth on boards with gilt titles. Edges: foxing. Eps: light few only foxings; narrow, verical dj shadowing. Feps with map of the Voyage of the Argos y and Reps with map of the Voyage of the Mirage. Few only old foxings to a few only pages, albeit mostly to the margins. B/w glossy illustrations. Binding is As New. 192p Dj: very faint couple of small smudges; light creases and some scratches. Spine: head with thin wear, small open v-tear and chips; 3cm tear to foot of spine. Couple of tiny chips to bottom edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Jacket is Good plus with some wear and tear, book is VG minus with moderate wear, a little edge-foxing, yellowed pages, owner name in pen to front endpaper.

Couverture souple. Livre en français. Traduit de l'anglais par Dominique Guillet. Broché. 378 pages. Couverture et jaquette défraîchies. Littérature anglaise. Livre.

First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth stamped in gilt, pale grey topstain; [x],234pp. With publisher's survey card laid in at front. A firm copy, slightly dusty and rubbed, front pastedown discolored, else clean: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed with sunning to spine: Very Good. Orsborne sailed with the British navy, an Arctic whaler, and the merchant marines. #61866.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R240087886: 1952. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 378 pages - jaquette conservée - ouvrage recouvert d'un plastique transparent -. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R240082268: 1952. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 378 pages - jaquette en état d'usage (déchirures), illustrée en monochrome - coins frottés. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle.

Condition: Good. Envoi rapide jaquette usagée pages un peu jaunies très rares rousseurs. in8. 1952. Broché. 378 pages. Good.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R260189666: 1952. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 378 pages - Jaquette abimée -. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.