Captain Macfarlane (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp x 174. Illustrated with drawings and maps with colour plate of international code of signals and national colours. Navy cloth with light wear to head and foot of spine and corners and small split to base of spine. Endpapers lightly spotted and owners inscription on front endpaper dated 1944. A Good Tight Copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 346 Pages. The boards are a bit shelf rubbed and edge worn, with fading along the edges and the spine. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard back publisher's original navy cloth covers, silver stamping to spine. 8vo 8½" x 5¾" xiv, 346 [pp]. Illustrations, charts. maps, fold-out explanation of signs and abbreviations. Fine in Very Good dust wrapper with shallow closed tear to spine tip and upper corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. NAUTICAL (Shipbuilding).

Hard back publisher's original royal blue cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5" x, 186 [pp]. Illustrated. Nr. Fine in Very Good dust wrapper with shallow rubs to spine tip and upper corners, 8/6 to spine. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. NAUTICAL (Shipbuilding).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. SIGNED COPY. Royal Blue cloth bound boards with gilt titling to the spine. No dustjacket. There are some smudge/stain marks/ small pale patches to the covers. Signed with a Gift Inscription from the Author on the Title Page. There is also an amendment in ink on page 115, otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks and internally the book is VG. (x) + 174 pp. Illustrated with b/w line drawings and diagrams and two colour plates of flags-signal flags and national colours. Overall, apart from the 'faults', to the covers, this is a Tight and Secure, Near 'Good Plus' copy. "This Handbook has been written in the hope that it will prove of some use to those "Toilers of the Deep", for whose benefit it is primarily intended, by presenting to them (fishermen) , under one cover, each of the various subjects which are set forth as necessaries in the Board of Trade Regulations for the Examination of Skippers and Second Hands." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

8vo. Pp: xx, 250. First Edition, no dust jacket as issued. Publisher's original purple boards with gilt lettering at spine and front. Bookplate of Leclerc-Costello to front pastedown. Previous ownership signature to front free end paper. Black and white photograph of gathered rowers loosely inserted. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Good only. Somewhat used copy with rubbing and toning to both tail and head of spine and corners. Some soiling to boards. Rear bottom front corner bumped. However, contents are clean and quite sound for a book of its age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, cloth is worn at edges, relevant photos pasted in to front endpapers plus letters from when the book was acquired in 1969. xx + 250 pages, photos on plates, notes, appendices.

First edition. "With a foreword and introductory chapter by Lieut-Col. W.D. Lowe .Including also 'Durham School Rowing,' by the Rev. R.H.J. Poole, M.A., and 'The Durham Amateur Rowing Club,' by J.G. Burrell, Esq."* Illustrated with photographs. Original violet-blue cloth, lettered in gilt; corners, joints and spine ends faintly rubbed; lightly speckled patch on rear. Endpapers toned; edges a bit dusty. A near fine copy.