Captain Moss (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Second Printing. Very Good Clean Tight Square Copy In Blue Cloth Boards, A Bit Of Soiling But Very Little, Prev Owner Name Inside Front Cover, Maps In Pocket In Rear Are Neatly Folded And No Tears. no.

Condition: Good. 1965. No Edition Stated. 95 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.Book has been laminated by previous owner.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Impression. 1934 First edition. Size octavo, 31 pages plus index and trade advertisements. Yellow cloth covered boards with brown titles to the front cover and spine, no dust jacket. Condition good, corners and edges rubbed, covers grubby, previous owner's name to front end-paper, some spots to first and last few pages else contents clean, with diagrams and photos printed on glossy paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover/Soft Cover. Condition: Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. (1914) 749+pp. Original blue cloth covered flexible boards w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine a bit sunned. Creases to covers. Corners bent. Previous owner's name on stamp on front blank endpaper. Includes 2 folding maps in rear pocket. Illust. w/ b/w figures.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 32 pages + 1930s advertisements. No dustjacket. Marked yellow-cream hardback binding with grubby finger marks to front board, spine browned. Ink writing dated October 1946. Page-edges a bit foxed and quite yellowed o/w pages clean and sound .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Corners of thin boards are severely bumped. Creases on covers. Pristine maps in rear pocket. see photos for condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. (1915) 704 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed w/ light fraying to corners and spine ends. Hinges cracked. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper; two name stamps on title page. Ink notes to rear endpapers. Leaves 37 thru 92 a bit wrinkled at top margins w/ few short tears, not affecting text. Includes 3 folding maps in rear pocket.

Revised and enlarged 2nd edition of the 1965 original. 128 PP with 85 figuress and 6 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Top of front cover lightly sunned, 3 lines on page 25 with pale highlighting. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5. Contents: Why collisions occur despite radar, Radar plotting, Proceeding in reduced visibility, Coastal navigation, Radar on small craft, Plotting aids.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Pale lime cloth boards with blocked titles to spine and front, 220 x 140 mm approx. 32 pp + 8 pp of commercial and publisher's adverts. Frontis + 7 other plates containing 19 b/w photos + 5 digs. in text as called for. First Printing Thus 1938. The contents are taken from the Lonsdale Library Vol XVI Rackets, Squash, Tennis , Fives & Badminton. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/Good (Book- mild shelf soiling, no notable wear, Binding sound, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - substantially complete with a few nicks, a little loss and general soiling mainly to rear panel, now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1938 Later Printing. VG/VG. 1938 later printing in d/w price clipped, publishers price sticker on front fold flap. (First published in 1934). Not dated, (1938 date printed at bottom of last page of text, page (32). Illustrated with photographs and line-diagrams. An instruction book which teaches not only strokes, but tactics and the finer points which will enable you to turn your strokes into 'winners'. With Appendixes. Previous owner signature on front endpaper; bruising to one corner; d/w has a short edge tear (19mm), and small losses to head and tail of spine and corners of the d/w; d/w rear panel has some dusting and spotting; else a very good copy, in a very good d/w, of a 1938 later printing in UNCOMMON d/w. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. ; Book is in excellent condition. "This book is a guide by means of which the civilian may inform himself in a general way concerning military matters so that, should he ever be called upon to defend his country, he may better understand the general nature of things military and may thereby learn the soldier's trade all the sooner." Profusely illustrated with photos and drawings and designs. "Dedicated to every red-blooded American who is willing to do a man's share in the defense of his country" ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 241 pages.

Hard back binding in publisher's original lemon cloth covers, grey title to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 31 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Mottling to the panels, ghosting to the end papers and in near Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Squash].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Volume one. NAP. Map in pocket at rear. Spine extremities and corners are a bit worn. Freckling and light soiling to binding. Rear hinge is cracked. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Else pages clean. ; AMH17A; 412 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by George Banta Company, Mensaha, Wisconsin, 1915. 241 pgs. Profusely illustrated with photos and drawings and designs. First Edition/First Printing. Ex-library item with bookplate present to the front pastedown. Bound in decorated grey cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "This book is a guide by means of which the civilian may inform himself in a general way concerning military matters so that, should he ever be called upon to defend his country, he may better understand the general nature of things military and may thereby learn the soldier's trade all the sooner." "Dedicated to every red-blooded American who is willing to do a man's share in the defense of his country" EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Brown cloth titled in gilt on spine, frontis portrait. Tidy cover, tight bindings, foxing in edges, light toning in prelims. Dust jacket is price clipped, well rubbed at corners, small gaps at spine ends. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. none stated (illustrator). First edition. An illustrated first edition of this work on racket sports by 'The Lonsdale Library' edited by Lord Aberdare. A first edition of the work.In the publisher's original cloth. No dust wrapper.With a frontispiece, vignettes and 39 plates. Collated complete.This work is volume XVI from 'The Lonsdale Library' and is a comprehensive work on Racket sports with copious illustrations and photographs throughout. This work had been edited by athlete Lord Aberdare and written by E. M. Baerlein, Captain J. Tomkinson, E. Snell, Major T. Moss, David Egerton, John Armitage and Sir George A. Thomas, Bart.Publisher's advertisements to the front. In the publisher's original cloth. No dust wrapper. Externally very smart with light bumping to the extremities resulting in minor rubbing and the odd mark to the boards, heavier to the spine. Very minimal offsetting to the front and rear free end papers. Internally firmly bound with offsetting to the front blanks and rear index page. Scattered spotting to the odd page and to the fore edge. Age toning to the top edge. Very Good Indeed. book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Broadhead, W. Smithson; Cleaver, Ralph; Reynolds, Warwick; Avis, W.; Thomas, E.H.; Elcock, Howard; Soper, G; Prater, Ernest; Brightwell, L.R.; Horne, A.E.; Ambler, C. Gifford (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 362-448, plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Girl With the Red Hair; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 1; A 'Q" and a "U"; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season; "Bully's" Last Battle; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron; Queer Fixes - Falling Ten Thousand Feet; What Happened to Marshall Mabey; Gassed on a Chimney; My Two Years of Captivity Among the Turks - part 3; Among the Dyaks; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - part 3; On Foot Through South America, part 4; Silas Seeks London; In Little Known Afghanistan; Odds and Ends. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.