Captain Munro (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good ex-military library copy with laminated pictorial boards, endpaper maps, b&w and colour photo illstns. A gift inscription on the half-title page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. UK 2013 softcover edition in very good condition. Minor wear, no inscriptions,

8Vo Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st. 208p. Text is unmarked on warm pages. Black cloth boards marked by bumped corners and minor shelf wear. Binding is canted but tight, hinges are secure. Foxing present on endpages. Name inscribed on half title. Lacks a jacket.

Glazed Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 106pp, col plates, photos, maps, sl bump to bottom of spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. P/B 74 pages, condition is very good. Six Years on the North Atlantic 1939-45 and Operation Cycle.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. (1936) 340 pp. Original green cloth covers, lightly soiled and rubbed w/ light fraying to corners and spine ends. Light scattered foxing. Previous owner's stamp on front blank endpaper. Illust. w/ b/w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Tight clean copy in virtually as new condition. Glossy hard covers. The complete story of this Imperial Patrol Sloop, built just prior to the Second World War, that provided cover for 103 convoys in the Eastern Atlantic during the war years, and rescued over 250 survivors from sunken ships. Now owned by The Wellington Trust in preservation. Wrapped in tissue, bubble wrap and inserted into jiffy bag. Posted daily from UK, first class within UK and airmail world-wide.

Or.cl. xii,244pp. (a little foxing) b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. The life of a Mercantile Marine officer serving in colonial clippers during the 19th century.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A fair hardcover copy in a likewise dustcover. The dustcover has edge tears, rubbing and marks. The page ends are spotted and the spine ends are rubbed. The covers are marked and there's some toning and spotting internally also. The spine is straight and the binding is tight. Please see photos.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A Royal Naval officer's account of his service in the Great War, blockading continental ports on the English Channel, supervising convoys in the Mediterranean, and participating in the development of enigmatic "mystery towers", part of an ambitious plan t With a foreword by Commander Carolyn Bellains, R.N. (Ret.) Late Member of Parliament for Maidstone. From the Preface: "My object in recording these events which came under my personal observation, and in which I took an active part, is to enable my countrymen to form a just estimate of various aspects of the Great War." In a black cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine. Externally, generally smart. Some light rubbing and wear to the top and tail of the spine. Spine is also slightly cocked. Front hinge is slightly tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a little browned and foxed to predominantly front and rear pastedowns and free-end papers. Edges of leaves are a little burnished. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hb In Original Pictorial Dw 244pp, Illustrations Travels in Burma and The Indian Ocean Vg/Vg Copy(Lightly chipped to head of spine of Dw) Uncommon in Dw.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Softback. 4to. (2) + 16 + (2)pp including printed wrappers. Publisher's soft card yellow wrappers, black titles to front. 2 metal staples. . Covers : slight shelf dust around edges, 1horizontal fold else clean & unchipped. Contents : slight rust to staples, horizontal fold else very clean & tight & unfoxed. Clean tight copy. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Tall quarto. 477 pages, [36] pages of advertisements (one advertisement page is covered up by a pasted down perforated page titled "Special Notice" with 36 labels titled "I saw your ad in THE RASP."). Red cloth hardcover with gold title and insignia on the front cover. Title on the spine. Light scattered foxing to the foredge. Light wear to the cloth. Illustrated with numerous photographs. This work covers all aspects of Army horsemanship including training, Cavalry actions, Army polo, races, judging, grooming, veterinary medicine, etc. Also illustrated with several sketches. 9 folding tables inside the yearbook. Lieutenant George Patton was one of the Associate Editors of the RASP. His photographs on horses can be found on pages 135, 138, 347, and 440. Patton was the author of 2 articles titled "Mounted Horsemanship", pages 162-169, and "Army Racing and Records for 1913", pages 345-343. Patton graduated from West Point in 1909. After the M.S.S. duty station he served as Aide-de-camp to General John J. Pershing in Mexico 1916-17.