Captain Preece (4 results)

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 38, No. 1. Pulp magazine. Edited by Jim Hendryx, Jr. Cover art is uncredited for "The Wire War" (complete novel; Jim Hatfield series) by Jackson Cole. Includes "Tezca" by Philip Ketchum; "Loco Lawman" by Tex Holt; "Long Sam Takes a Job" by Lee Bond; "Cabin of No Return" by Willis Train. Features: "The Frontier Post" by Captain Starr; "Don Santos of the Rio Grande" by Harold Preece. Illustrations by Parkhurst, Farren, and others. Edge and corner nicks, chips and wear; stress tears to cover along hinge; likely glue-mend inside front hinge; tanning; heavy pencil marks on front. Book.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 3 pages, textual figures and one fold-out table. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Category: British Association for the Advancement of Science; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Large 175 mm tear to cloth along rear joint, with archival paper tape repair. Horizontal 25mm tear across spine. 60mm tear at tail of spine with neat glue repair. 3mm loss of cloth at head and tail of spine. 10mm loss of cloth along edges of corners of boards. Some rubbing to boards. Internally very good and clean. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper.; [xvi], 201, [5 (blank)] pages. 24 full page illustrations within the pagination. Dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 246 x 182mm. "It was dark long before we got down to the kaianga, and if I had not led Colonel Whitmore and his staff all the way they would have been obliged to camp in the rain. We passed many small parties of our men lying on the track quite exhausted. Several times we stopped while they got dry fern-tree fronds out of the bush on the hillside and made fires to warm themselves." - page 32. [Reference: Bagnall G105 - "Deals mainly with the Hauhau wars on the West and East Coasts. Two chapters record author's experience in Chatham Islands."].

With an Appendix entitled Pursuit of Te Kooti through the Urewera Country by Captain G. A. Preece. 201 pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Tape stains on pastedowns from and rear; cloth sunned with light use and shallow chipping at the extremities of the spine.