Captain Whitehead (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Stanley Renner "The Garden of Civilization: Conrad, Huxley, and the Ethics of Evolution" / Lee M Whitehead "The Active Voice and the Passive Eye: Heart of Darkness and Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy" / C T Watts "Heart of Darkness: The Covert Murder Plot and the Darwinian Theme" / V J Emmett, Jr "Carlyle, Conrad, and the Politics of Charisma: Another Perspective on Heart of Darkness" / Betsy C Yarrison "The Symbolism of Literary Allusion in Heart of Darkness" / Daniel R Schwaez "'A Lonely Figure Walking Purposefully': The Significance of Captain Whalley in 'The End of the Tether'" / David M Martin "The Diabolic Kurtz: The Dual Nature of His Satanism" / Richard P Sugg "The Triadic Structure of Heart of Darkness" / Joan Baum "The 'Real' Heart of Darkness". (SL#82).

Full-Leather. Condition: Fair. (xii) lii 173 [3]pp, contemporary calf (very worn, front board detached, rear joint cracked, edgewear, spine with a vertical crack, cracked internally at G2 and G12), red morocco spine label, lacks front free endpaper, some mainly marginal finger marks and stains, a few isolated spots, rear endpapers foxed, various bookplates (engraved armorial for J Belchier on front pastedown, Ex libris Percival Hinton 1923 on rear of title, engraved for London Lodge No 2076 on rear pastedown), 12mo (167x98mm), ESTC N25229 (also T200745, apparently a duplicate listing), uncommon.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Captain J. F. A. Overton (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first edition of Kenneth Whitehead's history of the Somerset Light Infantry in the original dust wrapper. First edition of History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1946-1960 by Kenneth Whitehead in the original publisher's cloth binding and very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.A scarce work, with only six copies held in libraries.With a foreword by the Lord Harding of Petherton.Illustrated with thirteen monochrome plates and four maps. Collated, complete. Maps drawn by Captain J. F. A. Overton. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. There is a small mark to the rear board. The dust wrapper is slightly worn to the extremities with a few light creases and the odd spot. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Blue cloth. Lean to spine. Boards and extremities rubbed. Pages heavily foxed and stained.