Captain Young (46 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket has small tears and wrinkles, is clipped and is shelf worn. The embossed blue cloth cover is bright and clean with a lightly bumped spine. The pages are lightly tanned and unmarked.

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Very good. First edition. ONYX, 1999. First edition. . Very good. 310PP p.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine-. No Jacket. Various Artists (illustrator). Third Printing. Illustrated throughout with B&W art reproductions and photographs. Pages [415 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square, mild soiling at bottom page edges. Blue cloth boards, clean, a little shelf wear at extremities, decorated endpapers. Material collected from all over the world about the Selachians - the sharks, skates, rays, and their allies. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Clean. Black and white illustrations. Pictures on request.

Condition: Good. 1930. Reprinted. 239 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrated plates. Noticeable foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. London 1904: Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd., 1964 Read where Quint's monologues in "Jaws" came from, word for word. Text is clean tight and unmarked, except for some spotting on the first page of text. Blue boards are bumped at corners. Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: NF. This is a high-quality commercial reprint of the one sheet which measures 11X17. This reprint comes with a cardboard backing board and in a sealed outer bag. Great for gift giving or framing. Size: 11" x 17". Poster.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover with Dustjacket, previous owner's inscription, tear on DJ spine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in wrappers, a paperback. First by this publisher. Pages clean. Illustrated. Small green blot on top corner on half-title page. Light shelf rubbing to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Printing. Illustrated. 287 pages. Bound in coarse brown cloth with image of a shark embossed on the front cover with a shark skin spine. Very good with the previous owner's name (small in size) inked to one of the first blank pages and reinforcement tape to the hinges. BX54.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Original wraps show minor wear and chipping. Pages tanned.

Hardcover First Edition, First Printing Selachians; Sharks; Skates; Rays; For the first time the incredible Selachians have been thoroughly described - from luminous sharks twelve inches long to giant rays weighing a ton. Every fact in this book has been authenticated by the authors. This is a book for swimmers, sailors, naturalist and anyone who wants the whole story about the mysterious Shadows of the Sea. Illustrated. 415 pages. DJ and Book Near Fine.

8vo [23 x 16 cm]; xii, [ii], 415 pp, numerous illustrations from photos and drwgs, tables, bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt lettering on spine, dj (large chip on rear panel), else near fine in good dj. A detailed work, including history, biology and recipes. A picture of this book is available on request.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The boards are in a very good condition. There is a previous owner's inscription after the front end page. The spine is cracked within the front board. The pages are slightly tanned, but the text is still crisp and legible. Age related marks can be noticed throughout the text. Tightly bound and complete with 287 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Gertrude Demain Hammond R.I. (illustrator). MId brown cloth with gilt titles. Prize label to front paste down . Leading edges a little rough cut. No jacket. 16 full page line illustrations. Contents very clean. A generally very nice copy.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Pas de jaquette. Texte en anglais / text in english ! As told to Horace S. Mazet. With a foreword by Count Felix von Luckner. End papers and drawings of sharks by Helen Sewell. Sans date. Quelques planches n&b. 288 p + 16 p. de catalogue. First published in the U.K. by Hurst & Blackett London. 16x24,5 cm. 288 p. Reliure éditeur. Bon état. Intérieur en bon état. Plats légèrement défraîchis. Rares rousseurs en tranche. Sans Jaquette Fort in-8°.

Hardcover. Condition: As new. Walsworth Publishing Company, 2013. 160pp., color photographs throughout. 4to. Inscribed by Timothy Young on first blank page. As new hardcover.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Hardback. Ex-Library book. Dust jacket in plastic cover. Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy in Like Acetate First EditionScarce Book On Sharks. Excellent Fresh Copy.

Condition: Good. General wear to boards with marks. Hinges are cracked with the binding loose. Content has age toned pages throughout with marks. No DJ.

15, [1] pp. Front cover with large wood engraving of a pirate at a desk, with armed man lurking in a nearby door. 11" x 8-1/8" OCLC records but a single institutional holding: NIU. Quite age-toned, with paper becoming brittle. Edge rash & chipping. Old tape repairs. A Good copy only. Printed paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve Later printing, with rear cover series advert listing through # 944.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First British Edition. Some slight dampstaining to boards, D/w chipped, creased, rubbed and torn with very slight loss Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Gotham House, 1933. First edition, 1933. Tannish gray rough textured cloth with sharkskin leather spine printed in gilt, map endpapers, black and white frontis plate, black and white plates throughout including drawings and photos, 287 pages. Very good conditon with some light foxing to the front cover, puppy-chewed far edge of a portion of the rear cover, good hinges, firm text block, light foxing to the far top of the title page, pages clean, personal bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, no other names or markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition first printing . Illustrated with scenes from a shark hunters adventures, a printing error has resulted in one illustration being duplicated at the expense of another . Book has no inscriptions .School stamp in ink to end papers embossed library stamp to front end paper . Please see photographs which are of the actual book . Book is in transparent protective wrapper . All books shipped via Royal mail tracked and packed in bubble wrap and cardboard book sleeves.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice copy octavo 415pp., b/w pls., bibliog., index,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. J. Williiamson. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good. Front pastedown abraded from what looks likes the removal of a bookplate. All edges gilt. Illustrated with plates by J. Williamson. Smells musty. viii and 323pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Original decorative gilt and colour-printed green cloth hard covers. All edges gilt; black coated endpapers. Moderate handling and shelf-wear to covers; City of Leeds school-prize plate set inside front cover. Moderate toning to text. Otherwise, clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated -- all plates present as listed. 16-page publisher's catalogue dated February, 1900 at rear. x,323+1[printer's mark]+16[cat.]pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

8½'' x 5''. Certified Copy No. 55 of 250 first day Royal Navy cover stamped envelope. SIGNED 'Brian G. Young, DSO Captain Royal Navy HMS Antrim'. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. FALKLAND ISLANDS.