Charles Bateson (144 results)

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Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition vintage book including a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Some underlining otherwise good.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

HC. 172pp very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover).

Condition: Good. 1969. 2nd UK Edition. 417 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. Second edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Complete DJ with some edge wear and light fading to spine.

First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dustjacket. Price-clipped.

30.0 x 21.0cms 112pp b/w & colour illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper The chapters cover: the strait's discovery; the first sealers; the chartmakers; the strait claims its toll; James Kelly; tragedies bring an awakening; trying to save a race; the sailing ship era; steamships in the strait; the frontier recedes; oil & gas.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Well-kept copy in bright gold jacket. With fold-out endpapers showing deserted ships in SF Bay in the gold rush. Printed on quality ivory paper with deckled edges, with 16 full page illustrations. Cover edges a little faded. JAcket with some rubbing in spots on gold foil, especially to rear. First Edition.

172 pp. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Ink gift inscription; a fine copy in a very ner fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Corner unclipped, some wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges and corners a little creased and worn, a few small nicks and rips, large rip at base of back cover join with spine 9cm, some light wear to covers and spine, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Condition: Poor. No jacket. Slight shelf wear on cover and a name and address has been handwritten on insides of cover. Notes in margins of content in pen and pencil but content is fine to read.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 267pp, index, bw ills, sources, endpaper maps. Or brown faux-leather lacking jacket. Ex-college library with stamp/number on copyright page and remnant of card pocket on rear pastedown.Chronological listing of wrecks with indexes of ships, localities and persons. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 172 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd UK Edition with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Soft cover. First edition thus. Black & white reproductions. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 144 pps.

Large quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition first edition hardback with dust jacket. Ex library copy with usual stamps and stickers. Light wear to the jacket and boards with deckled edges to textblock. Pages clean and unmarked.

Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 267pp, index, bw ills, sources, endpaper maps. Or brown faux-leather in jacket. Very slight wear to jacket at top of spine. Chronological listing of wrecks with indexes of ships, localities and persons. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Gold Fleet For California - Forty-Niners From Australia and New Zealand. By Charles Bateson. Hardcover, good condition, pull out maps to front and rear end have some marks, and paper stuck to them. ex library, sellotape marks on boards, rough cut edges. Dust jacket scuffed, worn, edges, tiny closed tear to edge. Publisher: Minerva Ltd, 1963. "When gold was found in California in 1848, a rush began that drew a quarter of a million people from all round the world. Seven thousand Australians and New Zealanders were among those who responded to the lure. They jostled for berths in ships making the long haul to San Francisco - vessels ranging from big sailing ships to little cutters of under twenty tons, many of them shockingly overcrowded and under-provisioned. In 1849-50 there were over 200 sailings from Australia and New Zealand. The fastest ship crossed in 68 days; the slowest in 271. Several were wrecked, and one - a schooner named the "I Don't Know" - went missing. Few of the Forty-Niners struck it rich. Life on the goldfields was hard, and many were glad to earn the price of a ticket home. Ironically, those who returned were the first in a changed tide of migration, for after the discoveries of 1851 Australia itself became the new El Dorado. Charles Bateson's GOLD FLEET FOR CALIFORNIA is a contribution to maritime history in the tradition of his earlier work, "The convict ships". Years of research have gone into its preparation. The interest of the narrative is above all a human one. This is the little known story of the people who ran mad after California - "completely bit by the yellow fever". They had nothing, and most of them found nothing, but they danced quadrilles on the poop deck as they voyaged into the unknown. Their spirit of adventure lies behind this history.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. B&W plates. Condition: slight rubbing to DJ; name of previous owner & date rubberstamped to first free endpaper; 2" tear to fore-edge of pp. 171/172; else near fine in near fine DJ. 172 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 190pp, frontispiece portrait. Captain Logan of the 57th foot and his adventures and death in the Moreton Bay area. Now Brisbane and Logan city 190 p.

Hardback. 1972. First edition. A very good copy with spotting/tanning on the top edge and a previous owners stamp on the half title page. The d/w is also very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. VINTAGESTAN BOOKS Title: The War with Japan. A Concise History by Charles Bateson Author: Charles Bateson Publisher: Barrie and Rockliff. The Cresset Press. London Year Published: 1969 Edition: 2nd Edition Dimensions: 22cm x 14cm Binding type: Hardcover ISBN: Notes: SKU: VSS / 218 / G / 6272 / 4700 Condition Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rubbing to edges Book condition: Fair. Toning, foxing to text block edge, handling marks, marks Binding: Intact Pages: 417 pages.

1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards, dust jacket. Very good. 30 x 21.3. Details the history of Bass Strait: discovery, exploration, sealers, chartmakers, shipwrecks & the more recent oil discoveries.