Col Drury (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Engliish Edition. Privious owners name-plate is inside on back of front board.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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

Condition: Fair. 1927. Reprinted. 205 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Contains black and white illustrations with colour frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. No edition or printing statement. The book is unmarked; slight spine slant; corners and spine ends bumped with some wear. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $8 / $4 (US)); chipped and edgeworn; fading to the spine; an inch-square peel to the front panel; Brodart protected.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp.xvi 205 with a coloured frontis. 1 black and white plate and illustrations in the text. Greyish cloth-covered boards with green leather spine, gilt. Spine faded to brown. Spotting to page edges and verso of frontis. Gift inscription on front endpaper dated May 1928. A good tight copy.…

Condition: Good. Boards have some minor surface marks and well faded to spine - slight lean. Content is clean throughout. Solid binding. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp.viii 280. Orange cloth, gilt. Faint watermarks to top edge of boards, spine slightly faded. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. The back boards are not bumped, orange lettering, no marks with 255 pages. The dust jacket is not price clipped, has a one cm tear on front flap and is in a Brodart cover now.

Condition: Fair. 1926. First Edition. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Fade and roll to spine. Browned feps. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Covers and spine faded but internally good with pages clean and tight. 280pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. pp.xiii 271. Yellow cloth with darkening to bottom of spine where piece of dustjacket is missing, slight darkening to upper part of rear board and ghost image on front board of picture from front of dustjacket. New endpapers and a little very light spotting to endpages. Apart from this the pages are clean and unmarked. Good in Fair to poor protected dustjacket with some staining and loss to spine and rear .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Brown w/orange lettering. Hint of edgewear, minor general wear. Text is clean and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ shows sunning to spine, edgewear, minor general soil. "Jack Peregrine, cunning, ambitious and quick-witted arranges a convenient marriage for himself to help him over financial crisis. He is informed, too late, that he has inherited half of his father's estate in Barbados, from which he was banished to England after an incautious affair. He arrives back in Barbados with his new wife, Caroline, to join his brother, the other owner of the estate. .exciting, humorous and at times touching in its portrayal of its characters and the life they lead" (from the jacket blurb).…

First Edition. Poor library copy bound in the original cloth. Wear and tear as with age, with the front board and spine band starting. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Library marks remain. Physical description; 277 pages. Subjects; 20th century fiction. British Military fiction. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Cover damp stained.

First Edition. Poor library copy bound in the original cloth. Wear and tear as with age, with the front board and spine band starting. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Library marks remain. Physical description; 277 pages. Subjects; 20th century fiction. British Military fiction. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small HB quarter bound in dark green leather with cloth sides and gilt title to spine. Very little use with pages clean and tight. viii. plus 139pp. incl colour frontispiece and several b/w ills inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small HB quarter bound in dark green leather with cloth sides and gilt title to tanned spine. Very little use with pages clean and tight. xvi. plus 205pp. incl colour frontispiece and several b/w ills inside.

hardback, 246pp, flyleaf removed, pages browning and slightly foxed, text clean and sound, orange cloth, frayed at top of spine, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. Second edition. Hardback 276 pp. Near Very Good condition (some pages foved slightly) in Good to Fair dust jacket (some material missing at top and bottom of jacket spine and rubbed).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in red cloth with black title lettering to the spine in a Fair Only Dust-Jacket with numerous chips and tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not Price clipped and this copy has no former owner's names or inscriptions present.There is some ghosting to the outer boards.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Clean copy internally,8vo 256pp Early Reprint [1936].…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Thus. One of the Flag-Lieutenant series, as stated on the band round the front cover and spine of the dust jacket. This is a half decent copy although a little dirty looking at the page block edge and on the front fly leaf, which also has a plate from the "Novel" Library with some library booking in and out stamps down it, stuck on. There are also a few library stamps, quite faded now, on the page block edges and a further one inside the book, on page 83 to be precise. Internally the pages themselves are actually pretty clean, it's just the page block edge really that lets the book down somewhat. The dust jacket is bright enough, albeit quite edge worn, chipped and with some minor loss at the extremities. It has not been price clipped although, unfortunately, the flaps, front and rear, have been stuck down to the paste down pages. Could be unstuck with care not to cause damage, but probably best left as is. In all, not a terrible copy of a very scarce book which is at least a good reading copy and not too bad as a collectable copy if you accept that it is nowhere near perfect.…

Cloth (Hardback). Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 280pp. Clean and bright text with no inscriptions or marks. Binding firm. The spine is very sunned with subdued spotting rendering the title difficult to read from a distance.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First thus. Brown cloth boards with orange titles to spine. Binding tight. Boards have black marks. Content clean and bright. Front free endpaper creased full length. A little spotting to endpapers and fore-edge. Jacket not clipped, minor edgewear with splits at corners, rubbed edges, some spotting mainly inside. Spine sunned. Not ex-library. No labels, names, notes or inscriptions. 255 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair to Good. Good clean firm interior generally with no marks or inscriptions, faint toned line-mark to e/papers and foxed to closed edge of pages, cloth boards clean and firm, slight fade to spine area but lettering still clear and bold; d/j has loss to top front corner and chipping/small losses to spine tips, general edge/age wear as shown but all intact with no large loss, covered with a new removable sleeve-protector, unclipped./. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Patterned front board and spine very bright and hardly damaged, dust jacket tattered and torn, tattered and torn.( perhaps Poor plus inasmuch its still in one piece ?!! ). 216 pages ending with a four stanza poem.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Orange boards spine faded, black title to spine, rubbed edges, previous owner's name to fep., toning to eps. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Sole edition, 1926. Demy 8vo (c. 8.75 x 5.5 inches), pp. 251 + 2 (publisher's ads) + b&w portrait frontis, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, hardback in dustwrapper. Book - G, contents clean, minor foxing and offsetting on prelims but no foxing in text, minor ink inscription (dated "Xmas 1926") on front flyleaf , binding firm with inner hinges intact ; original red cloth with gilt title to spine and blind title on front board, slight wear of extremities, back and front boards clean but affected by damp such that the colouring is patchy and mottled, however the spine is unaffected , spine is complete and clean with no fading and bright gilt . Dustwrapper - G., previously in a rather worn state but now expertly lined with strong 'Japanese' paper , shows some wear at corners, back is dusty with bottom edge showing creasing, nicks and mnor loss, top edge shows minor loss around top hinge area, spine is a bit darkened showing minor losses at top and bottom but titling, which is clear, is unaffected (just) , front again presents a dusty appearance with some print/writing offsetting affecting mainly author's name, also some creasing and minor losses along top and bottom edges, not price-clipped (12s 6d), now in clear, removable wrapper. ". the author was an eye-witness of . the wreck of the gunboat 'Wasp' on Tory Island in the early [18] 'eighties,and the capsizing of the flagship 'Victoria' in the Mediterranean ; . a member of the Intelligence Department in the Admiralty and served as a military intelligence officer during the [First World] War ; . in pre-War days he was a Chief Organizer of Lord Roberts National Service League. . He writes with a light touch and humour of the episodes of his varied career . [and provides] vivid pictures of life in the Victorian Navy." - from the inner flap. Some of the subjects mentioned in title chapters - The "Gobby " Squadron , In the China Seas, Rudyard Kipling, Palestine, Malta Fever, Crete, The Cretan Uprising of 1898, Kennedy, The Bersaglieri, India, Princess von Wrede, etc . A sound copy of a scarce book (no other copies apparent on the internet at the time of listing).…

Condition: Good. Hardcover. No dustjacket. Fading/marks/scuffs to cover. Heavy foxing to textblock edges/endpapers/some pages. Pages tanned. Text good.