Colvin Captain (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. REd and Yellow covers with black lettering and gilt emblem on the front cover. Spine is a little cracked but remains tight. There is some cello tape to pages 77-80.Contains black & white small illustrations. There is a "presented small blue sticker" inside the front cover as a memento from the Officers. The map is missing from the fold at he back of the book. Seller Ref: M4166.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Main interior all intact but please note book is 'reading copy' standard with general wear and tear, marked/toned to e/papers, theres an inscription to rear e/paper which is also torn and marked, webbing revealed to join at rear e/paper; boards shabby and worn but all intact as shown. Please email if more information required or for more photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a good copy in publisher's cloth, complete with the map in the rear pocket. Presentation plate on the front pastedown, the covers are worn and stained, and the binding is slack a couple of leaves are loose at the start, would benefit form a reback, and priced accordingly.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Important history in the original edition. 304pp., ills., appendices, Spine worn at head and tail as are board covers, also some fading to covers. Lacks title page and map in rear pocket a working copy of a scarce book 0.0.

Hardback. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Original cloth. With the lare folding map. 304 pages. Main body of text is tight but some leaves loose particularly at start. Frontispiece is present. Covers VERY WORN. This is a just a very worn (Possibly incomplete) working copy and SOLD AS IS with all faults.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Inscribed by Author. This copy has been rebacked with the old spine laid back down making for a solid, tight, copy. Captain Colvin has SIGNED and inscribed the endpaper. The large folding map is still present in the pocket at the rear. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; History. Inscribed by Author. Inventory No: 78785.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Colvin, Neville; O'Hanlan, Brian; Phillips, Edwin; Gray, Reg; Longaron, Jorge; MacGillivray, Robert; O'Hanlan, Brian; (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 59-116 plus 16 pages of advertisements. Features: Four Lives for One - a tale from Algeria; Too Much Rope - Canadian Criminal Norman "Red" Ryan - article with photo; Why They Named it Mount Podolsky - how Canadian George Podolsky saved the lives of three men there after a plane crash - article with photos and illustrations; Death in Sixty-Five Minutes - a snake bite in India; The Greatest Golden Hoard - Incas, El Sangay and Dr. Kurt von Ritter - illustrated article with photo of Dr. von Ritter; Half-Pint Savage - a tale of a wolverine on the Alaska Peninsula; Abo in the Iron Lung - the curing of an Australian Aborigine; Thracian Pays a Dividend - a tale of marine salvage; Girl Pear Divers (Amas) of Japan - brief article with lovely photos; Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality vintage copy.

First edition. xv, 304 pp. Frontispiece, & 40 b/w photographic illustrations in text. Large folding map in pocket at rear - Map of Routes Traversed by the 9th Lancers in South Africa 1899-1902. Compiled from the authors' private diaries to provide a short and simple record of the work done by the Regiment during the war in South Africa. Written in diary form. Eps browned. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. A fewpots of foxing on prelims but text clean. Handsomely bound in red and yellow bevelled cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Crest of Queen's Royal IX Lancers on front board. All edges gilt. Cloth weakened along edges of spine with a little fraying at centre of rear edge. Patches of damp-staining on rear board. Spine somewhat darkened. Front board bright. Map in VG condition. Overall condition VG.