Paperback. Condition: As New. 256 pages. included in this book is The Adventure of the Faeroe Islands by M. Helen Graham. ; 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 ".
Language: English
Published by Granada, London, 1985
Seller: Classic Book Shop, Royal Oak, MI, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Reprint.
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. B&W Illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. Presumed First Edition, 1937. Light wear/aging/soiling to covers. Binding is firm. light soiling to endpapers; otherwise interior is evenly toned, free of markings. Fore edge margin of a few leaves show the effect of being unevenly cut.
Language: English
Published by GPO, Washington, D.C.
Seller: Legacy Books, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp269-305, numerous drawings in the text. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1932. In plastic report covers. VG. There is obviously a lot more that is happening when a bird flies than just a flapping of the wings. That's the part we see. But this very interesting article describes in detail all the factors that actually enable birds to even be able to fly, such as lift, weight, measurements, angles, proportion, position, and the structural elements of the wings, among others.
Published by Blackie and Son, 1946
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1946. Second Edition. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Dark pink cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Sticker and pen inscriptions to front endpaper with slight dog-eared pages throughout. Visible foxing and tanning to text block edges and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Boards have heavy rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Major crushing to spine ends and splitting to joints. There is fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.
Published by William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., Edinburgh and London, 1936
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Reading copy only. Heavy water stain to front cover and some relatively mild water wrinkling to selected pages of the book and slight stain to rear board. Penciled name on flyleaf. Complete and perfectly readable, but not a collector copy. Lacks dust jacket.
Language: English
Published by Larks Press, Dereham, Norfolk, 1998
ISBN 10: 0948400676 ISBN 13: 9780948400674
Seller: Greystone Books, Margate, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 17.51
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Fine. Graham R Nisbet and W Pyne (illustrator). First Edition. Fine. First edition. Paperback. (6),iv,100pp. Illustrated with photographs and line-drawings by Graham R Nisbet and W Pyne. Many of the illustrations are of the Sprowston Mill, Norfolk. A recollection of a millers son growing up at Sprowston Mill at the end of the Victorian era. A fine copy of a first edition. NO inscriptions, highlighting or underlining.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. DJ is complete with some rubbing to edges and light sunning to spine. Tape marks to endpaper and front flap. Contents are clean but lightly toned. Free from markings or inscriptions.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. DJ is complete with some rubbing to edges and light sunning to spine. It has been price clipped. Ex libris sticker to endpaper. Contents are clean but lightly toned. Free from markings or inscriptions.
Published by Press Books Ltd., Great Britain, United Kingdom, 1956
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. Islands of the Giants ; Did I step into Space? ; The Duke- a Crisis? ** ARTICLES AND STORIES (1) The Duke- a Crisis? By John Nayler (2) The Phantom Wolf by J.P.J Chapman (3) Island of the Giants by Michael Hervey (4) The return of Handel by Commander Charles M. Cree (5) Have you the gift of Healing? by Walter M. Germain, Ph.D. (6) The Truth about Dowsing by Arthur M. Sowder (7) A voice said "murder" by Rev. William Earle (8) Renew yourself the Yoga way by Major P.G Francis (8) Story of the Lost People by Frank Volkmann (9) The Worlds first Christian by Estella de ford Graham (10) My dead wife wrote by DeWitt B. Lucas (11) The amazing Mrs.Piper by Hereward Carrington Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Seller: Rodney Rogers, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Pictorial card cover. 135 x 215 x 20mm. 256pp. Maps; appendices. Cover and pages are as new. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.
Language: English
Published by The Rococo Group, London, 1990
Seller: Balfour Books, Sidmouth, DEVON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Copy in illustrated card wraps. Wraps have a few very small liquid splash marks. Clean contents. 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage.
US$ 24.19
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Gift inscription signed by the author on front endpaper. Book smart in smart dustwrapper.
Language: English
Published by Parapress Ltd., Tunbridge Wells, 1993
ISBN 10: 1898594023 ISBN 13: 9781898594024
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
US$ 30.80
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Add to basket8vo. pp 195. Original publisher's blue boards with lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated in black and white. ISBN: 1898594023 Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket.
Language: English
Published by Granada Publishing Limited, London, 1984
ISBN 10: 0246123117 ISBN 13: 9780246123114
Seller: The Raven and the Writing Desk, Ruawai, NORTH, New Zealand
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good - Some Wear. First. and The Adventure of the Faeroe Islands by M. Helen Graham.
Language: English
Published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1919
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 33.60
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. A long narrative poem from the authors' service as a Commander in the Royal Navy during the First World War. ix+236pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt illustration to upper left corner of front board. Rubbing to edges of boards and fraying and split to lower joint. Formerly owned by the Air Ministry Library with plate on fixed end paper and several stamps on end papers and title page. Free end paper has several areas of rough loss.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. hardcover in near fine condition, dust jacket in fine condition with plastic sleeve, some adhesive residue inside front cover, ex library book.
Published by The Rococo Group - Michael Finch, London, 1990
Seller: Riley Books, Oswaldtwistle, United Kingdom
US$ 21.00
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Add to basketLarge Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Fifth Edition. An excellent copy of this book. There is a very tiny graze to the top of the cover otherwise fine. No creases to the spine or to the covers. 370 very clean, tight pages. - This beautifully produced book represents a deffinitive view of the Battle of Britain. It reminds us of the dediction and reflects the experience of many members of the Royal Air Forces Association, both air and ground crew.It also shows the dedication of those from the British Commonwealth, from the United States of America and from the occupied countries of Europe. This book is a tribute to 'The Few' who flew in the Battle, and to the many who supported them. ------ This is a very heavy book, and has been priced to cover any extra postage needed over the set rate UK or surface. Size: 12in x 8in. Book.
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
US$ 22.13
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. New Edition. Paperback. 21.5x13.5cm. 256 pages with 5 single page maps. PAGE EDGES HAVE A FEW MARKS. No inscriptions. --------- LAID IN: Press clipping of Helen (Tew) Graham 2001 Atlantic crossing age 89. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zzn.
Published by Verlag Klasing & Co, Berlin, 1937, 1937
Seller: Antiquariat am Münster G. u. O. Lowig, Heilsbronn, DE, Germany
Ln gb ohne SU, Die Sturmfahrt der Yacht "Emanuel", übersetzt ins deutsche von Kapitänleutnant a.D. E. v. Beulwitz, die Pläne zeichnete A.G. Nissen, 237 S, Einband angeschmutzt, Rücken oben und unten etwas beschädigt, Rücken ausgebleicht, Vorblätter etwas angeschmutzt, sonst gut erhalten; Sprache: deutsch; lgk 103_Seidel 450 Gramm.
Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1936
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 28.00
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1936, 1st. Octavo. xiii, 235pp. Illustrated, including map end papers. Original cloth, gilt titles. Spine a little faded, some dust-soiling and markings. Text-block spotted. Overall a 'Good' copy.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis London 1950, 1950
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st ed. thus dust jacket Nice Copy small octavo 256pp., b/w plates, maps, appends, No. 9 in the Mariners Library. Story of a single-handed Atlantic crossing in the 7-ton Emanuel and an account of a voyage to the Faeroe Islands in a seven-tonner. Nice copy in a nice unclipped dust jacket.
Published by Klasing & Co Berlin ca, 1937
Seller: Versandantiquariat Karsten Buchholz, Grönwohld, SH, Germany
Leineneinband, gebunden, 239 Seiten, Name auf Vorsatzblatt, angestaubt und Gebrauchsspuren, sonst ok Der Versand kann in Deutschland auch auf Rechnung erfolgen (Vorauskasse vorbehalten).
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Rupert Hart-Davis, Pub, London, 1952; 1st edition, 2nd impression; Number 9 in 'The Mariners Library'; Introduction by Claud Worth; Illustrated; previous owner's signature on front free-fly, else a fine copy with a very good dust jacket: jacket shows light wear to edges; Commander R D Graham; Maritime.
Published by William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, Edinburgh and London, 1936
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition of Graham's narrative of his solo voyage across the Atlantic to Newfoundland, Labrador, and Bermuda on the Yacht Emanuel. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, with maps and illustrations including frontispiece. From the library of of James Stephen âSteveâ Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailingâs most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviationâs highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fà dà ration Aà ronautique Internationale (FAI), which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. In 1934, Commander R.D. Graham sailed alone in his 30-foot yacht Emmanuel from England to Newfoundland, cruised on the coast of Labrador, sailed to Bermuda, and finally brought the small vessel back across the Atlantic. "One of the most remarkable small-boar adventures of this or any other time" (Arthur Ransome).
Published by Compiled to 31 March No place, 1838
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
US$ 251.99
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Add to basketThe 1812 HMS Dublin was the third Royal Navy ship of that name. At the time of this document she was a 40-gunner, and the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief of the South American station Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Hamond (1779-1862). See the entries on Barton, Hamond and Tait in O'Byrne's 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' (1849), and Hamond's in the Oxford DNB. 1p, landscape foolscap 8vo. Aged and creased. Docketed on reverse: 'Dublin / Treasure conveyed. / 31. March 1838. / E1/1 / Entd 2d. April. / W Let'. Headed: 'A Return of Treasure conveyed in Her Majesty's Ship Dublin, Robert Tait, Esquire, Captain, between the 1st. day of January, and the 31st. day of March 1838, to answer the provisions of the Freight Proclamations.' The entry is arranged in a table, with columns for: Ship's Name, Captain's Name; Received [three columns: When; From Whom; At what place], Consigned [two columns: To whom; To what place]; Species of Treasure, or other Articles on which Freight is payable; Total amount received on board, noting whether, certain or estimated; Rate per Cent; Where landed, or to what vessel transhipped. If unshipped, to be inserted as a new Shipment; Greenwich Hospital Proportion; Name and Address of the Agent authorized to give information respecting the proportion due to the Hospital.' Signed at bottom right for 'Sick. Captain. / Ralph Barton. Senior Lieutenant.'.