Commander Taprell Dorling (23 results)

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 356 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Contains black and white illustrated frontispiece. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Noticeable marking to some pages throughout, and textblock edges; text is not obscured. Slight loss to paper to pastedown, wit…

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 356 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some mild s…

Hardcover. Condition: Good Only. First Edition. 86, 56 pp. This contains parts one and two, individually paginated. Red cloth decorated in black on the front panel and spine. Illustrated with colour plates. Edge and corner wear with a tear in the back edge of the spine; the front hinge is loose but the gutter is mostly intact; t…

December 1918 reprint of the 1918 original. (VI), 338 PP with 2 tail pieces and 13 text illustrations, plus 10 b/w plates illustrated by H. R. J. Fp: If one is married. Cloth cover, decorated front cover and spine. Covers have some shelf wear and a few small marks<; Prize plate on front endpaper. Occasional foxing, o/wise a very…

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Not dated, c.1915? Size 12mo, 7.25" tall, 356 pages. Sand coloured cloth covered boards with green titles and border to the front cover and spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition good, cloth rubbed along the bottom edge and a tine piece chipped f…

Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pictorial front board. Pictorial spine. 352 pages. All 6 listed full-page illustrations are in place as are the 2 neatly folded maps. Clean & tight book. Front paste down has a neatly written name. No other inscriptions. SOME FOXING. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Blind stamped red cloth with title to spine in black. List of other works by Taffrail opposite title page. Slightly cocked. Hodder and Stoughton Yellow Jacket series. Unclipped dustwrapper. Some age toning to pages as usual.Minor foxing. Rar…

Two pages, 12mo. Very good on lightly-foxed blue paper. He has sent his correspondent's letter to the naval correspondent of The Times, and hopes 'that some good may come of it.' Would like to receive 'any more snippets you have from time to time. I didn't know, for instance, that the racing whaler had Sussex until the other day…

FIRST EDITION 8vo. green pictorial cloth hardback. 352pp., illustrated with 6 colour-tinted plates and 2 folding Maps. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Light foxing to foredge. Light wear and rubbing to spine and boards, with a couple of small splits to cloth at top and base of spine. Overall a GOO…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A Very Good First Edition hardback (no date on title page but 1929) in the rare dustwrapper which also, unusually, is in Good+ condition. Blind-stamped red cloth with titles to spine in black. Plain end-papers; other Works by Taffrail (with dates) opposit…

Bound copy of 4 different issues. Ribbons & Medals - Part I (6th edition of 1916 original): (8), 13-(over) 86 PP with over 125 b/w illustrations, plus 12 plates in colour for 123 ribbons and a Military Medal with ribbon and clasps. Part II (1st edition of 1918): IV, 56 PP with over 80 b/w illustrations, plus 6 plates in colour f…