Dewar Capt (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The correspondence of Napier who after a long career was recalled to command the Baltic Fleet of the Royal Navy, the largest created since the Napoleonic Wars and he successfully prevented the Russian Fleet from ever leaving port. Includes 5*maps and plans. 434pp, 6pp adverts. Half-bound in black cloth with cream cloth to the remainder. Gilt decoration to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Pages have been left untrimmed to the leading and lower edges. Spine cloth is lightly sunned. There is light shelf-wear to boards. The lower corners are lightly turned. There is light foxing to the preliminary pages, including the title page. Several pages remain unseparated to the upper edge. Text-block is tight and pages are in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Includes 5*maps. viii, 434pp. Quarter bound in blue buckram to spine and ivory buckram to remainder. Society's emblem in gilt to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Small dents to lower rear edge. Lower corners lightly bumped. Fore and lower page edges left untrimmed.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. Navy Records Society. 1945. 486pp+2 folding plans. Hardcover. Original white cloth with navy blue spine soiled and shelfworn, with gilt on spine still bright. Internally, end pages age-toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact, but cracked at pps. 192/193. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1903). 1903 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 190mm). Ppxii,254. 4 colour plates, b/w illustrations. Binding B. Green cloth decorated and illustrated in black, plain red end-papers. Slightly bumped and browned but a good copy. Entertainingly written and perfectly sound advice to youngsters for their first steps in riding, riding to hounds, shooting and handling dogs. .

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original copy of a photograuve portrait, printed circa 1919 - of a Rugbeian who died during the Great War. Mounted and ready to frame. Decorative and attractive. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. .

Hardback. Publicatons of the Navy Records Society. Vol. 83. 434pp, 5 maps, London 1943. Very good ex-library copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Verpilleux, E; Robinson, T.H.; Bates, Leo; Holloway, C.; Somerfield, T.; Wood, Stanley L.; Gillett, F.; Holmes, Fred; Hodgson, E.S.; Dewar, W. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 1-88, plus 16 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: Vendettas; The Luck of the Game; The Secret of the Well; The Tragedies of Niagara; Running the Gauntlet - part 1; The Witch-Doctor's Vengeance; The Cruise of the Dream-Ship - part 5; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - part 3; Marooned in the Arctic; Our Adventures Among the Berbers - part 5; The Captain's Ordeal; The Swinging Log; The Lone Sea-Rover; Mind vs. Matter. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.