Ellis Captain (38 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed. HC. Tan cloth wi/pictorial cv stamped in red white & blue. Owners name/division written in pen on ffep & inscribed 'United States Military academy West Point N.Y.' on ff & a few internal pencil marks/marginalia else G+ wi/light-mod. spine slant/crnr bumping & small cv stains that detract lightly+.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (Western fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.5" x 9.5"] with the edges trimmed flush, 144 pages, illustrated. Includes the third of six parts of "Burn, Witch, Burn!" by A. Merritt, "Mystery Over Michigan" by George F. Worts, "Tunnel" by Don Waters, "The Boomer Rides" by A. Leslie", "Dum-fool" by Ellis Parker Butler, "Safety Code" by F. N. Litten, etc. Good copy spine chipped, small chip to the top edge of the front cover, paper tanned as usual clphE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hard bound book in fair condition with wear to the cover. Spine has been taped at the bottom and small tear at the top. Previous owner has written on the front paste down and front end-page. Contains foxing/yellowing throughout. Contents are in good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 16 pages. "Tidings" by Adjutant A Wiggins and Staff-Captain W Kitching / "The Guide" by Mrs J G Ellis / "How Wonderful!" by Lt.-Col. R Slater / "When Wounded sore" by Captain Eric Ball / "Open now your heart's closed door" by Songster-Leader W Hold / "Praise the Lord!" by Bandsman P Catelinet / "The Giver of Power" by Adjutant C H Mitchell / "Soldiers of the heav'nly King" by Adjutant A H Jakeway / "Jesus Came" by Bandmaster G Marshall / "O dear Redeemer" by Mrs L Smith / "The coming of peace" by Bandsman W J Hopkins (M9).

Condition: New. 2004 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1962). SB. xix + 595pp with 52 maps (Many in Colour) and numerous contemporary photos.Published Price £55 The first of two books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with D-Day and its consequences: the liberation of German-occupied western Europe in 1944-45. This volume begins by describing the origins and development of Operation âOverlordâ - the ambitious Anglo-American plan to invade Normandy. With subsidiary sections on such subjects as the French Resistance, attempts to assassinate Hitler, and new technology, - including the artificial âMulberryâ harbours, - the authors describe D-Day itself with its airborne assaults, naval bombardment and seaborne landings on Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah and Omaha beaches. They narrate the hard fighting as the Allies secure their bridgehead and push inland, capturing Cherbourg and Caen, and enveloping the main German defending armies at the battle of the Falaise Gap. The book culminates with the liberation of Paris at the end of August, and ends with Eisenhower and Montgomery poised to cross the Rhine. Supported by ten appendices on the forces engaged, the book is lavishly illustrated with 5 general maps, 20 situation maps, 26 sketch maps and diagrams, and 63 photographs.A fine new N&MP Edition of this standard reference work, with all General, Situation, and Sketch Maps and Diagrams in full colour, to mirror the original work.

Issue features novelette Mystery Over Michigan by Worts, plus other serials, short stories, features. Clean tight copy, bright wraps. 7 x 10, 144 pp, b/w illus & ads. Very Good unmarked, light edgewear, backstrip intact, bright unwrinkled wraps. Magazine in color illus wraps (Paul Stahr), side-stapled.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This is the 6th edition published in 1917. Includes a scarce dust jacket. Illustrated dark tan cloth covers show some wear to the edges and corners of the binding. The title is still bright on the front cover and spine. The pages are clean and tightly bound. The rare dust jacket has chips to the edges of the spine and panels, also some soiling and some stains on the back panel. The jacket is still nicely preserved. ; 338 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 52 pages. 2 Peter Porter Poems 7 Gunar Harding Fabulous Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley 10 Josephine Clare Poems 12 Alan Riddle Bits of Concrete 14 Marilyn Hacker Elegy 16 Arthur Ellis Same Size 19 David Grubb Poems 22 Neagu'P Pictures 27 Dannie Abse Poem 29 Jim Burns Getting Together with My Friends 32 Anthony Edkins Arrested Developments 34 Gavin Ewart Voices From Overseas 39 Gavin Ewart Captain Blood 40 Daphne Richardson Poems 41 Tony Dash Small Press Pamphlets 43 Eluard Breton trans Irwin Limsky from The Immaculate Conception 48 Gavin Ewart Appearance and Reality 49 A. E. Dudley Poems Photograph on cover by Marvin Lichtner.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later Printing. Beginner's manual for basic military drill and organization, intended for those contemplating military service who want to get a bit ahead. Fifth printing, still in the year of original publication, obviously of interest to potential doughboys eyeing an exciting European sojourn. Hardcover, as pictured; light wear, minor bumping to corners, no jacket, a few page corners creased. Text clean; [4], 338 pages; index, appendix, b/w photos, figures, diagrams. Size: Octavo.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. (SL#253).

Condition: New. 2004 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1962). Hardback xix + 595pp with 52 maps in colour and numerous contemporary photos. The first of two books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with D-Day and its consequences: the liberation of German-occupied western Europe in 1944-45. This volume begins by describing the origins and development of Operation âOverlordâ - the ambitious Anglo-American plan to invade Normandy. With subsidiary sections on such subjects as the French Resistance, attempts to assassinate Hitler, and new technology, - including the artificial âMulberryâ harbours, - the authors describe D-Day itself with its airborne assaults, naval bombardment and seaborne landings on Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah and Omaha beaches. They narrate the hard fighting as the Allies secure their bridgehead and push inland, capturing Cherbourg and Caen, and enveloping the main German defending armies at the battle of the Falaise Gap. The book culminates with the liberation of Paris at the end of August, and ends with Eisenhower and Montgomery poised to cross the Rhine. Supported by ten appendices on the forces engaged, the book is lavishly illustrated with 5 general maps, 20 situation maps, 26 sketch maps and diagrams, and 63 photographs.

Cover by John Clinton Ellis; Caribbean photographs by Captain Alfred G. Buckham (illustrator). 14" x 11.5" pp. 156, profusely illustrated with color advertisements and photographs. Soft cover with slight wear along the spine and corners; small tear on the upper righthand corner of the cover, and a 4"x6" tear with loss on the title page. Overall, good. Founded by Time magazine co-founder, Henry Luce, in 1929, Fortune was touted "the Ideal Super-Class Magazine," a "distinguished and de luxe" publication "vividly portraying, interpreting and recording the Industrial Civilization" (Luce).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 178 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrated headers. Minimal wear to the covers. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition art work dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 095060125X BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

Original pictorial card covers 96pp illustrations and cartoons. The Story of The Cheshire Regiments Service in Bosnia as part of The UN Mission. A Vg copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Viii, 433 Pp. Tan Cloth. First Printing. Light Usage, No Marks. Dust Jacket Priced $3.75, Wear, Tears, Light Chipping, 1" Chip In Center Of Spine Panel.

Ask to see images for your satisfaction. Boards with heavy wear, discoloration. Edge wear with denting. Lightened spine with wear, creasing, soil. Spine tips and joints with edge wear and soft creasing. Corners bumped, bowed. Tanning, foxing to endpapers and pencil price to front pastedown. Cracking and mull exposure to gutter at front endpaper. Front board detaching but holding so far. Internal tanning but otherwise pretty good. Foxing, soil to text block edges. Shelf 1f.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ELLIS, Sir Henry (1777-1869). Three autograph letters signed to Captain Charles Manby (1804-1884), London, 10 May 1850; 28 April 1864, 31 January 1865. Three letters on single sheets, two on folded bifolia, one on a single leaf, each approx. 180 × 120 mm; one headed "British Museum", two from Bedford Square; all signed by Henry Ellis. Minor folds from original dispatch, one with a small ink stain, otherwise in clean and presentable condition. Very good or better. Henry Ellis, Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1827 to 1856, has here written to Captain Charles Manby, Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers, in a sequence of letters spanning more than twenty years. The earliest (10 May 1850), written from the British Museum, thanks Manby for cards. The second (28 April 1864) acknowledges receipt of a letter and notes that Ellis's election at the Athenaeum Club is to be renewed. The final letter (31 January 1865) reports information received from the Secretary of the Athenaeum concerning the progress of Manby's own proposed election and undertakes to communicate further developments. The three letters together relate to administrative and social business connected with the Athenaeum Club. . Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 595 pages (complete). Part of the 'History of the Second World War : United Kingdom Military Series' - edited by Sir James Butler. In sturdy, sure condition. The functional, authoritative dustjacket is grubby, worn and torn. It is intact and secure. The cover is firm, with some wear to the shelving edges and corners. The papertrims have handling and shelving marks. Inside, the front and end papers have adhesive tape residue marks. The binding is mildly cracked. From thereon the contents are clean, clear, very certain and sure, confident, diligent and authentic. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback. 4th Denbighshire Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers in the Great War. This is one of the rarest Western Front Battalion history. 1st Edition 1926. The 4th were a Pioneer Battalion with a number of miners in its ranks and it performed exceptionally well under very difficult circumstances on occasion. It saw the Winter of 1914/15 at Festubert, Richebourg and Cuinchy, later it took part in the Loos attack and in 1916 at High Wood. 1917 saw it at the Vimy salient and Bourlon Wood. It took part in the so called "Great Retreat " in 1918, finally the battle of the hundred days. The account is written with skill and objectivity by the Battalion Adjutant, Captain Ellis. 148pp., photographs, extensive Roll of those killed or died with service details. Some foxing, else very good in blue and khaki boards with titling to front board. Genuinely very rare indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. illustrated (illustrator). Gilt decorated, embossed, cloth boards are lightly rubbed, carefully repaired with library tape. Leather spine covers are quite rubbed, all titling is readable, but spine ends are raw w/a 1/2" bit missing from lower fold. Textblock w/gilt edging is solidly bound. Pages are bright & clean throughout. Protected in mylar.

Wrappers. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 558-602. Octavo., measuring 16.5 x 24cm. Twice-stapled wrappers. A single issue of the venerable magazine in its original bright-orange covers. This issue comprises a variety of articles by Leopold Weiss [Muhammad Asad], Alfred Noyes, Lawrence Impey, Captain Nicola Popoff, John Morley, WIlfrid Gibson, R. Ellis Roberts alongside several other articles and poems, together with some period advertisments. Light wear along the edges, else, bright, unmarked, and tightly-bound. The Living Age was a long-running and intellectually driven periodical (especially so its 1920s - 30's issues) which offered readers a rich cross-section of early 20th-century thought. Notable for its curated selections of travel writing, literary criticism, political commentary, and poetry drawn from major European and American journals, it is particularly valued for its insight into interwar cultural discourse and transatlantic intellectual currents.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. This very fine volume is the first limited facsimile edition, 1974.This profusely illustrated book with prints and tables is tight, bright, and clean, free of names and markings. here was no dust jacket as issued. because of its weight and size, extra postage is needed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 6" X 8 1/4", 324pgs. Clean copy without writing or inscription. B-54.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 595pp. B/w photographs and maps, fold-out colour maps. Library copy, remains of stickers to front endpapers, small ink stamp to bottom of title page, few marks to page block. (42/7).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex library hardback, no DJ; usual stamps/markings. 1st edition published in 1962 by H.M.S.O. London. Original boards are a little worn/faded with some fraying to spine & binding open in a few places otherwise a good, clean copy. Extensively illustrated throughout. Heavy book will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-1D*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 2nd Edition. 447 pps. Gilt titles: frt. & sp. Illust. w/ colour map & b/w portraits, prints & fold-in prints, facsim. docs., tables & maps (listed). Black cloth bds. w/ gilt design.Some tiny white paint spots on frt. bd. This 1985 facsimile edition limited to 1000. Originally published in 1878. History of Columbia County, New York. With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Excellent for local history and genealogical research of Columbia County, New York. A fine copy.

Condition: Poor. fat 8vo., Green cloth. 1083pp. Index. Illustrated with diagrams and tables. Contents includes, Introduction, Physical Properties of Plastics, Materials, Manufacture of Plastics, Processing and Fabrication, Chemistry of Plastics, Application of Plastics, Commercial Considerations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With Three Plates. (illustrator). PP: viii, 709, Plus 3 plates. Origianl red cloth; spine faded:

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton, [circa 1920]. Large octavo, xx, 468 pages with 20 maps and diagrams plus 3 folding maps and 16 plates (including 2 tipped-in colour plates). Gilt-decorated cloth a little marked and slightly unevenly sunned; edges foxed, with occasional scattered foxing elsewhere; flyleaves heavily offset, with minor silverfish damage to the bottom corner of the rear one; a very good copy. The foreword is by Marshal Foch. The book is not identified as such, but it comes from the personal collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), Commanding Officer of the 39th Battalion AIF, and the author of that battalion's history. Dornbusch 311; Fielding and O'Neill, page 225; Trigellis-Smith 188.