Field Colonel C (15 results)

Condition: Good. 1st Ed. Boards have some wear with sun fading & marks. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 320pp, edges browned and foxed, text clean and sound, blue cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, Good / no dustwrapper.

Cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bright sky blue cloth binding, rubbed at the spine edges, some fading on the spine, the hinges are in good order. Bright and tidy internally, light toning, some foxing to the endpapers and half title page, one or two faint foxing spots on the title and last index sheet. Contains 32 illustrations on 16 double sided sheets (checked complete). 320 pages. Neat Hampshire library naval collection stamp on the title reverse (no other markings).…

1st Ed. 320 PP, plus 30 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Fp: Britannia. Cloth cover. Lacks plates facing pages 50 (Anson's Seamen at the capture of Payta) and 51 (Ducking under the equator). Free fly of front endpaper pasted down. Ingleton bookplate on recto of the free fly. Occasional foxing. Very good. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 19 x 13.8.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 256pp. 'Personal and unofficial letters and accounts of bygone battles both by land and sea, by those that were there 1513 to 1854'. Illustrated. 16 b/w photographs. Faded spine to boards. Shelfwear to jacket with a couple of closed tears and some minor soiling.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1932 very good hardback, foxing and browning to page edges and endpapers, front free endpaper missing, in a good dust wrapper, spine lightly sunned, corners and edges rubbed, small closed tears. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. 320 pages with index.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 31 plates; Hardback: blue cloth lettered in black on spine; Some marking to covers and edges, string mark to lower board, some foxing mostly to prelims, 1 leaf of text and 1 plate slightly torn (no loss), g+.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covers, black lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼'' 320 pp. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Light foxing to the end papers and edges of the covers, corners soft, spine slightly age darkened, no dust wrapper. This book is not signed by the author. Member of the P.B.F.A. NAUTICAL (Shipbuilding).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pale blue buckram cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, 220 x 150 mm approx. Top edge of book block stained blue.256 pp. Frontis + 15 other illustrations on glossy art paper as called for. With a forward by Field and explanatory notes etc. this is a collection of vivid letters and accounts from both officers and men of the Army Navy and Marines, relating to their personal experiences in the face of the enemy, mostly from British combatants. Prominent engagements as well as lesser known battles or skirmishes feature incl. : Fight at Southam, Warwickshire 1642, Battle of Lowestoft 1665, Battle of Guastalia 1734, Battle of Dettingen 1743, Battle of Falkirk 1745, Culloden 1746, Fontenoy 1754, Minden 1759, Quebec 1759, Skirmish at Lexington 1775, Bunker's Hill 1775, numerous Napoleonic and Crimean Battles etc. VG/G (Boo- Light shelf wear fading to cloth, Moderate foxing to edges of book block. No previous owner name or insc. No other notable defects. Dust Jacket- mild shelf soiling and wear with chips to extremities - max 2 x 20mm around head and hint of foxing spots showing through. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.…

Condition: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original light green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [xxxviii] 442 printed pages of text with monochrome photographic frontispiece and four fold-out maps. Age darkened spine and closed page edges, shallow rubs to the spine ends, gutters and corners, foxing to some of the front and rear pages. In Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare). …

Condition: Good. Echoes of Old Wars by Colonel C. Field, 1st edition, 1934. Includes dust-jacket.Publisher: Herbert Jenkins, London.Binding: hardback cloth.Illustrated: yes.Description / Condition: Some edge wear, tears and browning to jacket. Light shelf wear to boards. Light foxing to pages. Please see pictures for further information. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 320pp. Blue cloth with rubbing to extremities. Illustrated.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. TITLE CONTINUES: Throughout"The Universal Yankee Nation" to whicj is added the Drama in Pokerville; A night in a Swamp". 203, 200pp, bw ills. Or green cloth with title and vignette to spine in gilt. From Peterson's Illustrated Uniform Edition of Humorous American Works. Slight flecking to boards, prev owners bookplate inside front cover, light even toning to page edges. Approx 2cm strip cut from fore-edge of front free endpaper and 1cm similarly cut from following blank page. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo. Darley, F.O.C. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo, [4], 203pp, [1]; 200pp, [16]. Brown cloth, title and illustration in gilt on the spine. Light sunning to the spine. Yellow endpapers, solid text block. Some fading and a few leaves with dampstaining to corners. Complete with frontispiece portraits and sixteen illustrated plates from original designs by Darley. A combined form of A Quarter Race in Kentucky, edited by William T. Porter, and Field's Drama in Pokerville, both originally issued separately but here printed from the original plates. A classic of Southern humor. The first edition of Colonel Thorpe's Scenes in Arkansaw by Thomas Bangs Thorpe and J.M. Field, with The Drama In Pokerville by F.O.C. Darley. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Classic First Edition set. Thick Quarto. Vols 1 & 2 bound in original (edge worn) leather-backed navy boards (x + 324pps. & (x) + (358)pps. A.E.Gilt. , and Vol. 3 (A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919) original (edge-worn) tan cloth-backed navy boards. (xxiii) + 492pps. Well illustrated in colour and Black & white. A Good Set.…