Freeman Captain (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition Condition: Good; light edge-wear to boards, no DJÊ Interior is clean without markingsÊ Page 212 has a very small tear Photo page opposite title page shows slight hinge weakness B&W photos and facsimiles in the text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. With dustjacket, pp. xvi + 352. A facsimile reprint of the 1859 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original gilt-titled burgundy cloth in illustrated jacket 16x25cm. xxviii, 124pp including b/w illustrations and double-page map + (8)pp further full-page b/w illustrations between pp54-55. Covers and interiors fine, bumped to the spine ends. Jacket near fine, unclipped with a small shadow to the front flap where a price sticker has fallen away, sunned to the spine and upper parts of the panels, in protective removable sleeve. "Captain Buzurg Ibn Shahriyar, a shipmaster from the Persian province of Khuzistan, compiled this collection of sailor's tales between 900 and 953. In the spirit of Sinbad and The Thousand and One Nights; their inspiration was drawn from the 10th century Persian trading world which reached as far as China. These are salty tales of adventures and escapades, extraordinary profits and utter destitution and threaded throughout is the world of myth and imagination, where wondrous animals and miraculous happenings abound. This new translation captures all the charm and spontaneity of the original text. Dr. Freeman-Grenville has supplied an informative introduction, gazetteer, and bibliography" (Jacket). This appears to be rare in commerce.

8vo., First Edition, with plates and facsimiles in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first detailed account of the Emergency Services Organisation, of which the author was Head, and the work involved in maintaining supply throughout WWII. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. E. L. Freeman and Sons (illustrator). 1st Edtion. Providence, RI: E. L. Freeman and Sons., 1892. First Edition. 8vo. Wrecked on the Bermudas, the thrilling adventures of three boys, a true story of the present age. MEYER, W. E. Published by Providence, RI: E. L. Freeman and Sons. (1892) Bound in red gilt pictorial cloth , with decorative gilt titles and black tooling depicting bermudian subject matter to spine and front board, with twelve illustrated plates including frontispiece. Good only copy, wear to spine and spot on cover, else a good plus copy of a rare book, could find no copies in America for sale, only one in UKJ. plates are clean and text is good plus. priced thus. Young lads adventure on the island of Bermuda. Gilt is bright and the spine gilt is bright, an attractive book none the less.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Gillett, Frank; Webb, A.; Tennant, Dudley; Peddie, Tom; Dowd, L.P.; Wigfull, W.E.; Wright, Frank; Northwood, A.J. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sledge Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson as described by Capt. Madigan - major article with fascinating photos; My Adventures in the World War, Part 3 of E. Ashmead-Bartlett's adventures as a war correspondent; In the Land of the Lapps - Part 3 - photo-illustrated description of the life and customs of these fascinating and little-known people; The Gum Lands of New Zealand - photo-illustrated article on the Kauri gum industry of New Zealand; How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France - important information about the Chinese Labour Corps which assisted British armies in non-combatant duties at the Front were recruited in China and transported from their distant homes in the Far East across the seas to France, travelling via Canada; Marooned in the Arctic - E.H.L. Mitchell went to Alaska on a mining venture but was shipwrecked and marooned on a barren island for eight weeks; The Water-Gardeners of Amiens, France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Lost in the Mine - the lamp of a boy working in a Welsh coillery went out and he lost his way - and nearly his life; Photo of the four-hundred and fifty Temples of the Law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.

1st Edn. 35 pages, (4) pp of related, Frontis illustration and one other full-page plate. Old part worm trail to rear paste down, 5 small worm holes to rear blank and advert pages. Original 1/4 cloth backed white paper printed covered board with tipped on photo of a shooting cart and a party of beaters, some old dust soiling and marking, page 28 is a price list for eggs and poults pages 29 to 35 are numerous testimonials for eggs and birds. "Freeman was a game farmer extraordinary as the 7-page testimonials demonstrate. This is a glorified sales brochure for which he charged two shillings and sixpence" chute222.Quite scarce only one copy located in UK libraries at the British Library.