Major Bailey (35 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable Jacket. The jacket has cup marks on the front and back. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are clean throughout.Page edges are dusty. Paper cover boards are in good shape but do have some sun-fading along the spine as well as price sticker residue in the top right corner. (Please note any images provided in our listings are stock photos supplied by AbeBooks and may not match the cover of the actual item.).

Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition Thus. 142 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations and plates. Clean pages, illustrations and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Winter, Milo; Cook, Francis Kerr; Higgins, Violet Moore; Dash, Joseph D.; Lyon, Mildred; Samsel, Genevieve Fusch (illustrator). Enlarged Edition. Collection of 14 short stories about Christmas written & illustrated by the "Just Right" authors & artists, preceded by Clement C. Moore's classic poem, "The Night Before Christmas." First published in 1926, this is the Enlarged Edition from 1929, in 128 pages with colorful illustrations & pen-&-ink drawings throughout, Small hardcover has green cloth-covered boards edged & lettered in gilt to front & spine (nearly completely faded here), with a front paper pastedown showing Santa in his sleigh by artist Milo Winter. Condition is Fair (& priced accordingly): heavy rubbing to exterior, with fraying at all corners & spine tips. Small soiled area to bottom fore edge side corner of front cover. But the sewn binding is strong & straight, pages creamy white with the random soiled spot or tear/chip; mild overall tanning. Images are colorful & full of vintage charm for a new generation of young readers at holiday time. No DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair/Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is an Ex Library book with usual stamps within.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Small quarto. Color and B&W plates. Condition: minor nicking, chipping and soiling to DJ; else very good in good DJ.

Condition: Good. 1961. No edition remarks. 142 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographs. Colour Salmon fly frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine. Some rubbing and marking.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Notations throughout, errata slip bound in. Cover soiled, about very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Covers are yellowed on edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. 8vo; 111 pages; Signed on title page by Bailey, who did the forward. Very minor wear to the dust jacket. ; Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 127 p. 17 cm. B&w figures. Blue cloth over card. Blank impressing. Light wear. Part I.-Foot Drill. Part II.-Arena Drill. Part III.-Calisthenics. Part IV. -Physical exercises with Wands and Dumb-Bells. "Systematised and progressively arranged in Eight Grades to suit all Classes.".

Booklet. Condition: Very good +. 72 p. 22 cm. Stapled blue paper covers. A little discolouration to top front. Includes Boer War, Canadian military, CEF in Siberia, World Wars, overseas postmarks from 1950, RCAF Stations, MPOs in Canada after 1946, miscellaneous post office postmarks, meter and slogan cancels.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Light wear to covers, stapled pamphlet, errata slip included, signed by Author on title page, unmarked, 72pp, VG. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. Richard Tilling, Printer, [London], no date, ca 1936 (text). xxii. 8 halftone plates: chairmen, exterior, measuring cheese, dining, smoking rooms. 6.75 x 4", printed wrapper. Signed by G.H. Bailey. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Large 8vo, i-xxvi, 633 pp, 12 plates. Light crease to the rear of the dust wrapper else a fine copy. Fully revised second edition of a major study.

Condition: New. pp. 385.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Includes summaries in English, French and German. Notes: "A joint venture of Archaeology South-East (part of University College, London) and Surrey County Archaeological Unit (part of Surrey County Council)." "Published with the aid of a grant from English Heritage"--Title page verso. Description: xiv, 122 pages, 3 unnumbered pages (folded) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 30 cm.

Condition: New. pp. 385.

4to. viii+16 pp., 72 full-page plates. Originalcloth in dustwrapper. Colour and black and white illustrations; a very good copy. . First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Knives and Forks of the Victoria and Albert Museum, are selected and described with an introduction by Major C.T.P. Bailey. it is illustrated throughout with photographs. The green boards are faded and worn at the edges. The front paste down has writing on it, the front end paper also has writing in ink on it and also an embossed stamped as does the half-title page. The back end paper and paste down has been tanned. otherwise a square and tight book. Price includes 2nd class postage UK only.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. viii, 15pp text, 72 bw plates, 4 col plates (inc frontis). Or green cloth lacking jacket. Prev owners name stamp inside both covers, bottom corner bumped, some moderate toning/foxing. Shows antique knives and forks from the 14th to the 18th century. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 142. From the Library of HRH The Duke of Gloucester; purchased by ourselves from Kensington Palace.Presentation copy: "Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester with the respectful Compliments of the author. Christmas 1961." Frontispiece in colour 'Some Favourite Salmon Flies.' Eight plates in half Ğ tone. Original publishers binding in blue, lettered yellow what is after gorgeous does it not for us on shuffle Raffi not for us shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up at spine. /Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, was born Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen in Odense, Denmark, 1946. She is the younger daughter of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a lawyer, and his wife, Vivian van Deurs. She was educated in Odense and Cambridge, where she me her husband, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester(b.1944) the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V and Queen Mary. He is currently 31st in line of succession to the British throne. At the time of his birth, he was 5th in line to the throne, behind his first cousins Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, his father, and his elder brother Prince William of Gloucester.He practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, which he assumed in 1974. Oh look who is that who's there turn on oh yeah have you seen a girl yeahHe married Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen in July 1972. Very good. Very slight fading. Signedes.

1927. The Medici Society. Hardback. Book - Poor/Fair, ex-lib, wear to spine, front hinge cracked, library stamp in ink to reverse of each plate.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 2 vols.: x, 424d; x, 425-872 p. 29 cm. B&w illustrations. Softcovers in matching slipcase. Attractive set.

Laminated. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex library, with small label removed from front pastedown. Label to lower spine and laminated boards. A book for young sportsmen.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HBDJ, 1918. EARLY Edition, Beautiful Green cloth with red lettering decorations Hard Cover lite wear. Book Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good- , AS-IS, 12mo. Book Is In Nearexcellent clean, TIght condition DJ has some soil, light chipping tears extremities and one small closed tear to the bottom back & small brown stains aroUnd Edges O/W Nice Bright Color, light Fox. Interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, Pretext lists thru Dickie deer mouse .for boys & girls 4 to 8 YRs. a very Jumpy sort of person with a Wide Smile.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Some spotting, fading to the cloth. Signed by Major Bailey on the title page. Quite uncommon thus! Signed by Author(s). Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 127 pages. Blue cloth soiled and rubbed. Small stain inside front cover; Upper Canard School inscription dated 1903, and Rural School Library plate to front free endpaper.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Prater, Ernest; Fraser, Peter; Woodville, R. Caton; Inns,Kenneth; Wood, Stanley L.; Vedder, S.H.; Sutcliffe, Norman (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 86-168+ 20 pages of nice ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, "The Muscle Builder". Features: Mazulla and His Sahib, part 1 - moving Indian adventures, with photos; Neilson's New Man -a story of country life in New Zealand; The Tale-Teller of Algiers - the strange adventure of a visitor to Algiers in October, 1925; Mussolini's War Against the Mafia in Sicily - describes the first stage of the great 'clean-up' - a most dramatic and exciting business - article with photos of Police Commissioner Spano, Signor Mori of Palermo, Gaetono Ferrarello, Carmelo Andaloro, Salvatore Ferrarello, and Nicolo Andaloro; Mr. Stepper, I.D.B. - a diamond story; The Trouble in Coeur D'Alene - part 2 - going undercover to investigage labor-management conflict in the mining district of Northern Idaho - with photos; "Free-Trading" in the Arctic - great photo-illustrated article about white traders living in remote Indian and Eskimo territories; Photo of Korean wedding; One Thing After Another - troubles on the Inyoka Tobacco Estate in Rhodesia, with photo of author and trouble-making jackal; Across North America in a Motor-Boat, part 4 of this record-setting 6,000 mile trip - with maps and photos; The Cleverest Thieves on Earth - The Criminal Tribes of India - a photo-illustrated account of the 'crims' and their hereditary war against society. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, December (Dec.) 1926, Vol. LVIII, No. 344 - Mussolini's War Against the Mafia Gangi Brigands Sansiah photo of Earle E. Liederman, "The Muscle Builder". Features: Mazulla and His Sahib, part 1 - mov.