Mark Robert Sir (69 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Very Good. Sky Hunters - Hossein Amirsadeghi, Sir Mark Allen. Robert Palmer And Others (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of stories, essays, interviews, crossword puzzles etc. about the life of "Sherlock Holmes". Contributors include A. Conan Doyle, Peter Haining, Franklin D Roosevelt, Basil Rathbone, P.G. Wodehouse, John Gardner and more. Light rubbing to the rear cover. No price on the dustjacket. In Near Fine / Near Fine Condition.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Jacket. Small ownership label. Previous owner's rubber stamp on endpapers. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 320pp, with a central section of black and white plate illustrations. Black cloth-covered boards, silver lettering to spine. 8vo. Cloth a little pushed at spine ends, upper text block edge dust spotted. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original laminated, illustrated dust wrapper, slightly bumped along upper edge. Memoirs of Sir Robert Mark, a life-long policeman who started out with the Manchester City Police and became Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in the 1970s - the first Metropolitan Commissioner to have risen through the ranks of policing from the very lowest ranks. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in good condition. Jacket is scuffed and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Page block is lightly blemished. One of the photographs has been neatly removed. The odd mark on a few of the pages which are otherwise clear, and binding is sound. LW. Used.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with minor creasing on a flat spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings by Barrington Barber; cover by Paul Ashby. This anthology contains: The Ghost Detective by Mark Lemon; The Story of the Unknown Church by William Morris; The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell; The Captain of the Pole-star by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Furnished Room by O. Henry; The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde; The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe; The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott; An Account of the Strange Disturbances at Aungier Street by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; The Last Drop by Sarah Bernhardt; The Horla by Guy de Maupassant; The Romance of Some Old Cloths by Henry James; The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards; The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray; Teigue of the Lee by T. Crofton Croker; The Haunted Mill or the Ruined House by Jerome K. Jerome; The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens; The Case of the Reverend Mr Toomey by S. B. T.; The Spectre of Tappington by Thomas Ingoldsby; The Hollow of the Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Lady of Rosemount by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson; Grey Dolphin by Thomas Ingoldsby; Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie Collins; The Homing Bone by Conell Cearnach; The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton; Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte; The Story of the Moor Road by E. and H. Heron; Man-size in Marble by Edith Nesbit; The Last Squire of Ennismore by Mrs J. H. Riddell; The Bagman's Story by Charles Dickens; The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy; The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce; and Ghosts That Have Haunted Me by John Kendrick Bangs. Size: 8vo. Paul Ashby; Barrington Barber; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 382 pp. Bound in blue leather and decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; pasted-on pictorial on the front panel; blue endpapers; headband; ribbon marker. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjacket. This anthology contains: What Is Life by Sir Walter Raleigh; Concerning the American Language by Mark Twain; The Luck of the Roaring Camp by Bret Harte; The Acolian Harp by Herman Melville; Odysseus Returns Home by Homer; Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson; Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer; The Luckiest Man by Lou Gehrig; On Self Knowledge by Kahlil Gibran; The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen; The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton; To Celia by Ben Jonson; When Icicles Hang By the Wall by William Shakespeare; Spades Are Spades by Frederick Nebel; The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry; Larry O'Toole by William Thackery; The Snake by Emily Dickinson; Flood by James Joyce; The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells; The Invisible Man by G. K. Chesterton; The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation by John Bunyan; The Old Stoic by Emily Bronte; The Child's Story by Charles Dickens; A Prodigal Son by Christina Rossetti; The Castaway by William Cowper; Break Break Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Escape from Chateau d'If by Alexandre Dumas; The Soldier by Rupert Brooke; Farewell Address to Congress by General Douglas MacArthur; In Flanders Fields by John McCrae; Patriotism by Sir Walter Scott; To Build a Fire by Jack London; Not Guilty by A. A. Milne; The Modern Major General by W. S. Gilbert; The Night Express by Willa Cather; Sir Galahad by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Young and Old by Charles Kingsley; A Lesson in Work by Mark Twain; Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy; The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather; Memorabilia by Robert Browning; A Noiseless Patient Spider by Wal Whitman; The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe; Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare; Before the Curtain by Bret Harte; For Lack of Gold by Adam Austin; A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov; The Dying Gladiator by Lord Byron; Prometheus by Lord Byron; Final Requiem by James Fenimore Cooper; The Adventure of the Abbey Grange by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Star by H. G. Wells; The Huntsman by Anton Chekhov; A Hunting Song by Henry Fielding; Rich and Poor by Thomas Love Peacock; Light Shining Out of Darkness by William Cooper; and The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Minus. General wear to covers with light soiling, well bound, contents bright, clean and unmarked copy. A complete issue, no major faults, with the original covers and advertisements. A well kept copy with no major faults. Further details about condition and content always welcome. Comes in a clear archival bag.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In the Office of Constable - An Autobiography By Sir Robert Mark Hardback with dust jacket. This copy includes a handwritten Ex Libris bookplate signed "Robert Mark - Xmas 1978", making it a great collectible for anyone interested in British policing history or signed autobiographies. The book also features a printed reproduction of Sir Robert Mark's police "Declaration of Service" on the inside cover (part of the original design). Condition: Dust jacket in good vintage condition Hardback clean and solid Signed bookplate inside front cover Pages clean, no loose sections. Signed by Author(s).…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Same ISBN but Jan 1979 reprint. Shelf wear to dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/VG. 320pp, 12pp b/w plates, index, ALS from the author ( dated January 1979 ) sellotaped in at the rear of the book, replying to a TLS from ( also sellotaped in ) the original owner of the book in which he corrects Mark's impression of the way in which returning police officers were treated by those of the police force who had not served on active military duty. Mark's apologises for his mis-understanding. Gift inscription, sellotape marks to the rear endpaper, a near fine copy. The autobiography of Sir Robert Mark [ 1917 - 2010 ] who was a senior British police officer, serving as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1972 to 1977. 725 grams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Inscription Signed by Author on Half Title Page - binding a little exposed here also. Dust wrapper with a little creasing edge and corner wear, small tear bottom front corner, and back edge of spine, marks/scratches. Top, Tail and Fore edge with light marks/scratches. Endpapers with light discolouration strip, and a little light foxing, ghost pencil mark on top edge of fep. Internally Good - Quick flick through pages could not see any issues, clean and tidy copy in tight binding, A Very Good personal copy Price clipped dust wrapper has now been fitted with removable archive acetate film. **756g** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed. AANBE18658; Signed by Author.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Firm binding. Jacket is not price clipped. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Signed By Author.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. Previous owners name and address to inside cover. Shelf wear to edges of D/J. Sir Robert Mark's acheivement as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is one of the great success stories of our national life. Not only did he root out corruption that was firmly entrenched in the CID, he led his men to a series of brilliant victories against terrorism and violent crime. Like the police he so ably defended when politicians or media men tried to mirepresent them Sir Robert reveals himself in this book as an inextricable combination of the high-minded and the earthy, the idealist and the practical man. Illustrated. 320 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. Previous owners name and address to inside cover. Shelf wear to edges of D/J. Sir Robert Mark's acheivement as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is one of the great success stories of our national life. Not only did he root out corruption that was firmly entrenched in the CID, he led his men to a series of brilliant victories against terrorism and violent crime. Like the police he so ably defended when politicians or media men tried to mirepresent them Sir Robert reveals himself in this book as an inextricable combination of the high-minded and the earthy, the idealist and the practical man. Illustrated. 320 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Message and date to previous owner to inside cover. Price clipped. Sir Robert Mark's acheivement as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is one of the great success stories of our national life. Not only did he root out corruption that was firmly entrenched in the CID, he led his men to a series of brilliant victories against terrorism and violent crime. Like the police he so ably defended when politicians or media men tried to mirepresent them Sir Robert reveals himself in this book as an inextricable combination of the high-minded and the earthy, the idealist and the practical man. Illustrated. 320 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Card Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. prev owners name inside lightest of spotting on lower page edges barely visible.foxing to inside of D/J Boards are fine.Sir Robert Mark's was Commissioner of the Metropolitain Police. Not only did he root out corruption that was firmly entrenched in the CID, he led his men to a series of brilliant victories against terrorism and violent crime. The seiges of Spaghetti House and Balcombe Street are models that are studied and admired by police forces around the world. .(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Integral damage to binding e.g. cover coming away, no spine, chunks of pages falling out. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Type: Book 1st printing. An unread book. Signed and inscribed to the flyleaf by Sir Robert Mark.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 260 pages. From Dixie Dean, Stanley Matthews, and Billy Wright to Paul Gascoigne, Garry Lineker, and David Beckham, over the years Britain has produced a wealth of grea t soccer players that have won domestic, European, and global trophies. Now for the first time, in association with the National Football Museum, a panel of foo tballing legends including Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Geoff Hurst, will select th e players for an official FA Hall of Fame at the National Football Museum. This is the official illustrated book, highlighting the museum's work, and detailing the profile of each player, discussing career achievements, their clubs, key mat ches, and a wealth of statistics to provide the complete picture for all fans. S upported with superb photography taken from the archives of the Football Museum and with contributions from many of our most respected and well-loved stars, thi s is a fascinating story.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A three-inch tear to top end of fold of back panel of unclipped dustwrapper, some creasing to edges of same, minor bumping to spine ends of black boards, btut otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, being the autobiography of the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Includes his early service in the Manchester City Police, WW2 army service, Chief Constable of Leicester, and service in the ''Met'' in the 1960's and 70's where he was responsible for stamping out the widespread corruprion in the force, particularly in CID. 320pp, 25 b&w illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with general wear.

Second printing (hardback). 8vo, 145pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original orange cloth, dustwrapper. The book itself is in very good condition. The dustwrapper has a few closed tears.