Obrien Captain (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Revised Edition. Stapled book. Light handling wear with dust spotting mostly on back cover.

A Good copy of the First Edition in an unclipped dustwrapper. (Click on Illustration) Foreword by Mountbatten of Burma. 8vo, cloth, with 33 plates, 10 line-drawings in the text, 2 maps. An account of the early days of steam navigation in the Solent area covering the period from 1817, when the first steamboat set out to supplement the sailing passage vessel.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 65, No. 3. Edited by Donald Kennicott. Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops. Includes "With These Guns" (novelette) by Leland Jamieson; "Piping the Devil" by Kenneth Perkins; "Warriors in Exile" by H. Bedford-Jones; "Scarlet Fingers" by Thomas W. Duncan; "Pete Was a Real Hero" by Thomas Topham; "Ships and Men" by H. Beford-Jones & Captain L. B. Williams; "Men Once Stood on Their Own Feet" by Warren Hastiings Miller; "One Against a Wilderness" by William L. Chester; "Just Like Old Times" by Robert R. Mill; "Gunpowder Gold" (novel) by Gordon Kayne. Price Stories of Real Experience: "When Wolves Attack" by Jack O'Brien; "The Butcher Poses" by Bob Dorman; "Toll of the Deep" by Captain W. D. Livingston; "Tiger's Night" by N. Baikov. Illustrated by Grattan Condon, Austin E. Briggs, Jeremy Cannon, Henry Thiede, Yngve Soderberg & Alfred Simpkin, George Avison, Monte Crews, & Peter Kuhlhoff. Tanning; dusty. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Commemorative hardback edition, 1964, with no jacket as issued. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. N/A (illustrator). 1964. Privatly Published, 1965. Hard cover, red boards, gilt titles. Book condition : Near fine, a very nice copy. Previous owners pastedown inside cover. Scarce. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Bookseller Inventory #008090. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. N/A.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback. Unusual "magazine charting HMS Cheviot's cruise fro Singapore, via Hong Kong, Inchon, Tokyo etc returning to Portsmouth. Diary of the cruise and accounts from various crew members. 72pp., a number of photographs, including crew groups and images on land, full crew roster and map etc. Two photographs of the destroyer Cheviot tipped-in, one with a message to his wife on reverse. Minor wear, else vgc, illustration of junk to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BOUND IN CLEAN RED CLOTH WITH GOLD BLOCKED IMAGES OF HERMES TO FRONT COVER WITH SHIP'S LATIN MOTTO, " ALTIORA PETO", THIS UNDATED 1964 HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION IS VG.80pp WITH 100+ B/W PHOTOS , FOREWORD, NARRATIVE, TARANTO NIGHT, SINGAPORE, HONG KOMG AGAIN, A "POTTED" SPORTS, SHIP'S CONCERT, CROSSING THE LINE, MAP OF HERMES PROGRESS, 892 SQUADRON, 803 SQUADRON, 849B FLIGHT, TRISTRAM'S BIRDSTRIKE, DEAR MUM, JENNY AND HER SIDE PARTY, ROCK CLIMBING, SEAMEN DEPARTMENT, S & S, MEDICAL, AIR DEPARTMENT, ENGINEERING, WEAPONS, HEAVENS ABOVEHERMES FLASBACK, SPORTS ROUNDUP. CONDITION ALL VG.

Hardback. A History of Local Steam Navigation. 248pp 16 plates, 10 ills. 2 maps 1973. Fine in fine DW.

New ed. First published in 1841. Yellow marks on front free end paper; blue cloth badly faded & browned on spine, with slight wear at head & foot. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket).

First edition. pp xvi, 279 (6). Near Fine, edges dusty slight bumping, in very clean and bright dustwrapper. Showing slight wear, bumping, hint of toning, foxing to edges of ads, and rubbing which is housed in a protective removable sleeve. There are no ink marks or writing. Outstanding example. 11715.

hardcover. Condition: very good(-). Re-printed From The Naval Chronicle, With Additions By Captain O'Brien. 212 pages. Slim 8vo, bound in contemporary diced calf; well-rubbed and with significant repair to spine ends and joints; some scattered staining but pages generally clean. London: Printed By And For Joyce Gold, At The Naval Chronicle Office, 1814.

Leather bound. Condition: Very good. First edition of the Narrative of Captain O'Brien, R.N., published in London in 1814. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, [12], 5-212pp, [4]. Introduction and opening address are bound out of order. Finely bound in blue cloth, title in gilt on black morocco spine. Navy blue endpapers. Solid text block, faint foxing and toning to leaves. The title page is trimmed along the top edge. A very good example in a vibrant binding. This work is reprinted from The Naval Chronicle, with additions by Captain O'Brien.

[STUDEBAKER AUTOMOBILE]. First edition. 11" x 8 1/2" printed pictorial broadside. Issued by the City of Chicago, Detective Bureau of the Department of Police on December 8, 1908. Description: "Studebaker roadster, 1908 Model H, apple-green color with fine yellow stripe; Garford 4-cylinder, 30-horsepower engine; imported Simms - Bosch low tension magneto; progressive type transmission; shaft drive; black top; seats two in the rear, may remove rear seats; front axle I beam section with ball bearings; semi-elliptic springs, front and rear; spoke in left wheel broken; factory No. 1377 on left hind side of seat, and also on front of the engine; Illinois license No. 4918; green leather upholstering; carbide generator; brass bumper; Stewart speedometer; three Goodrich and one Diamond 34 x 4 Clincher tires, two rear have Bailey tread, front tires wrapped tread; Rushmore headlights." "The above machine was stolen in this city on November 9, 1908. The man suspected of having stolen this automobile is about 26 years of age; 5 feet 9 inches tall; 140 pounds; dark eyes; pale face, very thin; sunken cheeks; long thin fingers; good dresser; when last seen wore brown tailor-made suit, brown derby hat; speaks broken English, with French accent; may have on a white sweater." "Kindly cause a thorough search to be made for same in automobile garages, repair shops and other places where it might be disposed of. If located kindly wire P. D. O'Brien, Captain, Commanding Detective Bureau." A nice, detailed picture of the 1908 Studebaker roadster is shown. Fold creases and an old water stain to verso of three panels, else very good copy.