Orsborne Dod (50 results)

First Gold Medal edition, first printing # 102 of this collection of true short stories from True, men's magazine (the year of 1950). Featured are When the Red Lights Go Out in Paris by William Attwood, The Case of the Painted Lady by Allan Hynd, The Big Cats Walk Alone by Daniel P. Mannix, Hottest Man on Wheels by Kenneth Purdy, A Marlin is a Fighting Fish by Philip Wylie, A Man of Many Letters by Jim Bishop, The Voyage of Lord Darling by Dod Orsborne, Mars in Aquarius, Opposed by Mackinlay Kantor, That Long Count Long Ago by Paul Gallico, They Don't Sing The Truth About Sam by William B Hartley, Butch by James C. Benrodt and Yale Man Versus Toro by Barnaby Conrad. Light edgewear. Lamination is slightly lifting along the edge of the book. Age toning to the cover and pages. Faint shadow of a date stamp on the rear cover. In Very Good Condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Yes, with plastic cover. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are clean throughout although pages have yellowed from age and the outer page margins have finger soiling. Cover boards are in fair shape with shelf wear along the bottom edges. Dust jacket is in fair shape with noticeable fading to the colors. Former owner's signature on ffep. Top edges of pages are dusty. Former library book with usual library stamps, tape stains, labels and markings. (Please note any image provided in our listings are stock photos supplied by AbeBooks and do not match the cover of the actual item.).

Condition: Good. 1956. No edition remarks. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to spine.

Paperback. first edition. 839 near fine, unread Cover by R. Skemp. paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Printing (1st Ed.). VG+ to Near Fine in pictorial wraps with maroon & black lettering & cover art by Robert O. Skemp picturing a barechested sea captain with fists on hip & a pistol in his belt; water stains. Biography, Vintage Paperback.

Condition: GOOD. First American edition. "The Exploits of a Modern Soldier of Fortune, British Agent, Danger Hunter and One-Man Task Force" - an autobiography by "one of England's great adventurers . .Spanning two wars and the exciting years between, [this] recreates his exploits - using logbooks, scrapbooks, letters, and the captain's own astounding memory. At 21, Orsborne was the youngest captain in the British Merchant Marine and ready for the extraordinary life that was to involve him, at one time or another, in pearl hunting, a safari to destroy a man-eating tiger, an escape through a crocodile-infested river, espionage for British Intelligence, and almost anything that looked like danger." Edited and with an introductory note Joe McCarthy. ix, 278 pp. Good overall in rust-colored cloth in a fair only dustjacket with several tears, creasing and price-clipped (now in an archival cover).

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Older book. Wear to cover edges and corners. Small stain on bottom of spine and back of cover. Pages are discolored. Sticker on back cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 278 pages. Copyright 1949 and 1949 on the title page. The only flaws with this book are an owners name and a whisper of age toning to the page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 224pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth is worn and brushed, gently rounded at corners and spine ends. Very slightly cocked. Heavily spotted on text block edges and lightly so on endpapers and first and last few leaves. Not a pretty copy of this now hard to find autobiography but robust, complete and readable. An adventurer who makes Thor Heyerdahl look like an amateur describes his life at sea - a sailor during the first world war and a lieutenant in the Commandos during the second world war, he went on to retrace Darwin's voyage on HMS Beagle, spent time as a whaler, a pearl diver and performing rescue mission (nearly being murdered on a mission in the trackless Amazon Basin) and fled a Japanese prison camp and destroyed mines and Nazi installations.

Couverture souple. Condition: Satisfaisant. 0 GLN-325. . La librairie Aux Livres Anciens et Contemporains offre aux clients d'AbeBooks 30% de réduction sur l'ensemble de son catalogue. Prix d'origine : 3,6 EUR. Livre.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Previous owners inscription to ffep. Some rubbing to edges and corners of D/J. D?J is price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Name to endpaper. The picture on our listing is a photograph of the actual book NOT a stock image. [Loc. C5A-2].

Condition: Good. 1957. First Published. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Pen inscription to front flap.

Condition: Fair. Etat correct. Sans date. Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Prentice-Hall, 1955. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with library stamp on page 19 and endpages professionally replaced. Dust jacket is good with tape repaired tears and creases, shelf/edgewear, surface tears and price whited out on left flap. Great copy of this naval and marine story.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. First Edition. [ex-library (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Script Department "File Copy"), marked as such only by a label and pocket on the front endpaper, and aside from that the book is only lightly worn and would grade Near Fine; the jacket shows some wear and some tiny nicks along the top and bottom edges, with one tiny chip at the top of the rear panel]. Memoir by "one of England's great adventurers -- a man who made a business out of danger! Spanning two wars and the exciting years between, [the book] recreates his exploits -- using logbooks, scrapbooks, letters, and the captain's own astounding memory. At twenty-one, Orsborne was the youngest captain in the British Merchant Marine and ready for the extraordinary life that was to involve him, at one time or another, in pearl hunting, a safari to destroy a man-eating tiger, an escape through a crocodile-infested river, espionage for British Intelligence, and almost anything that looked like danger." (The "Girl Pat," by the way, was a small fishing trawler that Orsborne took on an unauthorized voyage across the Atlantic in 1936 -- an escapade for which he was tried and imprisoned, on the charge that he had stolen the boat. He claimed to have been on a secret undercover mission for British Naval Intelligence.).

Broché avec jaquette. In-8 (13,3 x 20,5 cm), broché avec jaquette, 258 pages ; bords de la jaquette frottés, quelques traces au quatrième plat de la jaquette, papier bruni, assez bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Master of the Girl Pat, Orsborne, Dod, Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1949, 278p, hc no dj, boards bumped/scuffed, text clean, solid binding--SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR--story of Brit secret agent/sof and his boat Girl Pat---40.00. Signed by Author(s).

Broché. Condition: Mauvais état. in-12 Description :Poche, dos cassé, léger accroc sur les coiffes. Langue : Français.

Cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: With Jacket. First Edition. Very Good in a good + jacket with frayed ends. PP 224, Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Defective DW. 1st Edition. Main text block is fairly clean and tight but VARIOUS LIBRARY MARKS and lacks half title and front endpaper. Clean bright dustwrapper is worn and flaps have been heavily trimmed removing most of blurb. A good READING COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Strong, square binding. Bumped at the spine tips. Very lightly rubbed. No markings. Dust jacket (in mylar sleeve) is price-clipped. Lightly chipped at the corner tips with a little large chipping at the spine tips and a couple of other slight chips.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Clean blue cloth on boards with gilt titles. Edges: foxing. Eps: light few only foxings; narrow, verical dj shadowing. Feps with map of the Voyage of the Argos y and Reps with map of the Voyage of the Mirage. Few only old foxings to a few only pages, albeit mostly to the margins. B/w glossy illustrations. Binding is As New. 192p Dj: very faint couple of small smudges; light creases and some scratches. Spine: head with thin wear, small open v-tear and chips; 3cm tear to foot of spine. Couple of tiny chips to bottom edge.

1949. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 278pp. The dust jacket is edgeworn. Edited by Joe McCarthy. (Military, Soldiers of Fortune, Travel/Adventure).

Couverture souple. Livre en français. Traduit de l'anglais par Dominique Guillet. Broché. 378 pages. Couverture et jaquette défraîchies. Littérature anglaise. Livre.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R150008000: 1957. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 258 pages. Jaquette illustrée en noir et blanc. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R150008001: 1952. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 378 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Jacket is Good plus with some wear and tear, book is VG minus with moderate wear, a little edge-foxing, yellowed pages, owner name in pen to front endpaper.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO80017643: 1957. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 258 pages. Jaquette défraichie. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO30311333: 1957. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 258 pages. Quelques rousseurs et pliures. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.