Rowe Captain (10 results)

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Captain Jack Heath (illustrator). Has DJ -Orange Cover with Black lettering with a Man in life preserver & DJ has a Man with a gun pointing at 3 men & has Map drawn by Captain Jack Heath -- No previous owners name -- EMAIL for Pictures.

Publisher's original stapled sand paper covers, black title lettering to the front cover. 8vo. 6½'' x 4''. Contains 8 printed pages of text with monochrome diagram. In Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Dover].

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inner Flap DJ PriceClipped. HBDJ, 1928, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, PreText Lists Thru This Title. VG+/VG. AS-IS, Small chips/tears in the DJ edges/corners. ; 8vo. Blue Cloth Illustrated Binding is Hardcover Light Rub, Wear. Interior Nice Tight Clean Light FOX, Wear, Tiny Dogears, 300 Pgs + ADS thru King of The Mountains, Back DJ lists Thru Baseball Joe Pitching Wizard Fox small edge Tears Tiny Chips, Publishers Blue Dye Stain to Outer top edges pgs . Modern Pirates with the ferocity of Beasts, attack a lightship Crew, recounting the Adventures that Befall the Survivors of that Crew & Retribution,

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HBDJ, 1927, Early Issue, Pretext lists Thru Mystery of Derelict. Blue cloth, youth on ropeladder pictured in black. HardbackBook Condition: Very Good with Lite Rub, Wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. AS-IS, Howard L. Hastings (illustrator). Slight lean from stacking to Book; sharp corners, bumps to spine, very minimal yellowing. DustJacket is bright and colorful, pictures youth on the back of a rhino with the others hiding in trees. DJ Wear to spine ends and corners, & all Extremities with minor soiling to back DJ Lists Thru Secret Sky Express with FOXING. A super clean, unmarked copy. 310 Pgs + ADS End With Bomba Jungle Boy & Hostile Chieftain, . with Much Ingenuity these boys fit themselves into the wild Life of the Island they are Cast Upon after a Storm, Boys Typical shipwreck story.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour photographic matt laminated boards. 4to 12'' x 8ĵ''. Contains 172 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations, diagrams and photographs throughout. Two bottom corners bumped, otherwise in Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1870077350 TUGS AND TOWING.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Wood, Stanley L.; waters, D.B.; Nicolson, W.C.; Robinson, T.H.; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.; De Walton, John; Edwards, Lionel; Whitaker, W.G.; Elcock, Howard K. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.

Condition: Good. Large 4to. 23 x 31cm. Half goatskin and marbled paper boards by the artisan biner Sasha Mosalov.Plates with minor to major foxing in the margins.[iii]-v, [3], [9]-84 pp. With 26 steel-engraved plates from drawings by Seth Eastman including the frontispiece, plus steel-engraved added title; plain protective interleaves for the plates. .A series of detailed engravings after drawings by Seth Eastman, who was stationed, along with his wife Mary, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1841 through 1848. These depict such revealing aspects of Native American life as transportation of wounded, the medicine dance of the Winnebagoes, spearing fish from a canoe, an Indian woman dressing a buffalo skin, etc. Wagner-Camp cautions that the work "should not be confused with Mrs. Eastman's later work, published in 1854 as Chicora, and again as American Annual. Mrs. Eastman's Portfolio consists of twenty-six engravings from Captain Eastman's paintings of Indian life, each with a guard sheet and a short explanatory essay of two or three pages." Field 477n; Wagner-Camp 222c.; Howes E-17; Sabin 21682; Wagner-Camp-Becker 222a; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1870490: 84 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 33 cm? Seth Eastman was a painter and soldier best known for his depictions of the everyday life of Dakota and Ojibwe people around Fort Snelling in the 1840s.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1870490: A selection of plates from volumes 1-3 (1851-1853) of: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United StatesAdded engraved title page: The American aboriginal port folio. With vignette "Engraved by Illman & Sons."Cover title: Eastman's aboriginal portfolioCollation: [1]? 2-10? [11] [$1 signed]; 42 leaves, pages [i-iii] iv-v [vi-viii (viii blank)] [9] 10-84 + 25 plates (each preceded by a bound-in guard sheet)Plates engraved by Charles K. Burt, James Smillie, John C. McRae, C.E. Wagstaff & J. Andrews, and Alfred JonesFirst plate, a portrait of Red Jacket, bound as frontispieceIssued in blue cloth, stamped in gold; all edges gilt.

George Rowe (illustrator). AN EXTRAORDINARY ASSOCIATION COPY OF AN EXTRAORDINARILY RARE SUITE OF LITHOGRAPHS. Two parts in one volume, complete with twelve wonderful lithographed views. This is the deluxe proof issue on India paper. Bound in is a letter dated October 5, 1911 from Henry Campbell Booth to French botanist Philippe de Vilmorin (1872-1917), in which Booth explains that this book belonged to his wife's grandfather, Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), the Royal Navy officer who pioneered nautical fiction. Large folio (38 cm). Attractively bound in quarter calf, c. 1900, spine decorated with gilt fleurons. Froont wrappers of both parts bound in. Light wear to extremities of binding. Some foxing to margins of plates, but images generally very clean. A very good set. Not in WorldCat, BL, BN, or anywhere else I looked.

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback First Edition The adventurous autobiography of a great airline pilot from crates to clippers Complete with a pictorial dust jacket this is a good copy for an exlibrary book The pictorial dust jacket shows some edge wear with fading to the spine Underneath the brown cloth boards have a little tape residue and a faded spine although present well Book plate and faded ink stamp to the front endpapers with toning to the rear There is light tape residue to the half title page and ink stamp to the title page The rest of the pages are very clean despite the very occasional spot of foxing pp 256 Overall a good copy of a scarce titlenbspnbsp. book.