Sinclair Captain J a (8 results)

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Reading Copy. Vol. 62, No. 2. Pulp magazine. Edited by Jim Hendryx, Jr. Cover art by Sam Cherry for "Canyon of the Lost" (novel) by Jackson Cole. Includes "Killer Beware" (novelet) by Kenneth L. Sinclair; "Lone-Hand Posse" (novelet) by J. L. Bouma; "The Foot-loose Kid" by Philip Morgan; "Man Afraid" by Robert S. Aldrich; "By Gun and Fang" by Pete Curtis; "Within the Barricade" by James D. Lee; "Lawman's Widow" by Ferris Melvin Weddle. Features: "The Frontier Post" by Captain Starr; "Shrewd Shopper" by W. L. Hudson; "Baby Bedbugs" by James Scales; "Rodeo" (verse) by A. S. Hill; "Sagebrush Saavy" by S. Omar Barker. Illustrations are uncredited. S5tained/ wraps wavy and a little soiled; tears; creasing; tanning. Reading copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

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. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A Eisner (illustrator). First Edition. Very good book in clean light blue cloth covers with bright gilt titles to spine. Internally very good; inscription to flyleaf; very well illustrated. The dust jacket is very good+ and not price clipped. An attractive copy for its age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original black-titled blue cloth 9x13cm, opening to reveal a printed form with ms entries and ink stamp to the left-hand pastedown, and a blank with large red ink stamp to the right. Very good with some rippling to the cloth, handling marks, paperclip imprint, and wear to the corners. This identifies the bearer as L/Cpl Jamil Massud Salem, Serial No. 966, Regtl No. 0915, of M Company, employed in the Mechanised Infantry. He enlisted on 15 March 1927, and is being discharged on 1 December 1932 on medical grounds. His character is "Good", and he was in receipt of Proficiency Pay and Good Conduct Pay for 2 badges. It is signed by J.M. Sinclair with his faint Adjutant TJFF ink stamp, on behalf of the Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding. This and the facing HQTJFF ink stamp are both dated 3 Nov 1932. The formation of the TJFF in April 1926 would make Salem one of its early recruits. Britain's High Commissioner for Palestine Lord Plumer had created it to defend TJ's northern border with Syria, and its southern border with the Hejaz, recognising the potential expansionist threat from its new King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud. As part of the British Imperial Troops, it was answerable to the High Commissioner, with Amir Abdullah named as an honorary Colonel. Detractors argued that Plumer should have expanded Abdullah's Arab Legion instead. It was headquartered at Zarqa under the command of a British Lieutenant Colonel. Salem would have served under its first two, namely Lieut-Col FW Bewsher (1926-28) and Major (local Lieut-Col) CA Shute (1928-33). The Second-in-Command (a Major) and Adjutant (a Major or Captain) were both British. Junior ranks were filled by Palestinian and Syrian Arabs, Circassians, Sudanese and a few Jews. Palestinian fellahin made up around 70% of the other ranks, taken primarily from the disbanded Palestine Gendarmerie, with over half the Arab Legion's force along with its machine guns and artillery. Its cavalry squadrons were based at Zarqa, and the Camel Company at Ma'an. By the end of Salem's first year, there were 51 officers, 3 staff sergeants and 676 other ranks. In 1927 it was charged with repatriating Druzes refugees from Azraq to Syria. At various points it was called upon to help deal with Arab unrest in Palestine including the 1929 Riots. In 1930, a new Mechanised Company, which Salem was attached to, replaced the Camel Company at Ma'an. This expanded the TJFF's range in the desert. However, it struggled to pacify the desert tribes, and in February 1931 this function transferred to Glubb's newly formed Desert Patrol under the Arab Legion. The Adjutant, Captain J.M. Sinclair, wrote an article for the Journal of the Royal Artillery titled "Transjordan and the Transjordan Frontier Force", v60, Jan 1934. Very rare. An online search found two later examples dated 1942 and 1943 (Ref. Amadouny (1993) "The British Role in the Development of an Infrastructure in Transjordan"; British & Commonwealth Orders of Battle website: TJFF page; Palestine Museum Digital Archive: The Yousef Ali Bey Collection).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Bright first edition of this scarce book on aviation history by J. A. Sinclair. The first edition of this work, a scarce copy. Looking into the history of aviation, from pioneers and experiments through descriptions of great achievements as well as disasters, and notable developments. Written by Captain J. A. Sinclair.Featuring numerous black and white plates throughout. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine, back strip and upper margin of front board lightly faded. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to odd leaf, otherwise pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

1st edition dust jacket Very Good small octavo 144pp., b/w pls., text ills., Nice semi-juvenile item. Some small chips to Dj o/w Vg copy of a scarce book.

8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece and plates; handsomely bound in navy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF A WWI RFC SERVICEMAN. A LIST IN MS OF HIS POSTINGS 1918-1920 IS MOUNTED ON NEW LEAF AT FRONT. Substantial account of the WWI period including much about the air war on submarines. SCARCE. Noffsinger 1336.