Snell Captain (10 results)

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Impression. 1934 First edition. Size octavo, 31 pages plus index and trade advertisements. Yellow cloth covered boards with brown titles to the front cover and spine, no dust jacket. Condition good, corners and edges rubbed, covers grubby, previous owner's name to front end-paper, some spots to first and last few pages else contents clean, with diagrams and photos printed on glossy paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 32 pages + 1930s advertisements. No dustjacket. Marked yellow-cream hardback binding with grubby finger marks to front board, spine browned. Ink writing dated October 1946. Page-edges a bit foxed and quite yellowed o/w pages clean and sound .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Pale lime cloth boards with blocked titles to spine and front, 220 x 140 mm approx. 32 pp + 8 pp of commercial and publisher's adverts. Frontis + 7 other plates containing 19 b/w photos + 5 digs. in text as called for. First Printing Thus 1938. The contents are taken from the Lonsdale Library Vol XVI Rackets, Squash, Tennis , Fives & Badminton. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/Good (Book- mild shelf soiling, no notable wear, Binding sound, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - substantially complete with a few nicks, a little loss and general soiling mainly to rear panel, now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1938 Later Printing. VG/VG. 1938 later printing in d/w price clipped, publishers price sticker on front fold flap. (First published in 1934). Not dated, (1938 date printed at bottom of last page of text, page (32). Illustrated with photographs and line-diagrams. An instruction book which teaches not only strokes, but tactics and the finer points which will enable you to turn your strokes into 'winners'. With Appendixes. Previous owner signature on front endpaper; bruising to one corner; d/w has a short edge tear (19mm), and small losses to head and tail of spine and corners of the d/w; d/w rear panel has some dusting and spotting; else a very good copy, in a very good d/w, of a 1938 later printing in UNCOMMON d/w. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original lemon cloth covers, grey title to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 31 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Mottling to the panels, ghosting to the end papers and in near Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Squash].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. Sturdy binding. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Profusely illustrated with a large fold-out illustration in rear in excellent condition. Beware modern reprints of this work; many are scanned copies with inferior print quality, illustrations, and binding compared to this original edition and they don't have the fold-out.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Two volumes. Tewkesbury: W. Dyde, 1802-1803. First edition. 12mo. [iv],192,vii,[i]; [iv],200,vi pp. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout. §Lacks title-pages: these appear to have been discarded by the binder. Rare: BL, Bodleian, and UCLA copies only. Not held at National Army Museum. §Powell Snell - of Guiting Grange, Guiting Power, Gloucestershire; a barrister by profession - was a Captain of Militia from the early 1770s, and raised the First Troop of Gloucestershire Gentleman and Yeomanry (now the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) in 1795, at Cheltenham. He contributed poetry to the Gentleman's Magazine in the late 18th-century under a soubriquet, and Poetical Effusions from Fairy Camp - his sole known separate publication - seems to have been an attempt to collect his writings as he neared the end of his life. His 'My Own Epitaph, To be in the Church Yard, on a common Stone', rather touchingly concludes the second volume; he died about a year after its publication. From references in several poems (Louis Weltje, Sir John Lade), Snell appears to have been personally associated with the 'fast' circle of the Prince Regent, and references to Zachary Moore and to the writings of Laurence Sterne indicate possible youthful association with the circle of Sterne's friend John Hall-Stevenson, and certainly with the latter's occasional writings. Snell seems to have enjoyed a contemporary reputation in fashionable circles as a minor bel esprit. The poems include the usual odes, epitaphs, epigrams, puns, &c., but the overall tone is for occasional, social pieces, and the subject-matter tends towards the local: Gloucestershire and Worcestershire; Cheltenham, Bath, Bristol; female 'toasts' of the day, provincial drinking-houses, etc. 'Fairy Camp' is described by the author as 'a whimsical Retreat of P[owell] S[nell]. . . So call'd by an elegant lady of taste. . . Constructed on a small knoll, in the middle of a high hill of about forty yards diameter, in a semicircular plantation of firs and forest-trees, and surrounded by a fanciful railing, defended by a Royal Salute of brass guns. . . The Marquee built of wood resembling a real one, having the proper facings of the South Gloucestershire Militia. Gothic windows and door; the eaves ornamented with iron laurel-branches, between which, on Gala days, are placed small flags. . .'. Neatly bound in full contemporary straight-grained red morocco, gilt lettering, gilt and blind decoration, all edges gilt. Ink presentation inscription 'From Emma to Bruce London 9th Feby. 1838' to preliminary blank in each volume, and ink ownership name of recipient - identified by 19th-century owner's pencilled note as Alexander Bruce Dennistoun Sword '(1808-?)', also 1838 - to front pastedowns. Further 19th-century ink ownership name of one A. Whittle to each volume. Occasional internal soiling and trace of removal of early paper label to endpapers. The MISSING TITLE-PAGES aside, a very good set of the verse of an interesting minor poet, provincially printed, & in a neat & attractive contemporary binding.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. none stated (illustrator). First edition. An illustrated first edition of this work on racket sports by 'The Lonsdale Library' edited by Lord Aberdare. A first edition of the work.In the publisher's original cloth. No dust wrapper.With a frontispiece, vignettes and 39 plates. Collated complete.This work is volume XVI from 'The Lonsdale Library' and is a comprehensive work on Racket sports with copious illustrations and photographs throughout. This work had been edited by athlete Lord Aberdare and written by E. M. Baerlein, Captain J. Tomkinson, E. Snell, Major T. Moss, David Egerton, John Armitage and Sir George A. Thomas, Bart.Publisher's advertisements to the front. In the publisher's original cloth. No dust wrapper. Externally very smart with light bumping to the extremities resulting in minor rubbing and the odd mark to the boards, heavier to the spine. Very minimal offsetting to the front and rear free end papers. Internally firmly bound with offsetting to the front blanks and rear index page. Scattered spotting to the odd page and to the fore edge. Age toning to the top edge. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: VG -. Hardcover / No jacket / Black boards with gold decoration / Fold-out intact / Previous owner's name at base of text block / Slight fray heel & crown of spine & at corners / Hinges solid.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stitched wraps 15x24cm. (2), 5pp + colour folding map. Very good, slightly foxed, with map neatly folded with author Captain Snell's name handwritten in black ink below the title, identifying him as Captain & Resident-in-Charge, Trade Registration Department, which was located at Aden. This contains the "Report by Captain Snell on the Foreign Manufactured Goods Imported into Aden, together with Certain Remarks regarding the Development of British Trade", with a brief covering note by Acting Consul C.W.H. Sealy addressed to Foreign Secretary Stafford Northcote naming him by his title the Earl of Iddesleigh. The "Map shewing the Seats of British Trade in the Neighbourhood of the Settlement of Aden, with the Principal Trade Routes Leading into Africa & Arabia", 43x35cm, approx 1cm to 40km, shows the Arabian / Yemeni coast as far as Makulla and Shehr inland to Sanaa, and the African coast from Massawa to Cape Guardafui inland to Harar etc, with trade routes drawn, and locations under British protection indicated in red.