Snell Captain (8 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 .

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.

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.

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.