Spencer Chas (17 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Small tears to the ends of the central fold. There is an area of creasing to the upper edges and a few very small edge tears.

Condition: Good. 1969. Reprinted. 211 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with decorations. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. …

hardcover. 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. A good condition vintage book. Third reprint of this revision.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Some foxing but a good clean copy. reprinted in 1939 with Supplement.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint . Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Reprint, 1974. Publication of 211 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, minor marks on the back cover and a touch edge worn. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A very good hardcover copy in a fair to poor dustcover. The jacket has edge tears but internally the book is clean and bright with a straight spine and tight binding. Please see photos.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original pictorial wrappers. Foreword by Guy Aldred. N.d. - 1940s.

Hardcover. Condition: good. . Brown Son Ferguson, illus, bright clean copy, light foxing to end papers, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Fourth Edition. This copy is in good condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling to the spine and the upper board. This copy is bright, white and square. There is a repair to page 111. A dust wrapper is not present. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. A lavishly illustrated step by step approach to nautical knots, splices and rope work, a book that sits right at the crossroads of practical seamanship and decorative rope craft, and one that collectors of maritime manuals often regard with real affection. Spencer's Knots, Splices & Fancy Work is a mid‑20th‑century British manual on ropework, published by Brown, Son & Ferguson of Glasgow—one of the most respected maritime presses. It's part instructional handbook, part craft compendium, and part celebration of traditional seafaring skills. Ref WW 4.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. reprint. the jacket has a few tears. award plate. all pages remain intact and presentable. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Condition: G++. No.161. Words and Musical Score. 310 x 250 mm. 8 page folded booklet with illustrated front cover in green white and black. Copyright 1931. Internally in nice condition BUTsome noticeable cover wear.

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1958. Reprint. Hardback, no DW. Orignial blue cloth with gilt to board and spine. Illustrated in black and white. Inner hinge visible to half-title page. Extremities worn and spine slightly sunned otherwise a good clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, spine and edges of covers faded, a couple of bubbles in fabric of back cover, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing, a few notes on front end paper.…

Condition: Good. Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated printed paper covers. 11'' x 8½''. Contains 48 pages folded sheet music including the covers. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics with violin and cello lines inside the front and rear covers. Internal repairs down the spine and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 138pp. bound in he publisher's faded blue buckram with a couple of small bubbles and with gilt title to the upper cover with device and faded gilt to the spine. A former owner's name neatly to the front paste-down and Page 138 only browned with age.Otherwise a tightly bound and splendid copy of a great book of rare interest, but everything you might need to know with tables of weight and strain for both rope and round linked chain.Fascinating stuff. Numerous black and white photographs and illustrative drawings in the text (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Good. The vanishingly scarce second edition of this illustrated guide to artful knot tying. The vanishingly scarce second edition of this work. Illustrated with two hundred and seventy-four in-text figures. A methodical treatment of both basic and fancy knotting, including braided ropes, common whipping, splicing, hitching and more. Written by Chas. L. Spencer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd mark to the cloth. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this illustrated guide to artful knot tying. The vanishingly scarce first edition, first impression of this work.In the publisher's original cloth binding.A methodical treatment of both basic and fancy knotting, including braided ropes, common whipping, splicing, hitching and more.Compiled by Chas. L. Spencer.Illustrated with visual guides throughout, including a frontispiece. In the original cloth binding. Externally, with discolouration to the spine and marks to the boards. Bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with light offsetting and the odd spot to the endpapers. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…