Taffrail Pseud (5 results)

8vo., Second Impression; blue-green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at extremities. Published a month after the first edition. Dorling's account is analagous to 'The Cruel Sea' in that it is fiction closely based on personal experience. One of the few works of fiction admitted by Law to the standard bibliography. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Law, 1877.

8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates in monochrome and numerous diagrams in the text; attractively bound in navy half calf, blue cloth boards, upper board with HMS ST. VINCENT crest blocked in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt top,marbled endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With HMS ST. VINCENT prize bookplate on front paste-down. A SCARCE AND VALUABLE ACCOUNT IN A RARELY SEEN SERVICE BINDING. Published eight months after the first edition. Enser, p.105.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket artwork by Hastain. (illustrator). First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. A naval adventure based on Royal Navy encounters with pirates in the Canton Delta. The narrative focuses on authentic sea combat and maritime tactics. A little very foxing; jacket chipped with loss to spine ends and fore corners, otherwise very good. Book.

Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. -- Condition: Fine with the exception of light rubbing to corners, in near fine dust jacket, some wrinkling and light wear corners, rubbing to head of spine, evidence of toning from former tape repair to verso at spine ends and top edge of rear flap fold. -- Details: A fine copy in the rare dust jacket. A maritime murder mystery by British naval office Captain Henry Taprell 'Taffrail' Dorling. Captain Henry Taprell Dorling (1883-1968) was a British sailor, author, and journalist who served in the Royal Navy during both world wars, giving his marine fact and fiction a notable authenticity. His Pincher Martin, O.D. (1916) is widely referenced as the source for Pincher Martin (1956) by Nobel prizewinner William Golding. He wrote under the name 'Taffrail'. -- Provenance: M K (?)Smuts, of Capetown with his signature dated 'april 1936'. -- Octavo (book size 19.7x13.9cm), pp. v [1] 7-320. In publisher's blue-grey cloth, spine and front panel lettered in white, maps for front endpapers. Dust jacket priced '7/6 NET' to spine. --.

8vo. pp. 286. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little darkening to (white) rear panel. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE DAY OF PUBLICATION: 'For Commander P.J. Oliver Royal Navy with much gratitude for his help, from the author Taprell Dorling. 'Taffrail'. August 27th 1953. the date of publication.' A naval war adventure and a late novel in the Taffrail canon, with a rather tenuous listing in Hubin. Fulsomely inscribed by the author, and in excellent condition. HUBIN, p. 397.