William Captain Jesse (20 results)

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Condition: New. In English.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Very good, mildly discolored from age. There is a water stain on the pages edges, not affecting text or photos ; Battles & Leaders of the Civil War; 8 x 11; 24 pages; This is an article/advertisement only from a vintage journal and is not the full journal .…

Condition: New. KlappentextbTitle:/b Notes of a Half-pay in search of health or, Russia, Circassia, and the Crimea, in 1839, 40.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the Unite.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Notes of a Half-pay in search of health; or, Russia, Circassia, and the Crimea, in 1839, 40.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF ASIA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series includes ethnographic and general histories of distinct peripheral coastal regions that comprise South and East Asia. Other works focus on cultural history, archaeology, and linguistics. These books help readers understand the forces that shaped the ancient civilisations and influenced the modern countries of Asia. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Jesse, William Captain; br/b/b 1841.br/b/b 2 vol. ; 12º.br/b/b ORW.1986.a.6705br/.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Co., 1909. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SPECIAL SUBSCRIBER'S ISSUE. Original cloth. 448 pages. Illustrated. Good. Hinges cracked else tight binding; pages clean; covers somewhat soiled. Important biography of Captain William Jesse McDonald, who turned from business to working as a peace officer to in the 1880's, serving as a deputy sheriff, special ranger and U.S. deputy marshal before being chosen to serve as a Captain in the Texas Rangers. According to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame, McDonald took part in many of the most celebrated cases of the time, including Fitzsimmons-Maher prize fight, the Wichita Falls bank robbery, the Reese-Townsend feud, and the Brownsville Raid of 1906. He is considered one of the big four Captains of the period. Later he served as bodyguard to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Basic Texas Books 158: "This is the life of the most famous Texas Ranger of the time, the man who it was said would 'charge hell with a bucket of water.' It is also the origin of the most famous of all Texas Ranger stories, one that had been falsely attributed to almost every other Texas Ranger captain, living and dead; when McDonald arrived on a train to quell a riot, he was asked why he had come alone; he replied, well, there was only one mob, wasn't there?" .…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Revised & annotated edition from the author's own interleaved copy. One of 500 copies (300 printed for England, 200 for America). This copy contains only 17 of its 40 color plates; 23 are missing. Condition: in addition to the missing plates, the spine ends of volume I are torn & frayed and the inner hinges are weak & starting. The cloth of the spine of volume II is split & the ends are torn & frayed; front inner hinge is split. The bindings of both are shaken. Although the pages and remaining color plates are clean and unmarked, the overall condition in poor.…

Hardcover. Large 8vo. pp xxiii, 309; xi, 300, [20] colour plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spines. New edition with an introduction and twenty coloured plates. Two thousand copies of this edition printed at The Riverside Press. No date, circa 1920. Slight rubbing at extremities, dulling to lettering at spine and slight browning to endpapers, otherwise sound, close very good with clean text and plates.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A complete two volume set of the new edition of this illustrated biography on the English Regency socialite Beau Brummell, with coloured plates. The new edition. Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original blue cloth bindings. Illustrated with twenty coloured plates. Collated, complete. A biographical work on Beau Brummell, an Englishsocialitewho influenced British men's fashion during theRegency era. Brummell was remembered afterwards as the preeminent example of the dandy, and a whole literature was founded upon his manner and witty sayings, which have persisted until today. His name is still associated with style and good looks and has been given to a variety of modern products to suggest their high quality. Written by Captain William Jesse. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, light fading to spines, with slight bumping to the heads and tails, and the odd very faint mark to boards. Previous owner's bookplate to front free endpaper of both volumes. Light offsetting to free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, wit very light spotting to the front and rear. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Quarter leather. 1st edition. 1st Edition, 8vo, original embossed cloth boards, gilt dec, colour frontis (Costume of Persians) with tissue guard, all edges gilt, pp.491, school prize plate (1864) fep, re-backed in red morocco with gilt title and decoration to spine, lacking both maps, otherwise in very good condition and a very fine binding A beautifully rebacked copy of the first edition in English. A translation of Joseph Philippe Ferrier's original manuscript, a French soldier and later Adjutant General with the army in Persia (present day Iran) from 1839 to 1842 and again in 1846 to 1850.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. The charming Grolier Society edition of Captain Jesse's renowned biography on the celebrity dandy, part of the Beaux and Belles of England series. An attractive Volumes I and II of Beau Brummell, the complete version of Captain Jesse's popular biography, within the Beaux and Belles of England series from the Grolier Society. Undated, but believed to have been published in circa. 1910, with the first edition being published in 1844. The de luxe edition, with this copy being no.361 of one thousand. In three-quarter contemporary red crushed morocco with blue marble boards. Contains blue marble end papers, with contemporary blanks preserved. Each volume contains a colour frontispiece, and all five other monochrome plates. Collated complete. The Grolier Society, founded by editor Walter M. Jackson, was designed as a fine publishers of educational works, with this Beaux and Belles series focusing on celebrity men and women from history. Beau Brummell was considered among the most significant celebrities of his day, being both a Regency fashion icon and a prolific socialites friends with George IV when Prince Regent. Captain Jesse's biography popularised Brummelmania in Britain, of which when this Grolier edition was published would have been in its twilight years. In three-quarter contemporary red crushed morocco with blue marble boards. Blue marble end papers, with contemporary blanks preserved. Externally, smart, with a couple of faint marks to crushed morocco front joint, and minor fading to spines. A small lift to morocco to center of I spine. Blue marble end papers are bright and clean. Previous owner's bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. The odd leaf unopened. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Various (illustrator). book.…

Two volumes, 8vo. 20 colour plates, some light foxing. Cloth, d.w.'s browned with loss to the spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3/4 red leather gilt over pink/red loose weave cloth. Spines with four raised bands with leaves and flowers designs in 3 panels, 1886 bound by Root and Son. Lightly worn. Marbled end papers, top edges gilt. Xmas 1899 ink gift inscription on end paper vol. 1. 40 color lithos with guards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Very good condition considering its age. Brown leather hardcover, with blank covers except for a gold decorative boarders. Decorative spine with title and author on it. On the tips of 2 of the corners the leather is worn off, and the small peice of leather that covered the top edge of the spine is missing as well. Decorative marble boards and end sheet inside the covers, and decorative marbled page edges. Previous owner's gift inscription on a blank ensheet. Folded map in the back of the book. No marks or notaions aother than on the endsheet found. ; 5 3/4" x 8 3/4".…

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