Fleet Being Notes Two Trips by Kipling, Used (58 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Light blue cloth with black ship, 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 inches, 84 pages. Spine faded, some spots to covers, neat ink inscription on half title dated 1898. Good.

Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. First Edition. Original teal boards, very good plus with decorated cover containing minor rubbings to cover and spine.

Condition: Good. 1899. Copyright Edition. 206 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound in cream vellum with marble paper covered boards. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription blacked out to front endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light sunning to spine. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. London: Macmillan. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1899. Hardcover. May of 1899 . 12mo., 84 pp. .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1898. First edition, first impression. Waxed pictorial boards. No dustjacket. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Spine and adjacent areas of upper and of lower board lightly tanned. Boards partially tanned and partially soiled. Top and bottom corners of fore edge of upper board lightly bumped. Front hinge cracked. Pastedowns and endpapers lightly tanned. Overall, the book is in a fair condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 84, blue pictorial covers, some dust staining but a well-preserved copy without inscriptions etc.

Condition: Used - Good. Good paperback. 84pp in blue paper covers. Some corners a little bent. Covers worn with small losses at corners and small stains on rear; spine tatty with losses. Binding secure.

Sprache: Englisch 84 Seiten. Illustrierter OriginalGanzleinen. Etwas altersfleckig. Privater Stempel. Altersentsprechend guter Zustand!

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Octavo, blue cloth covers, 84 pages. With a vignette of a warship by N. Wilkinson on the top cover. Livingston 178 :" The six articles appeared originally in The Morning Post, November 5,7,8,9 10, 11, 1898." The first issue was in wrappers, later issues in cloth, as is this copy. Browning at cover edges and spine; one corner bumped. Royal Navy 092508B.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. WH Smith Circulating Library bookplate. 1914 reprint. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG, Chips, Tears, Wear, Brown/NO DUST JACKET. 1st Edition. Maritime. Cover illustration by N Wilkinson. 1st issue in wrappers. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 84pp, previous owners name tidily to f.endpaper. Fade to covers, slight split at hinge but holding, stitching a little loose, internally clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Reprint of 1898 original. (4), 84 PP. Decorated cloth cover (water damage stain on top half & on top of pages not affecting text) light foxing of edges, renewed endpapers, o/wise good. 19.5 x 13.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good condition, shading on end papers, spine faded, some wear and marks on boards, corners slightly rubbed.

First edition, tenth printing. Very good hardback edition (the book was first issued as a paperback in 1898) . Some limited foxing. No dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The picture on our listing is a photograph of the actual book NOT a stock image.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Vol. 3351 in the Tauchnitz collection of British authors. The spine & corners are bound in vellum, with blue cloth. Gilt lettering to the spine. The initials W.C.G. are inscribed in gold on the front cover (presumably the first owner). 16cm x 12cm. 206pp. The binding on the spine has loosened, and has been repaired with tape. There are distinct signs of wear, but the corners and edges are still quite sharp. The front endpaper has an ink inscription dated 1899. Internally, the book is clean, though the pages are a little tanned. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First edition, first printing. Very good paperback original with some foxing Front cover detached.

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 84pp, covers sl worn, spine darkened, sl staining, inscr on front cover and ffep.

Halbleinen. Condition: Gut. Klein-Oktav. 206 Seiten. Vol. 3351. Halbleinen. Name auf Einbandinnenseite, Papier gering nachgedunkelt.

Reprint. 8vo. 84pp. Ownership inscription to slightly browned front f.e.p. Pictorial light blue cloth lettered in black. US$18.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Hardcover, original paperback edition rebound in quarter cloth with marbled paper over boards, leather title label to spine, original blue paper covers bound with rest of book in order, previous owner's bookplate, small bookseller's sticker of Buyveau & Chevillet of Paris on inside cover of original paper cover, some light shelfwear and rubbing to edges of boards but otherwise in Very Good condition. Third Printing of First edition, pp 84. "Some thirty of her Majesty?s men-of-war were involved in this matter; say a dozen battleships of the most recent, and seventeen or eighteen cruis-ers; but my concern was limited to one of a new type commanded by an old friend. I had some dim knowledge of the interior of a warship, but none of the new world into which I stepped from a Portsmouth wherry one wonderful summer evening in ?97.".

2 feuillets. 84 pages. (20x13cm). Cartonnage bleu illustré. Dos très insolé. Taches et traces d'usage. Papier bruni. Bon état par ailleurs. Court recueil d'articles sur la flotte de la Manche par Kipling, avec laquelle l'auteur prenait position dans le débat sur la réponse anglaise à la croissante puissance navale de l'Allemagne - l'expression anglaise désignant l'état d'arrêt d'une flotte "en puissance", qui ne sort pas de son port. Belle illustration en couverture d'un cuirassé, d'après un dessin de N. Wilkinson daté également 1898.

[First edition, cloth issue]. Lightly soiled sky-blue pictorial cloth, sunned on spine and bumped at ends and corners. A near fine copy.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Cover by N. Wilkinson (illustrator). Reprint. Hardback 1899 reprint. Bookplate of Edward Hunter with his signature, dated 1899 in pencil. Clean & tight. A LITTLE FOXING. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 555:18.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Please note - All Kipling's prose and fiction listed on this site were published before his death in 1936. *** BOOK in good clean tight condition. Blue boards with a picture of a couple of battleships on the front (N Wilkinson). Boards and endpapers a bit grubby. 84 pages including notes. *** CONTENTS: In naval warfare, a "fleet in being" is a naval force that extends a controlling influence without ever leaving port. This is Kipling the reporter at work, as he was able to accompany a warship on exercises in the Channel. Size: 195x130mm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. Small 8vo., 84 pp. Light blue cloth with title and naval design in black on the front board. Light to moderate soiling of the boards. Very Good.

Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.