captain a g course (30 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: VG / VG -. Hardcover in edgeworn dust jacket.

Condizione: Good. 1965. First Edition Thus. 255 pages. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over brown cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. London: Frederick Muller Limited, (1963). First Edition. 8vo. 320pp, Index. 27 illustrations mostly photographs. Blue cloth, fine condition; dj good (price clipped, short tear, edges slightly frayed, discoloration). Exhaustive work by mariner serving aboard merchant ships for nearly half a century. ; Illustrated; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked. The cover has light wear with dinged corners and shelf wear at top and bottom of spine. The dust jacket has small rips and tears, as well as some creases. In mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. drawings by Commander C.H. Williams (illustratore). First Edition First Printing. Landscape size, 5.6 inches long. Navy blue cloth boards. Inner hinge split at the title page. Small pen marks on some pages. The remains of a jacket in very poor condition with scuffing creases and tears with substantial paper loss.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Commander C H Williams (illustratore). 1st Edition. H/B 80 pages, condition is very good.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 14x23cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 215 pages. The author says the pirates and privateers who operated in the North Atlantic, Caribbean and New England seas, were the most cruel and uncouth of all sea marauders.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and a little worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, some light foxing / discolouration to a few pages, mainly first and last few but also a few pages in between, previous owners book plaque on front past down and inscription on front end paper.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. Condition Notes: Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners of the binding. The contents complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5¾" (0.8 kg); pp 254; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Black & white plates; Appendices (2); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #203580 ||.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. The jacket is rubbed, worn, torn and chipped. The boards are lightly edge worn. Internally there are inscriptions from a previous owner on the front end page, there are minor marks. The remaining pages are neat. Well bound. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover in dust jacket. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Some shelfwear to dustjacket. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in similar dustjacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Very neat. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

1st Ed. (8), 263 PP with 3 maps, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w illustrations. Hard cover. Light foxing mostly on page edges and top outside edge, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. Piracy from the Gulf of Aden to Japan including the more infamous names of Kidd, Avery, Eli Bloggs, the formidable Mrs. Ching, etc. The efforts of those who strove to combat them.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed. xv,176pp. Illus. Story of the ships of Sir William Garthwaite's Marine Navigation Company. Ex lib. copy with the dw laminated to the boards giving the appearance of a dustwrapped copy. Label on the front paste & the remains of one on the ffep. Withdrawn stamp on the ffep & the title page o/w a clean copy. 229 98578 5.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 14x23cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has some minor edgewear and a sunned spine and is now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 263 pages. This covers all of the famour and infamous names - including Kidd, Avery, Eli Bloggs, Mrs Ching and Rajah James Brooke.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Green boards, Very Good in a foxed but whole dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Photographs (illustratore). Pictorial hardcovers . Small bump/rub to spine ends and corners. Not price clipped A few areas of red pen underlining to some pages, otherwise text VG. B/W photographs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. In excellent condition - no marks or inscriptions. DJ protected by mylar jacket.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Good. Life Histories of the great and graceful square rigged vessels, including "Rodney" which raced the Cutty Sark. Illustrated with B&W photos. 230 pages, 450g, 9" Tall. Previous owner's bookplate on endpaper and pencild date on ffep. No other inscriptions. Some edge wear to jacket. Unclipped, price 30s.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Corner unclipped, wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges and corners creased and worn, some small rips and nicks, shiny surface delaminating on edges, top and bottom of spine chipped and worn, some light wear to covers and spine, corners a little worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, previous owners name on front end paper.

Octavo. Boards. Tape stain from publisher on title-page and verso. Very good in very good, price-clipped d.j. First edition.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Oxford University Press. 1956. First Edition. Book Condition: Almost Very Good. Former Library book with usual stamps and markings. The last days of the old days as seen by a square rig man. 197pp. 47 illus., 23 black and white photographic plates. Covers a little grubby, text well-read but clean, sound binding, free from annotations or marking. Reading copy. .

8vo.pp.xiv + 866. Illustrated. Very good hardcover in slightly rubbed and dust stained dust jacket , now protected. This book puts on record the last phase of a glorious era in the British Merchant navy before the steamships finally won the battle for trade.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo, pp, xvi, 176, plates, ship plans and maps, gilt titled navy buckram, unclipped pictorial dust jacket scuffed at edges with some small tears, light pencillings to text.

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 23 plates on 12 and tables in the text; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, small dent in lower board else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes full particulars of vessels, register of captains, and list of vessels and captains.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good.

David and Carles 1968 UK, hardcover with dustjacket 266 pages, with photos. A.G. Course chronicles the final chapter of the British Merchant Navy's glorious era, focusing on the John Stewart Line of sailing ships from 1877 to 1928. ÂThis book documents the twilight years of sail-powered vessels as they faced increasing competition from steamships, ultimately losing the battle for trade ÂIn good condition.

1966 DenHaag, hardcover without dust jacket 263 pages, illurlstrated. History of piracy between the the Gulf of Aden till Japan. Without dust jacket as on image. In good condition.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Jacket. 230 pp. Index. B/w photographs.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Nicolson, W.C. (cover) (illustratore). First Edition. xxiv, 65-126 pages. Features: Return from the Dead - three fishermen face hell adrift for months in the Atlantic - with map and photo; Awakening to Nightmare (on Elephant Island); The Train Jumpers - Francis Dickie recalls a nightmare journey jumping a train from Portland to San Francisco - with photos of the author; The White Rhino Hated Cars - article with photos; 50 Tons of Gold - the ongoing search for "Valverde's" Inca gold - article with photos and map; Terrorists On My Tail - A reporter under attack in Morocco - article with photos; Ringing Gannets off the coast of Scotland; Men of Site "X" - the ice and blizzard-ridden existence of men on the DEW line across northern Canada and Alaska; The Terrible Carpet of Bones - the terrible slaughter of the buffalo herds; The Curse of Pulo Jehat - the evil of a witch doctor survives his death; The End of the Hoodoo 'Bambo'; Pirates Aboard! - China Sea pirates board the s.s. Hong Bee - article with map and photo of the ship; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.