Captain kenneth langmaid (34 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

hardcover. Condizione: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.…

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Daring acts of individual command at times of crisis. The author looks at Nelson at Copenhagen, the Altmark/Cossack incident, Walker the ASW/U-boat killer and the exploits of HMS Storm. (Published: 1972) (Publisher: Jarrolds) (ISBN: 0091102006) (Pagination: xx + 162pp, 15 illustrations) (Condition: dw wn, ow vg) UL-XXXXXX. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Dust jacket. Plates. A history man's efforts (Grace Darling?!) to save life at sea, from earliest times (the Colossus of Rhodes) to Trinity House. WW II covered. Navigational aids and lifeboat services. Stories of shipwrecks, disasters, wreckers and lighthouse keepers. 242 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £10.35 due to book's size. …

Condizione: Good. 1966. First Edition. 242 pages. Yellow & pictorial dust jacket with black lettering over yellow cloth. B&W photographs. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Minor sunning to spine, with soiling to DJ.…

Condizione: Good. Boards have little wear. Content is clean with spotting and marks. Good DJ with some tears and marks.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xxii,166pp, illustrated, owner's name on endpaper, text clean and sound, Very Good / Good dustwrapper; wrapper edges rubbed and slightly fraying.

First Edition. Condizione: vg/vg. vg book in vg dw 1st Jarrolds 1972 hardcover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

First Edition. Condizione: vg+/vg. vg+ book in vg dw 1st Jarrolds 1972 hardcover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a dust wrapper that has a creased tear at head of lower joint and rear panel, inscribed in front free endpaper to previous owners and signed below by the author, b&w plates, 166pp. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. The Author, a naval historian deals, in each of the nine chapters, an historically important situation in which the man on the spot chose to act daringly and independently. Starting with Nelson's victory at Copenhagen describing similar acts over the 150 years u to and including World War II. 165 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History; Military. ISBN: 0091102006. ISBN/EAN: 9780091102005. Inventory No: 257939.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Ediiton. Good + Copy in buff cloth on boards. Small price mark on FFE otherwise clean text and b/w plates.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition, First Impression. 1963 first edition, first impression. Size octavo, 8.5", 240 pages. Black cloth covered boards with white and orange titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition good, slight rub to cover corners and edges, slightly shaken, pages a little toned else otherwise clean. Dust jacket condition good, slightly dulles, minors nicks to corners and spine ends, spine sunned, not price clipped. Illustrated with black and white photographs on glossy paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 256pp, illustrated, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, black cloth, some light soiling on boards, Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Examples of "The Blind Eye" policy, from Nelson at Copenhagen until WW2.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

1st edition. 8vo. xi + 242pp. B/w. illustrations. Original cloth. Rubbed and chipped pictorial yellow d/w. with black lettering. US$10.

Hardcover. Condizione: 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. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers. Tan to page edges. A good reading copy.…

8vo., First Edition, with plates and full-page illustrations in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

8vo., First Edition, with plates and a map in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. From the Napoleonic Wars to WWII.

Hb In Dw 256pp Illustratons. The Development Of The Sea Mine And Its Use In Both World Wars A Vg/Vg Copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

1st Ed. XII, 242 PP, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 21.6 x 14. From the days of rowing-boats and crude beacons using wood & coal, to the modern wonders of radar and wireless. Contains chapters on Trinity House and lighthouses.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. FLAT SIGNED by the Author "Kenneth Langmaid" on ffep. No other inscrip[tions. Records the sequence of foreign invasions from the earliest days to show how the establishment and growth of British Naval strength gradually controlled then eliminated sea attack. 8 3/4" tall, 440g. Slight edge wear to jacket. Unclipped. Signed by Author(s).…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. Unclipped dustwrapper has quite a lot of creasing and small tears to the edges, some shelf-wear to bottom edge of black boards, some foxing to outer edge of pages, and the book does smell of being shut away in a cupboard for a long time. But otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book dealing with the use of mines at sea in the two World Wars, and with a look at earlier attempts. 256pp, 16 b&w illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. 1st Edition. Account of the German Battleships, including Admiral Graf Spee, Scharnhorst, Deutschland and the Bismarck and how their menace was gradually overcome by the determination of the Royal Navy. Illustrated with B&W photos. 240 p.pages, 8 1/2" tall. Ffep removed. No inscriptions. Some spots of browning on page edges. Jacket has some edge wear, also nicks at spine ends. Unclipped.…

First Edition. Pp. xxii+166, 8 plates, text illustration, bibliography, index; boards lightly marked, spine a trifle canted; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges slightly worn and split; bookseller's sticker on the upper free endpaper, top edges of leaves foxed; Jarrolds, London, 1972. First edition.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Slightly Frayed, Unclipped. First Edition. 256 pp., 8vo hardback, clean first edition marred only by very slight incipient foxing on extremities of pages; early history from fireships onwards but main parts of book WWI and especially WWII, 16 photos Size: 8vo. Photos 16 (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Jarrolds, 1963. 1st. . Book Publisher's Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo. FIRST EDITION. 240 pages. 16 photograhic illustrations. In original black cloth boards (clean and tight), lettered to spine. Dust-jacket NOT price-clipped. Crisp and clean throughout. …

First edition. DW. xi, 242pp. 8pp. of b/w photographs. Outer edges v. sl. grubby. Wrapper sl. soiled, worn and chipped at extremities o/w Nr. Fine/VG+.