Diaper tom (15 risultati)

Condizione: Fair. 1950. First Edition. 163 pages. No dust jacket. Marbled paper covered boards with a blue spine strip and gilt. Book has a slight smoky odour. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to reverse of title page. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Card panels have mild rubbing with minor pencil mark to front cover. Heavy sunning to spine.…

Tapa dura. Condizione: Bien. Texto en inglés. Tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Perfecto estado de conservación. Tom Diaper's Logbook is the memoir of a remarkable man and a rare opportunity to read first-hand about the drama, conflict and fascinating details that made up the life of a for-hire racing skipper during the glory days of racing. Tom Diaper wrote his memoirs on scraps of paper and old cigarette papers and these were pulled together to give a narrative of his life from a toddler on his father's yacht until his retirement as a skipper. The book tells of dramatic races with the German Kaiser, working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, both World Wars and other exciting adventures over Tom's lifetime.\n\n. Libro.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. xi, 163 pages, 8 b/w plates. Ex-library.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, Hardback, no d/j. Boards have a slightly faded and bumped spine, light bumping to corners. Ex Libris sticker inside front cover, small neat inscription. Good. Memoirs of a racing skipper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Issue of this Edition, A firm straight unmarked book, 178 pages, includes Index. Appears unread, about as new.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 163pp, illustrated, handwritten inscriptions on flyleaf and title verso, text clean and binding sound, marbeled boards and quarter-cloth, spine browned, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Robert Ross, London, 1950. Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. xi, 163 pages, 8 b/w plates. The book is clean, tight & square with faded to both ends of the spine. The DJ is heavily reinforced with tape, having wear to edges and losses to the spine & back panel, also with some chipping & creasing to the edges.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. Pale blue boards with dark blue titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Internally clean and complete with no inscriptions. The very good dustwrapper has edgewear to extremities with very light nicking. Original price of 12s6dnet on front flap. An attractive copy of the first edition with uncommon dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. 163pp. 1950. First edition. 8vo. sized. A good plus essentially clean, tight copy. No inscriptions. Original publisher's quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 8 illustrations to include a frontispiece. Fading to the cloth spine - less so to the cloth on the boards. A 4cm x 3.5cm sellotape (scotch tape) repair to the lower corner of the front board - and also to the inside corner by the paste-down - the tape now having browned. A good plus, essentially clean, tight copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. first edition 1950. 161 pages with black-and-white photos of old-fashioned yachts under full sail plus index and list of other Ross& Co yachting books. Marbled boards and light green faded cloth spine. Corners bumped. Previous owner's name and address neatly inscribed on ffep.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. Hardcover; 163 pages. 8vo. Quarterbound blue cloth and marbled paper. Fading of spine where dust jacket is ripped. Bumped corners. Yellowing endpapers. Front hinge a little loose. The pages are yellowing but clear and clean. With a number of b+w plates printed on bright glossy paper. Blue paper jacket with white titles. Quite bumped/chipped around edges, with some rips in spine. NPC. Mild shelfwear/scuffing. VG/G+. Book.…

FIRST EDITION. 8vo., quarter clothbund hardback with marbled boards, 174pp., with 8 b/w plates. Light foxing to prelims, ink inscription to early and verso of title page, some discolouration to cloth of spine and small rubbed patch on marbled upper cover. Overall a Good Copy. (Shelf 200) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. One of the great racing skippers of his day, this is the unadorned publication of his own diary, or log, originally written without thought of later publication. This copy has a lean on the spine but the jacket and contents are bright and clean. A little rubbing to the edge of the jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sports & Pastimes; sSwimming & Water; Inventory No: 56263.…

1st ed. Free end papers a little yellowed; internally near VG in tight binding, but cloth spine badly faded; dust jacket tatty, with creasing, fading & some loss; dj protected in removable clear film Used - Acceptable. Good hardback in Poor price-clipped dust jacket Used - Acceptable. Good hardback in Poor price-clipped dust jacket.…

1st edition. Large 8vo. xi + (1) + 163 + (1)pp. 8 photo plates including frontis. Publisher's blue cloth 1/2 covers, blue marble paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. White pictorial dw, tinted blue photo yacht on front, bw lettering, not price clipped 12s 6d net. Original white eps. Neat small signature on fep. Covers : fading to spine, shelf rubs top/bottom of spine & corners, few tiny ink spots rear at top edge else very clean & complete. Dw : spine missing, 3cm chip bottom edge . wear. Contents : very clean & tight & unfoxed. Clean tight copy with faded spine in tatty dw. VG-/G.…