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Condizione: Fair. 1927. Reprinted. 205 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Contains black and white illustrations with colour frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Condizione: Good. Boards have some minor surface marks and well faded to spine - slight lean. Content is clean throughout. Solid binding. No DJ.

Condizione: Fair. 1926. First Edition. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Fade and roll to spine. Browned feps. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. pp.xiii 271. Yellow cloth with darkening to bottom of spine where piece of dustjacket is missing, slight darkening to upper part of rear board and ghost image on front board of picture from front of dustjacket. New endpapers and a little very light spotting to endpages. Apart from this the pages are clean and unmarked. Good in Fair to poor protected dustjacket with some staining and loss to spine and rear .

First Edition. Poor library copy bound in the original cloth. Wear and tear as with age, with the front board and spine band starting. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Library marks remain. Physical description; 277 pages. Subjects; 20th century fiction. British Military fiction. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Cover damp stained.

First Edition. Poor library copy bound in the original cloth. Wear and tear as with age, with the front board and spine band starting. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Library marks remain. Physical description; 277 pages. Subjects; 20th century fiction. British Military fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 2nd Edition. Second edition. Hardback 276 pp. Near Very Good condition (some pages foved slightly) in Good to Fair dust jacket (some material missing at top and bottom of jacket spine and rubbed).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Patterned front board and spine very bright and hardly damaged, dust jacket tattered and torn, tattered and torn.( perhaps Poor plus inasmuch its still in one piece ?!! ). 216 pages ending with a four stanza poem.

Sole edition, 1926. Demy 8vo (c. 8.75 x 5.5 inches), pp. 251 + 2 (publisher's ads) + b&w portrait frontis, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, hardback in dustwrapper. Book - G, contents clean, minor foxing and offsetting on prelims but no foxing in text, minor ink inscription (dated "Xmas 1926") on front flyleaf , binding firm with inner hinges intact ; original red cloth with gilt title to spine and blind title on front board, slight wear of extremities, back and front boards clean but affected by damp such that the colouring is patchy and mottled, however the spine is unaffected , spine is complete and clean with no fading and bright gilt . Dustwrapper - G., previously in a rather worn state but now expertly lined with strong 'Japanese' paper , shows some wear at corners, back is dusty with bottom edge showing creasing, nicks and mnor loss, top edge shows minor loss around top hinge area, spine is a bit darkened showing minor losses at top and bottom but titling, which is clear, is unaffected (just) , front again presents a dusty appearance with some print/writing offsetting affecting mainly author's name, also some creasing and minor losses along top and bottom edges, not price-clipped (12s 6d), now in clear, removable wrapper. ". the author was an eye-witness of . the wreck of the gunboat 'Wasp' on Tory Island in the early [18] 'eighties,and the capsizing of the flagship 'Victoria' in the Mediterranean ; . a member of the Intelligence Department in the Admiralty and served as a military intelligence officer during the [First World] War ; . in pre-War days he was a Chief Organizer of Lord Roberts National Service League. . He writes with a light touch and humour of the episodes of his varied career . [and provides] vivid pictures of life in the Victorian Navy." - from the inner flap. Some of the subjects mentioned in title chapters - The "Gobby " Squadron , In the China Seas, Rudyard Kipling, Palestine, Malta Fever, Crete, The Cretan Uprising of 1898, Kennedy, The Bersaglieri, India, Princess von Wrede, etc . A sound copy of a scarce book (no other copies apparent on the internet at the time of listing).

Condizione: Good. Hardcover. No dustjacket. Fading/marks/scuffs to cover. Heavy foxing to textblock edges/endpapers/some pages. Pages tanned. Text good.

First edition, thus, in novel form. DW. 277pp. Spine very faded in two places, a 8cm x 2cm rectangle in centre and top 3cm at head of spine. Corners also faded. Pages sl. foxed and browned. A sound copy. VG- in wrapper that is very worn, lacks portions at head of spine and corners and is internally re-enforced with white paper. The upper panel is still bright and attractive.