jepson captain (5 risultati)

Condizione: Good. General wear to boards with toning and a split on the spine. Content has toning and writing on the 2nd page. No DJ.

Laminated Soft Card Covers. Condizione: Very Good. Print on Demand Edition. Originally published in 1899 by William Heinemann, Digitally Reproduced by Forgotten Books, (iv), (iv), 276pp, 32pp original publisher adverts, laminated soft card covers. Size: 8vo. Travel, Asia.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. Paypal accepted. Original brick red cloth with pictorial design to front. Five long stories set in India. Emboss stamp to beginning of one story with a lady's neat name. Slightly marked on end papers and edgewear to top of spine otherwise a generally very good plus copy of a scarce book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Captain d Beames. (illustratore). First Edition. 276pp + 20pp catalogue. Fictional accounts of action in India. Boards are rubbed and eps missing, some pen/pencil marks to a few pages but not too detrimental.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Wood, Stanley L.; waters, D.B.; Nicolson, W.C.; Robinson, T.H.; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.; De Walton, John; Edwards, Lionel; Whitaker, W.G.; Elcock, Howard K. (illustratore). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.