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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st printing. Nice overall with light cover wear and a rear bottom corner crease. Brown age-toned pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. 1st Edition. Very good with poor dust jacket. Dust jacket is well worn at spine tips, corners and edges with five edge tears of from one to four inches, a one inch chip at top front edge, and some surface rubbing. 108 pages with many photographs. 4to size.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very good condition. vi, 369 pp. Reprint Series. Number 27. Softcover. LCC: 9578432.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good dj. First Edition. [ex-library (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Script Department "File Copy"), marked as such only by a label and pocket on the front endpaper, and aside from that the book is only lightly worn and would grade Near Fine; the jacket shows some wear and some tiny nicks along the top and bottom edges, with one tiny chip at the top of the rear panel]. Memoir by "one of England's great adventurers -- a man who made a business out of danger! Spanning two wars and the exciting years between, [the book] recreates his exploits -- using logbooks, scrapbooks, letters, and the captain's own astounding memory. At twenty-one, Orsborne was the youngest captain in the British Merchant Marine and ready for the extraordinary life that was to involve him, at one time or another, in pearl hunting, a safari to destroy a man-eating tiger, an escape through a crocodile-infested river, espionage for British Intelligence, and almost anything that looked like danger." (The "Girl Pat," by the way, was a small fishing trawler that Orsborne took on an unauthorized voyage across the Atlantic in 1936 -- an escapade for which he was tried and imprisoned, on the charge that he had stolen the boat. He claimed to have been on a secret undercover mission for British Naval Intelligence.).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An excellent first edition hardcover copy, with dustjacket: book and dustjacket near fine. Grey cloth-covered boards, red and black spine lettering, 8 1/2 x5 3/4 inches, 359 pp. Book near fine (small stain, fore edge of book block; tiny stain, top edge of book block; pages clean, with no marks and binding tight and square). Dustjacket near fine (two short closed tears, 3/16 inch and 5/16 inch, top edge; mild rubbing). The short closed tears will be virtually unnoticeable when covered with an archival mylar jacket. James Thurber: You can count in the thumb of one hand the American who is at once a comedian, a humorist, a wit and a satirist, and his name is Fred Allen. (K011).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This scarce book was published to mark the official opening of Farmleigh by An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on 28th July 2001. Internally clean bright and tight. Profusely illustrated throughout. Externally it has taken a few knocks with scratches and dents all over. Spine ends have most wear. Possibly issued without a dust jacket. Please examine all seller photos. Dermot Flynn, Orla Gilbourne (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. ] Oblong paperback, appx 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, white titles/b&w photos on green background covers, 188 pages, About Fine (meaning very nearly perfect condition). Inscribed and SIGNED (x2) on first interior page (half-title page): To Keith, Best Wishes, David Anderson, Stew Thornley." Thornley, himself, has written other books on Minnesota baseball, has four articles in this book. I'm assuming that some contributions such as those by Ted Williams and Roger Angell are reprinted from earlier appearances elsewhere. Numerous great vintage b&w photos and great nostalgia. RWR5 Sports Baseball Regional Interest Minnesota History. Signed by Author. …