Lord hampton (19 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Impression. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book. 255 pages. Pages are clean and tight. Name on f.e.p.Hinges have cracked.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. 2nd Edition. c1925 but undated Revised Edition The Scouts Association Hard Back Book. Good+ Condition Book. Some colouration to the boards, general shelf wear, and ghosting from the Dust Jacket (see image). Binding is solid, pages are clean and bright. Poor unclipped dust jacket, chips and pieces some tape repair now covered with a non-adhesive plastic covering. Scout Sketches by Lord Hampton is a small, early Scouting book of humorous, reflective, and inspirational pieces about the Scout movement, written by Herbert Stuart Pakington, 4th Baron Hampton. He served as Chief Commissioner of The Scout Association, and in 1925 he published a collection titled Scouting Sketches: Being an Apology, a Prologue, and Ten Effusions in Praise of the Game.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 255pp, hardcover, 8vo, bound in green cloth, black lettered, some minor foxing throughout o/w good condition, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, London, 1925.

Hardback. Condizione: Mint. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Revised & Reset Edition. The King's England is a topographical and historical book series written and edited by Arthur Mee in 42 volumes. It was said that the series was a modern Domesday Book and that the compilers had travelled half-a-million miles in order to complete their task. The first, introductory, volume was published in 1936. In 1989, The King's England Press was established to reprint the series. Each of the books is an alphabetical gazetteer of a county and each volume has a map with its own grid reference to make easy location of the towns villages This volume was completely revised and reset in 1968 and is complete with new illustrationsand uniformly bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is in mint, unmarked condition, bright, white, tight and square. The price clipped dust wrapper is in fine condition and features a brass rubbing of a knight in armour (Sir William Fitzralph c. 1323) and comes from the church of St John the Baptist, Pebmarsh in Essex. This is just of many volumes I am selling from this series on this site. Ref WW2.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Edge tears on jacket and marked.Previous ownership stamps.Excellent binding.Undated.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Scout Book Club Edition. Hardback. Scouting Sketches. Not For Sale to the Public printed to title pages. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Green cloth with gilt lettering. With a Foreword by the Chief Scout. Contents: Foreword. Author's Foreword. A Dream - And An Awakening. 'Budge'. The Early Days. The Village of Evergreen. A Broadcast Talk to Scouts. The Discovery of Cubmaster Webb. Our Local Association. The War Memorial. One Summer's Day. 224 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Condizione: Good. Scouting Sketches - being an apology, a prologue, and ten effusions in praise of the game.by Lord Hampton, 1928, 2nd edition hardback bookPublished by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., LondonPages: 255ppCondition: Some browning, wear and marks to boards; no jacket. Inscription to first page. Light foxing to pages. A nice copy for age. …

An undated re-issue of a book originally published in 1925. Brown cloth with slightly dull gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket shows camp fire scene; not price clipped; worn and chipped at edges. Used - Good. Good hardback in good dust jacket.

Hardback. Condizione: VG-. No DW. Dark green cloth, gilt. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

2nd imp. hardback in original cloth Nice copy small octavo 255pp., Spotting to edge of text-block o/w a nice copy in bright green cloth boards.

268pp, gebonden, goede staat.

Hardback. Condizione: nrVG. G++ DW. Revised Edition. Not dated but perhaps about 1950. Brown publisher's cloth, lettered in gold. Minor spine wear else Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. DW (5s) has minor edge wear and loss interanlly repaired with magic tape. Front cover imnage is clean and bright.…

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Scout Book Club edition. Excellent condition. Size: 12mo.

Being an Apology, a Prologue and Ten Effusions in Praise of the Game. Hardback reprint in fine condition. No dustjacket. (Book Ref 3338).

Original Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. previous owner's name in ink on fep; "Texas Engineers Library" ink-stamped on all outside edges of the textblock; interior of textblock is aged but very clean and tight and I found no additional library stamps, notations or marks; nicely gilt embossed front board and spine; binding is heavily worn and frayed at the spine extremities with moderately edge-worn and corner-bumped boards; this issue includes discussion and papers on the causes and unseaworthiness in Merchant Steamers; On the True Nature of the Resistance of Armour to shot; on a method of analyzing the forms of ships, and determining the mean angle of entrance; on the steam trials of H.M.S. Iris, and the resistance of screw propellers; on the stability of yachts; on a wave-line form of midship-section; on cellular construction of merchant ships; on steel in the shipbuilding yard; on steel for shipbuilding; on the relation between the true period of waves and the period as observed on board a vessel; on some recent experiments in Artificial Combustion; and on J. Amsler-Laffon's Mechanical Integrator. Eleven Folded Plates; Lithographic Frontispiece of Lord Hampton (illustratore). Ex-Library, Hard Cover.…

Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. Green cloth, with slight mottling to edges. Green printed dj, a little creased to top of spine.

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. No Jacket. 8 books in green cloth and painted top edge. A very tidy selection. Two have foxed closed edges, one is a little shaken, some have small scout group stamp to ffep, otherwise clean and tight. Size: 12mo.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium on mourning paper. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He writes to thank Gardiner for sending him 'a copy of your printed but unpublished Report to His Majesty's Government on the danger of governing Gibraltar as a Colony'. Gardiner's report 'forms an appropriate termination' to his 'administration of the affairs of the "Rock," & I shall read it with the interest and attention due to your long Experience in that Fortress'. He ends by sending his compliments to Lady Gardiner. According to the Oxford DNB: 'In 1854 the committee of merchants at Gibraltar protested to Lord Aberdeen's government against Gardiner's interference with the Gibraltar trade, which he described as contraband and sought to render more reputable. The correspondence, together with a long report by Gardiner entitled 'Gibraltar as a fortress and a colony', was printed as a parliamentary paper (Parl. papers, 1854, 43). A polemical pamphlet, replying to the report, was distributed gratis by the committee of merchants in 1856.'.…