lowis geoffrey (29 risultati)

Condizione: Poor. Capt. Jack Broome (illustratore). and Some Naval Fragments.

Condizione: Fair. 1948. First Edition. 59 pages. No dust jacket. Brown illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. 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 tanning. Lettering is clear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No dust jacket. 'A brief account of some of the Froth on those Characters who enlivened the Royal Navy a Generation or Two Ago'. Characters incl. Admirals Heneage, Prothero, Cherry, Fisher, Arbuthnot, Pakenham and others. Also Edward VII and George V. Very slight fading on spine. Illustrations. 282 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £10.35.

Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with light toning. Good DJ. Libris lable to endpaper.

hardback, 8vo, 292pp, illustrated, slight browning, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper edges bumped and slightly frayed. ISBN: 085409752X.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. original cloth hardcover, illustrated, 292 pages, page edges spotted otherwise very good in very good unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 272.

Condizione: Fair. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (great britain, history, admirals) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. 1st Edition. This book is in good condition and will be shipped by the working day after ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. There may be a previous owner's inscription. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied.á 292 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 292pp, some black and white plate illustrations. Navy blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Very lightly rubbed spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 292pp, illustrated, pages browning, text clean and binding sound, blue cloth, Good / no dustwrapper.

good. no dj. blue cloth with dark titling is badly sunned and stained to spine - unsightly, with titling almost unreadable. spine coverng is rolled to both ends of the spine but no loss.text itself is clean and tidy without marginalia.

1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral Sir Denis Boyd. 292 PP, plus 8 b/w illustrations (2 photos and 6 illustrations by Captain Jack Broome). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Slight ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.2. . Being a brief account of some of the froth on the characters who enlivened the Royal Navy a generation or two ago.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Ionicus (illustratore). 1st Edition. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. The dustwrapper has a few small chips and closed tears. It is now protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive plastic. Book has a light stain on the spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Capt Jack Broome (illustratore). Reprint. Reprint 1959 very good hardback, foxing and browning to page edges and endpapers, top and bottom of spine edge sunned, some neat annotations to some page margins, in a fair dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed with a little loss to corners, edges browned inside and outside cover, pieces missing top and bottom of spine, small closed tears. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Owner's Nameplate. Inscription at the top of rear cover. Not price clipped. 292 pages. Illustrations by Capt Jack Broome.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Winslade (illustratore). 1st Edition. Red/blue/black & white illustrations. All clean inside. Firm red cloth boards with some fading/ fingermarks to edges. The dustjacket has losses to spine area and lower fore corner and other general edge wear/light creasing and fingermarking.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 33 page booklet, undated.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Winslade (illustratore). 1st Edition. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. The dustwrapper has a few small chips and closed tears. It is now protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive plastic. Signed by Author(s).

Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition first edition book. Some marks and small tears to the dust jacket and mild edgewear to the boards and spine. Neat dedication on free end page and light foxing to the textblock edge. Overall a good clear copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Fabulous Admirals and Some Naval Fragments - being a brief account of some of the froth on those characters who enlivened the Royal Navy a generation or two ago.The Navy's supremacy had been virtually unchallenged for the best part of a century: and this accumulation of confidence, combined with the autocracy, power and independence that was bestowed on a commander-in- chief, resulted in a proliferation of personality on the grand scale. Often the eccentricity of those old commanders was only matched by their courage and integrity. Condition: used, good. Damaged dust jacket encased in cellophane, some foxing on edges, otherwise good.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Winslade, (illustratore). First edition. 1st 1946. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. A lively, stirring tale of pirates on the Spanish Main, thrilling but never frightening, told by a sailor with a glorious sense of humour. Red cloth, dark blue titles and vignette to front. Colour and b/w illustrations. 48 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Light page browning to half-title and last text page. Some light fingering else contents clean. White pictorial wrapper is grubby and edge worn, chipped to spine with loss, extensive tape repairs on verso. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Geoffrey Lowis (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition hardback, lacks dustjacket, tan boards with red title to front. Previous owners inscription and slight foxing to endpapers otherwise no damage, internally clean. Very good condition.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Winslade, (illustratore). First edition. 1st 1946. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. A lively, stirring tale of pirates on the Spanish Main, thrilling but never frightening, told by a sailor with a glorious sense of humour. Red cloth, dark blue titles and vignette to front. Colour and b/w illustrations. 48 pages. Spine bumped, darkening to top edges of covers. Endpapers browned. Tear to margin of pages 25-32. Foxing to text block. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and chipped with loss from top of spine and rear fold. Spine browned. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Reprint: Hardback, navy bds., gold titles, 145 x 220 mm., 600g., 292 pp., illustrated by Capt. Jack Broome, Foreword by Admiral Sir Denis Boyd, original, unclipped, pictorial dw., VG/VG copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Vg+ hardback copy in Vg++ price-clipped jacket.

Quarter Leather. Condizione: Good. Capt. Jack Broome. (illustratore). 1st Edition. Published in 1957, this is the First Edition of this work on some of the Admirals in the British Royal Navy bound in a quarter leather binding. In good condition. This copy originally belonged to Barrie Harcourt Kent (1922-2007) who was a Royal Navy Captain, and part of the Armed Forces Intelligence Services, with his armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. In 1973 it appears he lent the book to Prince Charles ( Now King Charles) who read and thoroughly enjoyed the book. Prince Charles was serving in the Royal Navy himself at the time. Loosely inserted is a letter from Buckingham Palace dated 9th January 1973 which reads Dear Barrie, Prince Charles has returned your book to me and asked me to send it on to you, with his thanks for the kindness in lending it to him. He thoroughly enjoyed it. Do hope you will give me a ring sometime and come and have lunch at the Senior, Very intrigued about your new job and inquisitive enough to try and wheedle out of you what it's all about! Yours Brian A LEATHER BOUND EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK THAT WAS ONCE LENT TO AND READ BY KING CHARLES III.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Illustrated Edition. 1946 Methuen Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good clipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design & illustrations Winslade as shown.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustratore). A very scarce and completely unique family history of Lowis of Merchiston, illustrated throughout and signed by the author, Geoffrey Lyttelton Lowis. A fascinating and comprehensive work of genealogical and family history of Lowis of Merchiston and his kin. Ninian Lowis of Merchiston was from a branch of the Napier family based on southern Scotland near Edinburgh. He lived during the seventeenth century. This work concerns his life, family, and descendants.Written by a descendant of Lowis of Merchiston, Geoffrey Lyttelton Lowis. A presentation copy from the author, including an inscription to the front free-endpaper: 'For Reggie's daughter Mary, With love from her second cousin, Geoffrey Lowis, Oct 1972'.Including extracts from The Plean Papers, and containing numerous in-text illustrations and a folding family tree of the Lowis family.A fascinating, completely unique, and very scarce work. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with minor shelf wear and some light staining to the rear board. Author's ink inscription to the front free-endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Some light spotting to the first and last few pages, but otherwise pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, not price-clipped, now mylar-sleeved. Inscribed to Anthony Rota with an original drawing by the artist. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 48 pages ; 25 cm. Subjects; Pirates: Fiction. Juvenile literature. Children's stories. Chidlren's Fiction: Adventure. Children's fiction in English. 3 Kg.

Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, not price-clipped, now mylar-sleeved. Inscribed to Anthony Rota with an original drawing by the artist. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 48 pages ; 25 cm. Subjects; Pirates: Fiction. Juvenile literature. Children's stories. Chidlren's Fiction: Adventure. Children's fiction in English. 1 Kg.