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hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 5th.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. The Adventurers Club, London, UK. 1960. Hardcover. Edition not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Very Good; light bumping to top edge; light soiling to panels. Maroon boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine with gilt barbed wire decorations. 190 pp 8vo. The Adventurers Club was a book publisher that published 11 books between 1940 and 1967 on people who ventured into dangerous locations and occupations. This book is about a London policeman who established a security operation at the Williamson Diamond Mine in Mwadui, Tanganyika and worked with the Canadian geologist, Dr. John Williamson. This is actually a portrait of two men- Burgess and Williamson and how order was brought out of chaos. This a picture of an extradinary man in extraordinary circumstances. A clean very presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Unknown. First Edition. Dust Jacket Included Very good with slight shelf wear/ good with slight shelf wear, tears, and chips/ hardback/ 1960/ first edition Lisa 139.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. This book has been bound in a burgandy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. There is no corner bumping or edge wear. The text is very clean and solid. The dust jacket is mostly red and white, unclipped and in very good shape. We have placed it in a protective cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First British Edition. Used, some light foxing. Jacket spine sunned.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. B/W Photo Illustrations (illustratore). Maroon binding with gilt title, author and publisher on spine. 191pp. Content clean, bright and sound.This book is in good to very good condition with no dust jacket present. This book may require additional postage. Photos available on request.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. pp.191 b/w plates clean tight copy small tear/creases top front on hinge, small tears/creases lower spine, small tears to corners, white of back cover some soiling/rubbing Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. The autobiography of an ex-CID inspector who became head of security for the world's largest diamond mine, tasked with bringing security where none previously existed. Includes 14*b/w photographs. 191pp. Nicks to DJ corners. Slight loss to head and foot of DJ spine. DJ now protected by removable clear plastic cover.

Condizione: Good. 1960. No Edition Stated. 190 pages. Red pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Prominent forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Heavy sunning to jacket edges and spine.

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (tanzania, diamond mines and mining, police) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. 191 pp., first edition, red cloth, in dust jacket,

Condizione: Very Good. 1960. Hardcover. Africa. 191 pp. First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. Jacket is very shelf worn with small closed tears, creases and a large gap on the spine. Boards are slightly edge rubbed but they remain neat overall. Ink inscription on the back end page. No other inscriptions or annotations. Presents well in cellophane. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condizione: Very Good. 1960. Hardcover. Africa. 191 pp. First edition copy. . . .

Hardcover. Condizione: Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 190 pp, b/w plates. Dj rubbed, spotted, chips and tears along edges. Front board a little bowed, light edgewear. Interior unmarked and solid.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ is edgeworn with a closed tear to front panel. Book has a small faint stain to upper edge of title page. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 191 Pages. The memoirs of Chief Security Officer at a Tanganyika diamond mine. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

H/c. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Damaged, Now protected. First Editon. pages 191, b/w illustrations. d/uj is rubbed along spine fold and pieces missing at spine ends. and is worn along edges. Book itself is in very good condition. Name inside front cover. An autobiography about a man who was the chief security officer of the Williamson Diamond Mine at Mwadui, Tanganyika.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 355 grams.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in dark red cloth with silver titles to spine, this dated 1960 hardcover First Edition is VG. 191pp with 25 Chapters and 14 B/W Photos. Writer was Chief Security Officer in a Tanganyika diamond Mine: this book tell of his life and experiences following a career of 22 years as a Detective with the Metropolitan Police.Condition of book is VG.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Fascinating memoir of the policeman who became the security officer for Williamson's Mwadui diamond mine. pp191. Illus.

Condizione: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original orange paper covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 190 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Creasing to the lower spine end, age darkened closed page edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with nicks and chips to the spine ends, sun fading to the orange of the spine. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SOUTH AFRICA (Zuid-Afrika).

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

, Help Yourself to Knotting and Lanyard Making (1961), 32 pages; Help Yourself to Know Baden-Powell (1961), 32 pages; Green Days (1957), 44 pages; Guiding for the Guider (1944), 77 pages; Philippa, P.L. Letters to a Patrol Leader (second edition 1955), 48 pages Reprints , light wear to spines and edges, some rusting to staples and sunning to spines, pages clean, binding firm, very good condition , printed paper wraps , 18.5 cm x 12.5 cm Paperback ISBN:

First Edition. AVON FANTASY READER, Avon Books, 1947 thru 1952, first edition, 18 volumes complete, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps. Contributions by Robert E. Howard, Gelett Burgess, William Hope Hodgson, Hugh Cave, Algernon Blackwood, Edward Lucas White, James Francis Dwyer, G. K. Chesterton, Frank Owen, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Bond, E. Hoffman Price, H. P. Lovecraft, Sax Rohmer, Manly Wade Wellman, M. R. James, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, Seabury Quinn, Francis Flagg, Doanld Wollheim, Malcolm Jameson, Amelia Reynolds Long, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Donald Wandrei, Ambrose Bierce, C. L. Moore, Abraham Merritt, Frank Belknap Long, David Keller, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton, Henry S. Whitehead, Carl Jacobi, William F. Harvey, C. M. Kornbluth, S. Fowler Wright, Murray Leinster, August Derleth, H. G. Wells, H. R. Wakefield, et.al. Along with AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER, all 3 volumes, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1842 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 338 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 338.