taylor captain meadows (21 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. APPEARS LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book/dust jakcet. D/j still has price corneer.338 pages Pages are clean and tight. No name or inscription.Minor makrs to page fore edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. APPEARS LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book/dust jakcet. D/j still has price corneer.338 pages Pages are clean and tight. E xlibris plate on f.e.p. No other name or inscription.Minor makrs to page fore edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. 1st American edition; dj w/lite wear only, uncipped price, in mylar; owner's plate; orage c w/gilt sp;ine titles; 338 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: /Very Good. VG/VG. tan illustrated jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Very light shelf wear, small chips/rubbings to jacket corners and edges, little wear otherwise, book is crisply bound, text is exceedingly clean. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS.

x, 338 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. a fine copy in a jacket with a 1-1/2" cat scratch backstrip (cloth unaffected).; The Doughty Library.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Chipping to spine ends of jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Good condition hard cover, with fair condition jacket, some wear to cover and spine, internally clean and tidy and in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Arnold-Heinemann; New Delhi, 1985. Hardcover. First Indian Edition. Text in English. Good, red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding a bit shaky, spine lean, some sunning and mild scattered foxing to text block edges, slightly starting hinges, trace discoloration pastedowns/endpapers, in a Good, moderate handling/scuff marks to panels, edge/corner wear with few small tears along edges, trace spine fade, tear to protective film top front panel, Dust Wrapper. A good, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 338pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. Please Note: Depending on site, actual book for sale may differ physically from picture listed. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

552pp. Paperback reprint of World's Classics edition with 10pp introduction. Very good.

338pp. New edition with an introduction by Brian Rawson. Novel about thugee first published in 1839. Very good in very good dw.

338pp. New edition with an introduction by Brian Rawson. Novel about thugee first published in 1839. Very good in very good dw.

338pp. New edition with an introduction by Brian Rawson. Novel about thugee first published in 1839. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.

HB BROWN CLOTH EDGEWEAR VERY GOOD PP338 DW NEAR FINE 8V0 Introduction by Brian Rawson.

Red Cloth. Condizione: FIne. Condizione sovraccoperta: in fine dust jacket. First Edition. "Confessions of a Thug uses the tools of fiction to tell a story of fact. Captain Taylor, in the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad for most of his career, was one of the pioneer investigators into Thuggee, which sprang from worship of Bhowani, the destroyer goddess of the Hindus. Her disciples were rewarded with the "right" to kill by strangulation. In effect this worship was an excuse for murder and profit. It was not until 1560 that Thuggee had been stamped out.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Price intact, Introduced by Brian Rawson Confessions of a Thug uses the tools of fiction to tell a story of fact. Captain Meadows Taylor's story of thuggee was a sensation when it was first published in 1839. A fascinating and exciting story. Book.

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo xii + 455pp., Classic Victorian novel, first published in 1840. Doughty Library Volume 6. Very nice copy in bright orange boards in a nice decorated Doughty Library dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Small closed tear on spine crown. Light foxing on bottom text block edge.

Small 8vo. x, 277, (1) pp. Publisher's russet cloth backed printed boards, gilt lettered to the spine. Some wear to the boards, light spotting to the front and rear leaves, else very good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 7.5 x 5", half brown leather, gilt spine lettering, marbled boards, xxiv, 324, 338; 424pp. EX-LIBRARY (Stratford-Upon-Avon, never checked out) with library numbers in gilt on the spine, leather scuffed/scraped, boards rubbed, corners and spine tips bumped and worn, inner hinges cracked, outer hinge of volume III cracked, scattered spotting and soiling else good. A novel set in India based on the true events of the thugs/thugees who were robbers, con men and murderers who were greatly feared by residents and travelers alike. An immediate bestseller. FIRST EDITION. Complete sets are very SCARCE.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Confessions of a Thug is one of the grittier and more well-known of Taylor's works. Considered a classic by many, it is well worth the time to sit down and give it a read. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.