The captains (35 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Good.

Condizione: New. 2026 N&MP reprint (of original pub 1956). 13pp., with 3 maps On 13 December 1939, the South Atlantic witnessed the Royal Navy's first major clash of World War II at the Battle of the River Plate. The German heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff, engaged a British squadron under Commodore Henry Harwood-HMS Exeter, Ajax, and HMNZS Achilles. Having begun commerce raiding in September, Graf Spee was intercepted off the RÃo de la Plata.Exeter was heavily damaged and forced to withdraw; Ajax and Achilles shadowed the crippled German ship until she entered neutral Montevideo. Believing overwhelming British forces lay in wait, Langsdorff scuttled Graf Spee on 17 December and subsequently took his own life.This engagement highlighted the deadly stakes of naval warfare, where hundreds of Royal Navy ships were lost or damaged to enemy action, from U-boats to aircraft and mines, across the globe. Book. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 88 pages. Articles include: "Crashaw and 'The Weeper' "by John Peter / "'The Captain's Doll'" by F R Leavis / "'Much Ado About Nothing'" by T W Craik / "Shakespeare Criticism" by R G Cox / "Joyce - Eliot - Tradition" by J C F Littlewood.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 20 pages. (SL#27).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 88 pages. Peter Wiles "Are Trade Unions Necessary?" / Dwight Macdonald "In Search Of Asian History" / Joyce Cary "You're Only Young Once" / George Mikes "Monte Carlo's Age Of Respectability" / W H Auden reviews 'The Great Captains'.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 84 pages. Illustrated. Sugar-Loaf, Rio de Janeiro; The Haunted Mine - 1927 tale of a haunted goldmine in the Township of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; The Rest Cure - a sea captain's story of an unusual Atlantic voyage with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest (part 2 of 2) - for three years Texas cattleman Frank Norfleet pursued a gang of confidence tricksters; Death of British Columbia lighthouse keeper Lawrence Dupuis; The Living Death - as strange 1925 a story from Mexico; The Sky-Riders - photo illustrated article about adventures of RCMP airmen maintaining law and order in Canada's vast Northern Territory; The Lawra Lion - a lion visits the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - two British officers in the Himalayan foothills; "Grey" - a close-up of manners and customs prevailing in the Northwest Territories of Canada near Yellowknife; First-Trippers; A Matter of Witchcraft - the strange story of a distinguished visitor who contrived to offend one of the wild tribes in the Territory of New Guinea; many nostalgic ads; The Australian Stockman - life of the drovers of Australia's vast Outback - article with photos and map. (SL#253).…

Condizione: Very Good. 9 pages, with illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17.5 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 35 pages, 13 illustrations and 4 tables. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto (19 x 25 cms). Category: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 8 pages, with illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17.5 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 9 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Mariner's Mirror; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Mariner's Mirror; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 5 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21.5 cms. Category: Army Quarterly; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 12 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 6 Pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Harmsworth London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Maritime Wales; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 10 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 23 cms. Category: Harper's Monthly Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 7 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Mariner's Mirror; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 5 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in boards.; 2016.

Condizione: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Previous owner W.H. Pulsifer of Nonquitt (Massachusetts) evidently instructed the binder to separate from the original issues of the periodical and bind together here the ten chapters (80 pages, and complete thus) of Kipling's "Captains Courageous" as originally published in McClure's Magazine 1896-1897 (profusely illustrated by Isaac Walton Taber), followed by the brief afterward "Mr. Kipling's Truth to Fact in 'Captains Courageous,'" dealing with the question of whether Whittier had done an "injustice to the memory" of Skipper Ireson in his ballad "Skipper Ireson's Ride," which injustice Kipling may have sought to "set right," here. Kipling's 14-page complete short story "Bread Upon the Waters" (evidently illustrated by William Louis Sonntag, Jr.) is also bound in, here, as are "The White Man's Burden" (from February, 1899) and a number of longer pieces by F. Marion Crawford, most notably "Casa Braccio" (with pictures by A. Castaigne) and "A Rose of Yesterday." (The versos of some pages, obviously, contain fragments of other articles -- the beginning of an essay on 'The Holland' -- the first successful diving torpedo boat; the first page only of Joel Chandler Harris "A Run of Luck," etc.), sometimes crossed out in pencil, presumably indicating to binder those complete texts were not wanted.) The whole bound in hardcover boards covered in pebbled cordovan cloth, the spine considerably rubbed but still clearly showing the gilt titles "Captains Courageous / Kipling." Original floral endpapers; no problems with hinges. The first few pages ("The White Man's Burden," "The Feet of the Young Men") show some modest damage near the spine, not impacting any part of "Captains Courageous." Reduced from $980. "Captains Courageous" illustrated by Isaac Walton Taber (and others), "Bread Upon the Waters" apparently illustrated by William Louis Sonntag, Jr. (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Published in 1919, this is the scarce first edition of this important study into Trench Fever published immediately after the First World War. This is a Unique Association Copy: and includes an original typed and signed letter by Major William Byam (W. Byam), the primary author of the book. Byam was a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps (R.A.M.C.) who led the British War Office Committee on Trench Fever. The letter is addressed directly to co-author Captain J. H. Churchill written from New End Military Hospital, dated 30th June 1919. New End Military Hospital, Hampstead, N.W.3. was a vital location in medical history. Originally a workhouse infirmary, it was requisitioned during WWI as a military hospital specifically dedicated to researching trench fever and heart conditions affecting soldiers Byam explicitly mentions distributing this "Trench Fever book" via Oxford Press and details transitioning Churchill's medical responsibilities (specifically his "blood counting method") to a successor. The letter reads "Herewith four copies of the Trench Fever book; should you require more I will try and get them out of the Oxford Press for you, but cannot promise to succeed." "I am glad to say I have at last got a successor to take on your job -- quite a keen man named Coles. I have told him about your blood counting method and said that when he found his feet, I would ask you whether you could spare time some day to come and give him a demonstration. I should think in about a week's time he should have learnt sufficient about trench fever to make a start." The book features the official bookplate of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Library, University of Oxford, cleanly stamped "Withdrawn," confirming its legal deaccession and direct link back to Oxford's historic collections. CONDITON The books covers have some general edge wear rubbing, and a stamp along top page edges (pictured) internally bookplate of the Wellcome History of Medicine Library to front pastedown and a further library label and stamp to front free endpaper (pictured) the letter is tipped in to the reverse of the frontispiece and has a small Wellcome Library stamp to its reverse. Contents in good condition. An exceptional, museum-quality association copy of this landmark World War I medical text. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Text Englisch. Translated (Noticias secretas de America) by John J. Tepaske and Besse A. Clement." The American Travel and Exploration series ". Sehr guter solider Gewebe Einband (nicht 100%ig sauber) mit guter Bindung in sehr ordentlichem O.-SU., unverletzt, Buchblock einwandfrei, durchgehend sauber, IX, 326 Seiten mit Glossar und Register. Eine Französische Expedition nach Equador wurde von Spaniern begleitet die Philip V. als " watchdogs" jenseits der offiziellen Berichte Klartext übermitteln sollten und das auch taten. +++++An essential monograph, cloth bound (binding not quite clean), dust jacket intact, illustrated, altogether good condition.+++++0.8 Kg. 16 x 23,5 Cm. Gewicht in Gramm: 800 First Edition Sehr guter Umschlag Leinen Sehr Gut / Fine.…

Bound in green cloth decorated with colorful designs and a gilded sailing ship. With some rubbing to the gilding over the ship. Name in ink on the third endpaper. t.e.g. Very good only. With tight hinges. First Edition with matching dates of 1897 on the title and copyright pages. KIPLING, Rudyard "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks New York: The Century Co, 1897. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black, gilt and orange pictorial and decorative stamping. viii, 323pp. Frontispiece, 20 full-page call (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First English Edition. Octavo, vii, 245pp, [1], [2pp ads]. Publisher's blue stamped cloth, illustrations in gilt on cover and spine. Blue endpapers, booksellers label on rear endpaper. Complete with frontispiece and twenty-two plates by Isaiah West Taber. Left lean to text block, occasional points of foxing throughout. Touch of rubbing to gilt on spine, rubbing to blue cloth on front cover. All edges gilt. Solid binding, a near fine example. (Stewart, 163) (Livingston, 137). This work was first serialized in McClure's Magazine in November of 1896. The first full novelization was published in America by Doubleday in 1897, followed by the first English edition a month later. The first English edition of Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling, published in London in 1897. (illustratore).…

A rare naval directory from the eventful era of the French Revolutionary Wars, the two titles probably issued together. The first lists officers according their length of service and seniority (headed by the honourable John Forbes (Commissioner of the Board of Longitude since 1768 and Admiral of the Fleet in since 1781) while the second lists them alphabetically and has spaces for manuscript additions. Among the many illustrious names are found those of Horatio Nelson (commissioned 11 June 1779) and William Bligh (commissioned 5 October 1781). The lists were published annually from 1758 and surviving copies are rare.The contemporary inscription records the gift of the book by Captain William Affleck, 1779 who captained HMS Medway at the Battle of Grenada (1779) and HMS Blonde in 1789. In 1793 he led an assault on the French at the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (off Newfoundland) and he died in 1794 as Commander of HMS Alligator off Saint Domingue. ff. [5], 22, 40[bound/issued with:] An alphabetical List of the Commission Officers of His Majesty's Fleet: with the Dates of their first Commissions. pp. 160. pp. 17, 20-24 with cancels pasted on.Narrow 12mo (185 × 78 mm). Contemporary and presumably original half sheep, marbled paper covered boards, letterpress label to upper cover, traces of early manuscript date and initial to head of spine. Rubbed, slight worming/tear to head of spine. Contemporary inscription: 'A gift from Cap[tai]n W Affleck'. A very attractive, unsophisticated copy. [ESTC lists the RUSI (London) copy of each only (N505885 and T505284).].…