Barton Captain (11 results)

No Binding. Condition: VGF. 807-66. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VGF. 807-52. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VGF. 807-21. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VGF. 807-49. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VGF. 807-62. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VGF. CH-13. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VGF. 807-19. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Photographic Image.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED by C. Jucker, the Spruce Goose's flight crew chief, to his portrait photo on the front end-paper illustration. Generously illustrated throughout with photographs. A definitive, unsuppressed, behind-the-scenes, historical, in-depth account of the legendary seaplane, The Spruce Goose, and the man who designed and flew it. Upper front corner tip and upper spine edge very lightly crimped, else near fine in dark-blue leatherette with gilt embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band, photo-pictorial end-papers; in a very good dust jacket with a half-inch tear to the upper edge and to the lower edge of the front panel, very short tears and rubs to the upper and lower spine edges, a two-inch tear to the upper rear panel that is tape-reinforced to the verso; original printed $19.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Quarto; 272 pages; appendix; notes; and index. Signed by Author(s).

Booklet. Condition: Good. ii, 12, iii-iv p. 21 cm. Stapled paper covers. 2 maps. Booklet was issued fortnightly by the Army Bureau of Current Affairs. Describes four days and nights in the history of a British battalion in Tunisia. No. 45, May 29th, 1943. H.Q. 70-44-71. Reprinted in Canada June 1943.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair/Good. First Edition. Pale blue cloth hard cover - Good. In illustrated DJ - wearing to edges particularly top edge/unclipped/Fair-Good. 126pp., with additional b/w illustrations. A little foxing. Content Good. (385g) Photo on request. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to charity.

The 1812 HMS Dublin was the third Royal Navy ship of that name. At the time of this document she was a 40-gunner, and the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief of the South American station Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Hamond (1779-1862). See the entries on Barton, Hamond and Tait in O'Byrne's 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' (1849), and Hamond's in the Oxford DNB. 1p, landscape foolscap 8vo. Aged and creased. Docketed on reverse: 'Dublin / Treasure conveyed. / 31. March 1838. / E1/1 / Entd 2d. April. / W Let'. Headed: 'A Return of Treasure conveyed in Her Majesty's Ship Dublin, Robert Tait, Esquire, Captain, between the 1st. day of January, and the 31st. day of March 1838, to answer the provisions of the Freight Proclamations.' The entry is arranged in a table, with columns for: Ship's Name, Captain's Name; Received [three columns: When; From Whom; At what place], Consigned [two columns: To whom; To what place]; Species of Treasure, or other Articles on which Freight is payable; Total amount received on board, noting whether, certain or estimated; Rate per Cent; Where landed, or to what vessel transhipped. If unshipped, to be inserted as a new Shipment; Greenwich Hospital Proportion; Name and Address of the Agent authorized to give information respecting the proportion due to the Hospital.' Signed at bottom right for 'Sick. Captain. / Ralph Barton. Senior Lieutenant.'.