Bethell L a Editor (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth with burgundy label on the spine. Bright and strong copy. Lightly bumped at the corners and the spine tips. No markings. 310 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 331 pages. Book has a moderate forward lean. No dustjacket. Blue hardback binding has wear/small frays to spine-ends and boards' corners. Some age yellowing to page-edges, pencil wititng to flyleaf o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 313 pages. No dustjacket. Blue hardback binding has wear/small frays to spine-ends and boards' corners and small mark to inside of front board. Pencil wirting to flyleaf, some age yellowing to page-edges, light foxing to endpapers o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 300 pages. Book has a light forward lean. No dustjacket. Blue hardback book covers have wear/small frays to spine-ends and corners, ink writing to flyleaf, browning to end-papers, slight cracks to paper of inner rear hinge. Some age yellowing to page-edges. Pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 294 pages. No dustjacket. Dark blue hardback binding with gilt-coloured titles on brown title-label to spine which is age-dulled. Light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners and light rubbing to boards Light browning to page-edges and pencil writing to flyleaf o/w pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very clean copy no name - fine navy boards with finetitles to spine - no D/j very minor shelflife to text block - Posting from Cornwall ST219.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very clean copy no name - fine navy boards with finetitles to spine - no D/j very minor shelflife to text block - Posting from Cornwall ST219.

1933 1st edition in tight binding; ex-school library with library book plate on front paste-down; spine browned with wear to edges and small loss to top; a little wear to other edges; corners lightly worn and bumped. A few discolouration spots to page fore-edge; otherwise, a good, clean copy. Used - Good. Ex-lib hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Ex-lib hardback (no dust jacket).

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Volume 10. (adventure, fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 336 pages. No dj. Cover worn. Text foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. tidy copy.

1932 1st edition, tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on red background to spine; spine faintly faded. A little wear and tear to dust jacket edges and small loss to spine top; spine browned; slight fading to front panel along hinge. Hust a few tiny spots to page fore-edge. Internally, a bit of yellowing to paste-downs and endpapers; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

A very good copy. 279pp.

1934 edition. (8), 332 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Top outside edge tinted. Occasional foxing, o/wise very good. 18.4 x 12.5. 14 tales. "Initiation" by Joseph Conrad. "Two Typhoons", and "The Timber Drogher", by Shalimar. "A Man in the Making", by Bartimeus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Moderate foxing and dust stains to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Eighth printing, April 1946, of a title first published in 1932. [viii], 279, [1] pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on dark blue panel on spine. Page dimensions: 176 x108mm. Top edges dyed blue. Contents: Akso Wad Dok; Speech Day in Crocodile Country by R. E. Vernede; The Abu Zait Controversy by S. Lyle Cummins; Piloting Princes by Sir Hugh Clifford; Experiences in a Quarantine Camp; Silhouettes from the Sudan (I) by Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Grieve; Silhouettes from the Sudan (II) by Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Grieve; Lustral Waters by C. G. C. T.; The House of Healing; Murder and Magic by Sir Hugh Clifford; An Indian Sensation by H. C. E. Ward; Dacoity by 'Kukado'. Series: Tales from the Outposts, Volume #5 of 12. ; Octopus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1932 EDITION with rubbed and chipped dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A smart collection of three volumes from the Tales of the Outposts series, edited by author and soldier Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Arthur Bethell. Three volumes of a twelve volume set, being volumes three, six, and nine. Tales of the Outposts series. A collection of stories from remote corners of the world, especially the British Empire, and told by people living in or with experience of those places. Most were originally published in Blackwood's, which found a large part of its circulation in those colonial locations. The project took three years, from 1930 to 1933, to complete and included contributions from notable authors and personalities, including: Sir Hugh Clifford, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, Fredrick Marshman Bailey, and Alfred Noyes. This set contains: Tales of the Sea, 1932. Tales of Africa, 1933. Tales of the Border, 1943. Edited by Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Arthur Bethell, a distinguished soldier in India in Edwardian times, and a successful author of the 1930s. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor fading to the spines. The odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1932-1933. Not illustrated. 5" x 7.25". Blue cloth, endpapers darkened. This is a twelve-volume set, composed of stories from 'Blackwood' magazine. The individual titles are: Frontiers of Empire; Small Wars of the Empire; Tales of the Border; Pioneering; Jobs of Work; Tales of the Sea; Soldier's Tales; Jungle Tales; Tales of Africa; Shikar; From Strange Places; and In Lighter Vein. Written at the height of the British Empire, these collected stories have a decidedly militaristic bent. The authors include many who wrote under pen names, some of the others are A. Blaney Percival, Horace Hutchinson, Lord Baden-Powell, John Buchan, Joseph Conrad, L. Luard, Jack London, Ian Hay, etc. My favorite title is a "A Day's Work with the Somaliland Camel Constabulary". In addition to the military tales, there are stories of hunting lion, gorilla, Indian buffalo, sloth bear, leopard, takin, pigsticking, and one story of dry fly fishing. Twelve volumes. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. NOT ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition. PUBLISHED 1946. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.90 inches. This item is printed on demand.