Campbell Capt W (23 results)

Condition: Good. 1915. First Edition. 127 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Some page corners folded. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed.…

Condition: Good. 2nd Printing. Boards have some wear with darkened spine. Content has light toning with a previous owner name to ffep. No DJ. Solid binding.

Condition: Fair. 1923. First Edition. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and slight foxing and dog-eared pages throughout. Moderate foxing and tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier sunning to spine. The book is forward leaning. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. GD+ original black-stamped tan cloth, text-block tanned, otherwise a solid copy, clean throughout.

First Edition. SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS, Magazine Productions, 1967, first edition, Volume 1, #1 & 2, two volumes, fine and just about in full color pictorial wraps respectively. Contains contributions by Otis Adelbert Kline, Hugo Gernsback, Capt. S. P. Meek, Murray Leinster, Curt Siodmak, John W. Campbell, David Keller, H. Hyatt Verrill, Frank R. Paul, et.al. …

Condition: Good. Original decorated cloth, first published 1915, 8vo.; Name on first free endpaper.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A scarce title - none listed on Jisc Library Hub Discover. A sequel to several other Spud Tamson novels by R.W. Campbell. 12mo. 212 pages. Grey card wraps with black titles on front and spine. Wraps edgeworn; spine discoloured, with loss at head and tail; spine slightly cocked. Edges of text block lightly spotted. Some foxing at front and rear of volume; otherwise pages almost entirely clean. Slight cracking to gutters in places but binding reasonably firm. …

1st edition orig. dec. cloth Very Good small octavo 127pp., With the ANZACs in Egypt and Gallipoli . Novelised account by a Scot in admiration of the Anzacs' fighting qualities. lacks ffep o/w VG.

Soft cover (Stapled Wrappers). Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small Octavo, 48pp. Original double-issue printed stapled wrappers featuring a front-cover science fiction cityscape illustration by legendary fan artist Byron T. Jeeves.Features: This expanded double issue contains vital historical records of British fandom, including W. Peter Campbell's definitive London Convention Report (1952). It features an important early academic study titled "Lovecraft's Amateur Press Works" by noted Cthulhu Mythos scholar George T. Wetzel. The back cover is highly visual and historically notable, displaying illustrated preview announcements for the debut issue of Scotland's historic Nebula Science Fiction magazine (featuring cover art by Alan Hunter) alongside the Dutch publication Planeet (Ruimteschip 2213).Condition: Very Good. Heavy text-block issue remains structurally solid. Minimal rubbing to the spine edge. Interior is clean and untoned, and the illustrated rear cover is sharp and well-preserved. Byron T. Jeeves (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No torn or missing pages. School library ID stamp on last page. Marks to inside rear boards and rear end paper where probably library pocket etc has been removed. Some wear to cloth at extremities of boards.Moderate age and reading wear. 264 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Canada; Children. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54609.…

Hard Cover. Condition: G+. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo. original pcitorial tan cloth (slightly rubbed & bumped, prev. owner's details to upper pastedown, FFE excised, upper hinge loosening, a few marks & spots, lengthy closed tear to final text leaf, occ. fray elsewhere); pp. 128. A good copy of an uncommon early work about the ANZACs.…

1st edition orig. dec. cloth Very Good small octavo 127pp., With the ANZACs in Egypt and Gallipoli . Novelised account by a Scot in admiration of the Anzacs' fighting qualities.

1st edition worn orig. dec. cloth Very Good small octavo 127pp., With the ANZACs in Egypt and Gallipoli. Cloth rather worn o/w VG.

1st edition orig. dec. cloth Near Fine small octavo 127pp., With the ANZACs in Egypt and Gallipoli. Nice Wartime issue.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Eveleigh, Nash and Grayson, Ltd., London, 1923. Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Original blue stamped cloth hardcovers, green lettering to spine, impressed, faded title to front board. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. P.p. 286. Boards are stained, spine heavily worn, split to top, front edge. Hinges cracked, binding shaky, Ex-libris plate to inside front board, two pages in the middle loose, book is complete though. Foxing and staining here and there. A battered but serviceable, first edition of this very scarce title from Campbell.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original grey stamped cloth hardcovers, printed in blue on front and spine. Spine slightly sunned; some light soiling and bumping to covers. Old owner's name and place in pencil to front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. vii,307+1[blank]+12[publisher's ads.]pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Volume containing a Series of Papers from the Shipmasters' Society, London 1896-1899. Includes Seventh Session, Course of Papers No. 45: April 1896, Why the Officers of the Mercantile Marine Should be Members of a Shipmasters' Society by W Caius Crutchley; Eighth Session, Course of Papers No. 46, October 1986, Introductory Address to the Members by Rt Hon. Sir Charles W Dilke; Legal Duties of the Shipmaster at Home and Abroad by Benedict W Ginsburg; Course of Papers No. 47, November 1986 Notes on Details of Steamship Construction by Captain M J Butcher; Course of Papers No. 48, January 1897 The Detection of Inflammable Gas and Vapour on board Ships by Professor F Clownes; Course of Papers No. 49 February 1987, Sea Apprentices of the British Merchant Navy by William Allingham; Course of Papers No. 50 & 51 April 1987, Hints on Elementary Stability with Some Remarks on the Carriage of Water Ballast by Anthony S Thomson; Ninth Session, Course of Papers No. 52, October 1897 The Personnel of the Mercantile Marine by Commander W F Caborne; Course of Papers No. 53, November 1897 Trimming Tanks by Mr Thomas Walton; Course of papers No. 54, January 1898, The Ventilation of Steamships by Stephen Harding Terry; Course of Papers No. 55, February 1898, British Merchant Seamen: Their Training and Treatment by Commander W F Caborne; Course of Papers No. 56 March 1898, Trim by Mr Thomas Walton; Annual Report for the Year Ending 31st March 1898 List of Members 1897-1898; Course of Papers No. 57 April 1898, Quarantine From a Shipmaster's Point of View by W G Romeril; Tenth Session, Course of Papers No. 58 October 1898, No. 60 January 1899 & No 61 February 1899 The Evolution of Shipmasters' Societies by Edward Blackmore; Course of Papers No. 59 November 1898 Thrift and Nautical Charities by Commander H M W P Johnson; Course of Papers No. 62 March 1899 The Value of Meteorological Observations at Sea and some Hints upon Observing by M W Campbell Hepworth; Annual Report for the Year Ending 31st March 1899; List of Members 1898-1899; Course of Papers No. 63 April 1899, Experience of Shipmasters at Mercantile Marine Offices and at British Consulates by Capt. S R Chandler; Eleventh Session, Course of Papers No. 64 Ballasting by H N Wortley The black covers are worn at the corners and the spine is wholly split from the cover on the front external hinge, the covers are firmly attached to the text block, endpapers are darkened with pencilled letters on the front endpaper, internal binding is sound, pages are clean. This is a heavy volume and may incur additional delivery charges Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 75310100097. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.…

No Jacket. INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR; octavo red cloth boards, black lettering to front and spine, vii+306pp+adverts at rear, VG (light fading to spine, light tanning and foxing to edges and within, lacks d/w).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Twelfth Edition. Unpaginated, index, 753 bw photographs by official photographers Captains G H WIlkins and J F Hurley; Lieutenants H F Baldwin and J P Campbell, and others. Or maroon cloth. Light rubbing to edges of spine, light shelf wear to top and bottom of spine, minor thumb soiling to bottom corner of pages. Generally a bright fresh example of the twelfth volume of this set, commonly known as 'Bean'. This volume is particularly hard to find in nice condition. Size: 8vo. Wilkins, Capt G.H.; Hurley, Capt J.F.; Baldwin, Lt. H.F.; Campbell, Lt. J.P.; & Others. (illustrator).…

Hb in orig maroon cloth 169pp plates plans maps This is actually 2 books in 1 The 1st part covers The Regiment up to the Boer War in Campaigns such as the War of Austrian Succession South Africa 1846 & Eygpt 1882 The 2nd part covers The Regiment during the Boer War "On the Heels of De Wet" A Vg copy of uncommon title.…

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Rebound in red half-leather with black boards and gilt lettering and date to spine. X1/444pp.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first edition of this fascinating account of the Dragoons, a cavalry regiment in the British Army active from 1688 and renamed in honour of Princess Charlotte in 1788. The first edition. A single publication on the story of the regiment, divided into two sections and published in honour of The Princess Royal. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding. The first work The Story of the Regiment (1688-1882), by Colonel C. W. Thompson. The second, With The Regiment in South Africa (1900-1902), by Major N. D. H. Campbell; Capt. W. S. Whetherly; Capt. J. E. D. Holland. With continuous pagination. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, nineteen leaves of plates and an additional folding map to the first work and a further five plates and maps to the second, with numerous further in-text photographic vignettes. Collated complete against the record for a copy held in The London Library. A detailed account of the creation and deloyment history of this military regiment of the British Army, present at key military engagements from the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 to the Battle of Diamon d Hill during the Second Boer War in June, 1900. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. With minor bumping to cloth at extremities and joints. The occasional mark to boards. Slight offsetting to end paper extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Gentle cockling to pages in places. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Roy Gardner - Californian Bandit Extraordinary; Exploring the Salton Sea - an exploration by two motorcyclists - article with photos; Across Remote Yunnan - Part I - account of a journey through the little-known region where China and Tibet meet - article with photos; Besieged by Man-Eating Lions - a woman's terrible ordeal in East Africa; Shipwrecked in Bering Sea - Thrilling story of the passengers and crew of a schooner wrecked in the icy Bering Sea; Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part I - the United States tries to preserve peace in the Negro Republic of Dominica in 1906-7; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part III - French troops are overwhelmed by Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; American Crooks in Europe - sketches of the meteoric careers of Walter Sheridan, Max Shinburn and Adam Worth; The Decoy Telegram - an engineer's narrow escape from death; A Model Town Made From Corks - model town built by M. Jean Bertrand, musical director at Maskelyne's Theatre of Mysteries, London; The Limits of the Law - an illiterate Justice of the Peace is called on to administer justice in Mink Lake, in the Lesser Slave Lake district; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 90-176, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Prater, E.; Holloway, C.; Oakdale, E.G.; Hodgson; E.S.; Wood, Stanley L.; De Walton, John; Whitaker, W.G.; Coller, H.; Waddell, J. (illustrator).…