Capper Commander (8 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Frederick Muller, 1957, First Edition, 8vo, 144 pages, illustrations, photos. Book and jacket in very good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: VG-. George Charlton and John Michael Barton (illustrator). First Edition. Story of battleships charted back to the birth of the 'Ironclads'. In Muller's "Famous.of the world" series. Grey covers with gilt, 142pp with three blocs of b/w plates and numerous line drawings. Grey top edges. Only very light bumping to cover extrems, edges and spine slightly discoloured, page edges foxed and a bit yellowed. Small glue mark on ffep, otherwise internally clean and tight. No DJ, but a very solid copy. Ref:114971.

Condition: Good. 1962. Second Edition. 142 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces moderately tanned, particularly spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces. Spine noticeably sunned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published by Frederick Muller of London in 1957. Hardcover. 1st edition. Book condition: Fair. Worn dark blue cloth boards with faded gilt titles to spine. Colour of boards is marked in places. Inside pages are intact and are very readable but there is age related tanning. No Dust Jacket. See photograph. Dims: 190mm x 125mm x 20mm. 144 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and a little worn, top and bottom of spine bumped and a little worn, surface of covers patchy and faded, grubby in places, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, previous owners name on front end paper.

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good octavo xv + 267pp., frontis., b/w pls., appends., index, 'Naval reminiscences from the later decades of the 19th and early 20th centuries, includes much on everyday life and social conditions in the Royal Navy, and also includes a five year period as Ordnance Officer on the Australian Station. Cloth sunned at spine o/w a nice tight, square copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xv, 265pp, illustrations. 'Sixty-two years of sailor' evolution-author was an Ordnance Officer based Australian Station of the Royal Navy 1895-1900.' Cloth is a little gruby with bit of fading but clean and tight internally. 700g.

Hardback. First Edition. Bound in blue cloth which shows some discolouration fading Gilt titles to the spine with shelf wear to the top and base Neat small inscription signed by the author Henry D Capper to the frontispiece Foxing to the prelims and occasionally throughout however the contents are generally clean Binding still tight although there is a slight lean to the spine pp xv 267 Overall a good copy. book.