Captain F a M Webster (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Red cloth binding. 191 pages. Slight wear to the spine. Inside front cover is inscribed 'JOHN' and has a price of 5p written on it. Pages tanned, due to the age of the book. There is no date in the book, but it was originally published in 1930 - this is not, as far as I can tell, the first edition. Unknown.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Front free end paper has been removed. Prize plate inside the front cover, lightly tanned pages and a couple of bottom corners have been torn off. Some light pen scribbling to the front cover and corners a little bumped and scuffed. Heavy book may incur extra postal charges if ordered from overseas. Very rare book.

Condition: Good. 1935. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Full colour frontispiece. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Top edge of text block is dust marked. Book has a slight forward lean.

Condition: Good. 191 pages. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Solid binding, grub marks to boards, front end page mostly missing, foxing to first and last few pages. Colour and b/w illustrations. Children's.

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, scuffs. Content has light toning. Some foxing to prelim pages. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Undated edition probably 1950s to 1960s. Clean and firmly bound red boards with no writing inside. Jacket is price clipped with light edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. with illustrations by Ruth Swanton, E.A. Shearlock, R.B. Ogle, F.J. Sherman, J.C.B. Knight, A.B. White (illustrator). Firmly bound, illustrated card boards, decorated brown cloth spine. Scuffing on covers, wear on the edges and corners. No jacket. Neat gift inscription is dated 1937. The front cover shows an elderly couple in the front door of a log cabin with a cowgirl on a horse in front. The first story is, "A Cavern Calamity".

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Heavy tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Heavy splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. spotting to spine First story: Green Deep by Captain John E. Gurdon. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. R.B. Ogle & others. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 192 pages printed on thicker paper, with colour plates and line drawings throughout by J. C. B. Knight, R. B. Ogle, F. J. Sherman & A. B. White. tales and thrilling stories on various subject from public school to pirates, jolly japes to jungle terrors. Glazed paper boards and cloth spine, illustrated. small area of scratch surface loss at top area in titles and a small circular mark, contents, plates and book still Very Good+. Small inscription to endpaper "To John (Wint of Wetton) From Uncle Harold & Auntie Elsie" c1936.

Card Boards. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. Corners of front board bumped, spine edgeworn, some staining along spine edge of front board, rear board rubbed and scuffed in places, foxing to fep/rep and to closed edges of text block, some light spotting to pages, pp clean and clear to read, binding secure. Size: 4to.

Hardcover (Printed Boards). Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Undated. Inscription to ffep indicates 1934. Jacket is torn with some areas of loss. Illustrated Boards. Front board (identical to jacket), shows a cowgirl breaking a horse with a group of cowboys watching). Colour frontis. Item Type: Book. Category: Children; Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 015530.

Condition: Fine. Book has a slight lean with fading to spine, crack to front hinge. Slight toning to pages with spotting/foxing. Gift message to first blank page. DJ has some edge wear and light marks. Price clipped.

Disbound. Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated The Wide World Magazine (1898-1965) captured the thrill of real-life adventure, bringing readers daring tales of exploration, survival, and discovery from across the globe. From treacherous expeditions to remote lands to gripping escapes from danger, it showcased the spirit of adventure that defined its era. The magazine also documented historical events and emerging travel trends, immersing readers in the unknown. With vivid illustrations and detailed narratives, it inspired generations to dream of far-off places, embodying the belief that "Truth is stranger than fiction." This is a genuine, original article, carefully extracted from an historic volume, not a reprint or reproduction! A rare chance to own a true artifact from the past. Size: 16 x 22 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Wide World Magazine Articles; Inventory No: 407793. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Disbound. Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. The Wide World Magazine (1898-1965) captured the thrill of real-life adventure, bringing readers daring tales of exploration, survival, and discovery from across the globe. From treacherous expeditions to remote lands to gripping escapes from danger, it showcased the spirit of adventure that defined its era. The magazine also documented historical events and emerging travel trends, immersing readers in the unknown. With vivid illustrations and detailed narratives, it inspired generations to dream of far-off places, embodying the belief that "Truth is stranger than fiction." This is a genuine, original article, carefully extracted from an historic volume, not a reprint or reproduction! A rare chance to own a true artifact from the past. Size: 16 x 22 cms. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Wide World Magazine Articles; Specially Selected; Inventory No: 504646. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. First edition book in good condition, no jacket. Minor shelfwear and a few small marks to boards with foxing to tanned textblock edges. Contents clear, a lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 6 full-page color plates by Norton William and others. B&W illustrations as well, many are also full-page. Unpaginated, app. 100 pages which are very thick, as is the book itself.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/j. Colour illustrations by J.C.B Knight and others (illustrator). 1st Edition. No date. Very good to inside with full page colour plates and smaller b/w illustrations by J C B Knight, R B Ogle, F J Sherman, A B White. There is a personal book plate to top of inside front board. The spine facing the title page is very slightly cracked but this does not effect the rest of the book. The front board is illustrated in colour and has wear to bottom right corner, wear to top of spine which has outer cloth covering worn for about quarter of an inch. Broadleaf Books is a second hand independent bookshop in Abergavenn, South Wales. Enquiries and visits are welcome. kit.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this thrilling adventure story set in Africa by Captain F. A. M. Webster. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper.Frederick Annesley Michael Webster was a British Army captain, who wrote many novels in a variety of genres: adventure, science fiction, and espionage. During the First World War, he was involved with British military intelligence which would inspire his later espionage novels. This exciting adventure novel is set in Africa.With the original dust wrapper, which is very scarce for the first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is very bright and smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Dust wrapper remains generally bright, but is chipped to folds of the front flaps and to the lower extremity of the front of the wrap, with significant losses to the spine and rear of the wrap. Amateur repair with sticky tape to the joints of the wrap to the verso of the wrap. Near Fine. book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First edition without jacket on illustrated pictorial cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Undated c.1939 hardback in good condition. Scarce. Ex-college library, but the damage is limited to stamps on inside cover and ffep and two ink marks also on inside cover. A little foxing to pages opposite plates. No other marks, clean, tight binding. The turquoise cloth boards have sellotape staining to front face, otherwise just general shelf wear, no major flaw. No dust jacket. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

Hard Illustrated Cover. Condition: Good. Ruth Swanton, E.A. Shearlock, R.B. Ogle, F.J. Sherman, J.C.B. Knight, A.B. White. (illustrator). No date, but suggest 1920. Colour frontis plus b/w illustrations. An ageing but firm complete book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In black cloth covers Supernatural Tales of Thomas Hardy and gilt crest to front. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped with nicks to cloth. Scratch to cover on front. Halftitle darkened, some mild foxing spots to pages. Plates clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 306pp. Illustrated with B&W photographs on 22 plates, plus frontis plate. The story of the 5th Bedfords, from their origin in 1860 through the Peninsula War, Gallipoli, Gaza and the Holy Land.

1936, London, Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., pp288, black and white frontispiece, blue cloth in dustwrapper. Dustwrapper slightly chipped with a few short, closed tears, otherwise very good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this exciting novel from British author Captain F. A. M. Webster, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and three black-and-white plates. Collated complete. A thrilling adventure novel following Wilson Crowther, his friend, and his guide Doka Fademula, during their experiences big game hunting in Africa. Doka encourages the white men to learn about the culture around them. Written by Captain Frederick Annesley Michael Webster, a British author, athlete, and soldier. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Small closed tears to the edges of the panels. Light sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Ink stamps to the front pastedown and endpaper. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in light blue cloth boards with black lettering to front and spine. Price clipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 287pp. Colour frontispiece. Not library copy, no inscriptions. Some foxing to pages, rubbing and tears to dustjacket edges. (16/7).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this exciting novel from Captain Webster, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original price-clipped dust wrapper. Includes a colour frontispiece. An exciting adventure novel following the search for the lost city of light. Written by Captain Frederick Annesley Michael Webster, a British author, soldier, and athlete. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is worn with wear and chipping to the extremities. Loss to the tail of the spine and front panel. The odd small closed tear with a 1" closed tear to the front panel. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with an ink stamp to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed. book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Broadhead, W. Smithson; Cleaver, Ralph; Reynolds, Warwick; Avis, W.; Thomas, E.H.; Elcock, Howard; Soper, G; Prater, Ernest; Brightwell, L.R.; Horne, A.E.; Ambler, C. Gifford (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 362-448, plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Girl With the Red Hair; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 1; A 'Q" and a "U"; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season; "Bully's" Last Battle; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron; Queer Fixes - Falling Ten Thousand Feet; What Happened to Marshall Mabey; Gassed on a Chimney; My Two Years of Captivity Among the Turks - part 3; Among the Dyaks; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - part 3; On Foot Through South America, part 4; Silas Seeks London; In Little Known Afghanistan; Odds and Ends. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.