Captain Jesse (78 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. Limited Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, volume 1 only of a two-volume set, Edition de Luxe series from the Grolier Society and limited to 1000 copies for England and America, of which this is number 114. Gray cloth boards show scuffing and soiling/toning is present. The internal binding is good, no hinge issues. There are no signatures or bookplates, no library markings, no handwriting found. There is some light spotting and foxing present, although this is mainly limited to the end pages and pastedowns. Please note: this is volume 1 only.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volume hardcover set in tooled leather bindings with gilt and color (powder blue. Hinges sound, leather cover torn at edges. Numbered edition 991 of 1000, name of person fro whom book was printed is inserted as a page in the book. Teal colored paper endpapers. INV#J-37. …

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. Athenaeum Press. No date, circa 1900. Beaux and Belles of England series. Two volumes, complete. NOT ex-library. Hardcovers have light orange cloth-covered boards with red spine and cover lettering. Spines have Art Nouveau-style floral design in brown and red. Front covers each have a plain brown border. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore edges. Black and white frontispieces with tissue guards. Black and white plates. Bindings tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends mildly rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Some page still uncut (unopened). Volume 2 has a two-inch light moisture stain at the bottom spine corner. Stain is visible inside on just the first few pages, and on the last twenty or so pages, in bottom corner at gutter. 369 + 358 pages. No dust jackets. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Imperial Edition # 489 Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Bound in navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing of edges of boards, light foxing of fore and bottom edges of pages and some light foxing of page margins though there are some pages where the foxing is more pronounced; endpapers sound and the volume is fairly tightly bound. Originally published in 1844, this edition has a new introduction by L.H.D., and twenty coloured plates. The plates do not have any foxing. Volume 1: 309 pages; Volume 2: 300 pages. Heavy item and may require additional postage depending on destination. …

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: Fair. 1854. New Edition. 300 pages. Half bound green leather with green marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Book has been rebound. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Pencil markings to reverse frontispiece. Hinges are heavily cracked. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits and loss to spine ends. Minor scuffing and peeling to spine, edges and corners. Visible wear marks to boards. …

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Very good, mildly discolored from age. There is a water stain on the pages edges, not affecting text or photos ; Battles & Leaders of the Civil War; 8 x 11; 24 pages; This is an article/advertisement only from a vintage journal and is not the full journal .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volume set in decorative cloth, lack dust wrappers, probably as issued, no inscriptions, frontespiece and colour plates to each volume, are all present as specified. Boards in very good order with only slight rubbing aalthough the spines are slightly faded, titles are still quite readable. Hinges are tight, no loose pages or turned over page corners, no spotting, page edges rough cut. Overall a very nice condition set. Heavy books please inquire for postage outside the UK. …

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Condition: New. KlappentextbTitle:/b Notes of a Half-pay in search of health or, Russia, Circassia, and the Crimea, in 1839, 40.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the Unite.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Contemporary plain, dark half calf marbled boards. Front joint split but holding, Boards somewhat dulled and rubbed, folding map creased. Title page moderately foxed and soiled. Collates thus : ix, errata leaf, 335pp, foldg. map. Text measures 19.5 x 11.25cms. Ix, errata leaf, 335pp There is no plan of Sebastopol in this volume and perhaps it appears in vol 1. {Yes, it does ]. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Notes of a Half-pay in search of health; or, Russia, Circassia, and the Crimea, in 1839, 40.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF ASIA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series includes ethnographic and general histories of distinct peripheral coastal regions that comprise South and East Asia. Other works focus on cultural history, archaeology, and linguistics. These books help readers understand the forces that shaped the ancient civilisations and influenced the modern countries of Asia. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Jesse, William Captain; br/b/b 1841.br/b/b 2 vol. ; 12º.br/b/b ORW.1986.a.6705br/.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Weakness to inside front hinge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Co., 1909. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SPECIAL SUBSCRIBER'S ISSUE. Original cloth. 448 pages. Illustrated. Good. Hinges cracked else tight binding; pages clean; covers somewhat soiled. Important biography of Captain William Jesse McDonald, who turned from business to working as a peace officer to in the 1880's, serving as a deputy sheriff, special ranger and U.S. deputy marshal before being chosen to serve as a Captain in the Texas Rangers. According to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame, McDonald took part in many of the most celebrated cases of the time, including Fitzsimmons-Maher prize fight, the Wichita Falls bank robbery, the Reese-Townsend feud, and the Brownsville Raid of 1906. He is considered one of the big four Captains of the period. Later he served as bodyguard to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Basic Texas Books 158: "This is the life of the most famous Texas Ranger of the time, the man who it was said would 'charge hell with a bucket of water.' It is also the origin of the most famous of all Texas Ranger stories, one that had been falsely attributed to almost every other Texas Ranger captain, living and dead; when McDonald arrived on a train to quell a riot, he was asked why he had come alone; he replied, well, there was only one mob, wasn't there?" .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Red embossed boards and spines, the latter, lettered in gilt, browned and faded and frayed around tops and base. A 2 cm split on lower edge of vol 2's spine. Internally bookplates on both front paste downs; the front hinge of vol 2 a little cracked. Frontis of vol 1 heavily foxed and title page soiled. Contents generally clean and tight.…