Captain T L Edwards (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. CLOTH BOUND BOARDS. Good/Torn and Chipped. 1st Edn. 8vo. BIRO MARK ON FRONT FLAP. ILLUS. PAGES BROWNING.; 60839.

Hard Back. Bound in blue with gilt titling to spine Pictorial dustjacket in good condition with some shelf wear price unclipped but with prices replaced Pages throughout clean and bright with some black and white glossy photographs pp 239. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Nice copy of this 1st edition, 1st printing with inscriptions and signatures by both authors. Book has slight sunning/tanning to extremities, slight foxing to end papers and spotting to page edges otherwise very good indeed. Dust jacket has loss to top/bottom of spine and to tips with a few closed tears and creasing. A few marks. Now in a clear removable protective sleeve. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardback. Condition: nrVG. nrVG DW. 1st Edition. Bookplate. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age.BUT fore edge bit spotted.

London. Herbert Jenkins. 1960. First Edition. 8vo. (8 1/2 x 6). 239 pp. Black and white plates, many of a historical nature. Line drawings. Interesting chapters on selecting the right tackle in addition to casting applications along with chapters on many of the world's best casters. The book is bound in blue cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a nearly fine dust jacket.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Wood, Stanley L.; waters, D.B.; Nicolson, W.C.; Robinson, T.H.; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.; De Walton, John; Edwards, Lionel; Whitaker, W.G.; Elcock, Howard K. (illustrator). …