Captain Tom Diaper (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. xi, 163 pages, 8 b/w plates. Ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Issue of this Edition, A firm straight unmarked book, 178 pages, includes Index. Appears unread, about as new.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 163pp, illustrated, handwritten inscriptions on flyleaf and title verso, text clean and binding sound, marbeled boards and quarter-cloth, spine browned, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Robert Ross, London, 1950. Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. xi, 163 pages, 8 b/w plates. The book is clean, tight & square with faded to both ends of the spine. The DJ is heavily reinforced with tape, having wear to edges and losses to the spine & back panel, also with some chipping & creasing to the edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. 163pp. 1950. First edition. 8vo. sized. A good plus essentially clean, tight copy. No inscriptions. Original publisher's quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 8 illustrations to include a frontispiece. Fading to the cloth spine - less so to the cloth on the boards. A 4cm x 3.5cm sellotape (scotch tape) repair to the lower corner of the front board - and also to the inside corner by the paste-down - the tape now having browned. A good plus, essentially clean, tight copy.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. The personal memoirs of Tom Diaper, one of the great yacht skippers who raced for many famous yacht owners in the late 19th and early 20th century; with an introduction by Sir Sidney Wadsworth who describes "being completely carried away reading this unsophisticated but vivid and convincing narrative" of Diaper who spent his whole life at sea, his first job as a pantry boy aboard a team yacht, the 'Queen of Palmyra' in 1879 aged just 13. He retired in 1936 when he had become one of the most famous and successful of professional yacht skippers. He worked for the Earl of Dunraven, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Sir Thomas Lipton and many other famous yachtsmen. At the height of his success it was difficult to get other skippers to race against him. His account of his varied career is fascinating and depressing. It clearly shows how precarious was the livelihood gained even by the most gifted of professional yachting seamen. Unfortunately the author did not live to see the publication of his book, dying on the 12th December 1949 at the age of 82. Illustrated by 8 b/w. photo's. & with facsimiles of his handwritten notes at the head of each chapter. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi + 163 + 1. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Gilt titles spine (faded) with bright gilt ruling to cloth edge. light fading to cloth spine & some wear to outer corners. Includes index & list of publisher's yachting titles to rear. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Ships & the Sea; Yachting; Yacht Racing; Memoirs; late 19th and early 20th centuies; Sports & Pastimes. Inventory No: 4652. Member of the P.B.F.A. Hardcover (Quarterbound blue cloth and marbled paper).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. One of the great racing skippers of his day, this is the unadorned publication of his own diary, or log, originally written without thought of later publication. This copy has a lean on the spine but the jacket and contents are bright and clean. A little rubbing to the edge of the jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sports & Pastimes; sSwimming & Water; Inventory No: 56263.

1st edition. Large 8vo. xi + (1) + 163 + (1)pp. 8 photo plates including frontis. Publisher's blue cloth 1/2 covers, blue marble paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. White pictorial dw, tinted blue photo yacht on front, bw lettering, not price clipped 12s 6d net. Original white eps. Neat small signature on fep. Covers : fading to spine, shelf rubs top/bottom of spine & corners, few tiny ink spots rear at top edge else very clean & complete. Dw : spine missing, 3cm chip bottom edge . wear. Contents : very clean & tight & unfoxed. Clean tight copy with faded spine in tatty dw. VG-/G.