Compton Piers (171 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-LIBRARY Hard Cover in Good condition.This is the ORIGINAL published in 1932 and NOT a reprint. Minor shelf wear.Corners bumped. Spine faded. Clean, Strong binding and unmarked pages. No underlining or notes in the margins. No Dust Jacket. Previous owners name first page.Normal LIBRARY markings. Books shipped in the USA packed in a sturdy box. All USA orders ship with tracking number and email confirmation. Payment may be made by Check, Money Order or Paypal.…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Paperback, VG. 236pp, paper browned, a nice copy. Bay Tree Book Number 3. A Biography of the French Inventor. 100 grams.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Stains to cover, page edges, and/or pages inside. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Condition: Very Good. 1979. hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1979. hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy. . . . .

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. age discoloration to back strip and boards, former owner's name, otherwise a clean, sound copy, octavo, 361 pages, blue cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

8vo; original orange boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 192; plates; map. Dustwrapper ever so slightly rubbed and edgeworn. Very good condition. "Gordon, like some other great generals, was not cast in a traditionally belligerent mould: with his back to the wall that strangeness of outlook which sometimes led to the charge of madness, yielded place to the reminder that he sprang from three generations of soldiers. His personality puzzled many of his contemporaries: and it is certainly not in keeping with the pattern of our time, when a stiff upper lip is held to be synonymous with an empty head. Apart from the fact that his fate was decided by the paucity of military means at his disposal, an odd assortment of details contributed to the end of this typically Victorian hero. There was the fall in the level of a river, a time-wasting search for scarlet tunics and the unromantic fact that a colourful naval officer developed boils.".…

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. x 179pp hardback, blue cloth gilt in wrapper, fold-out pedigree at rear, illustrated, price cut out of front flap of wrapper, florid gift inscription to ffep.

Condition: Good. 1979. Second Edition. 117 pages. Dust jacket over paper covered boards. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New. Marshal Ney (Paperback or Softback).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Publishers review copy with their promotional material loosely inserted. Physical description; 256 p. : illus. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell Earl of (1797-1868). Great Britain. Army. Light Brigade. Balaklava, Battle of, Balaklava, Ukraine, 1854. Piers Compton. Cardigan of Balaclava. Hale 1972. Crimean War. British cavalry. Light Brigade commander. Charge of the Light Brigade. Military biography. 19th century military history. British army officer. Victorian warfare. Personal narrative. Noble commander. Biography of Lord Cardigan. 1 Kg.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hb, no d/w, 256pp, plates.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book is in fair condition and very clean with no writing or markings anywhere. Binding is loose but no missing pages. Some slight water damage on front and back cover. Bay Tree Books are a series of books, novels, biographies and real life stories in the English language. This edition is of Louis Pasteur.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Publishers review copy with their promotional material loosely inserted. Physical description; 256 p. : illus. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell Earl of (1797-1868). Great Britain. Army. Light Brigade. Balaklava, Battle of, Balaklava, Ukraine, 1854. Piers Compton. Cardigan of Balaclava. Hale 1972. Crimean War. British cavalry. Light Brigade commander. Charge of the Light Brigade. Military biography. 19th century military history. British army officer. Victorian warfare. Personal narrative. Noble commander. Biography of Lord Cardigan. 1 Kg.…