Count Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. This is an ex-library copy with usual ex-library marks including bookplates, stamps, and numbers to the spine. Maroon cloth with gilt stamped covers are worn. Spine ends rubbed. Pages slightly toned, and back end pages are slightly foxed. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bound in green cloth, paper label on spine. Printed by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London and Bungay. Frontispiece inserted and portrait reproduced in photogravure; thirty-nine illustrations in text printed as half-tones and line-engravings. A tight, clean, scarce copy. Kramer 172 Kramer #13.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [8], 308pp, [map], [appendix], [4]. Blue cloth, title stamped on the spine. The first printing, with no additional printings noted. Cloth torn on the spine, soiling to spine. Front hinge starting, but stable. Occasional foxing throughout. Frontispiece portrait of Count Luckner, numerous illustrated plates, endpaper maps. In the publisher's near fine dust jacket, likely married with this copy, faint soiling to spine, bright illustrations. Inscribed on the second free endpaper: "By Joe / Mr. John W. Binford / never say die! / yours Felix Count Luckner / Xmas 1936." Count Felix von Luckner (1881-1966) was a German naval officer famed for his World War I commerce-raiding exploits aboard the Seeadler, a wind-powered auxiliary cruiser he commanded with an unusual emphasis on minimizing loss of life; over an 11-month cruise in 1916-17, he captured or sank more than a dozen Allied ships while taking hundreds of prisoners without a single combat fatality. Nicknamed the "Sea Devil," he cultivated a public image of chivalry at sea, and his postwar career mixed lectures, memoir writing (The Sea Devil's Fo'c'sle, The Sea Devil), and occasional controversy tied to his status as a nationalist symbol during the Weimar and early Nazi periods, though he later distanced himself from the regime. His dramatic escape attempts after the Seeadler was wrecked on Mopelia Island-culminating in a brief recapture after seizing a small boat-added to his legend. The first edition of Count Luckner, The Sea Devil, by Lowell Thomas, inscribed by Count Felix von Luckner, Captain of the SMS Seeadler. (illustrator). Signed.…

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xiv, [2], 399pp. Gray hardcover, title in silver on black cloth spine. Stated "First Edition" with publisher's full number line. Solid text block, light wear to corners, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $19.95 retail price on front flap, light wear along top edge, a near fine example. Signed by numerous members of the Count Basie Orchestra on the front endpaper, Albert Murray on the half title, and on a laid-in card by Count Basie. Murray's inscription reads: "To Stanley Cigar Cohen for Martha from Albert Murray / at the Gatz / in Feb 86." From top to bottom, signatures include: Grover Mitchell (Trombone), Butch Miles, Rudy Rutherford (Clar + Sax), Jimmy Lewis (Bass), Buddie Tate, Eddie Preston (Trumpet), Freddie Green, Frank Foster, Frank Wess, Tommy Flanagan (Pianist), and Walter Marsalis. Inscribed by eleven members of the Count Basie Orchestra, the first edition of Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie. (illustrator). Signed.…