Dawson Captain a J (37 results)

Wraps. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edition Not Stated. 12 pages. The right side edge of the front cover is roubn.One smal spot in the text. Peter Dawson (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. enerally clean and unmarked pages, but some foxing minor stains noted in text, thumb print at page 111. All 14 plates present. Binding is loose at pages 19 to 30. Previous owner's name penciled on front endpaper. Bookworm damage on inside of front and rear boards. Staining on front board, rear board has a bookworm hole. Spine slightly bumped at head and tail. One of a series of wartime publications written by Captain A. J. Dawson and the popular cartoonist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. Here the pair offer a tribute to the principal British ally on the Wester Front, providing reportage and sketches from the trenches of Verdun to wartime Paris. A propagandistic tribute from one ally to another with some vivid scenes from the trenches of Verdun as well as descriptions of Paris in war time and the training of French war dogs for sentry duty in the front lines, liaison work, carrying messages or guiding stretcher bearers. …

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good --. No Jacket. Assumed First Edition. Fairly tight binding, clean interior. Assumed first edition since date on copyright and title page both 1918. Red boards worn on edges and corners, shelf wear and stains to both boards.Picture on front board has been compromised. Hinge cracks by front and back board. Red pen markings on inner front board and ffep, interior otherwise unmarked. Anonymous letters from an officer in France during WWI. 263 pp.…

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. For France! (C'est Pour La France) by Captain A. J. Dawson, drawn by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather.Hardback, 1917, illustrated, published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 176 pages + viii.Octavo/8vo. Measures around 8 3/4" by 5 3/4" by 1 1/8". Tan cloth binding, black lettering, edging and lilac decoration to front board; black lettering to spine. Discolouration to spine and to some degree on boards. Scuffing, marking and staining, particularly to edges of boards. Signs of shelf-wear, bumped and torn corners. Binding holding, reasonably firm on outside, but some strain and cracking in parts of textblock, including towards front inner hinge and loose plate between pages 66 and 67. Page edges a little deckled; some browning and scuffing. Some foxing to preliminaries and hindmost pages, occasional marking throughout page surfaces but generally clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information. viii + 176 pp. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. From the collection of Ex-libris, with their stamp mark. No edition or date stated, C1946. Frontispiece in color. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. The text within the book is bright and clear. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated first edition from hodder illustrated by Bairnsfather on brown cloth with some intermittent spotting.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. 2006. hardcover. . . . . .

1st edition original boards Very Good small octavo vii + 239pp., b/w pls., Powerful, often brutal accounts. Boards rather worn, ownership signature, & lacks front end paper. Reading copy only.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Dawson, Captain A. J. Somme battle stories / recorded by Captain A. J. Dawson ; illustrated by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. London: published for "The Bystander" by Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. Hardback, Good to Fair, no dustjacket. Red cloth, sunned to spine and edges, bumped to corners, with faint cup ring to front. Binding sound. No ffep (possibly as published). Tanning to half-title. Frontispiece colour illustration. pp. 1-2 loose from the block and frayed at the edges. 239pp., b/w illustrations. Occasional light foxing, otherwise contents clean. The book comprises a collection of stories narrating experiences of individuals during the Somme offensive, recorded and put together by Dawson. All unit identifications and names of individuals are withheld, printed as a dash or hyphen. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Owner's signature. Frontipiece partly detached. Spine faded. 1/4" knock at head of rear board.; vii, [1], 239, [1] pages + 6 b&w plates. Red cloth covers with black titles on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 180mm x 115mm. Military history, World War One. Contents: "What It's Like" in the Push; The Spirit of the British Soldier; The Moral of the Boche; An Irish Office Describes the Indescribable; Close Quarters; The Devil's Wood; The Cockney Fighter; "We Don't Count Wounds in My Regiment"; A Reverend Corporal; Brothers of the Parsonage; The Australian as a Fighter; News for the O.C. Company at Home; "Stickfast" and His Officer; A Cool Canadian; The Hospital Mail-Bags; The Difference; What Every M.O. Knows; The South Africa; "It's A Great Do"; On the Way to London.; 12mo. Illustrated by Bairnsfather, Bruce (Captain) (illustrator).…

1st edition original boards Very Good small octavo vii + 239pp., b/w plates, Powerful, often brutal accounts. Inc. chapters such as 'The Spirit of the British Soldier', 'An Irish Officer Describes the Indescribable', 'The Cockney Fighter', 'The Australian as a Fighter', 'A Cool Canadian', 'The South African' etc. Signs of use o/w very good reading copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. The boards are marked, worn and stained. Edge tears. Reinforced hinges. Some foxing and spill marks. Internally clean and tightly bound. Fair copy. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Good with some shelf/age wear. Free of any markings and no writings inside. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Condition: New. 2006. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

1st edition original boards Very Good small octavo vii + 239pp., b/w plates, Powerful, often brutal accounts. Inc. chapters such as 'The Spirit of the British Soldier', 'An Irish Officer Describes the Indescribable', 'The Cockney Fighter', 'The Australian as a Fighter', 'A Cool Canadian', 'The South African' etc. Some use & lacks front end paper o/w very good reading copy.…

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bairnsfather, Bruce (illustrator). 1st Edition. Sub-title: 'Some English Impressions Of The French Front'. A propagandistic tribute from one ally to another with some vivid scenes from the trenches of Verdun as well as descriptions of Paris in war time. There is also an interesting chapter on a visit to a camp where the French Army looked after its working dogs. Illustrations throughout from the British Army's best-selling cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather. A tight, clean & tidy VG copp. Only the mildest of foxing to pages here and there. One previous own inscription.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Dustwrapper. 1st. 176 pages. Bruce Bairnsfather (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Blue cloth (the spine has faded to brown) with black titles to front and spine. Black & white plates by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather.

1st edition original boards Nice Copy small octavo vii + 239pp., col. frontis., b/w pls., Powerful, often brutal accounts. Inc. chapters such as 'The Spirit of the British Soldier', 'An Irish Officer Describes the Indescribable', 'The Cockney Fighter', 'The Australian as a Fighter', 'A Cool Canadian', 'The South African' etc. Paper browning o/w a nice, bright, tight, square copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition of this series of stories about the men at war illustrated by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather of "Old Bill" fame. 8 plates inc coloured frontispiece. Red cloth black titles, some light rubbing at edges and red cloth patchy in parts but just age loss of colour rather than any damp or such, spine also a little faded. Some foxing to endpapers and prelims with a little mark or two on a couple of pages, (sounds worse than it is) all tight and plates and text still very good really. 239 pages. Bruce Bairnsfather. (illustrator).…

1st edition orig. cloth Near Fine octavo 176pp., frontis., b/w pls., Illustrations by Bruce Bairnsfather.