Drage Charles (97 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Privately printed, 1971. Hard cover, first edition; signed and inscribed by author on flyleaf. VG condition with no dust jacket, as issued. Signed.

Condition: Good. 1960. First Edition. 208 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Owner address stamps to fly, dust jacket with portion missing at base of spine, now in protective mylar. 208pp. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Solid with light wear on the covers. King is a clairvoyant.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. 159 pages. Square solid copy with a crease on spine, some dents on back cover, and covers show light wear from rubbing. "This book does not set out to be a treatise on divination, spiritualism or any such subject, but simply the life story of a man born with a peculiar and somewhat uncomfortable gift, on which he finally succeeded in building an outstandingly successful career.".

Condition: New. In.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Reading copy. Top of pages 5-28 torn, without loss of text. (jews, england, london, canada, china ).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. * PUBLISHER : ICON BOOKS * YEAR : 1962 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 159 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER IS HEAVILY RUBBED AND CREASED WITH BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS WITH STAINS AND MARKS TO THE REAR. THE SPINE IS HEAVILY RUBBED AND CREASED WITH BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS WITH SMALL TEARS TO THE BOTTOM. THE SPINE IS SLIGHTLY COCKED AND THE HINGE IS CRACKED AT SEVERAL PLACES WITHIN BOOK, HOWEVER THE BINDING REMAINS FIRM. THE PAGES ARE TANNED, THOUGH PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Condition: Good. 1966. First Edition. 283 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Caernarvon. 1st Edition, 1956/ 158pp., ills., maps, index.Hardcover. Intriguing biography of an Officer in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry with pre war service and then service in Gallipoli (Suvla Bay), Salonika, India (with a nasty comment about Viceroy Curzon), Shan States in Burma etc. Written by his son and with a presentation inscription dated 1959 to Prof. Tarnovski of Harvard University. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1969. First Edition. 223 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Signed by the author with dedication to front free end paper. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with tears and creasing.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and tears.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

1st ed. Scrape in cloth on back board, with tiny nick in back joint of spine; spine title a little worn. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket).

Condition: New. In.

Condition: Good. 1970. First Edition. 320 pages. Red dust jacket with white lettering over blue cloth. B&W photographs throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Small red hanko seal stamp to title page. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear to edges and corners. Light soiling and creasing to DJ.

1st edition, 1960. Light foxing to pages. Shallow dent to lower edge of rear board. Dust jacket not price-clipped; creased at edges; heavily foxed on rear panel. Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. As photographed; 2nd printing in the same year as first edition; dust-jacket, unclipped, worn at edges; red cloth bds with gilt spine lettering, all very gd; owner's pencilled name to ffep; otherwise unmarked and clean throughout; private ownership; frontis. portr. + 286 + 6pls. This is an autobiography of Morris Cohen written jointly with Charles Drage. Cohen, brought up in the Jewish community of London's East End, joined the Shanghai Police after serving in the First World War, and became a.d.c .and bodyguard to the politician Sun Yat-Sen. He identified strongly with Chinese nationalism, spoke Chinese fluently, and rose to become a General in the Kuomintang army. After the communist takeover he was forced to leave China, but retained his links to the country, which he visited again on a couple of occasions, including the November 1966 centenary celebrations for Sun Yat-Sen, whom he had so greatly admired.

xii, 223[1] pp including index, numerous black & white plates, occasional pedigrees within the pagination. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper. 23 cm x 15 cm. Dustwrapper worn with loss to edges, dustwrapper has stuck to the spine and lower section of boards caused by a spillage of some kind leaving paper residue to the cloth, ink note to front free endpaper.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a poor and somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. SIGNED and inscribed. Physical description: 158 p. illus. 22 cm. Subjects: Drage, Godfrey 1868-1953; Great Britain. Army. ; Biography; Soldiers Great Britain ; Biography; Shan (Asian people). 3 Kg.

first edition inscribed by author 223pp ills.[b/w] NEAR FINE (blue cloth,author's inscr.to ffep) in VERY GOOD- dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,tape repairs internally/externally to upper/lower edges,price-clipped).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket in protective mylar. 208pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO Dustwrapper. Biography of well known clairvoyant. Anthony Blond, UK 1960. 208pp hb NO Dust-wrapper, eps foxed, pages browned especially along top edge otherwise vg.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 320pp, index, appendices, bw ills, maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Minor edge wear ro jacket, some foxing to page egdes and light foxing to endpapers. Recounts numerous persoanl triumphs and tragedies of the employees of Far East shipping company Butterfield & Swire as they lived colourful and frequently dramatic lives against a background of plague and cholera, civil tumult and foreign invasion, flood, fire, famine and earthquake. Size: 8vo.