Geoffrey Major (47 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white maps. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Undated reprint hardcover in rust cloth covered boards with brown titles, sharp tips and bumped (not rubbed) spine ends. Former name on fep, else crisp, bright and unmarked. 143pp. Not exlib. Original illust dj shows chips but displays well in new mylar. True story of two horses owned by Major-General Geoffrey Brooke is a factual tale of how he brought these two along to be completely rounded hacks, show jumpers, fox hunters and even polo ponies. Inside is all the details one would need to do so to their own mounts.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. cover shows minor wear and rubibng, lacking dj. pages lightly foxed.

Condition: Good. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Lightly age-toned endpapers, less so to the textblock, else clean and tight. Small, folded cut on the spine cloth, bumped head and foot, light character wear on front cover. Lacks dust jacket; 156p., including index. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pamela Searight (illustrator). Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition undated reprint hardcover in rust paper covered boards with brown titles, sharp tips and rubbed spine end. 143pp text is crisp, bright and unmarked. Former name on fep, not exlib. Professionally reproduced dj shows chips but displays well in new mylar. True story of two horses owned by Major-General Geoffrey Brooke is a factual tale of how he brought these two along to be completely rounded hacks, show jumpers, fox hunters and even polo ponies. Inside is all the details one would need to do so to their own mounts.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good Only. First Edition. 146. Well worn with a tape-repaired triangular tear on the front cover. Cover art by Rafael DeSoto. This issue contains: Charley Hoe Handle and the Great Big Bass by Jim Kjelgaard; Balloons for Bowlegs by William du Bois; The Crooked Mile by John H. Knox; Uncle Ned's Teeth by James Norman Hall; Killers Love Guns by Michael Oblinger; Spite Corner by Georges Surdez; The Devil to Pay by Franklin Gregory; The Cape Town Blighter by Geoffrey Major; North of Forty by Fred Lane; Winter Drift by Harold O. Weight; Downriver Passage by Steve Hall; One in a Million by K. M. Walker; Right on the Barrelhead by John Richard Young; and Why Bother Davy Jones? by Albert Richard Wetjen; along with the usual features. Size: 8vo. Rafael DeSoto; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: VG. pp 34 front cover has 6 small indentations but not offensive.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean hardback tightly bound in brown cloth with black titles, cloth rubbed at corners and spine ends, no inscriptions. 144 pages, illustrations in the text by Pamela Seawright, index; ; Show Jumping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gift quality undated hardcover in rust cloth covered boards with brown spine title, sharp tips and bumped (not rubbed) spine ends. Negligible foxing on endpps, else crisp, bright and unmarked. 143 pp. Illust dj is a professional reproduction with tiny chips at spine ends, a rub on the rear gutter and includes the rare, original publisher's detail wrap and displays well in new mylar. True story of two horses owned by Major-General Geoffrey Brooke is a factual tale of how he brought these two along to be completely rounded hacks, show jumpers, fox hunters and even polo ponies. Inside is all the details one would need to do so to their own mounts.…

Octavo, blue boards (hbardcover), viii, [ii], 146 pp. Frontis portrait, photos. Near-Fine, with bookplate, in dust jacket. Aviation, World War I, Royal Navy, Military History, WWI. nslic.

trade paperback. Condition: very good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED4to; 60 pages; very good trade paperback; tips bumped; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). ND (1953) 1st edition. 12mo (117 x 177mm). Pp31. Illustrated with drawings by R.P. Needham. Green cloth, title printed in black on upper board only. Dust-wrapper. Slight faults. Good-plus in price-clipped dust-wrapper. A tale of trout fishing on the River Avon in Hampshire, told in verse. .…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. New and Revised Edition. Lonsdale Library Vol. I. 86 illus. Cloth bit worn & grubby; one page creased. 1C18.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Clean hardback tightly bound in quarter brown cloth over yellow cloth with gilt titles and decoration, cloth has minor rubbing with previous owner's name & date (1944) on front endpaper, marks on pages 175-180 from pressed flower. 368 pages, photos on plates, diagrams in the text, appendices, index. …

Hardcover. Condition: Generally Very Good. First Edition. Memoirs of a pilot during the First World War. Blue cloth, even light fading to spine, else very good. No jacket. Very small inscription to upper free ep. Photo illustrations. 146pp A nice copy.

Condition: Good. Revised edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 316pp. 86 illustrations. Original two-tone brown cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the edges of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (some light rubbing, light sunning of the spine panel).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good book in clean fresh green cloth covers with bright gilt titles to spine. Internally very good; owner's details to flyleaf; profusely illustrated with 52 plates [one is lacking]; binding tight; no foxing of note; 156pp. Pamel Searight (illustrator).…

Softcover. xv, 327 pp. Softcover. LCC: 2001025755 Good condition; light wear on covers; outer edge of front cover is slightly curved; product code on rear cover is crossed out in pen.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor+. 1st Edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. 64 pp. Colour frontis + 5 other line illustrations by Lucy Dawson as called for. First Edition 1946.The life story of a Spaniel named Jummy by Major-Genereal Brooke who was given the black & white Springer Spaniel when he was soldering in India - trained up as a gun dog - bought back to English countryside - until the wheels of an army truck nearly broke the heart of a devoted dog-lover.Good/ Poor (Book- moderate general shelf wear and soiling to cloth, previous owner name and date to free front end paper. Binding sound. Dust Jacket - Numerous nicks and tears with some loss - max 1.5 cm at head, a little general shelf soiling, non price clipped, 7/6, Please see our images of the actual item offered for sale. Dawson , Lucy (illustrator).…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). ND (1953) 1st edition. 12mo (117 x 177mm). Pp31. Illustrated with drawings by R.P. Needham. Green cloth, title printed in black on upper board only. Dust-wrapper. Slightly faded but very good in dust-wrapper. A tale of trout fishing on the River Avon in Hampshire, told in verse. .…

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A chapter on harness and equipment is followed by chapters on single, double and tandem driving. The author acknowledges valuable assistance from Major H. F. Faudel-Phillips. Illustrated with black/white photographs. An undated edition from the British Driving Society - both Wells and Grimshaw give a date of 1958, though this copy has 38 pages rather than the 34 pages stated by Wells. By completing the additional Form of Application for Membership, the sum of two pounds and twelve shillings will admit you to your first year's membership of the British Driving Society! Minor shelf wear for a book that is 50+ years old.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Lewes, The Author, [circa 1920s]. Octavo; binder's cloth; an excellent copy. Loosely inserted is an original photograph of a horse and buggy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 13th thousand. 8.5" x 5.5". 160pp, illustrated + plates. Very good hardback in torn and defective, now protected, dustwrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 3rd ed. ; xv, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm ; LCCN 2005012625 ; ISBN 9781931719681 , 1931719683 ; OCLC 60348832 ; stiff color paper wrappers ; Contents: section I. Defining and understanding gangs -- 1. Defining and researching gangs / Robert J. Bursik Jr., Harold G. Grasmick -- 2. The history of gang research / Scott H. Decker, Barrik Van Winkle -- 3. A multiple marginality framework of gangs / James Diego Vigil -- 4. The antecedents of gang membership / Terence P. Thornberry, Marvin D. Krohn, Alan J. Lizotte, Carolyn A. Smith, Kimberly Tobin -- 5. Getting into gangs / Jody Miller -- 6. Leaving the gang / Scott H. Decker, Janet L. Lauritsen -- section II. Distribution and structures of gangs -- 7. Recent patterns of gang problems in the United States : results from the 1996-2002 National Youth Gang Survey / Arlen Egley Jr., James C. Howell, Aline K. Major -- 8. The evolution of street gangs : an examination of form and variation / Deborah Lamm Weisel -- 9. Street gangs : a cross-national perspective / Malcolm W. Klein -- 10. Gang members on the move / Cheryl L. Maxson -- 11. Inside the Fremont Hustlers / Mark S. Fleisher -- 12. The working gang / Felix Padilla -- 13. An overview of the challenge of prison gangs / Mark S. Fleisher, Scott H. Decker -- section III. Race, ethnicity, and gender in gangs -- 14. Race and gender differences between gang and nongang youths : results from a multi-site study / Finn-Aage Esbensen, L. Thomas Winfree Jr -- 15. Chinese gangs and extortion / Ko-Lin Chin -- 16. Patterns of ethnic violence in a Frankfurt street gang / Hermann Tertilt -- 17. Female gangs : a focus on research / Joan Moore, John Hagedorn -- 18. The impact of sex composition on gangs and gang member delinquency / Dana Peterson, Jody Miller, Finn-Aage Esbensen -- section IV. Gangs, violence, and drugs -- 19. Membership in youth gangs and involvement in serious and violent offending / Terence P. Thornberry -- 20. Gang involvement and delinquency in a middle school population / G. David Curry, Scott H. Decker, Arlen Egley Jr -- 21. Situations of violence in the lives of girl gang members / Geoffrey Hunt, Karen Joe-Laidler -- 22. Defining gang homicide : an updated look at member and motive approaches / Cheryl L. Maxson, Malcolm W. Klein -- 23. Gang homicide in L.A., 1981-2001 / George Tita, Allan Abrahamse -- 24. Street gang crime in Chicago / Carolyn Rebecca Block, Richard Block -- 25. 'Getting high and getting by' : dimensions of drug selling behaviors among American Mexican gang members in South Texas / Avelardo Valdez, Stephen J. Sifaneck -- section V. Programs and policies -- 26. Public policy responses to gangs : evaluating the outcomes / Noelle E. Fearn, Scott H. Decker, G. David Curry -- 27. G-Dog and the homeboys / Celeste Fremon -- 28. New approaches to the strategic prevention of gang and group-involved violence / Anthony A. Braga, David M. Kennedy, George E. Tita -- 29. A study of police gang units in six cities / Vincent J. Webb, Charles M. Katz -- 30. Gang problems and gang programs in a national sample of schools : summary / Gary D. Gottfredson, Denise C. Gottfredson -- 31. The national evaluation of the Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program / Finn-Aage Esbensen -- 32. Antigang legislation and its potential impact : the promises and the pitfalls / Beth Bjerregaard -- 33. For the sake of the neighborhood? : civil gang injunctions as a gang intervention tool in Southern California / Cheryl L. Maxson, Karen Hennigan, David C. Sloan ; a few bent page corners at back, else FINE. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp38, nice copy in original blue cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not Given. Brown cloth, 303 pages. No date, appears 1920s, 1930s. Novel of a woman's life, set mostly in France. Corners bit bruised, spine bit worn; some foxing edges and ends. Uncommon. 3B7.

Buckram Spine Cloth Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 316 pages, 90 black and white line and tone illustrations. Light mark to front and light indentations to back board, but nothing serious, otherwise very good throughout. Size: 220x140mm.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.