J Stopford (138 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 2 portraits, one by Alexander, 1886, the other engraved by Johnson after the Myers photograph, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLV, #2, December, 1892. Poet Robert Browning. Housed in protective mylar report cover. J. W. Alexander / F. W. H. Myers, Photographer / T. Johnson, Engraver (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., Published 1968. Paperback, vii + 109 pp.; 22 cm; second edition, second reprint; illustrated with line drawings and diagrams throughout. In good condition. Orange laminated card covers, lettering in red, the lamination turned in and mitred at the corners as issued. Chipping to the lamination with nicks and short tears along edges, creasing to corners, moderate scuffing and soiling. Binding tight. Pages toned but otherwise unmarked.Practical seamanship manual on rope, wire, blocks, tackles and ground tackle, first published 1925 and still being reprinted forty years later. Stopford opens the second edition by quoting a naval flag officer who had dismissed the first, holding that "most naval learners will be content to acquire their instruction from practical experience rather than from a book of this class." He answers that writing it down was meant to prevent destruction of material and danger to life and limb, and returns to boat-ropes, believing boats reported capsized while being lowered were lost for want of the knowledge. Part I covers cordage manufacture, bends and hitches, splicing, sennit and net-making, blocks and purchases, derricks and towing; Part II anchors, cables, mooring and clearing hawse, closing with fancy knots. Brown, Son & Ferguson of Glasgow have been nautical printers since the 1830s and publish Brown's Nautical Almanac.Contents: Part I. Cordage and Cables: Ropes, Process of Manufacture, Wire Ropes; Care and Maintenance of Ropes, Cutting, Strength, Steel Wire Rope; The Danger of a Taut Span, Strength of a Span; Bends and Hitches, Their Uses; Knots and Splices, Hemp, Wire Splicing, Eye-Splice, Wire Grummet; Point, Graft, Seizing, Lashings, Serving, Flemish Eye; Sennit, Net-Making and Mending; Blocks, Tackles, Purchases, Stropping Blocks; Derricks, Sheers; Boats' Falls; Laying-out Hawsers, Securing to a Buoy; Securing a Vessel alongside a Wharf or another Vessel; Application of the Parallelogram of Forces to the Foregoing Subject; Towing. Part II. Anchors and Cables: Types of Anchors; Cables, Manufacture, Kinds, Shackles; Stowage of Anchors; Cable Holders and Capstans; Anchoring, Weighing, Mooring, Unmooring; Mooring Head and Stern; Clearing Hawse; Laying-out Anchors, Bower, Sheet Anchor, Kedging; Some Fancy Knots.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 290mm x 210mm (11" x 8"). xviii, 101pp + plates. 99 full colour badges. Illustrated laminated card cover.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:0471277053.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust Jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780415089876.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 116p, many illustrations, a VG hardback.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. G+ disbound physically extracted from a copy of the English Illustrated Magazine about 10pp in all. light marginal staining. Book.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

First edition tall quarto paperback, 99 pages illustrated with black & white photographs and 99 colour reproductions of badges from HMS Bacchante HMS Buzzard. Fine card covers, no inscriptions.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Excellent reference Volume 2. 99pp., ills., colour section. near fine card covers 0.0.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. 2nd edition. (cordage, cables, seamanship, anchors) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

PB. Condition: very good, wraps (softcover). 99pp ISBN 1870842022. B&W and color illustrations (illustrator).

PB. Condition: very good, wraps (softcover). 97pp ISBN 187084200X. B&W and color illustrations (illustrator).

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:9780470850657.…

Condition: Fair. 1915. No Edition Remarks. 250 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second edition. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., (1940). Second edition. hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo, yellow cloth covers stamped in black; vii [1] + 116 pages. Includes black and white illustrations. 021210A.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Presumed 1st ed. vii,108pp. Illus drawings & diagrams. Boards lightly rubbed & sl. damage head & tail of spine. Small stamp of previous owner on ffep. Date insc'n. to another owner on front paste. Odd stain inside but generally a decent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Concise mid-century handbook on the materials, construction, and industrial uses of cordage, ropes, and cables, with clear diagrams and practical trade guidance, minor wear to dust jacket, soiled.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.