John Milling (11 results)

Condition: Fair. No edition remarks. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and heavy foxing throughout. Notable tanning to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean.…

Condition: Very Good. No Edition Remarks. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Very good darkgreen cloth hardcover with gilt titles. A trifle worn to extremities. No inscriptions. Black & white frontispiece with a further twelve black & white photographs. Some spotting to closed page edges. 24 pages of publisher's advertisements to rear. The author relates his travel adventures in Bermuda, India, and Ireland also his wartime experiences in the great war. ; Black & white photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pages.…

Hard. Condition: Good. First printing. Good. Lacking dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Octavo hardback. 316 pp. Slightly sunned at bottom edge, otherwise Very Good condition in Good dust jacket. Jacket is chipped at top edge.

Hardback. Condition: VG. No DW. 1st Edition. Clean tight book but minor disocloration of covers.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 48pp.

First Edition. Single sheet movie poster for Nightmare. Very good copy, light wear, faint fold marks. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 104cm x 68.5cm. Synopsis: A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Single sheet movie poster for Nightmare. Very good copy, light wear, faint fold marks. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 104cm x 68.5cm. Synopsis: A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution. 1 Kg.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A wonderful first edition copy of Milling's travel work, in which he relates his earlier and current experiences shooting and hunting in Bermuda, India, and Ireland, with numerous illustrated plates. Very scarce first edition.Bound in half-calf on cloth boards.Illustrations include a frontispieceThis is a wonderfully written travel work by John M. Milling, in which the author spends a fair portion of his time fishing and hunting. Milling details his upbringing and his 'earliest sporting reminiscences', as well as his travels to Bermuda, India, and Ireland.Contents include 'Early Days', 'Adolescence', 'Ireland', and 'Nowhere in Particular'.Written by John McMaster Milling.Twenty-four pages of publisher's adverts to rear of text.Collated, complete. Bound in half-calf on cloth boards. Externally, excellent, with just a bit of fading and wear to the spine and top edge of boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout, with light age-toning to margins. Near Fine. Various (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Chieftain goatskins, dyed the exact shade of RAF wool-barathea wartime uniform fabric. The front cover is gold-blocked with the title and incorporates specially woven RAF wings of 1940 type by Gieves and Hawkes, No. 1 Savile Row, London, with the King's crown, the marker ribbon of blue silk bearing the emblems of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association, 22-carat gold edging. 4to. 13¼'' x 10''. The print run is strictly limited to 401 copies, No. 1 being presented to HM The Queen. This copy being number 173. Each copy bears the handwritten signatures of the twenty-five selected Battle of Britain pilots: Wg Cdr P. P. C. Barthropp; Wg Cdr R. P. Beaumont; Sqn Ldr G. H. Bennions; Air Vice-Marshal H. A. C. Bird-Wilson; Air Cdre P. M. Brothers; Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling; Gp Capt W. D. David; Air Cdre A. C. Deere; Sqn Ldr B. H. Drobinski; Flt Lt J. H. Duart; Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris; Gp Capt T. P. Gleave; Wg Cdr N. P. W. Hancock; Sqn Ldr C. Haw; Cdr R. C. Hay; Gp Capt C. B. F. Kingcome; Colonel Henry Gaston Lafont; Air Cdre A. R. D. MacDonell; Sqn Ldr M. J. Mansfeld; W Cdr A. G. Page; Wg Cdr P. L. Parrott; Gp Capt D. F. B. Sheen; Wg Cdr F. M. Smith; Wg Cdr J. E. Storrar; Wg Cdr G. C. Unwin. Housed in matching buckram clamshell box with blue silk lining and gilt titling. Unopened book in new condition in Fine condition box. Pocket inside the box holds original sales receipt, The Times colour supplement advertisement, typed letter from the original purchaser to Air Vice Marshall Freddie Hurrell confirming his order and enclosed cheque, he also mentions that he would wish to collect the book himself from Hartnolls in Bodmin when the book was ready. SIGNED letter from Air Vice Marshall Freddie Hurrell to the recipient on Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund letter-headed paper with details of the book. Hartnoll Delivery Note. Advertisement prospectus giving in-depth details concerning the various elements of production with a photograph of the six protagonists: Michael Pierce, John Golley, Roy Asser, Bill Gunston, Brian Masterton, and Freddie Hurrell to the front cover viewing the finished product. Remains wrapped in Hartnoll's original brown paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATTLE OF BRITAIN.…