Kenneth W Byron (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy, text also very good. Shelfwear is very minor. Light age-toning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked. Cover has light shelfwear. Dust jacket has a few small tears and chips, particularly at corners and spine. In mylar cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Treasure Ships and Tropic Isles is the true story of the wreck of the Port au Prince in Tonga in 1806 and the Eliza in Fiji in 1808. The Port au Prince carried a fortune in pirate treasure, and the Eliza was laden with more than Spanish currency.…

1st edition stiff wrappers Nice Copy lge. octavo 118pp., b/w plates, maps, bibliog., True story of the wreck of the Port au Prince in Tonga in 1806 & of the Eliza in Fiji in 1808. Are their huge treasures still to be found.

Paperback, 18x23.75cm, 118pp. Good condition. Light wear and scuff marks. Creased corners. Foxed edges. ISBN: 0909223181.

8vo (23.5x17.5cm), paperback, prelims + 118pp. With b&w illustrations. Good condition. Faint sunned marks to front edges, a few mild scratches and marks. Pictures available on request. Contains the stories of the 'Port Au Prince' in Tonga in 1806; and the 'Eliza' in Fiji in 1808.

232 SS. Gr.-8°. OBroschur. Äußerlich moderate Altersspuren. Examination of Australian and New Zealand lost treasures, including shipwrecks, gold reefs and bushrangers' hidden caches. Includes West Australian wrecks: The Batavia, the Gilt Dragon, the Ocean Queen, the Lancier and the Zuytdorp. Aufgrund der von der Europäischen Union erlassenen EPR-Handels-Erschwernisse kann in folgende Länder KEIN VERSAND mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Polen, Österreich, Rumänien, Dänemark, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien. Sollte eine deutsche Lieferadresse möglich sein, kann an diese aber problemlos geliefert werden! * * * due to EPR-Restrictions NO SHIPPING to Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia and Spain * * * Sprache: Deutsch 749 gr. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xvi, 17- 234pp, central section of mono-tone maps. Baby blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded top edges, rubbed bottom corners and spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Lender's stamps and markings on front endpapers and copyright page. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Angus and Robertson: 1965. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First British edition. Back board ever so slightly bowed, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has mild rubbing along the edges. Book is near fine, jacket is very good.

Soft cover (Stapled Wrappers). Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small Octavo, 48pp. Original double-issue printed stapled wrappers featuring a front-cover science fiction cityscape illustration by legendary fan artist Byron T. Jeeves.Features: This expanded double issue contains vital historical records of British fandom, including W. Peter Campbell's definitive London Convention Report (1952). It features an important early academic study titled "Lovecraft's Amateur Press Works" by noted Cthulhu Mythos scholar George T. Wetzel. The back cover is highly visual and historically notable, displaying illustrated preview announcements for the debut issue of Scotland's historic Nebula Science Fiction magazine (featuring cover art by Alan Hunter) alongside the Dutch publication Planeet (Ruimteschip 2213).Condition: Very Good. Heavy text-block issue remains structurally solid. Minimal rubbing to the spine edge. Interior is clean and untoned, and the illustrated rear cover is sharp and well-preserved. Byron T. Jeeves (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xv, 232pp, index, notes, references, appendix, 16pp maps. Beige cloth in jacket. Short tear and small chip to jacket at top of spinelight rubbing to flap folds, light edge wear to jacket, short pen line through price on front flap. Includes stories of Dutch treasure ships of the 17th century; lost gold reefs; bushrangers cache's; 2 famous NZ treasure ships and more. Treasures that have been found and those waiting discovery. Includes 16 pages of maps drawn especially for the book by Josephine Mayo, cartogropher of the Australian Encyclopaedia. Size: 8vo. Mayo, Josephine (maps) (illustrator).…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The book itself is in very good condition, just the dust jacket is edgeworn and darkened around the inner edges.