Lieut Colonel Bethell (24 results)

Condition: Fair. 1933. No edition remarks. 310 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, heavy to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Stamps to front endpaper. Notable bubbling to boards. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Notable mottling and marking to boards. Moderate water stains to front board. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Publication of 335 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There is a small tear on the spine. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. 331 pages. Book has a moderate forward lean. No dustjacket. Blue hardback binding has wear/small frays to spine-ends and boards' corners. Some age yellowing to page-edges, pencil wititng to flyleaf o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. 313 pages. No dustjacket. Blue hardback binding has wear/small frays to spine-ends and boards' corners and small mark to inside of front board. Pencil wirting to flyleaf, some age yellowing to page-edges, light foxing to endpapers o/w pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. 300 pages. Book has a light forward lean. No dustjacket. Blue hardback book covers have wear/small frays to spine-ends and corners, ink writing to flyleaf, browning to end-papers, slight cracks to paper of inner rear hinge. Some age yellowing to page-edges. Pages clean and sound. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. No Dustjacket. First Edition. 294 pages. No dustjacket. Dark blue hardback binding with gilt-coloured titles on brown title-label to spine which is age-dulled. Light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners and light rubbing to boards Light browning to page-edges and pencil writing to flyleaf o/w pages clean.…

Eighth impression; Sm. octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy VG-, hole-punch to middle of spine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Ninth impression; Sm. octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy VG-, hole-punch to middle of spine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 313 pages (complete). A small, neat book of tales from Imperial India. The blue cover has wear and scuffing. The contents are sure, tight against the strong binding, clean and clear. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

dj. 299 Pages. Hardbound in near very good condition in near very good dust jacket.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy small octavo 316pp., Classic collection of 'Imperial' African travel literature drawn from Blackwoods Magazine. Inc. Baden-Powell: Jokilobovu; 'Zeres': A Day'sWork with the Somaliland Camel Constabulary; Rattray: A Solo Flight from England to Ghana.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy small octavo 294pp., Classic collection of 'Imperial' travel literature drawn from Blackwoods Magazine. Inc. John Still: Tanks & True Foresters (Ceylon); Hugh Clifford; Kalamantan & Kulop Sumbing & many others.

Hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [x] 331 printed pages of text. Rubbing to the corners and spine ends, a little brown ghosting to the end papers, no dust wrapper We currently hold in stock 5 other titles in this series. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).…

1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy small octavo 310pp., Classic collection of 'Imperial' hunting literature drawn from Blackwoods Magazine.

Hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [x] 279 printed pages of text. Splitting of the cloth to the spine which is also age darkened, rubbing to the corners and spine ends, no dust wrapper We currently hold in stock 5 other titles in this series. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt and black title lettering to the spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 273 pp. Small rubs to the corners and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).

1934 edition. (8), 332 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Top outside edge tinted. Occasional foxing, o/wise very good. 18.4 x 12.5. 14 tales. "Initiation" by Joseph Conrad. "Two Typhoons", and "The Timber Drogher", by Shalimar. "A Man in the Making", by Bartimeus.

Hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [x] 273 printed pages of text. Spine age darkened, rubbing to the corners and spine ends, brown ghosting to the end papers, no dust wrapper We currently hold in stock 5 other titles in this series. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).…

Hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [x] 310 printed pages of text. Spine age darkened, soiling to the covers, end papers cracked, rubbing to the corners and spine ends, no dust wrapper We currently hold in stock 5 other titles in this series. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).…

Hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [x] 310 printed pages of text. Spine age darkened, rubbing to the corners and spine ends, whilst the covers are secure to the text the lower end paper is cracked, no dust wrapper We currently hold in stock 5 other titles in this series. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Moderate foxing and dust stains to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Eighth printing, April 1946, of a title first published in 1932. [viii], 279, [1] pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on dark blue panel on spine. Page dimensions: 176 x108mm. Top edges dyed blue. Contents: Akso Wad Dok; Speech Day in Crocodile Country by R. E. Vernede; The Abu Zait Controversy by S. Lyle Cummins; Piloting Princes by Sir Hugh Clifford; Experiences in a Quarantine Camp; Silhouettes from the Sudan (I) by Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Grieve; Silhouettes from the Sudan (II) by Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Grieve; Lustral Waters by C. G. C. T.; The House of Healing; Murder and Magic by Sir Hugh Clifford; An Indian Sensation by H. C. E. Ward; Dacoity by 'Kukado'. Series: Tales from the Outposts, Volume #5 of 12.; Octopus.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. [viii], 294 pages. Blue cloth covers with red spine panel. Top edges dyed red. No signatures. Cloth covers clean and bright. 3/4" circular hole cut away from dust wrapper spine. 1/2" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper rubbed at edges. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. Contents: "Mankind and the Jungle" by Sir Hugh Clifford; "True Foresters" by John Still; "Tanks" by John Still; "Lost Sepoys" by 'Pousse Cailloux'; "In the Heart of Kalimantan" by Sir Hugh Clifford; "Hpa-N-Khrit" by 'Sinjab'; "Highbrows and Lowbrows" by 'Pousse Cailloux'; "The Quest of the Golden Fleece" by Sir Hugh Clifford; "Primitive Socialist" by Edward Irving; "The Other Master" by Sir Hugh Clifford; "The Death-March of Kulop Sumbing" by Sir Hugh Clifford; "Movable Columns" by 'Pouse Cailloux'; "White Man's Ground" by 'Selim'. "They are that rare and precious thing, which politicians ignore and professional history hardly hears, the voice of 'the man on the spot'" - reviewer's quote on front flap of dust wrapper.; 12mo.…

Hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [x] 294 printed pages of text. Spine age darkened, rubbing to the corners and spine ends, a little brown ghosting to the end papers, no dust wrapper We currently hold in stock 5 other titles in this series. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A smart collection of three volumes from the Tales of the Outposts series, edited by author and soldier Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Arthur Bethell. Three volumes of a twelve volume set, being volumes three, six, and nine. Tales of the Outposts series. A collection of stories from remote corners of the world, especially the British Empire, and told by people living in or with experience of those places. Most were originally published in Blackwood's, which found a large part of its circulation in those colonial locations. The project took three years, from 1930 to 1933, to complete and included contributions from notable authors and personalities, including: Sir Hugh Clifford, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, Fredrick Marshman Bailey, and Alfred Noyes. This set contains: Tales of the Sea, 1932. Tales of Africa, 1933. Tales of the Border, 1943. Edited by Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Arthur Bethell, a distinguished soldier in India in Edwardian times, and a successful author of the 1930s. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor fading to the spines. The odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…