Lt Col Mockler Ferryman (11 results)

Condition: Fair. 1942. No edition remarks. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, heavy to endpapers. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Missing front free endpaper. Mild water staining to pages throughout. Boards have notable edgewear with corner crushing and heavy marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are notably warped. Mild water stains and droplets to boards. …

Condition: Fair. No edition remarks. 364 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Extensive pencil inscriptions to front endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Olive cloth with colour blocked illustrations and gilt titles to spine and front, 205 x 155 mm approx. 364 pp + 4 of publisher's lists. Frontis + 3 other colour plates as called for. Undated - no stated printing history. Attributed as 1909 by British Library on Library Hub. Top edge not gilt so in all probability a reprint. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good no dust jacket.(Book - moderate to heavy shelf wear to cloth with 1 cm nick to tail of spine. Suggestion of a book plate having been removed from front paste down and a previous owner name in pencil to free front end paper. Fore edge of one leaf dust spotted with nicks where had become loose- tipped back in by us with p.v.a., dust spotting to top edge. No cracks to end papers, a few signatures strained indicating the glue to back strip failing but sewing and mull holding and binding generally sound. No other notable faults). RIENARD TOD (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edn. 240pp. Plates, folding maps. Orig. green cloth sl. rubbed. Size: 4to.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered red and green on black and with a pictorial inset to the upper board. Name of a previous owner part excised from the front pastedown, foxing to the free endpapers, the body of text clean and free of markings. Illustrated by John Jellicoe, 301pp. Publisher list at rear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Well worn green cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: good. . Alden & Co, some wear to covers, bookplate, name on inner board, binding tight, notes inserted on p50, occasional margin ink, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardback. Presumed 1st Ed. Rubbed & slightly marked brown covers with col. illus. to front cover & spine. Gilt front cover & spine titles. Prize bookplate dated Easter 1910 to inside front cover. 8" x 6.2". 364 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's list. Illus: Frontis. + 3 Col. plates. Wt: 0.9 Kg. Good.

Thick 8vo. [8], 403, [1] pp. Frontisp., 7 plates. Red pictorial publisher's cloth over beveled boards, cover art illustration of a Roman centurion on horseback in black & gilt, lettering in red, black & gilt on front cover & spine (minor chipping head & foot of spine, minor loss to lettering at foot of spine, edgewear & rubbing to covers, minor wear & slight bumping to corners), still G copy, w/ former ownership markings on 2nd flyleaf. First American edition of this anthology of historical adventure stories by Henty and others, with some set in India, others in Britain, Roman Britain, Tibet, and other exotic locales. Henty contributed 5 of the 14 tales. Groome (1854-1913) was noted for his landscapes and paintings, as well as a prolific book artist.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. (viii), 403, (1) pages + frontis + 7 plates. Pink cloth covers with illustration and lettering and red, gilt, black, and white on spine and front board. Bevelled edges to boards. Cloth covers clean. Prize label on front endpaper. No splitting to hinges. Minor spotting to page edges. Includes the fictional narrative "Finding of the White Lama : A Story of Tibet" by Lt. -Col. A. F. Mockler-Ferryman. The story is set in Ladakh. An English officer on a shooting expedition is thought to have drowned on a river crossing. He has not drowned but instead stumbled across the secret of a white "English Lama" living at the Hemis monastery.; 12mo. Illustrated by Groome, W. H. C. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Two very smart, first edition short story anthologies, illustrated by Arthur Rackham and William H. C. Groome. Two first editions. Bound in the original publisher's red and green pictorial variant bindings. Brains & Bravery illustrated with a frontispiece and a further seven, monochrome plates by Arthur Rackham. Hazard and Heroism illustrated with a frontispiece and a further seven, monochrome plates by William Henry Charles Groome. With a fourty-eight pages of publisher's advertisements bound to the rear. Collated, complete. Each work is a collection of thrilling adventure tales. With nine tales overall contributed by adventure fiction author, George Alfred Henty. Others produced by Australian novelist Guy Boothby (1867-1905); L. T. Meade [Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith]; John Arthur Barry (1850-1911); and Henry Anderson Bryden, among others. Brains with early illustrations by the Golden Age book illustrator, Arthur Rackham. Hazard and Heroism with artwork by British lanscape watercolourist, William Henry Charles Groome. Bound in the original publisher's variant bindings.Externally, very smart. With marginal bumping to extremities and joints with ever so slight loss to cloth. The odd marks to boards. Some rubbing to gilt. Mild darkening to extremities and back strip. Bookseller's embossed stamp to front free of Brains. A bookseller label to paste down of Hazard. Ink inscriptions to verso of Brains and half title of Hazard. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if a touch age toned. The odd spot. Faint spotting and dusting to fore edge of Brains. Very Good. Arthur Rackham; William Henry Charles Groome (illustrator). book.…