Rear Admiral Noel Wright (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Published. This is a nonfiction biography memoir of a Victorian figure and an Arctic expedition called Quest For Franklin written by Rear-Admiral Noel Wright. The book has usual library markings otherwise in good condition with tight binding, some nice black and white photographs and 258 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. First edition with 25s price to djClean pages, tight binding, cloth boards clean, dust jacket bright with chip at spine topPlease contact us about shipping costs for international orders of over-sized books or multi-book sets. We are happy to provide accurate quote prior to purchase. Clean pages, tight binding, clot.…

Hb In Dw 258pp Frontisplate of Sir John Franklin, 12 Assorted Illustrations and 4 Maps Sunned Spine to Dw O/w A Vg/Vg Copy.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 239pp., bibliog., The career autobiography of a Royal Navy admiral spanning the Great War (Jutland) then China; the Mediterranean (evacuation of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War), Abyssinia; WW2, inc. El Alamein, then Egypt & Palestine.

First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin (1786 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. Franklin also served as governor of Tasmania for several years. He disappeared on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy. Sir John Franklin made his last Arctic expedition in 1845 and within three years the crew of the expedition had disappeared. Noel Wright provides in this book a history of the various Arctic expeditions beginning in the 16th Century on up to Franklin's disappearance. Illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps. 258 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A rare book inscribed to the late journalist, broadcaster and author John Arlott - 'Mr.John Arlott, With best wishes.I have inserted a few additional items of information that have come to hand since printing. Noel Wright, May 1958.' One is on page 80 after Wright has drawn a diagram of a sign with a big hand clearly pointing set up by Franklin's crews on Beechey Island where the first graves were discovered in the summertime when they could drive the post deep into the ground. It says 'I have since tracked down the sign to the R.U.S.I and was disconcerted to find that the hand is in no way the bold and forceful sign depicted in the I.L.N.'. Inscribed by Author(s).…