Wilson Col Frank (92 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition. This copy does not have a dust jacket. Illustrated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Fairly Good. Lt-Col Frank Wilson (illustrator). First Edition. Edges of covers damp stained, slight browning endpapers, dustwrapper a little worn, frayed on edges, bit faded on spine. Including further researches in Gamesmanship.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. Wilson, Frank (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first printing . Octavo hardback.160 pp. Black & white illustrations. Very Good condition in Near Very Good, unclipped dust jacket (tiny loss at top edge of spine area of jacket chipped). No inscrptions.

(Subject: Uniforms, Dress & Insignia - General) Previous owner, an artist has left paint smudges on boards and some pages, hinge showing at page 25. Small piece cut out from bottom of Midland Brigade illustrations. Reading copy only. The book sets out to give in brief and easily read form, some of the background and history behind all the Regiments and Corps of the British Army. With colour illustrations of uniforms and badges plus a detailed list of piping, stripes and nicknames. (Publisher: Blackie & Son Ltd) (Pagination: 96pp) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. LT.-COL FRANK WILSON (illustrator). Vg clean firm interior for the age with no marks or inscriptions, pages lightly tanned, numerous sketches throughout; vg-plus bright firm cover generally with only very light shelfwear, tiny rubs to spine tips./.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Lt.-Col., Frank Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. This copy is in fine condition bound in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a signature to the f.e.p. The unclipped dust wrapper has some very mild edge wear and is lightly sunned to the spine but is still in near fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Stephen Meredith Potter (1 February 1900 - 2 December 1969) was a British writer best known for his parodies of self-help books, and their film and television derivatives. His series of humorous books on how to secure an unfair advantage began in 1947 with Gamesmanship, purporting to show how poor players can beat better ones by subtle psychological ploys. This sold prodigiously and led to a series of sequels covering other aspects of life. The books were adapted for the cinema in the 1960s and for television in the 1970s. Potter followed up the success of Gamesmanship, extending the basic idea to many other aspects of life, in Some Notes on Lifemanship (1950), which was another big seller.[23] In "Lifemanship" Potter extended the principles of gamesmanship to courtship ("Woomanship"), literature ("Writermanship") and pastimes ("Conversationship"). Thus for example the reader is enjoined, "never forget the uses of Lowbrowmanship in conversation . LOWBROWMAN: Oh, I don't know, I rather like a good bit of old-fashioned vulgarity. And I'm awfully sorry but I like leg shows. If the Lowbrowman happens to be a Professor of Aesthetics . his remark is all the more irritating". A related gambit for the journalist was ' Daily Mirrorship . an unaffected love of tremendously ordinary and homely things like Danny Kaye, mild and bitter, the Daily Mirror, the Bertram Mills circus and Rita Hayworth". Potter mentions in passing how "in the last of my Bude lectures I spoke of Gamesmanship and Shakespeare, where most of my remarks referred to Footnote Play". His notes on Donmanship refer to the "art of Criticising without Actually Listening". Ref TT 3.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lt-Col Frank Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Generally a Good copy, but boards somewhat soiled and the illue is coming loose.stration opposite the title pag.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Wilson, Lt.-Col. Frank (illustrator). 1st Edition. Includes 8*colour plates and 20*b/w illustrations. 47pp. Pictorial boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher Blackie & Son, London, no date. Very Good condition. In blue boards with gilt lettering and design. Wear to corners and ends of spine. Small marks on boards. Tight binding, all pages intact, no markings in text. Full colour illustrations throughout, bright and clear. Small marks in pen on contents pages. Gift inscription on title page, dated 1957.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Lt.Col. Frank Wilson (illustrator). HB DJ reprint. DJ not clipped. Blue cloth boards, silver titles spine. 19.1 x 13cm. 160 pages. b/w cartoon illusts. Humerous approach to life covering wide areas as:- College life. Doctorship - the Need for Organised Patientship. Exhibitionship - Classical Wrong Approach. The Art of Not Rock-Climbing. Xmas Giftmanship + much more. DJ age and handling discoloured, small tears along edges. Back of DJ just holding has got damp at some point. Board front and spine good colour and condition, back board has got damp and is mottled. e/p and last page damp discoloured, but text clear. Remainder clean, binding firm and pages good colour. Fair + condition, all readable damp back board and e/p let's it down.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Blackie & Son, London, no date. Hard cover. Book condition : Very good, clean unmarked text. Superb illustrations. Regimental badges depicted at front and rear of book. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #016725.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Lt-Col Frank Wilson (illustrator). Generally a Good copy in arather soiled and much torn dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. LT.COL. FRANK WILSON (illustrator). 1st Edition. Blue Boards with silver blocked titles to spine, 190 x 130 mm approx. 160 pp.35 line fig. illustrations by Lt.Col. Frank Wilson. First Edition 1952. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/ Fair (Book- Spine faded where loss to jacket, a little dust spotting to top edge of book block. No previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- chipped to head and tail of spine with a couple of small nicks, price clipped. No other notable defects to book or jacket). Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted which would avoid further degradation and improve appearance.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Foreword by A.J.H. Cassels the war office. No edition or date stated, c1956.Publication of 96 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is worn. The boards are a touch edge worn and faded on the edges of the spine. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lt. Col.Frank Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. This book ' Uniforms of the Peninsular War ' the boards, have minor wear to the corners and spine ends, the binding has a slight spine lean, the text block is clean and bright, Book price includes Tracked 48 postage in UK only.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lt. Col.Frank Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. This book ' Uniforms Worn During 1740-1760 ' the boards, have minor wear to the corners and spine ends, the binding has a slight spine lean, the text block is clean and bright, Book price includes Tracked 48 postage in UK only.

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. Unpaginated. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Light droplets to some pages. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine and edges. Books has a backward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lt.Col. Frank Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardback. Useful reference on uniforms of Marlborough's wars. 1st Edition 1970 32pp., illustrations, including colour. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Nicolas Bentley (cover); Lt.-Col. Frank Wilson (illustrations) (illustrator). 1st thus. First paperback edition. A fine copy. No marks or creases. Tiny tear to bottom of front cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lt. - Col. Frank Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Four volumes contained in a good slipcase all first pub by Penguin in 1962 and all in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Lt-Col. Frank Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly browned, corners slightly rubbed, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 113pp, illustrated. In this series of humorous essays (the humour is distinctly of its time!), author of the 'Gamesmanship' books and parodist Stephen Potter (1900-69), urges singleness of purpose on all single men with detailed strategies for escaping tender entrapment. For instance, his advice on how to avoid rising to greet a member of the second sex includes details on how to cultivate a limp, how to select a cane, and how to deliver an off handedly repellent excuse. He has found, and reveals, eight separate ways of leaving a lady's flat within 12 seconds of introduction and the last is the most demolishing, even if it can only be used once 'You wrote me a very beautiful letter after my late loss. I shall always treasure it.' Don't look directly at the girl when you say this. Immediately afterwards, walk diagonally away. The book comes equipped with the usual irresistible and footling footnotes, line drawings of the various ploys suggested and an acidly analytic index.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original tangerine paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 128 printed pages of text with humorous monochrome illustrations throughout. Minimal wear to the covers, foxing to the edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with shallow nicks and chips to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped 10s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUMOUR (Satire, Cartoon).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Wilson, Lt. Col. Frank (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Missing DJ and front endpaper, front gutter cracked, dealer stamp for The Times Bookshop, Wigmore Street, inside rear cover. ; Red cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; B&W Illustrations; 126 pages; Reprinted from The Lifemanship Papers, 28 studies in advanced Lifemanship, The Bude Lectures. Printed for the Lifemansip Association by the Bude Lectures on Lifemanship Trust, 681 Station Road, Yeovil.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lt-Col. Frank Wilson (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.51.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 96 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. lt. Col Frank Wilson (illustrator). Ex-Library book with sticker pulls and stamps as expected. Reading copy. The dustwrapper has some wear to the edges and corners, attached to boards, discoloured all over with a clear cover. The blue boards are clean with some bumping to the edges, with bright lettering to the spine. Stain to page fore edges, underlining and notes to page 211. The binding is firm. The pages are clean and appear crease free. This book has 349 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Lt;-Col FRANK WILSON (illustrator). 1st Edition. Brown Craft Paper covers with laid on printed title slip to front, 185 x 125 mm approx. 128 pp. Frontis + numerous other b/w line drawings by Lt;-Col Frank Wilson. Proof / Advance Reading Copy 1958. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good (Book negligible shelf wear or soiling to covers, no previous owner name or insc. Paper of book block evenly tanned.No notable defects).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Illustrated. Slight foxing end paper & Tape removed. Price clipped on dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Lt.-Col. Frank Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1952 first edition, first thus. Size 12mo, 7.25" tall, 160 pages. Blue hard cover with silver gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, contents are very clean. Dust jacket condition good plus, corners edges and spine ends are rubbed and slightly chipped, spine sunned, folds rubbed, not price clipped, price 8s. 6d. net.