Eight Bells by Bushell T A (15 results)

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 207 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations and plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to boards. Brown marks overall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by the author on the front blank page "With the author's compliments and thanks, 1950 T.A. Bushell". Dark blue boards have minor wear. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. 207 pp. (S.U.). Signed.

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 207 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block.…

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. First Edition. 1st edition, in dark blue cloth with gilt; B&W & line illustrations. Lacks half-title page; gilt lettering & coat-of-arms on spine & front board very dull & worn. With interesting letter about the RM 'steam packets'. Used - Good. Good hardback.

Hard Cover. Condition: Book good. No Jacket. First Edition. 207 pp. Index. Pencil drawings are by G.A. Campbell and line drawings by W. Kerry. G.A. Campbell, A.M.I.N.A / W. Kerry (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Cloth boards show some shelf wear, some soiling evident, corners a little bumped.; A tight solid book, hinges intact.; B&W Illustrations & Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 207 pages; Originally founded in 1839 as the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to carry the British mail around the world, the company became the Royal Mail Lines in the 1930s. They branched out to carry other goods and people. During wartime the ships were used as a merchant marine to carry goods and troops. Illustrated by Colour frontispiece (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Minor shelf wear to blue cloth hardcover. Dust jacket is heavily worn and chipped but is in removable mylar sleeve. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. B/w illustrations and maps. Index. xv, 207 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition, quarto, blue leather textured cloth, faded gilt arms on front faded tited in gilt actross spine, stiff card printed end papers, gift inscription on early blank, xv plus 207 pages including Roll of Honour , Decorations and Awards, Fleet before and after the war, vessels lost and index. [QP]. CAMPBELL, G. A. and W. KERRY (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. (Ref.W5 ) Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Greyed top edge. Slightly yellowed foredge. DJ is worn at edges with some tear and repairs to spine hinge and rear DJ and small piece of loss at top of spine. Photos on request.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. No DW. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author on front endpaper "To Margaret Matthews, with the author's compliments and thanks T.A. Bushell". Clean tight text but some spotting mostly to text edges and early and late leaves. Sound covcers but spine a bit worn. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1200g. Inscribed by Author.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bound in blue cloth, with lettering to spine and Royal Mail Crest to front board, this hardcover 1950 First Edition is VG. XV/207pp with 22 Chapters, Five Appendices, coloured frontis, Nine Maps (some folding), five illustrations in text, and 50 Photographs of ships. Abstract patterned endpapers, late owner's address label to verso of free fornt endpaper, spine title lettering a little faded. otherwise Vg. Campbell, G.A. & Kerry, W. (illustrator).…

Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: worn. 8vo pp.207. torn and worn dustjacket. book.

Condition: Near Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine and the upper panel, marble end papers. Quarto 10'' x 8'' xvi, 207 [pages.]. 9 maps, one fold-out, monochrome illustrations throughout. Near Fine condition book, in very scarce torn and repaired dust wrapper, the only loss to the paper being small chips to the spine tip, not price clipped 15/-, spine colours not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, which protects and prolongs the life of the paper, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHIPPING (Liners, Merchant).…

Hardback. Royal Mail Lines War Story 1939-1945. 223pp, 34 plates (1 coloured & 1 fldg.), ills. and maps in text 1950. 1/4' stain on lower corners of first 4 leaves, else VG.

2 volumes. ppxvi 270, 207. well illustrated. nice bright condition hardbacks. gilt a little dull on 'Eight Bells'. [heavy books that may require extra shipping costs for overseas orders. please see our storefront page for shipping information].