Fear Slain by Seely (12 results)

Condition: Good. 1932. Cheaper Edition. 305 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Condition: Fair. 1931. 1931 Reprint. 305 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed with considerable tanning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some shelf wear and soiling to light blue cloth hardcover. Ink notation on front end paper. Otherwise a solid, unmarked book. 306 pp.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN.

Boards. 8vo, original cloth boards, pp 306. Previous owner's inscription ffep, good condn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 3rd edition. 22.5cm. VG h/c, no DJ, slight fading to spine, minor foxing, browing to E/papers. 306 pages, The author says "safety first" is a vile motto. It certainly was not his way and his full and adventurous life, often in dangerous situations, on land, sea and in the air, in peace and war, fully back up his belief in "fear and be slain.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. 306 pages. Edges lightly soiled, internally clean, previous owner's name on ffe. A nice tight, straight clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A good hardback first edition without a dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover and spine. There is a bit of spine lean, and the red cloth on the spine is a bit sunned. A neat, old previous ownership name in fountain pen remains on the title page (pictured). Overall, a good hardback first edition without a dust jacket.…

8°, original clothbinding. 1. ed. With frontispiece, IX, 305 p. Cover a bit bumped, binding a bit loosened, otherwise fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

Hardcover. 305, [1] p. John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone CB, CMG, DSO, PC, TD (31 May 1868 7 November 1947) was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924. He was Secretary of State for War for the two years prior to World War I. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Herbert Henry Asquith between 1908 and 1911, as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1911 to 1912, and became a member of the Privy Council in 1909. With Sir John French he was responsible for the invitation to General Foch to attend the Army Manoeuvres of 1912 and was active in preparing the army for war with Germany. The mobility of the proposed Expeditionary Force, and in particular the development of a Flying Corps (the origin of modern day Air Force) were his special interests. According to The Times, these developments played a significant role in the victory during World War I. When the Curragh incident in Ireland in 1914 forced him to resign, he left England to fight in the First World War, becoming a Major General and commander of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade. Seely won several medals and merited mention in dispatches five times, enhancing his reputation for bravery in battle. After being gassed in 1918, he returned to England as the only member of the Cabinet, besides Churchill, to see active service in the war. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions and Deputy Minister of Munitions in 1918, and Under-Secretary of State for Air and President of the Air Council in 1919. However, he resigned both posts at the end of 1919 after the Government refused to create a Secretary of State for Air (as it later did). Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Once was part of Boot's lending library. Cover has substantial wear, soiling, and some tears to cloth. Slightly cocked. Presumed first U.K. edition/first printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Red cloth. Large octavo. 306pp. Pictorial dust jacket with price on flap. Portrait. First edition, second printing (November 1931). Autobiography of John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron of Mottistone. He was a career soldier, serving in the Boer War and on the front in the first World War. He was secretary of war in Asquith's cabinet and a MP from 1900 to 1924 in both the conservative and liberal parties. A very good copy with light wear to the cloth. There is some foxing to the side edge of the textblock but the text is very good with some foxing to the endsheets and a few page margins. The jacket is good with some soiling and edgewear. A few pieces are missing from the spine tips and upper corner of the front panel. There is a 2 inch closed tear to the rear panel. Scarce.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. A remarkable tale of courage and leadership by a British Army general of the First World War, complete with a striking dust wrapper. Written by J. E. B. Seely, a British Army general and politician who served as Secretary of State for War before the First World War and famously led the advance at the Battle of Moreuil Wood on his horse Warrior in the final months of the war. He was also a close confidante of Winston Churchill.First published in 1931, this is a seventh impression, and details his wartime experiences, as well as horse Warrior.With the uncommon pictorial dust wrapper depicting Seely. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally generally smart, with a little fading to the edges. Dust wrapper is slightly worn at the edges, with a closed tear to the tail of the front board and an open tear to the head of the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…