First Ship by Percy Westerman (13 results)
Published by Blackie & Son, 1111
- Hardcover
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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Add to basketCondition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Prize plate to front pastedown. Black and white illustrated plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condit…ion item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Published by Blackie & Son, 1111
- Hardcover
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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Add to basketCondition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Stamp to front free end paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine e…nds. Book has a slight forward lean.
Language: English
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
- Hardcover
Seller: Broadwater Books, Southampton, United KingdomBroadwater Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Tidy green book with insc on the fep, clean pages and slightly dusty edges. Spine ends and board corners turned . Four b/w plates. Mays, D L (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Blackie
- Hardcover
Seller: The Book House (PBFA), Northallerton, United KingdomThe Book House (PBFA)
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Condition: Used - Good
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No date but presumably 1940s as conforming to the War Economy Standard. Octavo, 256 pages, 4 black & white plates by D.L. Mays.
Published by Blackie & Son, London & Glasgow, 1947
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Stephen Dadd, Ashford, United KingdomStephen Dadd
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 256pp. HARDCOVER Gift inscription to ffep., o/w clean throughout. In protected VG d/w. Few very light spots to external edges, but not of any consequence. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. D. L. Mays (illustrator). Book.
Published by Blackie and Son Ltd London undated, owner's inscription 1946,, 1946
- Hardcover
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United KingdomBRIMSTONES
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Add to baskethardback, 8vo, 256pp, 4 b/w plates, owner's inscription on endpaper, edges browning, text clean and binding sound, green cloth, slightly rubbed, Good condition / no dustwrapper.
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd, UK
- Hardcover
Seller: Harry Righton, evesham, United KingdomHarry Righton
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. No Date. Circa 1948. Green bds with black title to spine and front. A little light patchy soiling to bds. Small bump to front board. Spine sunning. Light bump to spine ends and corners. Foxing to outer edge of text block and a little foxing to interior. . Prize sticker to ffep. Bindings tight.… D. L. Mays (illustrator).
Published by Blackie & Son Limited, London, 1946
- Hardcover
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United KingdomSilver Trees Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good book in clean fresh green cloth covers with black titles to front and spine. Internally very good; neat inscription to flyleaf; illustrated; binding tight; virtually free of foxing spots. The dust jacket is very good++; price clipped; very small chip to… spine corner and tiny closed nick. D L Mays (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd., London, 1945
- Hardcover
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United KingdomAmazing Book Company
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. This copy is, as with most of this author's books, undated so it is assumed that this is a reprint. Bound in green cloth covered boards with black titling to the spine and upper board this copy is in near fine, unmarked condition, save for some spotting…to the outer page edges. The unclipped dust wrapper has some typical spotting to the inside which is not apparent from the outside so still very good plus. This is just one of many Westerman titles I am selling on this site. Percy Francis Westerman (1876 - 22 February 1959) was a prolific author of children's literature, many of his books are adventures with military and naval themes. His writing career allegedly began with a sixpence bet made with his wife that he could write a better story than the one he was reading to his son, who was at the time ill with chickenpox. His first book for boys, A Lad of Grit, was published by Blackie and Son Limited in 1908. In the same year, Baden-Powell founded the Scouting movement, which strongly influenced many of Westerman's books - he was a particularly keen supporter of the Sea Scouts. He published a further three books in 1911, which were so successful that he gave up his Admiralty appointment that year to become a full-time author. He lived on board a houseboat - a converted Thames barge - on the River Frome at Wareham in Dorset, where he wrote the majority of his books. An early book, The Flying Submarine (published in 1912) may indicate Westerman's genre. This boys' adventure novel was about a mysterious man from a South American country. He was an inventor, who had discovered a new kind of lighter-than-air gas that he called "helia", which was much lighter than helium or hydrogen. He used helia in many inventions, including back-packs that could help a man float in the air or fly upwards, and in the remarkable titular submarine that could, when enough helia was used, fly! Eventually he used his flying submarine to win a war between his South American country and its belligerent neighbour. It is highly likely that Westerman derived the idea for this super-weapon from Jules Verne's Terror, the speedboat, submarine, automobile, or aircraft superweapon invented by Verne's arch-hero Robur in Master of the World and The Clipper of the Clouds. Ref III 2. D. L. Mays (illustrator).
Published by Published by Blackie & Son Ltd., 16/18 William IV Street, Charing Cross, London circa . London circa 1943., 1943
- Hardcover
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United KingdomLittle Stour Books PBFA Member
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original olive cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and the front cover with black illustration of a ship. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 255 printed pages of text with monochrome period art work plates. Spine ends and corners turned-in with shallow rubs,…war economy standard paper and in near Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.
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- Hardcover
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United KingdomHALCYON BOOKS
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good. Stain to rear cover board. Previous owners name in pen on front pastedown. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. No jacket. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACK…ABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.
Published by Blackie, GB, 1945
- Hardcover
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United KingdomRichard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976)
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: VG+. VG DW. Not dated but about 1945. 190 x 127 mm. Frontispiece & 3 other bw plates. Green cloth. Inscription of owner at start of book. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Text edges bit spotted. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped and overstamped 5/- net. Dus…twrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.
More imagesPublished by Blackie & Son Limited, London, 1946
- Hardcover
Seller: Brian P. Martin Antiquarian and Collectors' Books, Midhurst, SUSSE, United KingdomBrian P. Martin Antiquarian and Collectors' Books
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Add to basketCloth Bound. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Early edition circa 1940s. Original pictorial cloth binding in very good, clean, tight condition, apart from a little wear at the top of the spine. 256-page text in good, tight condition, with very little light foxing. Light age-browning of blank end papers. Illustrated by D.L. Mays. See… photographs attached. (GA). D.L. Mays (illustrator).
