Operations Successfully Executed by Percy Westerman (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards are clean. Content is clean with spotting and writing on the ffep. Good DJ has chips/tears and marks.

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 200 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over brown 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. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Undated - appears to be 1st edition 1945 (war economy standard) as all title listed were published before this title. Russet cloth with black lettering; illustrations by S. Drigin. Owner's stamps on end papers; a few minor marls in text; some wear at edges of dust jacket, with faded spine; dj protected in removable clear film Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Drigin S (illustrator). Brown boards slightly turned and faded spine. Contents firm, page edges have foxing marks and dirt/finger marks. Four b/w illustrations. Covid 19 - Please see "More Information" for current shipping terms.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tan boards. Jacket has some wear and is now in a removable protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. S. Drigin (illustrator). Reprint. This copy is, as with most of this author's books, undated so it is assumed that this is a reprint. Bound in brown cloth covered boards with black titling to the spine and upper board this copy is in fine, condition, save for some spotting to the outer page edges. There is a small neat signature to the f.e.p. The unclipped dust wrapper has some typical spotting to the inside which is not apparent from the outside so still near fine condition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Drigin, S., (illustrator). Undated Edition, brown bds., black titles, illustrated frontis + further full-page illustrations, previous owner's name on ffep. dated 1945 original, pictorial, unclipped price (4/- net) dw., wear to crns. and edges with slight loss to top and tail of spine,