Captain dod orsborne (10 résultats)

Etat : Good. Envoi rapide jaquette usagée pages un peu jaunies très rares rousseurs. in8. 1952. Broché. 378 pages. Good.

Etat : Good. 1957. First Published. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Pen inscription to front flap.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Very Good dj. First Edition. [ex-library (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Script Department "File Copy"), marked as such only by a label and pocket on the front endpaper, and aside from that the book is only lightly worn and would grade Near Fine; the jacket shows some wear and some tiny nicks along the top and bottom edges, with one tiny chip at the top of the rear panel]. Memoir by "one of England's great adventurers -- a man who made a business out of danger! Spanning two wars and the exciting years between, [the book] recreates his exploits -- using logbooks, scrapbooks, letters, and the captain's own astounding memory. At twenty-one, Orsborne was the youngest captain in the British Merchant Marine and ready for the extraordinary life that was to involve him, at one time or another, in pearl hunting, a safari to destroy a man-eating tiger, an escape through a crocodile-infested river, espionage for British Intelligence, and almost anything that looked like danger." (The "Girl Pat," by the way, was a small fishing trawler that Orsborne took on an unauthorized voyage across the Atlantic in 1936 -- an escapade for which he was tried and imprisoned, on the charge that he had stolen the boat. He claimed to have been on a secret undercover mission for British Naval Intelligence.).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 278 pages. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 1949 as the published date. The price has been clipped from the DJ flap. The DJ is yellow with an illustration of a muscular man with a gun tucked into his shorts. The dust jacket is also in great shape with some light edgewear (No Chips). I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box.…

Hb. Etat : VG. Etat de la jaquette : VG. First Edition. Clean blue cloth on boards with gilt titles. Edges: foxing. Eps: light few only foxings; narrow, verical dj shadowing. Feps with map of the Voyage of the Argos y and Reps with map of the Voyage of the Mirage. Few only old foxings to a few only pages, albeit mostly to the margins. B/w glossy illustrations. Binding is As New. 192p Dj: very faint couple of small smudges; light creases and some scratches. Spine: head with thin wear, small open v-tear and chips; 3cm tear to foot of spine. Couple of tiny chips to bottom edge.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Jacket is Good plus with some wear and tear, book is VG minus with moderate wear, a little edge-foxing, yellowed pages, owner name in pen to front endpaper.

Couverture souple. Etat : bon. R240087886: 1952. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 378 pages - jaquette conservée - ouvrage recouvert d'un plastique transparent -. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.…

Couverture souple. Etat : bon. R240082268: 1952. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 378 pages - jaquette en état d'usage (déchirures), illustrée en monochrome - coins frottés. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle.

Couverture souple. Livre en français. Traduit de l'anglais par Dominique Guillet. Broché. 378 pages. Couverture et jaquette défraîchies. Littérature anglaise. Livre.

Couverture souple. Etat : bon. R260189666: 1952. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 378 pages - Jaquette abimée -. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.