adventure algeria de brian stuart (7 résultats)

Etat : Good. 1936. First Edition. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Stain to spine.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair / Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardback, bound in the original cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 22 × 14cm, 315pp + index. Signed and dedicated by Brian Stuart (as Brian A Stuart) to the ffep, "Sarah Davies from Brian A Stuart, August 1939". This is Brian Stuart's first book and is an account of his joining the French Foreign Legion where he was (apparently) the first Englishman to be given a commission having been a Lieutenant in the 4th London Regiment, and then after having left on account of bad eyesight, his trek through French Africa, over the Sahara, where the incidents include him drinking from a cup that had been used by General Gordon, and Amy Johnson swooping down in her plane on her return journey from Cape Town (1932). The book is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, map endpapers and six pages of photographs. Brian Arthur Lewis Stuart (1902-1981) went on to become a successful thriller writer, publishing under his real name, and as Peter Meredith and Francis Martin. His thriller were well received but some of them were finished and published whilst he was serving time in jail for obtaining money and goods by false pretenses. Condition: A fair copy but in strong readable condition. The cloth is rubbed to all edges, and the pages have light foxing throughout. The binding is a little weak in places but no text pages are loose. All illustrations are present and one sheet is starting to work loose. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Etat : Fair / Good. First Edition. An account of the author's service in the French Foreign Legion. Internally very good subject to a little browning / foxing , binding firm , cover rather worn and marked . Pics available. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Octavo, 317 pages. In Fair minus condition. Spine is brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth. Fraying to spine caps and corners, remainder of torn off label on front panel, cocked spine, shelf wear. Text block has cracked front hinge, name in ink on front flyleaf, remainder of torn away label on rear pastedown, intermittent spine breaks, light occasional foxing/smudging. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plates (photographs). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1396881. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 317 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's greenish beige cloth bearing dark green lettering to the spine. Boards have moderate wear including several instances soiling stains, sunning to the spine and slight rubbing to the edges. Text block has slight age toning and foxing to the edges. Pictorial end papers of which the front pages are missing. Lacking also, the front fly leaf. Previous owner's name to the front pastedown. Few instances of pencil and light foxing to the end papers. Partial cracking to the hinges. First edition, first printing. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Q, ND-Q. 1396263. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First edition. 318p; plates. Gray cloth. Covers worn along spine endges; spine faded; interior clean and unmarked. A hardcover book in good condition. Memoirs of an Englishman's service with the French Foreign Legion on Algeria.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Plates, map endpapers. (illustrateur). First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original mustard yellow cloth. Dust-jacket. Memoirs of service in the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, offering first-hand military adventures and survival in North Africa. A very good copy; jacket with edge wear, some chipping and creasing. Book.