taffrail commander taprell dorling dso (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover in good condition. Faux leather red boards. Gilt titles and ship etching Prize certificate to flyleaf Some tanning. 317 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Blind stamped red cloth with title to spine in black. List of other works by Taffrail opposite title page. Slightly cocked. Hodder and Stoughton Yellow Jacket series. Unclipped dustwrapper. Some age toning to pages as usual.Minor foxing. Rare in dustwrapper. Small octavo, 311 pages,250g.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. A Very Good First Edition hardback (no date on title page but 1929) in the rare dustwrapper which also, unusually, is in Good+ condition. Blind-stamped red cloth with titles to spine in black. Plain end-papers; other Works by Taffrail (with dates) opposite title page. End of text is signed-off: Woking, Surrey. 1928-29. 8pp. publisher's Catalogue to rear including listings for Charles Alden Seltzer, Zane Grey and Clarence E. Mulford (Hopalong Cassidy). H&S Yellow Jacket Series. 2/-. Binding is clean and firm and square with dusty top edge. Soft white paper throughout with no damage or foxing seen. Small neat name to front free end-paper. Jacket is more or less complete with very modest wear to some edges and 2.5 closed tear to front lower edge adjacent to spine hinge area - not normally visible. Light vertical line markings and darkened areas to folds. The wrapper has done its job. 20% price reduction now applied.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, Not Dated, [1929], DOUBLE SIGNED First Edition. The Author s Copy, a gift from the publishers. Half leather binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt titles, raised gilt bands, gilt decoration to the compartments, gilt fillets, marbled paste downs and end papers. Includes a hand written letter from the Author bound in at the rear of the book dated 12 Apr: 29, the letter reads: This book was started at Gosforth, Northumberland, while I was Officer Instructor of the Tyne Division, R.N.V.R. It owes its origin to a story Carry On that I was asked to write for Britannia Films Ltd, and a film of that name and a very bad one, subsequently appeared. This book is different, however. I had not finished it when I left the Tyne in January, 1928, and it was completed at Woking later in the year when we had settled into Marlings. Published in March 1929. Taprell Dorling 316pp. Captain Henry Taprell Dorling (1883 1968) was a British sailor, author, and journalist who served in the Royal Navy during both World War One and World War Two, giving his marine fact and fiction a notable authenticity. His Pincher Martin, O.D. (1916) is widely referenced as the source for Pincher Martin (1956) by Nobel prize winner William Golding. He wrote under the name Taffrail. Dorling was born in Berwick, the second son of Colonel Francis Dorling, and named Taprell Henry, but later changed the order of his names. He entered HMS Britannia in August 1897, his 1113 marks placing him fifty-eighth in merit among the sixty-three candidates accepted as naval cadets. By then an acting sub-lieutenant, he was in late September 1902 transferred to the seagoing training brig HMS Dolphin. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 31 December 1904, and commander on 31 December 1916. The following year he was appointed in command of the new R-class destroyer HMS Telemachus in her first commission. Approximately 7 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles on twin brown labels, 5 raised gilt bands, gilt decoration to the compartments, small scuff to the leather at the top and tail, sun faded. Joints good condition sound. Corners good condition. Boards good condition half leather and marbled boards bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt fillets, the upper board is faded down the spine edge. Page edges good condition top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges tanned and foxed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition marbled. End papers good condition marbled, the book binders name is printed along the top edge on the reverse of the front end paper, author s inscription to the front free end papers. Title good condition lightly tanned with minor foxing. Pages good condition at the rear of the book there is an original hand written letter by the Author explaining when he started this book, the original colour dust jacket cover affixed to the rear, tanned throughout. Binding good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: Not Dated [1929] Binding: Hardback. Signed by Author(s).