Life jackets volume (8 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First. 274pp., index, appendices. Nearly as new. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. First Edition. 274 pp. Light edgewear. Appears unread. Part of the 'underground royal commission' report, companion volume to the television series. Conversations with serving and retired members of Canada's Armed Forces describing their experiences, and discussing the state of the Canadian military. Volume 1 has derving and retired service members describing their experiences in the Forces, with their take on the problems facing the Canadian Forces. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Frigidity In Woman: In Relation To Her Love Life **RARE (IF OUTRAGEOUS) 2 VOLUME SET WITH DUST JACKETS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION** Two volumes with dust jackets in AMAZING NEAR FINE condition. This is the seventh printing, 1943 Library Edition though never circulated or processed by a library with absolutely no marks or writing anywhere. Appear unread (and honestly it makes for fascinating reading today for all the wrong reasons). If nothing else, an interesting curio from the time period in AMAZING CONDITION!.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. All are later printings. Very Nice, especially in this condition. Books are a FINE hardcover in a like dust jacket which has not been price clipped. Volume 1: The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries 1856-1900. 428 pages. Volume 2: Years of Maturity 1901-1919. 512 pages. Volume 3: The Last Phase 1919-1939. 537 Pages. All books are in Very Fine condition. Each book has a frontispiece on coated paper of Freud as he appeared then. A very nice set of books. Selling quality books for 40 years. …

Hardbacks. Zustand: Fine Condition. First American Edition.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. This full, six-volume, U.S. first edition, first printing set of Winston Churchill's monumental biography of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, is inscribed and dated by the author in Volume I for a U.S. Army veteran of the First and Second World Wars, and accompanied by a presentation letter. Churchill wrote in three lines on the upper front free endpaper recto: "Inscribed by | Winston S. Churchill | 1946". Laid in is a 4 May 1946 typed letter signed on embossed House of Commons stationery presenting the book. Addressed from Churchill's London Home "28, Hyde Park Gate, London, S.W.7." the letter reads "Dear Colonel Stratton, Mr. Churchill has been pleased to sign Mrs. Kent's book which you brought over from the United States. I therefore return it herewith." Following the "Yours sincerely," valediction, the letter is signed "Nina Sturdee" by Churchill's Principal Personal Secretary.The British first edition was issued in four volumes. The U.S. publisher split the first two volumes into two books each, resulting in a six-volume set otherwise identical in content to the British. Both the U.S. and British first editions were published between 1933 and 1938. Upon publication of the sixth and final volume, the publisher chose to issue full sets of first edition volumes in uniform blue and gold dust jackets. Inscribed U.S. sets are scarcer than their British counterparts.This set features clean, near-fine volumes in very good or better dust jackets. All six volumes are first printing, confirmed by the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Overall, the green cloth bindings are square, clean, bright, and tight, with sharp corners, vivid spine gilt, with only trivial shelf wear to extremities. The inscribed Volume I shows bruised corners, and a few small, faint blemishes to the front cover. The contents are clean and bright, with no previous ownership marks. Very light spotting appears confined to the otherwise clean fore and top edges. The lower Volume I front pastedown gutter shows a short, cosmetic split to the endpapers, exposing the intact mull beneath and not affecting binding integrity. The dust jackets are all bright and highly complete, with fractional loss confined to spine ends and flap fold corners. All six jackets are unclipped, retaining the original "$2.75" upper front flap prices. Wear is modest various superficial scuffing, edgewear, and short closed tears - with the exception of a 2.5 inch long vertical scuff to the Volume IV lower spine. All six dust jackets are protected beneath clear, removable, archival covers.The recipient of this inscribed copy, Brigadier General James Hobson Stratton (1898-1984) was a West Point graduate and who served in both World Wars and almost the entirety of his 30-year U.S. Army career in the Corps of Engineers. During the Second World War he headed the Engineering Branch of the Corps Construction Division and then became the staff officer responsible for logistics planning in the U.S. Army's European Theater (ETOUSA). He was awarded both the Legion of Merit (1944) and the Army Distinguished Service Medal (1945). He rose to the wartime rank of Brigadier General, reverting to Colonel in January 1946, explaining why he was addressed by that rank in May. When he received this inscribed book, Stratton had just been named special engineering assistant to the governor of the Panama Canal. In 1949 Colonel Stratton was allowed to retire from the Army at his wartime rank of Brigadier-General.The woman who presented this book to Stratton on Churchill's behalf was Nina Edith "Jo" Sturdee (1922-2006), later Countess of Onslow, "one of the most significant of Churchill's personal secretaries She served Churchill during the war years of 1942 to 1945, after which she became his main Personal Secretary from 1945 to 1953."References: Cohen A97.4(I-VI).a; Woods/ICS A49(ba); Langworth p.169; National Academy of Engineering; The New York Times Obituary 21 March 1984; Stelzer, Working wit.…

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. This full set of four British first edition, first printings in dust jackets is inscribed on the Volume I title page in two lines in black ink: "Inscribed by | Winston S. Churchill". This British first trade edition of Winston Churchill's monumental biography of his great ancestor, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, is physically impressive, each thick volume bound with beveled edges and the Marlborough coat of arms gilt on the front cover, the profusely illustrated contents featuring headbands and gilt top edges. Unfortunately, the plum cloth binding of Volumes I-III proved highly susceptible to sun fading. (A different, more fade-resistant dye was used in Volume IV.) Without dust jackets, Volumes I-III are nearly always faded and jacketed first editions are scarce. Particularly scarce are first printing dust jackets for Volumes I & II. Later impression Volume I & II dust jackets state either "2nd Impression" or "3rd Impression" on the lower front flap beside the price, cautioning collectors to be wary of clipped jackets. No such problem applies to Volumes III & IV, which each had only a single printing.The dust jackets themselves proved highly susceptible to soiling and toning.This set features very good or better volumes in very good minus or better dust jackets. The inscribed volume I is square and tight with sharp corners, only trivial shelf wear to extremities, and a bright binding that shows no color shift between the covers and spine. A tiny strip of sunning at the spine heel corresponds to trivial dust jacket losses and the covers show some minor blemishes. The contents retain a crisp, unread feel. Trivial spotting appears confined to the prelims. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponding to dust jacket flaps confirms that this copy has spent life jacketed. A 4.25 inch closed tear to the left side of the title page near the gutter has been expertly mended with Japanese paper discretely applied to the title page verso. The unclipped, first printing Volume I dust jacket shows even spine toning, fractional loss to the spine ends and flap fold corners, and moderate soiling to the blank rear face.The sole previous ownership mark (present in each of the four volumes) is the small, printed plate of "James B. Meriwether | Columbia South Carolina" affixed to the upper left front pastedown. Meriwether (1928-2007) was a respected University of South Carolina academic, author, and authority on William Faulkner. His wide circle of literary friendships included writers such as Faulkner, Shelby Foote, James Gould Cozzens, and P.G. Wodehouse, and his correspondence with some spanned fifty years. His numerous awards included a Guggenheim and two Fulbrights. The balance of the set Volumes II, III & IV are square, clean, bright, and tight first printing volumes with no color shift to the spines other than trivial sunning to a few spine extremities corresponding to tiny dust jacket losses. The contents of Volumes II-IV all retain a crisp feel with light spotting primarily confined to the first and final leaves and fore edges. The dust jackets including Volume II are unclipped, retaining their original lower front flap prices and confirming that Volume II is first printing. All three jackets show fractional loss to the spine ends and corners, spine toning, and a few moisture stains to the spines, worst at the lower left heel of Volume II. All four dust jackets are protected beneath clear, removable, archival covers.Churchill's greatest work of biography, Marlborough took 10 years of research and writing. The final volume was published almost exactly one year before the outbreak of the Second World War and just twenty months before Churchill became wartime prime minister. When Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953, it was partly for "mastery of historical and biographical description" displayed in Marlborough. Reference: Cohen A97.2(I-IV).a, Woods/ICS A40(aa), Langworth p.166.…

18 Volumes. First Edition,Folding Plates,Illustrated,Publishers' Original Binding,With Dustwrappers Excellent condition. THIS IS A HEAVY SET WHICH WILL INCUR SHIPPING COSTS ABOVE THE DEFAULT RATE QUOTED BY ABE, ESPECIALLY OUTSIDE THE UK. PLEASE CONTACT US DIRECTLY IF YOU WOULD LIKE A QUOTATION FOR POSTAGE BEFORE ORDERING.…