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CORNFIELD SUSIE:
THE QUEEN'S PRIZE: The Story of the National Rifle Association.
<p>UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour pictorial artwork painting illustrated front panel with whiteblue letteringcolour photographic illustrated rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersappears unread - apart from my own collation.Brightcrispcleansharp-corneredpublisher's original plain maroon cloth bds with bright crispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white eps.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn9-188pp paginated includes a foreword by Lord Cottesloea preface9 chapters32pp profuse contemporary b/w illus and b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp32/3pp80/1pp112/3and pp128/9 respectivelyappendices I-III includes a biblioand an indexplus unpaginated half-titlea double-pagedb/w historical painting illustrated title pagea dedication contents list/table and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book.<br /> 'The Queen's Prize' tells the story of the NRA from its inception in 1859 whenless than half a century after Waterloothe country feared an invasion by the Frenchto its much-loved atmosphere and condition in the present day. This unique story reveals how early Meetings on Wimbledon Common were a social event equal only to Henley and Ascot when royaltyVIPs from abroad and a regular witMr Punch came to watch the shooting and to enjoy the entertainments which included concerts by the stars of the day such as Jenny Lindand sham battles involving thousands of troops.The story tells why the move to Bisley Common became necessary; the in calculable role the NRA has played in the development of the riflein the defence of the realm in two World Warsand as an ambassador to the Commonwealth.It looks at what is reputed to be the largest collection of silver trophies in the worldand as some of the winners of The Queen's Prizefounded by Queen Victoria in 1860 and which remains to this day the Meeting's most prestigious prize whose winnersparticularly from abroad have over the years been feted like conquering heroes or visiting celebritiesa prize which has been won just once by a woman in 1930. It issays Lord Cottesloethe NRA's Deputy Presidenta book to be enjoyed and savoured by anyonemarksmen or no. Since April 2013again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template altering it's pricesweight allowancesdimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!<br />Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the weight/value of this item for correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /><br /><br /></p> LONDON.PELHAM BOOKS LTD.,1987. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja750717 ???????? : 0720717515 9780720717518
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BLYTH CHAY & THOMPSON ELAINE:
CHALLENGE: THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE BRITISH STEEL CHALLENGE.
<p>UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn.Complete number line 10- 1 descending. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedwrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/djwith blackwhite and yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges with a tinyone spot blemishotherwise with fore- edgesbright and clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersappears unread - apart from my own collation.Brightcrispcleansharp-corneredpublisher's original plain dark blue cloth bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps - a small dent to reartop edge.UK Qrto HBdw/dj1st edn13-192pp paginated includes 7 chaptersb/w diagramsprofuse contemporary b/wcolour photographs throughout the text and the bookand appendices 6plus unpaginated half-titletitle pagescontents list/table with note from Chay Blyth and photographic credits to verso b/w portrait photographic foreword by Princess Annedouble- page b/w exploded diagram 67ft Steel Yacht plan/illustration and a double-page b/w journey's map. <br />When Chay Blyth sailed round the world against the prevailing winds and currentsit was dubbed 'the impossible voyage'.That was in 1971.Twenty years after this famous accomplishment Blyth had the idea of building ten yachts and training 140 people to race along the same route - most of them novices who had never sailed a boat before. In September 1992the fleet of 67ft steel yachts set off on the British Steel Challenge and began an extraordinary adventure across the world's most hostile waters.Their course took them past the calms of the doldrumsacross the Equator to Rio de Janeiro and through the Roaring Forties to the notorious waters off Cape Horn. From herethey headed westinto the teeth of the Furious Fifties and Screaming Sixtiesfirst to Tasmania and then to Cape Town before turning north to finish in Southampton.The nine-month voyage promised unrivalled adversity in conditions even the great sailing ships of trading days could not weather. The crews were guaranteed aching coldconstant wet clothes and wet bunksand they risked the perils of unseen icebergs which could sink even a steel boat. Yet for the men and women taking partthis was truly the adventure of a lifetime.And in the world of sailingwhat was first heralded as reckless folly has become one of the greatest feats of seamanship in history.In this revealing bookChay Blyth and Elaine Thompson relate the definitive story of the British Steel Challenge and tell of how both the amateur crews and the professionals behind them rose to the challenge. Since April 2013again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template altering it's pricesweight allowances dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!<br />Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /><br /></p> LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON LTD.,1993. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja753217
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COOK MATTHEW DUNCAN PAUL:
THE BRITISH SEASON: A CELEBRATION OF SUMMERTIME ENTERTAINMENTS.
<p>UKslimrectangular 12mo HBdw/dj1st edn.Complete number line 10 - 1 descending. NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour pictorial artwork by Matthew Cookillustrated dw/djwith blue black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - a small approx 9mm closed tear to head of spine/backstrips' front gutter's edge.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttight cleansolid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersappears unread - apart from my own collation.Brightcrispcleansharp-corneredpublisher's original plain red cloth bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue eps.A production fault of slight wrinkling on front board with a small indentation but with no corresponding mark to concomitant spot on dw/dj's panel.Rear panel of dw/dj with a couple of minor superficial scoring and indents but all without penetration - even to concomitant spots to board/coveranother tiny dent to bottom edge and again with no corresponding damage to dw/dj - indents production faults UKslimrectangular 12mo HB dw/dj1st edn4-127pp paginated includes copyright pagean introduction22 calendar events/occasions each with a full page full-colour colour illustration with b/w line illustrations in the text for each event too - all by Matthew Cookessential addresses and ticket informationan appendixacknowledgementsplus unpaginated colour pictorial vignetted half-titletitle pages double-page colour illustration with double-page contents list to verso - each page with protective transparentlift-back flap to MINT Royal Mail commissioned event/ occasion facsimile stamps; 2 stamps to first page and 3 stamps to it's 2nd page.<br />This handbook to the British Season is published in association with Royal Mail and was inspired by a set of five stamps issued in 1994 and called Summertime.The stamps were designed by Matthew Cook and they feature the Royal Welsh Show WimbledonCowe'sLord's and the Royal Highland Games.The book contains the events featured on the stamps and seventeen more besides and the illustrations are accompanied by a witty and informative text from Paul Duncan. The Season is one of the most curious things about life in the British Isles. Exclusive and at times hugely democratic anachronistic while still managing to be a mirror of societyit is traditionally the preserve of the higher orders.The term British Season conjures up images of patrician types milling about the cricket pitch or the paddockperched by picnic hamper sipping something fizzy or sitting in a tea tent toying with strawberries. Adorned in a large hat or morning dressthe participants are not so much interested in the sport at hand as getting on with the serious business of socializing.High ritual is the Season's hallmarkthe patronage of royalty a pointer to its rating on Society's annual whirligig. And yetPrime Minister Major's desire for a 'classless' Britain has unleashed an alternative: the People's Season.It has always been therebut somehow its eclipse by the frenetic rounds of balls and dancesthe racingshooting and fishingthe sailing and rowingthe silk top hats and shiny Bentleyshas been absolute.The time has come to acknowledge this other life and so this book includes events such as Blackpool's Illuminationsa trip to Alton Towers and the Notting Hill Carnival. Here the cucumber sandwiches have been traded in for a plate of chipschampagne for a six-pack of beerbut the enjoyment of a good day out remains the same. With advice on when to gowhat to wear and what to look for when you get there'The British Season' provides a fascinating insight to the British at play. Since April 2013again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template altering it's pricesweight allowancesdimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!<br />Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the weight/value of this item for correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /><br /><br /></p> LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN and COMPANY in Assocaition with Royal Mail,1994. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja753117 ???????? : 0316909866 9780316909860
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LAWER DIANA:
'GET YOUR SKATES ON' - A HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH'S ROLLER SKATING RINKS 1874-1989.Author SIGNED copy.
<p>UKslimsmall 8vo wraps/softback originalauthor SIGNED1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptnbut author's neathandwritten blue ink inscrptnsignature: 'with best wishes Diana Lawer.' to title-page.Brightcrispcleanglossy colour pictorial and b/w photographic illustrated card wraps/covers with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and cornersno reading creases to spine/backstrip.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy UKslimsmall 8vo wrapsp/back original1st edni-xpp1-218pp paginated includes author signed title-pagecontents list/tableappendices lista chronology of the Three Towns rinks 1874 - 1909an a forewordacknowledgementsPts 12 comprising 14 chapters 6 & 8 respectivelyprofuse contemporary b/w illus and b/w photographs the majority and some contemporary colour illus throughout the text and the book13 appendicesreferencesa bibliography of primarysecondary sourcesand an index. This study of the provision of public roller skating rinks in The Three Towns PlymouthDevonport and Stonehousecovers the period from the early 1870's when the first roller rinks were opened.It continues through to the 20th Century with the demise of Plymouth's skating rinks at the advent of World War Two.There is also an account of the short-lived return of roller skating in the 1960's and the 1980's. Since April 2013and again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering its weight allowances dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!</p> UK.PLYMOUTH,DEVON.THREE TOWNS PUBLISHING,2007. paperback
书商的参考编号 : rja457113 ???????? : 0955744202 9780955744204
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McCOY Anthony Peter:
TAKING THE FALL.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.NFINE/FINE.Previous owner's black ink initials to top corner of ffe and price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanb/w photographic illustrated dw/dj with glossy greenwhite letters; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Cornersalong with headfoot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing and slight rubbingtop front corner minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Topfore-edges generally bright and clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread Brightcleancrispgenerally sharp-cornered publisher's original plain black cloth bds with brightcrispstamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate - owner initials excepted - plain white eps.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn1-245pp paginatedincludes 21 chaptersepilogueplus unpaginated half-titletitle pagesanother title separator pagean about the author note to rearfollowed by 2pp blanks. Duncan Claymore could have it all.He's one of the country's up-and-coming young jockeys and this season his sights are set on getting right to the top.He has the talent and the tenacitybut he also has his demons and it'sthese that threaten to overthrow his burning ambition.Duncan was taught everything he knows by his fatherCharliea former trainer whose career and reputation were destroyed when a series of bitter rivalries got out of hand.It ruined him and Charlie hasn't been able to set footon a racecourse since.Nowwith his father's health rapidly declining Duncan is desperate to beat the best and at the same time take down the men responsible for Charlie's ruin.But can he do both or must he choose between his family andhis future Darkgripping and compulsive 'TAKING THE FALL' is the first thriller and debut novelfrom champion jockeyA.P. McCoy. A.P. McCoy is a record-breaking Northern Irish horse-racing jockey with a series of impressive wins to his nameincluding the Cheltenham Gold CupChampion HurdleQueen Mother Champion ChaseKing George VI Chase and the 2010 Grand National.McCoy was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010becoming the first jockey to win the award. LONDON.ORION BOOKS,2013. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja609316 ???????? : 1409129578 9781409129578
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HUMPHRIES TOM:
Dublin V. Kerry: The Story of the Epic Rivalry That Changed Irish Sport.
Ireland8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.Complete number line 1. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but a black ink initial J towards top right-hand corner of ffe front free endpaper and no price-clip £17.99 to dw/dj.Brightcrisp cleanmattsports action colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panelswith bluegreen and white lettering; with negligibleshelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both headfoot of spine/backstrip ofboth bds and dw/dj are minimally bumped with reciprocal creasingdw/dj's top two corners minisculely rubbed.Topfore- edges bright and clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners appears unread - apart from my own collation.Brightcrispcleansharp-corneredpublisher's original plain black cloth bds with brightcrisp stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps - aforementioned ink initial J excepted.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn2-293pp paginated includes a prologue20 chapters and an epilogueacknowledgements and an indexplus unpaginated half-titletitle pages dedicationan epigram Robert Browningand contents list/table. DUBLIN AND KERRY.In the winter of 1973 they were the deposed royal houses of Gaelic footballconsigned to looking out across their borders as bonfires burned on neighbouring estates.By the end of the decade they had re-invented the sport and changed the way we look at the GAA Gaelic Athletic Association.Dublin emerged from the wilderness in 1974having entered the championship as 33/1 shots.Kerry's neatly plotted ambush came the following September.From that platform Kerry and Dublin constructed an opera of passion and revenge which reached its crescendo with the All-Ireland semi-final of 1977.The countries would contest two more finals before the decade was done.Dublin were waning being beaten now by age and fatigue as much as by a Kerry side just discovering their own potential.Their story extended beyond football and beyond the the sidelines.In a decade cursed by recession and emigrationDublin and Kerry filled a vacuum not just in the sporting arena but in the imagination of a nation.The rivalry and the revival that effectively saved and preserved the GAA for future generations was conceived in the minds of two men from different ends of the country.Kevin Heffernanliving in tree-lined Rahenychainsmoked through the winters and thought obsessively of avenging hiscountry's 1955 defeat to Kerry.In windswept Waterville hardby the AtlanticMick O'Dwyer devised the response which would create the greatest era and the greatest team ever seen. The men who played lived disparate lives but shared an overarching passion.Decades later they are united by the bonds they forged.MoranCullenKeaveneyHickeyEganO SeDeenihanSpillane - the names which illuminated those yearsare still magical today.The extraordinary men who were so driven then are as passionate today. From boys of summer to lions of winterthis is their story. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering it's pricesweight allowancesdimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! IRELAND.DUBLIN.PENGUIN IRELAND,2006. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja621016 ???????? : 1844880850 9781844880850
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McCARTHY JOHN & TOKSVIG SANDI:
ISLAND RACE: AN IMPROBABLE VOYAGE ROUND THE COAST OF BRITAIN.Both co-authors SIGNED copy.
<p>UKQrto HBdw/djSIGNED1st edn.Laid in looseb/w photocopied local newspaper cutting of both authors at a book-signing in Plymouth; cutting dated Sept 20th 1995. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersappears unread - apart from my own collation.Brightcrispcleansharp-corneredpublisher's original plain blue cloth bds with brightcrispstamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate bluegrey knot diagram illustrated eps. UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn6-240pp paginated includes 75-day diary/ accountplus 'Final thoughts'profuse b/wcolour photographs and illustrations throughout the text and the bookplus unpaginated epigrammed half-title page with author's portrait colour photographic frntis to it's rectoco-author's signatures: 'To DianeSandi Toksvig' and John McCarthy's signature - without dedication - both to the title page dedicationacknowledgements. Take two novice sailors and an eighty-year-old wooden sailing boatmix with a deadline and the vagaries of British weatherand you'll find that the chances of getting round Britain's coastline are somewhat small. 'Island Race' is the story of two old friends - a former hostage and a comedienne - trying to come to grips with sailing as they circumnavigate Britain.With the occasional attempted decapitation moments of real excitementand fearthey gather together a portrait of this island's coastal communities. As a hostage in BeirutJohn McCarthy had a dream of sailing on the bow of a classic yacht.Now the dream becomes reality as he and writer and performerSandi Toksvigboard 'Hirta'a pilot cutterin an attempt to sail round Britain within three months.With them you can learn sailing tips: never stand on a rope someone else is pullinglife jackets were a good invention; historical facts: one-seventh of Nelson's navy had hernias from rope pulling; and geographical pointers: John O'Groats is not the most northerly point of the mainlandthe Swelliesthe Scrobies and the Wrigglers are not physical afflictions. The journey begins on a deserted island and progresses clockwise round Britain with the crew dropping in at nearly fifty ports and harbours. With poor weather constantly hampering their progressthe journey becomes a race against the elements as well as the deadline. Will the reality of such an undertaking live up to John and Sandi's expectations How will John cope with the confined quarters of a boat or seasick Sandi with the temperamental 'sea toilet' And what will the encounters with the people of Britain's coast reveal about an island nation The Channel Islands' chandler who reveals hidden tunnels left by WW2 German armies; Buddhist monks who've bought a Scottish island as a retreat; the prisoners in Portland prison - all theseand other intriguing discoveries add up to a unique portrait of life in Britain andas the journey gathers speedtwo sometimes conflicting yet complimentary views of life at sea. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering it's pricesweight allowancesdimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/value of this item for correct insured shipping/ Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!</p> LONDON.BBC BOOKS,1995. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja627216 ???????? : 056337053X 9780563370536
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FLEMING FERGUS:
KILLING DRAGONS: THE CONQUEST OF THE ALPS.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. FINE/FINE.Neatblue ink gift presentation inscrptn to top right-hand corner of ffe front free endpaper and no price-clip £20.00 to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedmonochrome illustration reproduction illustrated dw/dj panelswith bluered lettering to front panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersappears unread - apart from my own collation.Brightcrispcleansharp-corneredpublisher's original plain black cloth bds with brightcrispstamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain pale blue eps.UK8vo HBdw/dj1stednvi-ixpp2-398pp paginated includes preface and acknowledgements27 chapters each with a b/w line headpieceillustration16pp contemporaryhistorical b/w 19thC illustration reproductions and b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiecebetween pp116/7 and pp276/7 respectivelya 4pp select biblio20pp sourcesand an indexplus unpaginated half-title pageb/w line headpiece illustrated title pagedouble-page b/w map of showing Alps mountain range of Europe includes FranceSwitzerland and Austria and 6pp blanks at the rear. A HAIR-RAISINGHILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE BIRTH OF MOUNTAINEERING. Above the pastures of Switzerlandit was believeddragons and ghosts inhabited the realms of ice and snow.No one in their right mind considered climbing into the Alps - and certainly not for pleasure.In the late 18thC howeverscientific gentlemen began to turn their minds to these high places.What would the peaks tell us about the atmosphereabout weatherabout glaciers And so they set offearly pioneers like the Swiss geologistSaussure and his rival Bourrit armed with gallons of wineroast fowltheodolites and barometerswalking in their ordinary clothes up the sheer rocks into the unknown.When the British came on the scenemountain-climbing as anobsessionan art form and a sport was born. Full of the imperial confidence that had already conquered so much of Asia and AfricaBritons set out to plant their flag on every peak in the Alps. These early Alpine adventurers were fanatically competitive climbers.They included John Tyndall the famous physicist who wished to test theories about how glaciers were formed; showmenlike Albert Smiththe Victorian impresario who made a fortune putting the conquest of Mont Blanc onto the London stage and zealotslike Edward Whymperthe wood engraver turned monomaniacal mountaineer.They fought each other on the peaks and in printtheir rivalries lasting for yearsand entertained a vast public in the process.The great mountains were conquered one by oneby insouciant public schoolboys and dogged tradesmen alike.Theglaciers accumulated mangled bodies that made their way slowly down to the valleys.More and more tourists came; the dragons were dead.By the third decade of the 20thC only the suicidally dangerous north faces of the Eiger and Matterhorn remained to be climbed by the proteges of Hitlerand Mussolini. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering it's prices weight allowancesdimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/value of this item for correct and possiblyinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! LONDON.GRANTA PUBLICATIONS,2000. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja644816 ???????? : 1862073791 9781862073791
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FABIAN BADDIEL SARAH:
MILLER'S Golf MEMORABILIA.
UKslim Qrto HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour photographic illustrated dw/dj panelswithwhiteyellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersappears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright crispcleansharp-corneredpublisher's original plain black cloth bds with brightcrispstamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black eps.UKslim Qrto HBdw/dj1st edn6-160pp paginated includes author's introduction7 distinctsectionsprofuse contemporary b/wcolour illustrations and photographsa glossarya biblio of collectable booksa where/who to sell/buy to listan index and acknowledgementsas last pageplus unpaginated half-titletitle pagesand contents list/table. See also my book ID's rja617616 and rja647016 an author SIGNED copy for other related golf titles by the same author. 'Miller's Golf MEMORABILIA' examines hundreds of itemstells you what to look for and whyand provides a price forevery object shown. Not only a uniquely comprehensive and invaluable collector's guidethe book is also a colourful and excitingsouvenir of one of the world's most popular sports. Sarah Baddiel fell in love with the game of golf some 12 years ago then 1989.Since thenshe has become probably the world's foremost dealer in golfing literature and ephemera.Opening her Golfiana Gallery in 1980her shop in Grays Antique MarketLondonshe sold everything connected with the game of golfand is well-known to professionals and amateurs alikeon both sides of the Atlantic.She is a member of the Golf Collector's Society of America and the British Golf Collector's Societyand frequently contributesto golfing magazines and books; she wrote for the section on Collecting Golfiana for the Library Association's definitive 'Sourcebook of Golf'. Since April 2013and again in March 2015and again in thisyear toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering its pricesweight allowancesdimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/ Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! LONDON.MILLER'S,1994. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja649916 ???????? : 1857323505 9781857323504
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McNEISH CAMERON:
THE MUNROS: SCOTLAND'S HIGHEST MOUNTAINS.
UKQrto HBdw/djrevised 2nd reprint.First and originally published by same publisher 1996reprinted the same year and again in 1997.It was revised in 1998 and then reprintedagain in 1999 and 2000 - this edn. The route summaries were first published in 'The Munro Almanac' also by Cameron McNeish. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip £25.00 to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedmountains' scenic colour photographic illustrated panels of dw/djwith red and b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttight clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' cornersvery much appears unread - apart from my owncollation.Brightcrispclean sharp-corneredpublisher's originalglazed bds with dw/dj's design repeated to bdsand immaculate plain dark blue eps.UKQrto HBdw/dj 2nd revised reprint edn5-228pp paginated includes contents list/ tableThe MunrosMunros heights and numbers31 sections listing Munros within eachprofuse Munros' scenic colour photographs throughout with text and route summary with colour location mapa chapter on Mountain Safety and an index.Plus unpaginated mountain sceniccolour photographic vignetted half-title pagetitle page with a colour regional map to it's rectoas a frntis. Climbing Scottish mountains has never been more popular and interest in those over 3000ft - the Munros - has been given new vigour following recent revisions to the list of Munros and re-surveys of many of the mountain heights.The details of all these changes are included in this edition of 'The Munros'along with revised route descriptions and updated maps.The summits are named after Sir Hugh Munro of Lindertis inAngus whoin 1891first published his Tables of Heights over 3000ft in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal.Since thenwell over 15000 individuals have climbed all theMunros and many thousands more are systematically climbing them while at the same time enjoying the beauty and the challenge of Scotland's big hills.This book will inspire them. 'The Munros: Scotland's Highest Mountains' offers a choiceof routes up Scotland's 284 Munrosoften combining several to make a satisfying day out.This also serves the purpose of spreading the load on the hill by suggesting more adventurous routes away from the popular 'honeypot' footpaths.Stunning colour photographs portray the grandeur and beauty of the hills and these are complemented by graphic route maps.One of the dangers of the Munro bagging phenomenon is thatmany walkers are climbing hills without actually getting toknow them - for many it has become just a list-ticking game.This book is intended to introduce Munro-climbers to different aspects of the hills' character in a more holistic waynot only as a guidebook but as an essential reference book to be used in planning the daysweekends or weeks spent in one of Europe's most varied and remarkable mountain landscapes. Climberwriterbroadcaster and Munroist No. 913Cameron McNeish completed his first round of Munros in 1991100 years after Sir Hugh Munro compiled and published his list.Cameron completed his second round in 1996.Scotland's foremost hillwalking authorCameron McNeish draws on his own extensive and intimate knowledge of the mountains to offer a choice of routes to each summit. Since April 2013and again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering its pricesweight allowancesdimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! SCOTLAND.EDINBURGH.LOMOND BOOKS,2000. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja615016 ???????? : 0947782508 9780947782504
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PARSONS RICHARD:
THE STORY OF THE KINGS: C.J. King & Sons 1850 to the present day
UK.BRISTOL.WHITE TREE BOOKS/REDCLIFFE PRESS LTD.1988. UKslim 8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.ISBN internally incorrect as 0949265221.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnno price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrisp cleanglossy laminatedcolour pictorial vignetted upper panel of dw/dj with redblue and black lettering ; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually as new.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents bright tightcleansolid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread - apart from my own collation.Brightcrispcleansharp-corneredpublisher's original dark blue cloth bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UKslim 8vo HBdw/dj1st edn4-120pp paginated includes b/w river scenic illustrated frntis from a painting by T. Rowbothaman author intro5 sections comprising 4543 chapters and a list of Company's riverTugs from 1859 to 1980 respectivelyprofuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the bookand an index.Plus unpaginated title-pageand a contents list/table with acknowledgements. In the 1840'sChristopher King left his birthplace in the village of ChiseldonWiltshire to seek work in Bristol. By 1850at the age of twenty-threehe was a master stevedorelaying the foundations of the family business which was to dominate the stevedoring and tug-owning scene in Bristol city docks for the next century and whichby adapting and diversifying into other fieldsstill flourishes today then 1988. The author traces the development of the businessthrough triumphs and vicissitudes as trade shifted from the historic city docks to Avonmouth andlaterPortbury in the new age of the containership.All this is set against a background of change: of sail giving way to steam and then to dieselof two world warsrecessionscompetition and new technology. The story is embellished with historic events dear to Bristolian heartssuch as the royal opening of the Royal Edward Dockthe arrival of the first banana boatsand the emotional return of s.s. Great Britain in all of which C.J. King played their own vital role. Throughoutthe author puts the story in its human context: the enterprise of the King and Stevenson familiesand of the men who worked with themoften through several generations. For many readersthis book wil revive fond memories of the city docks as they were a generation agoand of the 'characters' who worked there.For othersit will be an insight into aspects of Bristol life which have now gone forever. Since April2013the UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering its weight allowancesdimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! . UKslim 8vo HBdw/dj1st edn. Hardback. FINE./FINE. Illus. by illus with contemporary b/w photographs. Slim 8vo. Bristol shipping Co history. UK.BRISTOL.WHITE TREE BOOKS/REDCLIFFE PRESS LTD.,1988. Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja500914 ???????? : 0948265221 9780948265228
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ELKEN PAUL:
Images of MARITIME BRISTOL
UKDERBY.BREEDON BOOKS PUBLISHING COMPANY1995. UKslim Qrto HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnno price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrisp cleanglossy laminatedmontage'd colourb/w photographic illustrated dw/djwith blueblack letters; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - though some inevitable but very minimalminor scoring and indentations to both panels of dw/dj.Topfore- edges bright and clean; contents brighttightcleansolid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread Brightcrispcleansharp-cornered publisher's originalplain blue cloth bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UKslim Qrto HBdw/dj1st edn7-197pp paginated includes intro18 chaptersprofuse contemporary then & now b/w photographs throughout the text and the bookeach with accompanying textand a biblio.Plus unpaginated half-titletitle pagescontents list/tableand 2pp blanks at rear. The oldest surviving photograph of a sea-going ship was taken towards the end of 1884 in Bristol. Since thenmany amateur and professional photographers have captured images of ships in and around this famous port.'Images of MARITIME BRISTOL' is the first comprehensive selection of historic and modern photographs dedicated to this theme. Most of the photographs are from the Industrial & Maritime collections of Bristol City Museums & Art Gallerya wide selection of whose fine imagessupplemented from the archives of the regional newspaperthe Bristol Evening Postbuilds into a superb evocation of the port's history over the 150 years that the camera has been with us. Early views capture the drama of sailing vesselswrecked in the dangerous river that gave access to the old port.Ships under construction in local yards and going about their business in and around one of Britain's best loved ports illustrate the transition from sail to steamtimber to rivetted iron and more recentlyto motorised vessels of welded steel. Work-a-day images from the Museum's Port of Bristol Authority Collection present a less romantic but realistic view of maritime Bristol in the changing times of the twentieth century.The heroic scale of the port facilities built to keep Bristol active as a major British port into the twenty-first century are depicted in some remarkable pictures by modern professional photographers.Paul Elkenhaving lived and worked in Bristol since 1969 he is recognised now as an acknowledged expert on the history of the city's industriestransport and its port and shipping in particular.He had long cherished an ambition to publish a wide-ranging selection of the photographs illustrating the port of Bristol from the extensive archives of the City Museum & Art Gallery where he works as the Senior Curator of Humanities.This book realises that ambition. He was responsible in 1978 for establishing the acclaimed Industrial Museum and takes great pride in having learned to drive and fire its powerful steam locomotives 'Henbury' and 'Portbury'.Both engines were built in Bristol and worked the port's extensive railway network at Avonmouth Docks until preserved by the City Museum in the early 1960's.They are now used to give rides to the public on the Bristol Harbour Railway. A title from the Breedon's 'Images of. . .' seres of British cities and towns. Since April2013the UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering its weight allowancesdimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the heavier weight of this item just over 1Kg unpackagedfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! . UKslim Qrto HBdw/dj1st edn. Hardback. FINE./FINE. Illus. by illus with contemporary b/w photographs. Slim Qrto. Bristol Docksport history. UK,DERBY.BREEDON BOOKS PUBLISHING COMPANY,1995. Hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja502714 ???????? : 1859830048 9781859830048
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FRANCIS DICK**:
KNOCK DOWN.Author SIGNED copy.
<p>UK12mo wrapsSIGNED18th imp.VG.Published by Michael Joseph UK 1974in hardbackthen PAN UK 1975in paperback.No owner inscrptnbut author's neathandwritten blue ink signature - without dedication - to title-page.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour photographic illustrated upper wrap and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Three corners lightly dog-ear creasedopening crease to upper wrap towards spine/backstrip's edgeand reading creases to spine/ backstrip.Book has a slight lean/roll.Top edge lightly aged/tanned fore- edge less so and therefore brighter; contents bright tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK12mo wrapsSIGNED 18th imp5-188pp paginated includes 17 chaptersplus unpaginated half-titleSIGNED title-page and 2pp publisher's adverts to rear. Described hardbut fairly and honestly.Better than it reads!! Author's 13th novel. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! </p> LONDON.PAN BOOKS LTD.,1975. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja378010 ???????? : 0330246208 9780330246200
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FRANCIS DICK**:
BOLT.Author SIGNED copy.
<p>UK12mo wrapsSIGNED3rd imp p/back.NFINE.Published by Michael Joseph UK 1986in hardbackthen PAN UK 1988in paperback. No owner inscrptnbut author's neathandwrittenblue ink signature - without dedication - to title-page.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour photographic illustrated upper wrap by Colin Thomas and blackred lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - tiny closed nick to rear wrap's lower edge - reading creases to spine/ backstrip.Topfore-edges slightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal - contents brighttight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK12mo wrapsSIGNED3rd imp7-239pp paginated includes 21 chaptersplus unpaginated half-titleSIGNED title-pageand dedication.Author's 25th novel. Kit Fielding's patronPrincess Casiliais in trouble.Her invalid husband Roland de Brescouis being threatened by a business partner.And to enforce the threatall the Princess's best runners are wantonly being destroyed - shot by a bolt. The only person she can turn to is Kitbut he has problems of his own.His fiancee Danielle appears to have changed her mind.And his age-old feud with Maynard Allardeck has once again intensified into a violent outburst.Wherever he goesthe champion jockey seems to attract bloodshed. . . . Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! </p> LONDON.PAN BOOKS LTD.,1985. paperback
书商的参考编号 : rja378310 ???????? : 0330301381 9780330301381
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FRANCIS DICK**:
HIGH STAKES.Author SIGNED copy.
<p>UK12mo wrapsno dw/dj - as issuedSIGNED14th imp.VG.Published by Michael Joseph UK 1975in hardbackthen PAN UK 1976 in paperback.No owner inscrptnbut author's neathandwrittenblue ink signature - without dedication - to title-page.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour photographic illustrated upper wrap by Colin Thomas and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Reading creases to spine/backstrip and book has a slight lean/roll.Topfore-edges lightly aged/tanned; contents brighttight and clean - no dog-ear reading reases to any pages' corners.UK12mo wrapsSIGNED14th imp 5-189pp paginated includes 16 chaptersepilogueplus unpaginated half-titleSIGNED title-page and 2pp publisher's adverts to rear.Author's 14th novel. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! </p> LONDON.PAN BOOKS LTD.,1975. paperback
书商的参考编号 : rja378110 ???????? : 0330248367 9780330248365
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FRANCIS DICK**:
FIELD OF 13.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.Top edge lightly aged/tanned - as usual/normalfore-edge less so and therefore brighter and clean; contents brighttight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy Dick Francis fans have a great treat in store - thirteen plots to marvel atthirteen sets of characters to admire and thirteen stings in the tail to gasp over.Collection of short stories. Want more Dick FRANCIS titles For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2 and SIGNED catalogues.<br /><br /> LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1998. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja3858/11 ???????? : 0718143515 9780718143510
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FOULKES NICHOLAS:
GENTLEMEN BLACKGUARDS: or Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcleancolour pictorial ilustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Headfoot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasingand a tinytiny closed nick/tear to head of same.Top edges bright and clean; fore-edge similar but with a small smudge centrally towards rear pages edgescontents brighttight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy Sharp-corneredbright and cleanpublisher's original burgundy cloth bds with colourpictorial illustrated epsbrightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and slight cocking to book.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st ednviii-xviiipp2-298pp paginated includes contentsillus lists/tables acknowledgementsnotes on Moneyintroprologue20 chaptersan epilogue16pp contemporary colour illusportraitsin 2 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp78/9 and pp106/7 respectivelynotesbiblio and an index plus unpaginated half-titletitle pagesdedicationand 4pp blanks to rear. At the beginning of the 1840'sBritain was the gambling capital of Europe and racing was a national obsession: attracting the richthe aristocratic and the spendthrift - those for whom money was not so much a necessity as a way of keeping score.Yet what had once been a diversion for noblemen had now become a nationwide phenomenonwith the Epsom Derby assuming the status of an unofficial national holiday; attracting hundreds of thousands of spectators andmany millions of pounds in wagers.It was a time of frenziedspeculationhigh stakes and low morals when every rusesubterfuge and fraud was practised - and the biggest sin was getting caught.But as the cheerfully unprincipled Regency era began to give way to the earnest and conspicious high-mindedness of the Victorian periodreformers decided it was a good time to root out the canker gnawing at Britain.In the summer of 1844the murky world of illegal gambling hellscrooked hazard tables and the dubious practices of the Turf were made the subject of a far-reaching Parliamentary Inquiry. When the Derby of the same year ended in chaoswith the two favourite horses doped and the result challenged by the Prime minister's brother the Turf's most dedicated follower and greatest tyrantLord George Bentincktook it upon himself to uncoverthe truth of what happened that day: following a trail of aevidence that led to one of the most sensational court cases of the nineteenth century.This is a story of menmoney gambling and sporting obsession; of rogues and rascalssubterfuge and chicanerywith duellingsuicide and murder thrown in.It is a tale of outrageous criminalityaristocratic complacencyand a gripping investigation to expose the most audacious sporting plcture of the age.A compelling detective story peopled with low-life aristocrats and high- minded reformers'Gentlemen Blackguards' paints a vivid panorama of the full spectrum of early Victorian societybringing to life an overlooked turning point in British history. LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2010. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja3922/11 ???????? : 0297844598 9780297844594
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FRANCIS DICK**:
Whip Hand.
<p>UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptndiagonal clip to bottomfrontinner flap where price was.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour photographic illustrated upper wrapauthor's b/w portrait photographic rear wrap.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and cornersbut some bumping with reciprocal creasing to both headfoot of spine/backstrip and some creasing to bottom edge of front wrap with an approx 1.5" verticalclosed tear just beside front flap's inner fold.Top edge lightly aged and dust-soiled with sporadic spotting; fore-edge though lightly agedbrighter and cleaner with no spotting; contents brighttight and clean Sharp-corneredbrightcleanpublisher's original black cloth bds with brightcrispstamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and near immaculate plain white eps.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn7-252pp paginated includes prologue and 20 chaptersplus unpaginated half-titletitle pagesa dedication and 2pp blanks at rear. Ex-jockey Sid Hadlley from 'Odds Against' is back in explosive action; working as before as a private investigator in the racing world.Sid is a victim of his own success - overworked and stretched to do all the jobs he is offeredeven with the help of his Black Belt friend Chico Barnes. Villainstoohave learned to beware of him.The word has gone round - and Sid finds himself hunting an enemy who believes the best defense is brutal attack. Book an EDGAR and GOLD DAGGER Award Winner.Marking the first time Dick Francis has returned to a previous character - Sid Halleyfrom 'ODDS AGAINST'. The dw/dj's colour photograph features Mike Gwilym star of Yorkshire Television's televised 'THE RACING GAME' screened in the autumn of 1979. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering it's pricesweight allowances dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!<br /> Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /><br /></p> LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1979. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja3767/10 ???????? : 0718118456 9780718118457
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FRANCIS DICK**:
DEAD CERT.
<p>UK12mo wrapsp/back 1st edn.First published Michael Joseph UK 1962in hardback. VG. Owner's blue ink name to top corner of ffe. Slightly grubbed greenblack illustrated upper wrap by Sheila Perry and b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners and miniscule rubbing to edges.A half-inch closed split/tear to foot of upper wrap's spine/backstrip edge.Book has a slight lean and inevitable reading creases to spine/backstrip.Topfore-edges aged/ tanned - as usual/normal; contents brighttight and clean with page-edge tanning - no major dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK 12mo wrapsp/back 1st edn5-237pp paginated includes 19 chapters plus unpaginated title-page and 2pp publisher's advert to rear.An acceptable paperback first edition/copy of a rare and much sought after Dick Francis title and early novel. The author's first novellooked upon as a modern horse-racing classic. Highly sought after and an elusive 1st edn in hardback - only 2500 copiesalso uncommon in it's first paperback appearance. Eyes and field-glasses are on the first horses and the last fence.But it's misty; they look blurredlike ghost-riders.No one can see the fine wire stretched right above the fence - not even the leading jockey.So the dead cert's down.And the jockey's dead.Alan Yorkthe second jockey overis suspicious.And the nobblers know it.'Mind your own business' they say 'or the same will happen to you.' But he doesn't.And it does. Nearly.The only way York can hope to identify the killers is to act natural but keep probing - but when there's more at stake than money and the odds are against youacting natural doesn't come too easily. Dick Francisa former Champion Jockeytells a tensely exciting story with a clever plotand givesat the same timea vivid picture of the dangers and rivalries of the racecourse. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!</p> LONDON.PENGUIN (C2138),1964. paperback
书商的参考编号 : rja3769/10
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FRANCIS DICK**:
Smokescreen.Author SIGNED copy.
<p>UK12mo wrapsno dw/dj - as issuedSIGNEDp/back 1st edn.Published by Michael Joseph UK1972in hardbackthen PAN UK 1974in p/back. VG. Owner name to top edge half-title pageauthor's neat handwrittenblue ink signature - without dedication - to title-page.Bright clean colour illustrated wraps and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - reading creases to spine/backstrip.Topfore-edges slightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal - contents brighttight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK12mo wrapsSIGNEDp/back 1st edn7-192pp paginated includes 17 chaptersplus unpaginated half-titleSIGNED title-page and dedication. Horse-racing thriller set in South Africa with a vivid and sinister conclusion in the Kruger National Park. By nowand after his following novel Slay-Ride Francis was well enough establishedto be able to retire from journalism and the Sunday Express. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.ukbecause of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!</p> LONDON.PAN BOOKS LTD.,1974. paperback
书商的参考编号 : rja3776/10 ???????? : 0330239171 9780330239172
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FRANCIS DICK**:
FLYING FINISH.Author SIGNED copy.
<p>UK12mo wrapsp/back 32nd imp edn.Originally published by Michael Joseph UK1966in hardbackthen PAN UK 1968 and nowin 32nd imp. VG. No owner inscrptnbut author's neathandwrittenblue ink signature - without dedication - to title-page.Brightcleancolour photographic illustrated upper wrap by Colin Thomas different illus from earlier p/back edns - broken goggles and giltblack lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and with reading creases to spine/backstrip.Topfore- edges heavily tanned/aged - as usual/normal; contents brighttight and clean with inevitable page-edge tanning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK12mo p/backSIGNED32nd imp5-222pp paginated includes 18 chaptersplus unpaginated half-titleSIGNED title-pageand no publisher's advert to rear present in p/b 1st and earlier p/back reprints - see rja377310.A very nice later issue paperback edition/copy of an uncommon and sought after early Dick Francis title and novel.Even with an increased initial print runstill a difficult title to find in hardback 1st edn.Uncommon in it's first and second paperback appearance. Story revolving around the international transport of racehorses and breeding stockdrawing on Dick Francis's R.A.F experiences and his wife Mary'safter she took flying lessonseventually gaining her pilot's licence buying her own 'planea Piper Cherokeeand both of them flying on a horse transporter to Italy. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!</p> LONDON.PAN BOOKS LTD.,[nd.]. paperback
书商的参考编号 : rja3775/10 ???????? : 0330021117 9780330021111
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FRANCIS DICK**:
BOLT.Author SIGNED copy.
<p>UK12mo wrapsno dw/dj - as issuedSIGNED3rd imp p/back.NFINE.Published by Michael Joseph UK 1986in hardback then PAN UK 1988 in paperback.No owner inscrptnbut author's neathandwritten blue ink signature - without dedication - to title-page.Brightcrispclean glossy laminatedcolour photographic illustrated upper wrap by Colin Thomas and blackred lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - tinyclosed nick to rear wrap's lower edge - reading creases to spine/backstrip.Topfore-edges slightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal - contents brighttight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK12mo wraps7-239pp paginated includes 21 chaptersplus unpaginated half-titleSIGNED title pageand dedication.Author's 25th novel. Kit Fielding's patronPrincess Casiliais in trouble.Her invalid husband Roland de Brescouis being threatened by a business partner.And to enforce the threat all the Princess's best runners are wantonly being destroyed - shot by a bolt. The only person she can turn to is Kit but he has problems of his own. His fiancee Danielle appears to have changed her mind.And his age-old feud with Maynard Allardeck has once again intensified into a violent outburst.Wherever he goesthe champion jockey seems to attract bloodshed. . . . Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! </p> LONDON.PAN BOOKS LTD.,1985. paperback
书商的参考编号 : rja3783/11 ???????? : 0330301381 9780330301381
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FRANCIS DICK**:
HOT MONEY.Author SIGNED copy.
<p>UK12mo wrapsSIGNED10th imp p/back.NFINE.Published by Michael Joseph UK 1987in hardbackthen PAN UK 1988in paperback. Although no owner inscrptna numerical notation 45 to top of ffeand author's neathandwrittenblue ink signature - without dedication - to title-page.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour photographic illustrated upper wrap by Colin Thomas and whitegilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and cornersreading creases to spine/backstrip and book has a slight lean/roll.Topfore-edges slightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal - contents brighttight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK12mo wrapsSIGNED 1st edn10th imp1-277pp paginated includes 19 chaptersepilogue plus unpaginated half-titleSIGNED title-pagea dedicationPembroke family list/table and 2pp publisher's adverts at rear.Author's 26th novel. Malcolm Pembroke never expected to make a million pounds without making enemies.Nor did he expect his latest wife to be brutally murdered. All the clues suggest the killer comes from close to home - but after five marriages and nine childrenthat still leaves the field wide open. When he finds his own life in dangerPembroke entrusts his safety to his estranged sonIanan amateur jockey; and through him discovers a compulsive new outlet for his financial expertise. Soon he's playing the international blood stock market for incredible stakes.Not the safest bet for a man on the run from avaricious relatives. Particularly when one of them's got a bomb. . . . Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!</p> LONDON.PAN BOOKS LTD.,1988. paperback
书商的参考编号 : rja3784/10 ???????? : 0330305050 9780330305051
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FRANCIS DICK**:
TWICE SHY.
<p>UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/NFINE.Published by Michael Joseph UK 1981in hardback. Owner namedate to ffe and price-clip to dw/dj. Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour photographic illustrated upper wrap and yellowwhite letteringauthor's b/w portrait photograph to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Headfoot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread Cleansharp-corneredpublisher's original plain black cloth bds with brightcrispstamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and clean plain white ep.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn3-248pp paginated includes 20 chapters plus unpaginated half-titletitle pages and dedication.Author's 20th novel. Jonathan Derrycrack shot with a rifle and pretty good in the classroom was contented in general with his life as a schoolmaster andbut for the frantic action of distant friendwould never have found himself plunged into a dark world of danger. 'Twice Shy' is the story of how Jonathan solved a terrifying problem . . . . . and how the same problem erupted with renewed menace into the life of his younger brotherWilliam.William's solution was very different because William was different.William's first interest was horsesand also his secondand his third.Almost all he had in common with Jonathan was a wry intelligence and a bucketful of nerve - and for each brother in turnthis had to do. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering it's pricesweight allowancesdimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /></p><br /> LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1981. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja3785/10 ???????? : 0718120566 9780718120566
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BRYANT JOHN:
THE LONDON MARATHON: THE HISTORY OF THE GREATEST RACE ON EARTH.Author SIGNED copy.
<p>UK8vo HBdw/djSIGNED1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnbut warmly dedicated SIGNED by author in neatblue ink: 'To undecipherable Enjoy every step together! John Bryant.' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.The author of '3:59:4: The Quest to Break the 4 Minute Mile'is a veteran of marathons around the world and has been involved in the London Marathon for 25 years.A life-long athleteOxford Bluecounty championcoach to an Olympic athlete and long-time captain of the world's oldest cross-country clubhe has lived his life in the world of running.John Bryant worked closely with Chris BrasherJohn Disley and Dave Bedford during the early years of the London Marathonand has been associated with its development and promotion continously since 1981. Brightcrispcleancolour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttight and pristine - an unread copy Brightcleansharp-corneredpublisher's original plain black cloth bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK8vo HBdw/djSIGNED1st ednviipp 1-180pp paginated includes contents list/tableforeword by Sir Steve Redgrave25 chapters24pp contemporarycolour action photographs from races in 3 blocks of 8pp apiecebetween pp56/7pp136/7 and pp216/7 respectivelyan appendixan indexacknowledgements; plus unpaginated half-title page and SIGNEDdedicated title-page and dedication. THE LONDON MARATHON salutes 25 years of the incredible physical and mental challenge that lies at the very heart of marathon running.It begins with the author standing on the start line at Blackheath for the very first London Marathon in March 1981.And it ends 26 miles and 25 years lateras the author emergesstill running past Buckingham Palace and on through the miles and memories to the finish.The marathon is at once the greatest trial and the greatest motivation for millions of runners. The very word 'marathon'rooted in Greek legendhas echoes of heroism.This is the story not just of the world's greatest runnersbut also of those thousands of ordinary men and women who make up the mass fields of the great city marathons.Some of the runners are young and strong.Others are olderbut defiantly determined not to be overtaken by time.All of them yearn to find a new meaning in lifeto tackle a distance that both excites and terrifies them.From the legend of Pheidippides and the mystery of Spiridon Louis - who won the first modern Olympic marathon in 1896 - to the agony of Paula Radcliffereduced to tears on the long road to Athens more than a century laterthis is a story of dreamspainstruggle and achievement.The courage and the craziness of characters who for 25 years have run the streets of Londonhave turned this race into the greatest marathon in the world.'THE LONDON MARATHON' is a testament to their endeavourand to the spirit that leads them each spring to tackle their own surburban Everest.This is their story. John Bryant has worked as a Fleet Street journalist since 1971.For a decade he was deputy editor of The Times.He is a former editor of the Sunday Correspondent and The European and is currently consultant editor of the Daily Mail. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering it's pricesweight allowancesdimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!<br />Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /><br /></p> LONDON.HUTCHINSON,2005. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja3761/10 ???????? : 0091797144 9780091797140
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TRENCH CHARLES CHENEVIX:
THE SHOOTER AND HIS GUN.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/VG.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour illustrated b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Most of the creasingwith some minimumrubbing to cornershead of spine/backis to top edges.Topfore-edges lightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal - but generally clean; contents brighttight and clean.Cleanpublisher's originalplain tan cloth bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate plainwhite eps.UKslim 8vo HBdw/dj1st edn v-xpp1-120pp paginated includes dedicationacknowledgements contentsillustrations listsa foreword9 chaptersprofuse b/w drawing by Brian Walker2 b/w cartoons by Thelwellb/w photographs by Terry Brown throughout the text and the bookplus unpaginated half-titletitle pages and 2pp blanks to rear. In this book Charles Chenevix Trencha lifelong sportsmandispels the idea that shooting is a sport for the rich or the privileged.He shows that almost anyone can shoot whether his quarry be pheasant on a keepered estate costing some £3 eachor wild fowl and pigeon setting him back no more than the price of his licence and cartridges.The author talks sensibly and helpfully about the shooter's equipmenthis handling of a gunthe tactics of shooting and the niceties of shooting behaviour.He also gives full details of methods of organising shootson three contrasting levels of cost; and finally gives the modern reader an account of the history of the gun and shoots from the earliest days down to the present.The author is himself secretary of a farmer's rough shoothunts with the Mendip Farmers and is also a fisherman - thesubject of another book in this series.He has also written'The Poacher and the Squire'a history of English poaching and game preserving. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes- particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! LONDON.FARM JOURNALS LTD.,1969. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja3659/10
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"Badsworth"
"Badsworth" on Bridge. The Principles of Bridge and the Laws of The Game with Cases and Decisions
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1903. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Near Very Good condition. Green cloth boards lightly rubbed at extremities gilt to face spine and page edges. Two-Colour and black & white illustrations. A nice copy. 283 pages Contents include General Principles Laws of Bridge Etiquette of Bridge Dummy Bridge Cases and Decisions Conventions The Discard Forcing The Points and more. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
书商的参考编号 : BIB248473
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ROWLAND KT:
The GREAT BRITAIN.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.Owner inscrptnprice-clip to dw/dj.8vo132pp includes indexappendicesb/w photographsillus and plans. The SS GREAT BRITAINlaunched in 1844is a unique shipsince she not only played a major part in the transition from sail to steambut also set the stage for a century of ship development.She was the first iron ship the largest yet builtand the first to be driven by screw propulsion. Designed by ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL.Apart from her significance in the evolution of naval architectureher story provides a fascinating insight to many aspects of mid-Victorian England.Her active career covered a period of consolidation of the Industrial Revolution at home and the expansion of British trade and influence overseas.There are thousands of Australians todaywhose forefathers travelled in her as emigrantsand the predecessors of soldiers of many famous regiments sailed in her to the Crimeaand to India at the time of the Mutiny. Eventually her engines old and outdated the GREAT BRITAIN worked her last days under sail only to be laid up in the Falkland Islands as a wool store.In the summer of 1970127 years after her launchshe was salvaged and brought home to Bristolto be restored and fitted out as a museum.She resides there now. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight and value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /> UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1971 hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja518 ???????? : 0715351605 9780715351604
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ROBERTSON DOUGAL:
SURVIVE THE SAVAGE SEA.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped to dw/dj.Colour photographic dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear to edges.Blue paper-covered bds with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and colour map eps.Top edge with half of fore-edge both slightly aged. Contents clean apart from pp46/7 residue marks of a pressed flower;with another page 114/5 having a pressed flower in situ.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn223pp1pp publisher advert at rear includes prologueglossary 33 b/w illus by Pam Littlewood in text;13 b/w photographs. At 10 am on 15 June 1972 the 19-ton 43-foot schooner Lucette sailed by a Scottish ex-farmer and his family was attacked by killer whales in the Pacific and sank in 60 seconds.What happened after that is the subject of one of the most astounding survival stories ever to be told.In an inflatable rubber raft with a 9-foot fibreglass dinghy to tow it Dougal Robertson and his crew of five - his wife 18-year-old son and 12-year-old twin boys and a student friend - decided to make for the coast of Costa Rica 1000 miles and an estimated 50 days away.They had emergency rations of food and water for only three days a handful of random items salvaged from Lucette and no maps compass or instruments of any kind. Steering by sun and starsthey set course for the Doldrums. A ship passed near them but failed to see their flares leaving them to face death from thirst starvation and exhaustion;but they did not die. Their raft sank under them and still they did not die.Cramped together in their tiny dighy with only six inches of freeboardthey clawed a place for themselves in the savage ecology of the ocean on constant alert against 20-foot waves marauding sharks and numerous other hazards through rain storm calm and equatorial heat.With knowledge as their principal weapon love as their bond courage and self-sacrifice became a way of life as mile after mile these six humans in the vast reaches of the Pacific refused to admit defeat. After 37 days their ordeal was ended a Japanese fishing boat picking them up when they had only 290 miles to go. Dougal Robertson tells this incredible story with moving eloquence sharing with the reader each day's crisis or triumph each person's hopes and fears the tensionsthe heartbreaks and the Robertsons' indomitable determination not to die.He fully describes the techniques that enabled them to survive.At the end of the book he sets forth the lessons to be learned from this devastating experience - lessons which no reader who is likely to sail on or fly over the sea can afford to ignorefor like the Robertsons that reader too couldin one catastrophic minutebe in the same position of having to 'Survive the Savage Sea'.'Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /><br /> LONDON.ELEK,1973. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja760 ???????? : 0236154613 9780236154616
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SIMPER ROBERT Intro & commentaries by:
Victorian and Edwardian Yachting from old photographs.
UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnbut price-clipped dw/dj.Two-tone colour photographic dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present and minisculely bumped with reciprocal crease to both headfoot of spine/backstrip.Top fore-edges clean; contents brighttight and near pristine apart from pp87-pp93whose edges have a decreasing degree of wrinkle and residue from where they were stuck together previously - photographs unaffected.Unblemishedblue-grey speckledpaper-covered bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn114pp unpaginated excluding half-titletitle pages and contents listyachting scenemaritime photographers text/chapters110 contemporary b/w photographs throughout the book. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight and value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /> LONDON.BATSFORD.1978. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja2094 ???????? : 0713409142 9780713409147
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ALLEN WALTER sel by with intro:
TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING - American Visitors to Britain and British Visitors to America in the Nineteenth Century.
UK8vo HBprotected dw/dj1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo.332pp. The Americans and the British have been scrutinising each other for over 300 years and in this anthology the author draws upon the findings of some 40 travellers travelling in either direction.Amongst writers quoted are Fenimore Cooper Emerson Hawthorne Henry James Henry Adams Marryatt Dickens Thackeray the Trollopes Stevenson Arnold and Wilde.The book reveals the stereo-types each has of the other. <br /> Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!<br /> LONDON.HEINEMANN,1971. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja345
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McMULLEN MICHAEL:
MULTIHULL SEAMANSHIP.
UK8vo HBdw/dj 1st edn.NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.Slight creasing/rubbing topbottom edges dw/djalso to head tail dw/dj's spine/backstrip.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn200pp includes appendicesan indexb/w graphsplansline drawings and photographs. 'Multi-hull Seamanship' is an authoritative work on the management at sea of catamarans and trimaranswith much original materialfully illustrated.McMullen is himself an acknowledged expert on racing and cruising multi-hullsbut has also made use of the experience of other outstanding multi-hull seamen.An important part of the book surveys recommendations for heavy weatherfollowing analysis of multi-hull accidents.There are also chapters of multi-hull basic seamanship cruising and racing tactics.The author discusses design and construction comparisonswhilewith many intriguing illustrationshe traces the history of multi-hull developments from Pacific Ocean beginnings.General Ralph Farrant has added an invaluable guide to the International Offshore Multi-hull rule with extra details by Vic Stern.Another appendix by Gerry Boxall displays graphically the boundary of short-handed sailing performanceswhile Robin Knox-Johnson has written an influential foreword. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight and value of this item for correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /> UK.HANTS.NAUTICAL PUBLISHING CO LTD.,1976. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja614 ???????? : 0245527265 9780245527265
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BONINGTON CHRIS & KNOX JOHNSTON ROBIN:
SEA ICE and ROCK: SAILING AND CLIMBING ABOVE THE ARCTIC CIRCLE.
UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn thus.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnand no clip to dw/dj.Colour scenic photographic wrap-around dw/dj with author colour portrait photographs to rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear;no nicks or tears and little or no creasing to edges apart from light bumping/ crease to top of spine/backstrip.Topfore-edges pristine as are the contents.Black paper-covered bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white eps.UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn143pp includes authors' b/w portrait photographic frntis3 b/w maps;profuse b/wcolour photographsappendices 3sailing and climbing glossaries. In the sea above the Arctic Circle the ice is an ever-shifting threat to the unreinforced hull of a famous teak sailing ketch while the rock beckons unclimbed from behind the hostile east coast of Greenland where the mountains have to be located and identified before they can be attempted. An original and attractive undertaking is given an extra dimension of adventure when two masters of their own field agree to put on the L plates of each other's expertise and learn to combine skills which have been put together by few adventurers since Tilman. Knox-Johnston master mariner and record-making solo circumnavigator undertook to teach Bonington sailing above the Arctic Circle aboard the 32 ft Suhali.In return Britain's best known mountaineer would introduce Knox-Johnston to the pains and pleasures of sack-hauling across glaciers and climbing on virgin granite walls. Sea Ice and Rock is the story of a small group of sailors and climbers with very different personalities and physical disciplines sharing a heightened zest for adventure whether navigating the ice-choked channels of Watkin's Fjord cavalierly shaving icebergs for ice cubes or ferrying 30 kilo loads over glacier moraine to climb on a mountain called the Cathedral.It is also a story of traditional travel at the natural pace of the wind and muscle power into a bleakly magnificent untrodden glacier wilderness with a long and fascinating history of maritime exploration.While Greenland's wealth of unclimbed mountains offer boundless opportunity for self-sufficient alpine-style expeditions in the future.Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!<br /> LONDON.BCA,1992. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja1712
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NAYDLER MERTON:
THE PENANCE WAY: The Mystery of PUFFIN'S Atlantic Voyage.
<p>UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptnbut price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminated colourb/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - a small laminate wrinkle to rear wrap - production fault Topfore-edges veryvery lightly aged else crisp and cleancontents brighttight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy Brightclean unblemishedblue paper-covered bds with crispbrightstamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w map/chart illustrated eps book is lightly cocked.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st ednxiii-xviipp1-252pp paginated includes author's intro2 b/w chart mapsPts 1-4 Pt 4 consisting 7 appendicesb/w diagrams throughout the text and the book 16pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp108/9plus unpaginated colourscenic photographic frntishalf-titletitle pages dedicationacknowledgementsand contentsillus lists/tables. The mystery of the disappearance of the tinyfifteen-foot PUFFINcrewed by David Johnstone and John Hoare in their attempt to row the Atlantic captured the world's headlines in October 1966 and there has since been much speculation about the reasons for the tragedy. When PUFFIN was found in mid-Atlanticfrogmen discovered in the upturned hull a 35000 word journal in Johnstone's handwriting which gives a day-by-day account of the vicissitudes which he and Hoare had suffered.Graphically writtenit depicts heroism of a high order and may come to be acknowledged as one of the most moving and vivid documents of personal experience and high endeavour ever written.'The Penance Way' is based on this materialon interviews with many of the people involved and on Johnstone's plans dictated before he left England.The last section offers a solution to the mystery of PUFFIN's lack of progress and misdirection. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/ value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!</p><br /> LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1968. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja2897/8
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GREENBERG STAN:
The GUINNESS - OLYMPIC GAMES RECORDS - 776BC to AD1988.
UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.Light bumping/rubbing to top corners and slight creasing to top edges dw/dj - shelf-wear Pictorial colour decorated upper dw/dj with colour photographic rear panel dw/dj.Inner flaps of dw/dj colour photographs.Plain orange paper-covered bds with black ink blocked letters to spine/backstrip and plain white eps.Previous owner has made a 1" x 1" cut-out from one of the sponsors advertising pages photographs at the front of the book.UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn176pp includes profuse b/w illus/charts and photographs8pp colour photographs and an index. As a major sponsor of the 1988 Olympic Games in SeoulHyundai have contributed to an extensive building programme in the capital cityand suppiled over 400 cars for the transport of team members and officials in and around the stadium complex. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! UK.MIDDLESEX.GUINNESS,1987. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja1466
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BALLARD ROBERT** with ARCHBOLD RICK**:
THE DISCOVERY OF THE BISMARCK.
UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Headfoot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Topfore-edges bright and cleancontents brighttight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners.Brightcleanunblemished publisher's originaldark blue cloth bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to upper bdspine/backstripheadband and cleanbluewhite illustrated eps. UK Qrto HBdw/dj1st edn8-231pp paginated includes intro by Ludovic Kennedy12 chapters includes prologueepilogueprofuse illustrations 400 throughout the text and the book comprising full-colour maps charts and diagramsfoldoutsappendix and an index. "Titanic team finds Bismarck" ran the headlines on June 141989 announcing Robert Ballard's discovery of Hitler's greatest battleship. Using the same underwater camera vehicle that had discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985Ballard and his team photographed the Bismarck sittingproudly upright three miles below the surface of the Atlantic off the coast of France.It had taken two yearstwo separate expeditionsand a painstaking survey of over 100 square miles of seafloor before the legendary German warship was finally spotted.Ballard's remote-controlled cameras captured the scene with brilliant clear images for all time.Standing on the side of an underwater mountainsurrounded by an enormous landslide that occurred almost fifty years ago when the 50000 ton battleship collided with the ocean bottomthe Bismarck's huge guns point eerily upward and giant swastikas still defiantly emblazon her bow and stern decks. The story of the Bismarck is one of the most compelling sea sagas of WWII.In May 1941a shell fired from this sleeknew German ship struck the battle-cruiser HMS Hood and within minutes the pride of the British navy was utterly destroyed.An enraged Winston Churchill gave the memorable command to "sink the Bismarck!" - mobilising the British navy into the greatest sea chase of the war.'The Discovery of the Bismarck' recreates the unforgettable story of this great sea battle with historic photographs and the words ofthe men who fought it.Ballard then gives a dramatic first-hand account of the high-tech hunt for the Bismarck that culminated in its thrilling rediscovery - forty-eight yearsafter it was sent to the bottom. With over 400 illustrations this book has all the pictorial richness that helped make Robert Ballard's previous book'The Discovery of the Titanic'an international bestseller.Fascinating "then and now" features pair photographs of the Bismarck in 1989 with accurate pictures from 1941; two spectacular full-page foldouts show the Nazi warship in allher fearsome glory and as she looks today then 1990.Full-colour maps charts and diagrams throughout plus a hostof specially commissioned paintings recreate a remarkable chapter in the history of WWII and illuminate the fascinating world of modern deep-sea exploration. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight and value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes- particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON/MADISON PRESS BOOK,1990. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja2887/8 ???????? : 0340529768 9780340529768
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LANGLEY MARTIN & SMALL EDWINA:
LOST SHIPS of the WEST COUNTRY: A GUIDE TO FORGOTTEN CRAFT FROM POOLE TO GLOUCESTER.
UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.Neat presentation inscrptn to ffe and price-clipped to dw/dj.Colour photographic dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear to edges with no nicks or tears present.Green paper-covered bds with stampedgilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white eps.Fore- edge bright and cleancontents pristine.UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn 160pp includes forewordan intro by Basil Greenhillprofuse b/w photographsb/w mapsglossary of nautical termsa biblio and an index of ship references. This compelling book tells how the ships whose bones now litter the West Country shoreline came to be abandoned and why - the remains of a trading schooner once owned by the Beatles a war time motor torpedo boat on which one of the crowned heads of Europe served during the war and the dredger designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel - these are just a few of the hundreds of craft discovered photographed and described. The book also describes in detail how to reach the remains of Britain's maritime history and is thus invaluable to cruising yachtsmen and marine historian alike.Detailed maps and Ordnance Survey references give the precise locations of all the craft. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/ value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /> LONDON.STANFORD MARITIME,1988. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja1664 ???????? : 0540074314 9780540074310
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GOSS PETE**:
CLOSE TO THE WIND.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnbut price-clip to dw/dj.Crispbrightcleanglossy laminatedcolour photographic montage illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creases to edges - no nicks or tears present.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents bright tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Publisher's original blue cloth bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate blue/greyblack map illustrated eps.UK 8vo HBdw/dj1st edn2-232pp paginated includes part compass b/w illus half-titletitle pagescontents list/tableb/w map frntisa prologue14 chaptersepilogue16pp contemporary colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiecebetween pp90/1 and pp186/7 respectivelysponsors list picture credits and an index. Pete Goss put the world on hold and became a national hero on Christmas Day1996.While competing in the Vendee Globethe non-stop single-handed round-the-world yacht race recognised as one of the ultimate human challengeshe received a Mayday from Frenchman and fellow competitor Raphael Dinelli.Turning into hurricane-force winds in the desolate wastes of the southern oceanhe scuppered his own chances in the race.Howeverforty-eight hours later the impossible had been achieved as he pulled the near-dead Dinelli from his liferaft; within days they became the best of friends as Pete nursed Dinelli back to life and on New Year's Eve they celebrated their good fortune with a bottle of champagne.In 'Close to the Wind'Pete Goss shares his adventures thoughtshardships and philosophy - and the lessons learned - during the race and the ten years of preparation for it. He tells the thrilling story which encompasses the dramas of the racehis thoughts and emotions during four months of solitude at seathe extraordinary operation that he had to perform on his elbow and his emotional homecomingshared by 150000 others.Pete also looks forward to the next big challenge - The Race - a no holds-barred round-the-world dash to celebrate the millenniumfor which he and his team are building a revolutionary 115ft-catamaran.Goss is a man for whom the quest for adventure is the stuff of lifeabout which he writes inspiringly - and with a wry smile. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /><br /> LONDON.HEADLINE,1998. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja2590/7 ???????? : 074722126X 9780747221265
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KABAT HENRYK:
DAR POMORZA.
POLANDQrto HBdw/dj2nd edn.NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.Chipped with closed tears top edges dw/dj minimal loss.Qrto214ppwhite cloth bdsblind-stamped silhouette tall ship to front bd.B/w photographs3 colour plts.Bi-lingual text - Polish and English. History of the three-masted full rigged tall ship 'DAR POMORZA' GIFT OF POMERANIA with an epilogue of the similar ship built to replace her -'DAR MLODZIEZY' GIFT of the YOUNG at rear.Built in 1909 HAMBURGto serve as school ship for German merchant navy.After WW1taken over by France.The Polish government purchased her in 1929 with considerable financial aid of the inhabitants of Pomeraniaand refitted her at NAKSOVDenmark.Polish flag hoisted July 131930 and navigated under it for more than fifty years. She visited NEW YORK 1931 WEST INDIES 1932 BRAZIL and S.AFRICA 1933.In 1934 a year long world voyage covering 38856 nautical miles visiting 24 ports - many seeing the Polish flag for the first time.Laid up in Sweden during WW2.Participated in and won Tall Ships Race in 1972.The history of this period covers 105 voyages during which she covered 509804 miles entering 383 ports.The book is also the first to record the ship's history and also an attempt to show the ships everyday life and activities of her crew and cadets - some 13911 having been taught on her. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! POLAND.WARSAW.1985. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja242
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FAIRCHILD TONY:
THE AMERICA'S CUP CHALLENGE - THERE IS NO SECOND.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped to dw/dj.Slight creasing/crinkling bottom front edge dw/dj no other tears.8vo233pp includes b/w diagramstables and photographs. After 132 years the America's Cup has been captured.Since 1851 the New York Yacht Club has defended yacht racing's supreme trophy against all 24 challenges from Australia Britain and Canada.But in 1983 amidst world-wide interestAlan Bond's Australia II steered by John Bertrand beat the American defender Liberty with Dennis Conner at the helm. Here is the story of the challengers of 1983:Australian British Canadian French and Italian.One of the most lavish challenges was by the Victory syndicate headed by millionaire Peter de Savary.Here are recorded the sterling efforts of himself his crew and his back-up team.Here are the expectations the disappointments and the rewards for sailing those exceptional racing yachts - the 12 metre class.As the Australians gained ascendancy they had to battle not only against the British and other challengersbut also against the committee of NYYC with whom they were in acute conflict.As for the final racesno America's Cup event has remotely resembled the close sailing place changing or excitement of this ultimate series.It is a story for sailors sportsmen and all who wish to read a tale more unlikely than any fiction. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.uk because of the weight/value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /> LONDON.NAUTICAL BOOKS/MACMILLAN,1983. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja921 ???????? : 0333325273 9780333325278
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BEASANT JOHN**:
STALIN'S SILVER.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped to dw/dj.Colour photographic dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges; no nicks or tears and light bumping with reciprocal light creasing to both headfoot of spine/backstrip.Topfore- edges cleancontents pristine.Black paper-coveredunblemished bds with brightcrispstamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate clean plain white eps.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st ednviipp1-216pp includes half-titletitle pagescontents lista preface11 chaptersappendices 2 b/w map frntisb/w diagrams24pp photographs - most in colour and an index. On the night of 28 August 1944 three torpedoes from the German submarine U-859 sank the American merchant ship USS John Barry in the Arabian Sea off the eastern seaboard of Oman.The holds of the John Barry contained 3 million silver Saudi riyals worth 80 million dollars US and over 300 million dollars US in silver bullion.The 7200-ton ship broke into two pieces and sank to a depth of 8500 feet more than one and a half miles. For forty-five years the great depth of the wreck ruled out any thoughts of salvage.However in 1989 salvage rights were acquired by Sheikh Ahmed Farid al Aulaqi who engaged the French International Maritime Institute and Jean Rouxleader of the team which recovered artefacts from the Titanic.Roux and his team have developed technology which has resulted in an operation of deep-sea recovery never before possible. In 'Stalin's Silver' the story of the USS John Barry is recreated with the help of living survivors including one of the German U-boat officers and the mystery of the intended destination of 300 million dollars in silver is resolved.Stalin's Silver is as much a sensational story of politics and intrigue between governments during WW2 as it is the story of the salvage of the world's most valuable and mysterious sunken treasure. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/ value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!<br /> LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1995. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja1825 ???????? : 0747523444 9780747523444
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RIDGWAY Captain JOHN & BLYTH Sergeant CHAY:
A Fighting Chance.
<p>UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.VG./NFINE.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright crispcleanglossy laminatedwrap-around b/w photographic dw/dj and redwhite lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - and spine/backstrip not sunned or faded.Topfore-edges generally bright and clean with minimalsporadic spotting/foxing; contents brighttight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Brightunblemished publisher's originalplain dark blue cloth bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w map eps.UK8vo HBdw/dj 1st edn9-255pp paginated includes 12 chapters16pp comprising 24 contemporary b/w photographsbetween pp128/9authors' notes appendix13pp facsimile log pages to rearplus unpaginated half-title title pagesa dedication and contents list/table. On a stormy Saturday in September1966 John Ridgway and Chay Blyth landed at the little Irish village of Inishmore after rowing alone across the Atlantic in a tiny boat only twenty feet long and five feet wide.Their 92-day voyage from Cape Cod MassachusettsUSAwas an incredible achievement.Both Captain Ridgway and Sergeant Blyth had had a tough army training as paratroopersbut neither had much previous experience of the sea.The little boatEnglish Rose IIIwas like a Nova Scotian dory - the sort of open boat traditionally used by fishermen off the coast of North East America.The dory men who made her ready promised the two Englishmen 'a fighting chance' - and they certainly needed it! For three months they lived in a cockpit measuring eight feet by four feet.English Rose III was battered by storms by hurricane Almaby huge and almost overwhelming waves. Salt water got into the rations and food became short.The rowers encountered whales sharks porpoisesdolphinsa mysterious sea-serpent and the occasional friendly ship.But the intense solitude brought a new dimension to lifeand the struggle to keep going and keep alive gave them a greater awareness of true values.Day by day John Ridgway and Chay Blyth kept individual logsrecording their experiences.These salt-stained notebooks have enabled them to write 'A Fighting Chance' their own personal account of an achievement which must surely rank as one of the great heroic adventures of this century then 1966. The book includes a list of equipment taken on the voyage of English Rose III and an account of the navigational methods used.It is illustrated with b/w photographs taken by the authors and facsimile pages from their log-books. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! </p><br /> LONDON.PAUL HAMLYN,1966. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja2972/8
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ARIAS RON:
FIVE AGAINST THE SEA: A true story of courage and survival.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.Blue paper-covered bds with white letters to spine/backstrip and b/w map eps.8vo226pp includes 20 b/w photographs in 8pp. Adrift in the immensity of the Pacific Ocean five fishermen from Costa Rica struggled against thirsthunger and despair for an incredible 142 daysthe longest such endurance on record.When finally rescuedthe men had drifted 4500 miles from their home shores crossing four time-zones and had survived on a diet of rainwater fish and turtles. Here journalist Ron Arias relates their courageous tenacious battle with the implacable forces of nature.The men's ordeal began on 25 January 1988 when a sudden storm overtook the small fishing boat Cairo III.After spending many exhausting hours simply keeping the boat afloat they then found themselves lost on the open ocean with no engine or radio and with dwindling supplies of food and water. What followed was a nightmarish and in retrospect intriguing battle to stay alive in appalling circumstances where their own frayed tempers threatened to undermine the co-operation that was vital. Arias has extensively interviewed all the participants in this miraculous story not just the fishermen themselves but also their families in Costa Ricawho spent many heartbreaking days persuading the authorities to take up and then continue what at times seemed like a hopeless search. The result is an inspiring human story of perseverance hope and inner strength. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight and value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /> LONDON.VIKING,1990. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja1305 ???????? : 0670830925 9780670830923
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JOHNSON PETER:
The GUINNESS BOOK of YACHTING FACTS and FEATS.
UK8voHBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnbut price-clipped to dw/dj.Colour photographic wrap-around illustrated dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to top edge only and lightly bumped head of spine/backstrip - bottom edge virtually untouched.Topfore-edges near pristinecontents the same.Blue rexine-type bds with stampedcrispbright gilt letters to spine/backstrip and bluewhite line illustrated eps.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn8-256ppincludes colour yacht photographic frntis title pagecontents list;an introprofuse b/w diagrams and photographs with some colour photographs scattered throughout and an index. In recent years the sea has become a foremost arena for human endeavour.Feats of all types under sail and power are undertaken by crews and individuals.Records are frequently reported - but are they really the first single-handed voyage over a certain oceanthe fastest passage on a famous racethe largest number of sailing boats ever to competethe most stormy conditions survived by a small boat The Guinness Book of Yachting Facts and Feats sets out the answers to such questions in a readableexpanded and illustrated form.For instanceit brings together for the first time the facts and figures of racing under sailof the yachting Olympics and cruising and voyaging feats. One section deals with the America's Cup - 'an historic exercise in exaggeration' in a way that has never been done before.This strange and unparalleled sporting trophy turns out to have spawned the finest sportsmanship as well as the most bitter acrimony - and often extreme and always the most costly sailing boats.A special section covers speed under sail and power.The subject of speed under sailhitherto much talked about but vaguely documentedis analysed and clarified in a way that is not to be found elsewhere. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /> UK.MIDDLESEX..GUINNESS SUPERLATIVES LTD.,1975. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja1741 ???????? : 0900424303 9780900424304
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LAPOUGE GILLES:
PIRATES AND BUCCANEERS.
UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/VG.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.Brightcrispcleanglossy laminatedcolour pictorial illustrated dw/dj illus from 'The Golden Galleon'Scibner's Magazine by N.C. Wyethc1917upper wrap/bds and 'Greek pirates in flight' by Carl Wilhelm von Heideck to rear wrap/bd - design repeated to laminated bds- with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Topbottom edgesfront and backalong with both the headfoot of spine/backstrip minimally creased.Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents brighttight and near pristine.UKQrto HBdw/dj1st edn9- 184pp paginated title pagedouble-page illustrated contents page/list/table13 chaptersprofuse b/wcolour illustrationsdrawings engravingspaintingsdiagrams etc.- many full-page and all on glossy papera biblio and illus credits. Against the romanticdramatic but often treacherous backdrop of the seathis lavishly illustrated book describes the liveshistoricalfictional and mythical of piratespassionate rebels in pursuit of new lands and fortunes through the ages.Full of fascinating facts and insights into the world of these brigands and buccaneersboth male and female! Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight 1.6 Kg unpackaged and the value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! LONDON.HATCHETTE ILLUSTRATED UK,2004. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja2692/7 ???????? : 1844301192 9781844301195
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GARDINER ROBIN & van DER VAT DAN:
THE RIDDLE OF THE TITANIC.
UK 8vo HBdw/dj1st edn4th imp same year as 1st edn.MINT/NMINT. Blue paper-covered bds with silver gilt letters to spine/backstriptwo colour illustrations of Titanic in sectioneps.Colour art-deco style dw/dj. UK8vo HBdw/dj.1st edn4th imp312pp includes b/w plan of Titanic 24pp b/w photographsappendices 2notesa biblio and an index. Ten years after the Titanic was found and eighty-three after she sank the world's most famous sea disaster seems all the more mysterious. Even the recovery of 3600 Titanic relics of the great White Star liner from her wreck two and a half miles under the North Atlantic has settled none of the main issues.Why did Captain Smith accelerate in uniquely treacherous weather towards an exceptionally dangerous ice-field of which he had been warned many times In the disaster that followed more than 1500 people died while barely 700 were saved.This book lays bare as no other the full scope of Smith's astonishing accident record and explores his motives - and the pressures on him - anew.What caused the hole near the bow The notorious iceberg cracked the plates for 300 feet along the ship's side but the hole looks more like an explosion.Why is the position of the wreck - pinpointed by the latest technology - irreconcilable with the Titanic's SOS calls The authors conclude that the apparently ruthless American disaster hearings covered up the role of the ship's true owner the arch-capitalist J.Pierpont Morgan; that the apparently dispassionate British inquiry dominated by an insider-dealing Attorney-Generalwhitewashed a complacent government; and that White Star covered up its own gross negligence by bribing key witnesses.And what of the wreck itself Here the mystery deepens.When Dr Robert Ballard - who first located the Titanic in 1985 - explored its wreck a year later he found the bulkhead not shown on any plans.The most diligent searches have since failed to trace the imposing stern nameplate with its embossed letters eighteen inches high.The authors have gone so far as to explore the breathtaking idea that the Titanic was replaced by her sister shipthe seriously damaged Olympicin a plot to recover the huge losses she ran up.The results are tantalising. Since April 2013again in March 2015and in this year toothe UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion templatealtering its prices weight allowancesdimensions and lowered its compensation rates too!<br /> Soplease contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /><br /> LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1995. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja1487 ???????? : 0297815288 9780297815280
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BEASANT JOHN**:
STALIN'S SILVER.
<p>UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn2nd imp.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped to dw/dj.Colour photographic dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear; and negligible creasing to edges; no nicks or tears present.Topfore- edges lightly aged/tanned - as usual/ normal - but clean; contents brighttight and clean also.Black paper-covered unblemished bds with brightcrispstamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn2nd impviipp1-216pp includes half-titletitle pagescontents lista preface11 chaptersappendices 2 b/w map frntisb/w diagrams24pp photographs - most in colour and an index. On the night of 28 August 1944three torpedoes from the German submarine U-859 sank the American merchant ship USS John Barry in the Arabian Sea off the eastern seaboard of Oman.The holds of the John Barry contained 3 million silver Saudi riyals worth 80 million dollars US and over 300 million dollars USin silver bullion.The 7200-ton ship broke into two pieces and sank to a depth of 8500 feet more than one and a half miles. For forty-five years the great depth of the wreck ruled out any thoughts of salvage. Howeverin 1989 salvage rights were acquired by Sheikh Ahmed Farid al Aulaqi who engaged the French International Maritime Institute and Jean Rouxleader of the team which recovered artefacts from the Titanic.Roux and his team have developed technology which has resulted in an operation of deep-sea recovery never before possible. In 'Stalin's Silver' the story of the USS John Barry is recreated with the help of living survivorsincluding one of the German U-boat officersand the mystery of the intended destination of 300 million dollars in silver is resolved. Stalin's Silver is as much a sensational story of politics and intrigue between governments during WW2 as it is the story of the salvage of the world's most valuable and mysterious sunken treasure. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight/value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!</p> LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1995. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja3379/9 ???????? : 0747523444 9780747523444
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COLES ADLARDK:
SAILING YEARS - An Autobigraphy.
UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.212ppb/w illusmapsand an index. Born at the beginning of the centuryAdlard Coles started sailing in 1920 and his experience in cruising and racing since then has made him a world authority on heavy weather sailing.He is equally well known for his pilot books of the Channel Islands and French waters.In this autobiography he tells of how he acquired these skills and knowledge; picking up victory in the 1950 Transatlantic Race R.O.R.C points championships in 19471957 and 1963a Royal Institute of Navigation Gold Medala Royal Cruising Club Exploration award and an award as Yachtsman of the Year. COLES has owned boats for over 50 years: ANNETTE - Arthur RANSOME's RACUNDRAMARY AIDAN and a series of five COHOES. He is also the founder of two of the most prestigious companies devoted to publishing books on the sea:ADLARD COLES LTD. and jointly the NAUTICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight and value of this itemfor correctinsured shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /> LONDON.GRANADA PUBLISHING in ADLARD COLES LTD.,1981. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja579 ???????? : 0229116582 9780229116584
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NAOLL CYRIL and FARR GRAHAME:
WRECK AND RESCUE ROUND THE CORNISH COAST: THE STORY OF THE LAND'S END LIFEBOATS.
<p>UK8vo s/back1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptnno dw/dj - as issued. Brightcrispclean b/w photographic illlustrated upper wrappublisher titles to rear wrap; with negligible shelfwear to edges and cornersno nicks or tears present.Topfore-edges slightly aged - as usual/normal - but generally clean and brightcontents brighttight and clean also with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy as there appear to be no spine/backstrip creases also.UK8vo s/back1st edn8-151pp paginated includes b/w map frntisintro5 chapters38 contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the bookboat records and service recordsb/w mapsplus unpaginated halffull-title pagescontentsillus lists/tables. The second volume in the story of wreck and rescue on the Cornish coast covers the 'toe' of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.Rugged granite cliffs keep back the sea from Penwith - the old Cornish name for this peninsula - with only here and there a cove.In factfrom St Ives Bay round the land to Mount's Baythere is only one considerable beachthat at Whitesand BaySennen.The Isles of Scilly lie 28 miles out on the fringe of the Atlantic. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!</p> UK.TRURO,CORNWALL.BRADFORD BARTON LTD.,1965. paperback
书商的参考编号 : rja2831/7
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PREEDY RONALD:
SAIL AND DELIVER!
.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but dw/dj price-clipped.Colour photographic dw/dj which seems to have the top third slightly sunned/faded also affecting the print of the title.I may be wrong thoughas dw/dj spine/backstrip seems okay and uniform! Contents brighttight and clean.Foreword by Sir Alec Rose.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn241pp includes b/w mapsb/w tailpiecesb/w illus in textall by author. Ronald Preedy leads the sort of life many people just dream about - he sails yachts for a living.To be more precisehe delivers them to places as far apart as Scotland Spain Martinique and the USAso that over the yearshe has come across a multitude of owners and yachts in different locations and weather conditions.In this varied collection of sixteen storieshe recalls some of his memorable journeys.These include his near-fatal encounter with the October 1987 hurricaneoff the coast of Spainwhen his 36-ft Biscay Ketch was tossed around by 65-ft high waves and gale-force winds.He also gets a taste of the world of 'Miami Vice' when on a trip from Barbados to Floridahis boat is searched by fully armed Bahamian police officers who mistakenly suspect him of drug smuggling.But these dramatic incidents are off-set by many lighter ones often caused by the yachts' owners themselves. The young London bus driver and his decrepit boat or the wealthy property developer cum rancher provide amusing reading and contribute towards a collection of tales that will fascinate and entertain the yachtsman and layman alike. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br /> LONDON.PARTRIDGE PRESS,1989. hardcover
书商的参考编号 : rja1266 ???????? : 1852250933 9781852250935
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