The Dignity of Danger
Los Angeles: Burning Gates Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. World War II and the Battle of the Pacific.
Los Angeles: Burning Gates Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. World War II and the Battle of the Pacific.
London: Collins, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A lovely copy of the author's fourth book. Submarine action during World War II.
London: Harper Collins, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page.
New York: Charterhouse, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A large novel of aviation combat - stretching over two decades and four wars. A very clean, bright and solid copy. Wrap-around cover art by Paul Bacon.
London: Blackie and Son, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine / near fine. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy. No date, circa 1938. Illustrated with photographs and maps, charts and diagrams. The jacket is clipped, else fine.
London: Cassell & Company, 1943. First Australian edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. Bound in stiff cardboard. The illustrated dust jacket is missing the bottom 1 inch of the spine, besides that it is complete. There is some tape re-inforcement at the hinges. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Monsarrat wrote his Corvette series during the war. These slim volumes.....
London: Cassell & Co., (1959). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Original blue cloth and with the complete dust jacket. Simply put, the finest example of this book you will find. It looks as new except for some minor spotting along the top edge.
London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Some mild rubbing to the hinges and the spine. Illustrated throughout. The first book edition.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Hardcover. Very Good. Original pale green cloth, illustrated in black and gold. 320 pp with 16 pp of ads in the rear. Illustrated by W. H. Overend. No date. First published in 1885. This copy is early but it doens't look like 1885 to me, more like 1900-1910. Previous owner bookplate to the front.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of this second edition. Original decorated orange cloth with full color dust jacket illustration wrapped around to the spine. There are chips at the bottom edge of the jacket, mid-way and at the fore-corner and again at the head of the spine. The.....
London: Collins, (1957). First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A clean, bright and solid copy in the complete dust jacket. Color frontispiece. From the Collins Crusader Series for boys. Cover art by George S. Dixon.
New York: The Century Company, (1932). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original yellow cloth, lettered in black. Shows some minor wear to the spine ends and some minor soiling to the boards.
(Cabin John, MD): Wildside Press, No date. No way to determine. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original gray cloth, lettered and stamped in black. 8vo. Fore-edge and bottom edge roughly trimmed. Top edge smooth and un-colored. Pale green endpapers. There is a parenthetical (1) at the last page as required. Bleiler (1948) p. 206. In a complete and quite lovely dust jacket. The.....
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Original green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner signature to the front free endpaper. Parenthetical (1) on the last page indicating a true first edition. This copy is moderately worn.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Wrap-around cover art by John Alan Maxwell. A very attractive copy of this novel of English forces in the Crimean War.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and attractive copy. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine. There is some minor spotting to the fore-edge. Lovely cover art by Leslie Ward.
New York: Doubleday Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very attractive copy of this World War I novel. Original brown cloth lettered in Black. Lovely period cover art by Barbara Alexander. Some minor wear to the spine ends. A really very nice copy.
London: Harper Collins, 1996. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. This is the first un-cut un-edited version. It was originally published by Andre Deutsch in 1979. Pages beginning to tone along the edges.
New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A lovely as new copy. Unopened and unread. Contains chapters by Shackleton, Scott, Byrd, Amundsen and Ross.
New York: Pocket Books, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Signed by the author on the title page.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A lovely copy in all respects. Possibly the first US World War II fiction. Cover art by Edward Shenton.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Illustrated endpapers. Cover art by N. C. Wyeth. The jacket shows some minor rubbing and chips to both spine ends and is price-clipped.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original russet colored cloth, stamped in silver and green. In a bright and pleasing example of the dust jacket with art by John Alan Maxwell. The jacket is price-clipped.
Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1935. Paperback. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very nice copy in a complete dust jacket. Scarce in this condition. Volume 5208. Some minor wear to the jacket along the top edge.