hon lord beaverbrook (10 resultados)

Hardcover. Illustrated by Black and White Photos Ilustrador. First Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine weak.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. This is a hardcopy presented in red boards without a wrapper. The contents are clean and tight. There is a bookplate (blank) on the front pastedown and a small bookclub sticker on the back pastedown. A few pencil marks but no inscriptions. THe page edges are somewhat foxed.

Hardccover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Copy in maroon cloth on boards with gilt title on spine.Light tanning to front and rear end papers. Previous owners address label on front paste down. Small booksellers label on rear paste down. Very light foxing to early and late folioe. Sporadic light foxing to folio edges. Clean text with b/w plates.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 240 pages, black and white plates, very good condition in publisher's cloth binding, no dust-wrapper, corners of boards and top and bottom of spine bumped and lightly rubbed, spine slightly faded, pencil ownership inscription of F V Parsons, Department of History, University of Glasgow.

First edition. 240 pp. Frontispiece, & 7 other b/w photographic illustrations. A first hand account of the role British politicians played during the First World War. Spots of foxing on prelims and intermittently throughout text (mainly confined to edges). Rear hinge cracked. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and blindstamp lettering on front board. Top and bottom of spine and corners rubbed. Overall condition VG-. No dust wrapper.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 556 pp very good in maroon cloth. No previous ownership markings. Lacks a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1925 1st edition no dj mylar cover faded pages previous owners sig inside front.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 556pp., frontis., b/w pls., index, 'A look at the political events in Britain and how they affected the military events during the first two years of WWI. Beaverbrook ran the Canadian Records office in London. After Lloyd George became the British Prime Minister, in 1916, George made Beaverbrook a Lord and a cabinet member as the Minister of Information'. Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy.

Condición: VERY GOOD. 1916, 1917. 2-volumes. Sold as SET. RARE. Orange cloth hardcovers in RARE dust jackets. Handsome dust jackets now protected in clear plastic Brodart protectors. Jackets are light brown with red and black lettering. Vol. 1 is 10th edition (published same year as first edition). Vol. 2 is stated eighth edition (published same year as first edition). Maps and Appendices. 236, 258pp. Fold-out map to Vol. 1. Borden was Prime Minister of Canada. Bonar Law was British Secretary of State for the Colonies. VERY GOOD for age. Jackets reasonably bright but Vol. 1 has moderate dampness stain. Both jackets have edgewear. Text-blocks appear clean. Bindings sound. Endpapers of Vol. 2 browning. Previous owner's name to Vol. 1.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. First Edition. 248 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. More than seventy black and white photos. "The first authentic account of the romantic rise to fame and ultimate disbandment of the Air Transport Auxiliary, the little-known Ferry Pilot service of the (second world) war. Starting with 30 amateur pilots, its numbers finally totalled over 700 who, between 1939 and 1945, ferried more than 308,000 aircraft of more than a hundred different types from the factories to the Royal Air Force." - dust jacket. Appendices include: Special Commendations; Honours List; List of A.T.A. Pilots Who Actually Ferried Aircraft at Pools; Ferrying Figures; Lists of All Types of Aircraft Ferried. Book clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Heavy wear to dust jacket, now preserved in archival Brodart, which is missing large chunk from top of backstrip, affecting front and back panels. Bonus: Laid-in is A.T.A. Association Newsletter No. VIII from 1955 which runs 16 pages, including a seven-page list of current members. Also, laid inside this newsletter is an obituary news clipping of the A.T.A.'s wartime second in command, Philip Wills, plus a letter signed by Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Mather, O.B.E., dated 10 May 1996, which concerns the wartime record and award of Mr. James Bain, MBE, who served as Superintendent, Flight Engineers, A.T.A. ENSER p.376. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.