swinton colonel (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Fair copy in pictorial green cloth. Cloth wear at the spine tip, and a glue-mend to paper tears at the rear gutter. Tanning/soiling at the outer edges and endpapers, no prior owner's marks within. A sound reading copy of the first edition, and not ex-library. No dust jacket. Book.

Pamphlet. Condición: Very Good Minus. [WAR]. Colonel Ernest Dunlop Swinton, Royal Engineers (1868-1951). "The "Tanks" (By Request, and with Permission)." New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918. English language. Stapled pamphlet with glossy white wrappers with an illusration of a tank. Nonfiction essay about the innovation of the tank. 7 1/4 x 5 inches. 2 oz. [2], 26 pp. Crease, short tear, and small perforation in front wrapper. Use. Text clean. Very Good Minus. No ISBN. ASIN: B00085OEJ0. "An interesting, short work about the beginnings of the Tank Corps and the development of the machine itself, as well as its initial uses in the First World War.".

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. tear in spine, slight discoloration to cover.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 26 page pamphlet. Stapled binding. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.

Softcover. White stapled paper wraps with bw illustration of a tank; 26 pp. An essay by Swinton, of the Royal Engineers, originally published in "The World's Work." Tanks first were used by the British in WWI, and herein is an account of their debut in September 1916, as well as subsequent reaction worldwide. H.G. Wells had predicted their invention 13 years prior. VG interior; front cover has ex-lib. stamp and light age wear.

Thin Card Covers. Condición: Very Good Minus. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None. Second Impression. 19 cm, [iv,] 217 pp, thin card covers - light corner crease and nick to head of spine. VG minus.