Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Guns, Q.F.C. & Theeluker Phyl. Middle Watch Musings. Simpkin Marshall, London, 1912.
Price: US$6.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: undated ist was 1911. Ex library binding
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Ida Lemon. The Turquoise Ring. The Religious Tract Society, London, 1912.
Price: US$7.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book in light blue buckram covers with titles in red to front and gilt to spine; pasted-on picture of four men manning a cannon on the gun deck of a galleon; interlaced red and black decorative design to front and a lightly sunned spine. Internally very good; prize plate to flyleaf; illustrated with two full colour plates; frontispiece with tissue guard; binding tight; very minor foxing only; 238 pp + 2pp adverts.
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 65 pages with FOLD-OUT colour chromolitho supplementary plate, adverts for model railways and air guns, etc front and rear, in original coloured wrappers, split started at spine but holding, stories and articles in aviation and ice-breaker ships, scouting & football interest, 4 weekly issues with title pages included to each part, some loss on the spine and a closed split at this lower area of the spine, contents very good or better. small folio. 1912.
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
Price: US$17.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rebacked, with quarter cloth and marbled sides. 408pp. Slight foxing to original endpapers, text block slightly skewed o/w very good condition, contents generally clean and unmarked. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE
Seller: Broad Street Book Centre, Hereford, United Kingdom
Wilson, Catherine. The Modern Evangeline (1912). Gay & Hancock, London, 1912.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original deep pink cloth, lettered in white on front board, in gilt on spine. Board edges a little darkened, lettering a little rubbed, good. "A strong and surprising novel, a tale told with great descriptive power of a young English gun-officer, cruelly misunderstood, driven from his work and caught up by a great revolutionary movement in Morocco.[and his].loyal and tenacious sweetheart, who comes to seek him." (Daily Mail).
Seller: Richard Beaton, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.32 + shipping
Description: Hardback. Physically 8¾" x 5¾" (1.4 kg); (x) 424pp; Includes: Line drawings; Black & white plates; Colour frontispiece; Appendices (8); || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #188658|| Condition: Very Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Contents complete, clean and tight.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Published: 1912. 1st Edition / 2nd Impression. DESCRIPTION: Publisher's original olive green and gilt boards. Illustrated and with folding map. Language: English. Book Condition: Poor: Heavy wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Rubbed cloth with some loss of colour. Cracked front and rear endpapers with some movement to hinges. Light toned pages with minor annotations to frontendpapers. Repaired map, see photograph. Map to rear is missing. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages xxiii, 315. Size: 21cm by 13cm. BOOK RESUME: Period adverts for hotels, shipping lines, safari, guns and ammunition. Chapters include details of the physical description of the country, travel, customs, settlement, locations, industries, agriculture, mining, rainfall, transport etc.
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$93.89 + shipping
Description: 1st ed thus. Illustrated by G.Denholm Armour. Colour plates tipped-in on thick green paper pages. Page fore-edge foxed. Red cloth faded at board edges, with browned spine; gilt lettering & vignette on front board bright; gilt on spine very dull & worn. Used - Good. Good hardback in red cloth with gilt
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Thomas Martindale. With Gun and Guide. T. Werner Laurie, London, 1912.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first UK edition of this memoir by Thomas Martindale, in which the author reflects on his experiences hunting and fishing, with numerous photographic plates. First UK Edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-three other illustrated plates.This is a hunting and fishing memoir by Thomas Martindale, intended to ease the minds of 'men living in such a babel of discordant noises' by focusing upon the 'excitement' of hunting and outdoor exercise. The author reflects back on his time hunting and exploring in New Brunswick as well as Northern British Columbia.Contents include 'Off for the Woods', 'Tracks of Big Game', 'Fierce and Extensive Forest Fires', 'Spearing Salmon in the Northwest', and 'British Columbia Birds'.Thomas Martindale (1845-1916) was an American merchant, author, and big game hunter. He founded the first health food store in the United States, named 'Martindales', which is still in business today.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Minimal bumping to head and tail of spine with light wear to the extremities and bands of joints. A few marks to boards. Offsetting to endpapers. Prior owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper.Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean, with light age-toning to margins of text. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Major G P Evans. Big Game Shooting in Upper Burma. Longmans Green and Co, London, 1912.
Price: US$140.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Longmans Green and Co, 1912. Detailed account of hunting big game in Burma, 240 pages with light foxing throughout. 11 photographic illustrations and large pull out colour map at rear. Rear endpaper has pencilled notes on it, the paper of endpapers is split at hinges and boards move side to side a little but webbing of binding is sound so they are not in danger of coming off. Previous owners name and address on front endpaper, outer boardsare a little marked and rubbed on edges, corners lightly bumped. Though not perfect a pleasing copy of an interesting book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Reprint. Boards. Good/No Jacket. 8 ¾ x 5½ Inches. Hardcover.
Seller: Peter Sheridan Books Bought and Sold, West Molesey, Surrey, United Kingdom
Price: US$198.51 + shipping
Description: 4to, 346pp. Colour and black & white plates. A very good hardback copy bound in full morroco with detailed bookplate, gilt lettering and gilt top edge. Very minor marks to boards. Limited to 950 copies, this copy out of series. Includes a loosely inserted letter from the chief librarian of the State Library of Victoria regarding the binding of the book dated 1958.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very presentable example of the 2 volume set. Both parts solid and VG in their gilt-adorned green panels, with dark bordering. The 1st editions, 1912 and 1919 respectively. Light wear to the rear panels, very light soiling at the front panels and one small (1") tear along Part II's spine crown. All edges gilt, a generous number of full-page and fold-out plates (many in color) throughout.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$306.95 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 14 cm x 22 cm. 84 pages with a photographic frontispiece showing an image of Sulphite Wood Pulp (Disintegrated). Original Hardcover with gilt lettering. This publication was recently fully restored and repaired. Extremely rare ! [Rare ! Not in Ray Riling's Bibliography "Guns and Shooting"] Includes for example the following chapters: Part I - Manufacture of Nitro - Lignin as a Base for Sporting Powder. / Early wood nitro powder / Sulphite wood pulp manufacture / etc. Part II - Manufacture of Sporting Powder / Mixing Ingredients / Acetone v. Ether for Hardening / Blending etc. Sprache: english.
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition, number 648, of 950 copies, contributions by W.R.Ogilvie-Grant, J.G Millais, Abel Chapman, and others, 26 chromolitho plates after George Lodge, numerous plates, bookplate of Alwyn Barker, ink signature to front pastedown, publisher's maroon with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, lower board very slightly bowed, a good sound copy. PLEASE NOTE: THIS HEAVY BOOK MAY COST EXTRA TO SHIP OUTSIDE OF THE UK. Size: Folio
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Grey, F. W.. Seeking Fortune in America. Smith Elder & Co, London, 1912.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo. xiv, 307, (4, ads) pp. Portrait frontispiece. Tipped in letter from one Orville Rogers dated 1913, saying "the author knew his Texas, but the one he knew 45 years before was even more lawless." Howes G-413. Adams Six Guns 874: "This author, an Englishman, erroneously states that Billy the Kid was a half-blood Indian. He also says that when Pat Garrett discovered the house of the Kid's sweetheart, âafter tying and gagging her,' he lay in wait there for the Kid. When the outlaw appeared, Garrett shot him from behind a sofa." Original gilt-stamped red cloth.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Small rectangular 8vo (4¼x5¼"), original wrappers stamped in red and brown, 40 pp. 1" split at head of wrappers spine, some soiling and a few small creases; centerfold leaf detached, staples rusted, a few spots and dampstains; about very good. A catalogue with price list (laid in) for Colt revolvers and automatic pistols. The catalogue features both double action and single action revolvers in many different calibers. Rubber-stamped message "not ready for delivery" on the page featuring the Colt Automatic Pistol Military Model 1911. This pistol was in its very early stages of development, but would become one of the most popular firearms of all time. OCLC/WorldCat locates only one copy of this catalogue at the Connecticut Historical Society Resources Center.
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books, ABAA, Florham Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Grey, Frederick W.. Seeking A Fortune In America. London, 1912.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st Ed., xiv+307 pp., frontis, cloth, nice 6-Guns#874 scarce Herd#931 Howes G-413 Dykes Kid#61 An Englishman's recollections, material on ranching, Billy the Kid, Luke Short, the killing of Thorpe, etc. Rare.
Seller: T A Swinford, Bookseller, sun city west, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SHIPPING WILL BE DETERMINED AT PURCHASE. All 4 volumes Vol 1- 1912 "British Game Birds and Wildfowl", Vol 2 - 1913 "British Deer and Ground Game", Vol 3 - 1914 "The Big Game of Africa & Europe", Vol 4 - 1915 "The Big Game of Asia and North America." The Set is numbered 419 of 500. Each volume has 2 bookplates on the inside cover. Each volume has foxing on the end pages.
Seller: Friends of Ontario City Library, Ontario, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1767.59 + shipping
Description: xii 443, xvi 345, xix 408, xix 433 pages, title pages printed in red and black TEG, large 4to., illustrated throughout with colour plates by leading artists after G. Lodge, A. Thorburn, V. R. Balfour-Browne, and E. Caldwell; + photogravure, monochrome and half tone plates, and numerous illustrations and tables in the text. Bound in the publisher's full brown leather bindings. 3 of the volumes having some scratch marks to the rear boards. A very good complete set of the monumental work, 500 copies were produced as sets, this being a consecutive numbered set 142. Individual volumes were also issued in various limitation numbers and not numbered on the spine as this set is. Leading hunters and sportsmen of the day contributed to the volumes including F.C.Selous, J.G.Millias, Frank Wallace, D Carruthers etc. encompassing all aspects of shooting, stalking and big game hunting. A lavishly produced and richly informative work documenting a bygone sporting age. Czech Asia 45, Africa 252, Chute 482.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$1793.21 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4 vols. 4to. Colour and other plates - all as called for. Publisher's full morocco. Top edges gilt. No.426/500 sets. Postage at cost
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
OGILVIE-GRANT, W.R.. The Gun at Home and Abroad.. London London and Counties Press Ass. -15, 1912.
Price: US$2178.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, number 140 of only 500 copies; 4 volumes (uniformly numbered), large 4to (325 x 270 mm); titles printed in red and black, photogravure portrait of George V in each vol., 59 coloured plates, 70 half-tone plates, 17 other illustrations, including photogravures and monochromes, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations by Lodge, Thorburn and Caldwell, some light spotting confined in the main to preliminary and terminal leaves, otherwise clean and bright; publisher's brown pebbled morocco, gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed as issued, these a little browned, spines sunned, light rubbing and marks, more pronounced to reard board of vol. 1, else good and sound. One of only 500 copies. The work comprises: British Game Birds and Wildfowl; British Deer and Ground Game; The Big Game of Africa & Europe; The Big Game of Asia & N. America. Other authors include J.G. Millais, Aymer Maxwell, Meysey-Thompson, Abel Chapman and Selous, each the best in his field. One of the most comprehensive works on the subject.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "The Gun at Home and Abroad" by OgilvieGrant, W.R.; J.G. Millais; F.C. Selous; D. Carruther. London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd., 1912/1915. 4-volume set, complete. Limited to 500 copies; Vol. I and II, No. 12; Vol. III and IV, No. 52. Titles within the set include British Deer and Ground Game; British Game Birds and Wildfowl; The Big Game of Africa & Europe; and The Big Game of Asia and North America. Publishers deluxe binding of full brown morocco, front covers double framed and titled in gilt, spines gilt lettered and framed, t.e.g.; Vol. I and II have a slightly darker binding perhaps because of the different set numbers. Each volume with photogravure portrait frontispieces of King George V. Profusely illustrated with 59 full-color plates with printed tissue guards + 12 photogravures, 5 monochrome plates, and 140 half-tone plates. Large 4tos. All volumes bear the same armorial bookplate of Paul Edgerton Gardner. Vols. I and Vol. II spines rubbed at ends and along hinges, Vol. II front outer hinge slightly cracked, occasional faint scuffing to boards; a near fine set.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: This handsomely framed item features a typed, hand-emended, and signed 15 August 1912 letter from then-First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill on his Admiralty stationery to his newly-appointed Naval Advisortothe Turkish Navy, British Rear-Admiral Arthur Limpus. The letter encapsulates Churchills expectations and ambitions regarding the Ottoman Empire, which would nearly cost Churchill both his political and corporeal lives during the First World War.The letter anchors a multi-item display, framed at the center in double-matted tan and white linen, with each recess trimmed in gilt. Flanking the letter, likewise recessed are (to the right) a 431-word didactic titled "The Last Lion Faces First World War" engraved on dark bronze supplying a tidy overview of the historical context surrounding the letter. To the lower left, a matching dark bronze engraved placard reads "SIR WINSTON S. CHURCHILL | 1874-1965 | First Lord of the Admiralty | 1911-1915, 1939 | Prime Minister of Great Britain | 1940-1945, 1951-1955." At the upper left is a color portrait of Churchill on metal which appears almost certainly to have been extracted from the lid of a circa 1965 special issue illustrated United Biscuits tin (see Douglas Hall, p.20), the aesthetic effect being more pleasing than the humble origins might suggest. The elaborately carved 2.75 inch (7 cm) widethick brown wood frame measures 31.5 x 23.25 inches (80 x 59 cm), glazed with UV-filtering acrylic.The letter is dated 15 August 1912, and reads,"My dear Admiral Limpus, I can easily realise how great | your difficulties are, but I am quite sure | you will make headway against them. The | copy you have sent me of the new Agreement | affecting your position, has been sent to | the Secretary of the Admiralty. Your | letters are always welcome, and I hope | you will not be discouraged by the curious | task you have undertaken. It must be of | extraordinary interest it is certainly of | considerable importance. | You will be pleased to hear that | I have just had a most enthusiastic letter | about you from Mahmoud Muktar. | Yours very truly," Referring to the correspondence from Mahmoud Muktar, the letter features the typed word "report" crossed out and replaced with "letter" in the same ink as the letter is signed "Winston S. Churchill".Arthur Henry Limpus (1863-1931) entered the British Navy in 1876 and served much of his early career in the Mediterranean. Limpus came to the attention of Churchill during the 1900 relief of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. Limpus, then an officer in the Naval Brigades,played a role in the inventive and intrepid effort to bring ships guns overland to attack the Boers'heavy gun emplacements and to provide artillery barrage to cover advancing British infantry. Limpuss actions saw him promoted to Captain. Churchills own actions during the conflict made him a celebrity and helped launch his political career.A little more than a decade later, by 1911, Churchill had become First Lord of the Admiralty and Limpus a rear-admiral. The next year, in May 1912 three months before he wrote this letter to Limpus - Churchill appointed Limpus to head the British naval mission to the Ottoman Empire. Limpus was made a vice-admiral in the Turkish Navy and, in anticipation of the coming war with Germany, tasked with convincing the Ottoman Turks to ally with British interests over those of Germany.This letter is clearly written at the beginning of Limpuss vital embassy. On the same day he wrote this letter to Limpus, Churchill wrote to his counterpart in the Ottoman Government, Navy Minister Mahmud Muhtar Pasha (1867-1935), who is referred to by Churchill as "Mahmoud Muktar". Churchill wrote of Limpus "I took the greatest personal trouble in selecting Admiral Limpus for service with the Turkish Navy, as I was anxious that you should have at your disposal an officer who would do credit to the reputation of the British Navy I first made his acquaintance 12 years ago in South Africa, where he played a distinguished part. He is a sincere and thoroughly competent officer "Likely Limpus could have done little to counter the historic forces that led to Ottoman alignment with Germany in the First World War. Nonetheless, Limpuss alleged competence seems to have been both overestimated and oversold by Churchill. Limpus reported to Churchill on 3 December 1913, saying "It may fairly be said that something tangible has been done, and a success scored which should retain a predominant British interest here in naval affairs for manyprobably 30 years." Eight months later, on 2 August 1914 the Ottoman government signed a treaty of alliance with Germany. Limpus became Superintendent of the Malta Dockyard.It appears that the unfortunate Limpuss command of English was no better than his assessment of the prospects for Anglo-Turkish alliance. A 10 December 1913 letter from Limpus drew from Churchill a scathing, detailed criticism of "the general style and presentment" of Limpuss letters, which Churchill characterized as "mere jottings of passing impressions hurriedly put together without sequence, and very often with marked confusion "The Ottoman Turks proved at least as much of a miscalculation and career challenge for Churchill as they had been for Limpus.First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 until 1915, Churchills career was derailed by the disastrous Dardanelles offensive and slaughter at Gallipoli. Scapegoated and forced to resign, Churchill went from the Cabinet to the Front. He spent political exile as a lieutenant colonel of a battalion in the trenches. Before war's end, Churchill was exonerated and rejoined the Government, but despite his political recovery, the stigma of the Dardanelles lingered.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.