Search Results: the barbary pirates by cs forester

First NEL edition first printing # 2322 of this stand alone historical thriller. Light reading crease to the spine and covers. Light edge wear. In good condition.

Macdonald & Co, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1956. First Edition. 185 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Colour illustrated dust jacket over pink cloth illustrative boards with blue lettering to spine and front. Colour illustrations and illustrative plates throughout. Stamp marks present, may indicate ex-library.Binding remains firm. Crinkling to gutters. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Lettering is darkened slightly. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Tanning to spine and edges.

New English Library, 1968. First thus. Paperback book. Good/No Jacket.

New English Library / NEL, 1968. paperback / softcover. vg. 1st NEL 1968 edition paperback vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

New York: Random House. VG+/VG+. 1953. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very light edgewear to book. Dust jacket is price-clipped with small chips at extremities ; Handsome copy. A Landmark Book ; B&W drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 p. .

Random House, 1953. 2nd Printing. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.

New York: Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. ©1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 187 p. 21.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Corners slightly bumped. Top edge of the text block has some foxing. Previous owner's name in pencil in box on front free endpaper. A section of about 10 pages has a tiny corner fold to the bottom fore-corner. Otherwise the inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has chips, creases and tears, mostly at spine ends and corners. The spine is faded. The story of the Barbary pirates off the coast of North Africa and how the fledgling United States navy came into its own by taking the pirates on in battle. Illustrated with duotone drawings. One of the publisher's Landmark books for children. Landmark Books No. 31 .

London: MacDonald, 1956 8vo. original mauve cloth (a little rubbed & bumped, slightly marked, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. [iv], 188 (last blank), with illustrations. A very good copy.. First UK. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles J. Mazoujian.

Random House, 1953. #31 in series, book is in new and unread condition, jacket has a few small tears and small pieces missing along bottom, back edge.. Hard Cover. New/Very Good.

NEL, 1970T. paperback. Acceptable. 2.3882 in x 17.1570 in x 10.6619 in. NOT an ex-library book. Well read with some wear but still very useable.

London: Macdonald, 1956. [Naval history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 185 [3]. With numerous in-text illustrations by Mazoujian. Publisher's pink cloth, with titles and designs blocked in blue and yellow to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 8/6 to front flap. Illustrated endpapers. Interior lightly toned. Typographic bookplate of bibliophile Trevor Hickman to front flyleaf verso. Textblock edges lightly spotted. Light marking to top of cloth. Jacket backstrip sunned, some toning to rear panel. Light edgewear. Very good. A history detailing how the infamous Barbary pirates met their end in the early 19th century, authored by the father of Hornblower.