Captain of Dragoons by Welch, Ronald - 1956

Oxford University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1963. Reprinted. 216 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with chips and creasing. Light foxing to edges.

Oxford University Press. Hardcover. Good. William Stobbs. 1963 Reprint. Good-Very Good Hardcover in a Good-Very Good Dustjacket. Red boards. Spine slanted, edge wear, corners bumped. Interior is good. No writing. Pages are now a bit yellowed from age. Binding is good. DJ is price-clipped, light edge and corner wear, a few tiny closed tears. DJ is in the publisher's original plastic protector. B&W illustrations by William Stobbs

Oxford University Press, 1963. Book. Illus. by William Stobbs. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2nd printing in bright red boards with tight binding, clean pages and unmarked text. Jacket is bright and intact. This is a very respectable copy. Will be carefully packaged and shipped with tracking and insurance..

London: Oxford University Press, 1956. Reprinted 1963 . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. This is an ex-library copy but a clean and tidy one. The interior of the book is clean and tight, with small ownership stamps on the front and back free end papers, some dog-eared pages, and a small dent on the edge of the pages. The red covers are bright and are in very good condition, with just a bit of light wear at tips and corners. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with no library label. It has been protected in a removeable plastic cover since it was published, so has very little wear and no damage. Overall, then, an attractive reading copy, but no more. Synopsis: The adventures of Captain Charles Carey, Cadogan's Regiment of Dragoons, who fought under Marlborough. Carey becomes a spy in French territory, and is entrusted with a perilous mission that calls forth not only his outstanding skill as a swordsman, but also his reserves of courage and resource. His most dangerous opponent is the cunning… Read More

London:: Puffin Books,, 1977. First Puffin edition.. Paperback. VG. 252pp, [4] ads. Pages clean, and slightly tanned. Pictorial covers bright and firm.

London: Oxford University Press, 1967 G/G+. 8vo. original red boards gilt (ex-school library with labels, rsms, notations, tape marks, etc. to endpapers, spine a little canted, cloth edges a little rubbed & faded) in dustwrapper (edges a little frayed, some wear to spine ends, spine label, rems. of plastic covering to reverse); pp. viii (last blank), 216, with illustrations. A good reading copy. The sixth volume in the Carey Family saga, this one culminating in the Battle of Blenheim during the War of the Spanish Succession (1704-1704). Uncommon in any edition.. Reprint. Hard Cover. G/G+. Illus. by William Stobbs.

London: Slightly Foxed, 2015. Book. Illus. by William Stobbs. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Hardback: b/w illustrations by WILLIAM STOBBS, no dj (as issued), book is bound in illustrated cloth, no 1405 in a limited edition of 2,000 copies, pages are clean, nr fine. 8vo, 223pp..

In the Carey family historical series. Map.
Prize label on front fixed endpaper.

Oxford University Press , 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stobbs, William. From Ex-Libris with their bookplate. Publication of 216 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. The boards are in good condition. There is light foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last pages, very little within the body of the book. The text remains bright and clear. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Oxford University Press, 1956 F-/VG+. 8vo. original black cloth (a few spots to leaf edges & endpapers, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, slight fraying to headcap, ghost residue from small label on upper panel); pp. viii (last blank), 216, with illustrations. A near fine copy. The sixth volume in the Carey Family saga, this one culminating in the Battle of Blenheim during the War of the Spanish Succession (1704-1704). Uncommon in any edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/VG+. Illus. by William Stobbs.