arthur strachan (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. Early reprint (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), xi, 279pp, 5pp adverts. 8pp b&w plates. Original cream-coloured cloth. There is some light spotting to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block, and a bookplate to the front pastedown; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

Zustand: Good. No DJ. Boards have little wear but spine is faded and spine writing is a bit hard to read. Gift inscription to endpaper. 1 plate is a bit torn to edge. Contents are clean but lightly toned.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Nicolson, W.C.; Tresilian, S.; Holloway, Cyril (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 221-286 plus 14 pages of ads. Features: Man-Eaters - Indian tigers; The Lost Secret - a lost mine near Visalia, California; The Merepur Mystery - Indian official is an amateur Sherlock Holmes; On the Mexican Border; A Winter Jaunt in Finland - with photos, including woman washing clothes in hole cut in ice; The "Stroaper's" Vengeance - while prospecting for gold in Dutch Guiana; The Tale of "Old Bill" - a famous elephant of Ceylon; The Hunting of "Wild Johnny" - a renegade Australian aborigine; The Diamond Smuggler; Crossed Trails - a tale of fate from the Santa Cruz mountains; The Prize-Fight; The Great Green Eel - three-day ordeal landing a 13.5 foot specimen!; "Fisherman's Luck" - angler's disaster off New Zealand when the launch Manaia is wrecked. Heavily worn. Covers detached but present. A worthy reading copy.

First Edition. Descriptions with illustrations of tiger hunting, including his final encounter in which he lost and arm and a leg. , with 8 colour plates . Some foxing and slight lean . Inscription to fep otherwise a Good copy in a Good jacket which has some loss to spine ends. Scarce in jacket.

1st Edn,. 1st Edn, xi 279 pages, 4 pages advs, illus including 8 in colour from miniatures by the author mounted on black card. Publisher's cloth, titles in white. A vg copy seldom found in vg condition. The author hunted numerous tigers in Assam both on foot and machansi, also leopard, wild boar, bear etc. On one occasion trailing a wounded tiger only to be charged and mauled by the tiger, though he succeeded in killing the tiger he had extensive injuries causing his and arm to be amputated. Czech 206.