barrett robert katherine (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Blue cloth over boards with a red spine label. Toned brown dust jacket with black illustration and lettering. Dated 1931 on title page. No date on copyright page. 349 pages. Good condition. Binding is snug and tight. Corners square. Covers are heavily faded. Pages toned, with some light foxing to the edges. No marks or writing to be found. Dust jacket is toned. Chipping to the edges and spine. Overall shelf rubbing. No tears or major creasing. Dust jacket has been clipped. Overall good condition. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term 'biological diversity' to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. Thomas Lovejoy's name is not written in this book. It will come with a card stating provenance, with a picture of Lovejoy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pictorial green cloth. Tall octavo. 280pp. Illustrated with four folding maps. With an engraved calling card affixed to the title page signed by Robert Barrett with his corrections to the text and an ink inscription at the top of the page "from the Author" presumably in his wife's hand. An account of the explorer couple's expedition to Ladakh in the 1920s written in epistolary fashion. Robert LeMoyne Barrett was a well-known explorer and founding member of the Association of American Geographers. His wife Katherine was a well-known children's writer. A very good bright copy with minor wear to the covers and some creasing to the bottom of the spine. There is some foxing to the endsheets, half-title and last index page else the text is very good and clean. The maps are in very good condition with light wear. There are actually two copies of the map in the rear pocket of the book. Foreign postage extra on this heavy book. Inscribed by Author(s).

First edition. Large 8vo. xii, 280 pp. Maps, some folding, one large folding in rear pocket, musical notation, decorated endpapers; includes an Urdu vocabulary at the rear. Trip through the mountains of Ladakh, 1923-1924, with a focus on the region's music and folk lore. Engraved bookplate of "Gypsy Davy & Lady Ba" on front pastedown. Original three-color illustrated cloth (rubbed). Light foxing to endpapers, else very good.

Frontispiece portrait by Dorothy Fuller Odell, endpaper maps. 8vo. Hardcover in blue cloth, spine toned. Printed "With the author's compliments" glued to ffep. 349pp. Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons,

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 280; pictorial endpapers, 4 folding maps; original pictorial green cloth stamped in black and white, and preserving the uncommon dust jacket which shows wear and short tears, plus a larger piece missing from the bottom on the spine and front panel. The fair jacket aside, a very good, sound and clean copy. Contains a 5-page Caravan Vocabulary, "Urdu words we taught our village men, with a few Ladakhi and Turki words which we all use commonly." "The text is a series of letters detailing a journey through the Himalayan region in Asia and relating some of the folktales told by local villagers. Among the other interesting oral histories and tidbits related by the author, there is a tale recounted from the perspective of villagers in the Himalayas about British explorer and military man Francis Younghusband who famously crossed the treacherous mountain range and uncharted desert territories as a young man" (National Book Auctions). Barrett was a wealthy explorer and traveler who founded the Association of American Geographers. Barrett traveled through the Canadian Rockies and later financed an expedition into the Himalayas. Barrett is also credited with beginning the Three-Corner-Round nonprofit organization's expeditions through the Sierra Nevada which continue to this day as an outdoor experience for young people.