burden w douglas (17 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding tight, hinges strong. Book slightly shelf-cocked. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. Yellow bds. w. black cl. bkstr. w. gilt lettering. Worn dj., unclipped, w. internal damp stains and 3/4" chip to spine. Photos plus 251pp.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. B&W Photos-full page (illustrator). 1st. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Book is tight and clean with no markings. Little evidence of being used; Dust jacket has just a little edge dings.

Hardcover. Zustand: G/g;Boards some soil, edges so. B&W photos (illustrator). 1st. 1" tear top frt hinge, edges some chips and wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, 3rd Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, 1960. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with spotting to page ends and bookplate on pastedown. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear, nicks.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1960). 1960 1st edition. Large 8vo (157 x 240mm). Ppxx,251. B/w photograph plates. Good-plus in used dust-wrapper. American naturalist-hunter's account of expeditions to wilderness areas which seemed to him marked for destruction. Alaska, Indo-China, Mongolia, The East Indies, South America and Quebec in search of wolves, moose, tigers, markhor, ibex and Komodo dragons. .

Zustand: Befriedigend. 155 S., Ill. Ohne Schutzumschlag! Einband leicht berieben/angeschmutzt, mit Namenseintragung auf 4 Seiten im Vorsatz (auch auf Titelblatt), Schnitt leicht angeschmutzt, Papier altersbedingt gebräunt, sont gut erh. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 410 Leinen, Kopffarbschnitt, gebundene Ausgabe, OHNE SU!

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1961). (1960) 1961 1st UK edition. 8vo (150 x 215mm). Ppxx,251. B/w photograph plates. Black cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy in slightly used dust-wrapper. An American naturalist-hunter's account of expeditions to wilderness areas which seemed to him marked for destruction. Alaska, Indo-China, Mongolia, The East Indies, South America and Quebec in search of wolves, moose, tigers, markhor, ibex and Komodo dragons. .

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 288 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Peddie, Tom; Tresilian, S.; Gale, W.J.; Prater, Ernest; Nicholson, W.C.; Sutcliffe, Norman (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Policing the Great White North - A photo-illustrated account of the manifold perils and hardships that are the daily portion of the gallant handful of men who represent law and order in the Vast Canadian Arctic; Pathetic fate of two missing WWI Sheffield soldiers revealed - William Thompson and George Walter Howard; Bill's Bear-Cub - An American trapper adopts a bear cub and his partner foretells disaster; Three Months on an Island Inferno - J.K. Wilson explains his 'holiday' on White Island, near Tauranga, New Zealand - with photos; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part I - What happened after H.P. Musson, a transplanted London paper-pusher, lost his job as a hired hand in Western Canada and began looking for his own homestead; Trapping Wild Animals in Northern Siam - The ingenious methods by which the jungle folk trap fierce whild beasts, with great photos; Cycling Round the World - Part III of III of Kai Thorenfeldt's amazing 20,000 mile journey which took over two years - with map and nice photos; Forgotten Fortunes - Frances Dickie describes the remarkable circumstances in which two of the most amazing 'finds' in the history of European art have lately come to light in France - with photo of Mrs. M.L. Westmoreland, who discovered a valuable Goya in a Paris second-hand shop; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part II - Seeking the prehistoric Komodo dragon on a remote Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) island; A Terrible Journey - Joseph Metcalf fell into an underground conduit conveying water from a dam to Port Elizabeth - forty-five miles away!; The Greatest of All Thrills - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article on the new sport of parachuting from aircraft; "Heir Number Six" - A Winnipeg real estate agent goes to the North-West territory in search of an obscure half-breed regarding a dispute over land ownership. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A scarce first edition of W. Douglas Burden's account of his joint expedition, undertaken with his wife Catherine, to capture and study a Komodo Dragon. An uncommon, first edition of W. Douglas Burden's Dragon Lizards of Komodo. Published in 1927 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated end papers with a map of the Dutch East Indies. With frontispiece and fifty-three black and white photographs. Collated complete.The account of W. Douglas Burden and his wife, Catherine White Burden's expedition to the Dutch East Indies, specfically the Island of Komodo in 1926.Mrs Burden is credited for many of the photographs.They aimed to return with a Komodo Dragon, rumoured to grow up to thirty feet. In actuality, the Komodo Dragons they found were approximately ten feet long, but no less ferocious than expected. The Burdens collected over 3,000 insect and amphibian specimens and three Komodo lizards.A year after this publication, Burden founded the Department of Animal Behavior at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Bound in the publisher's cloth with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, in excellent condition. Minor bumping to extremities, noticeable at the head and tail of spine. Offsetting to free end papers. Ink inscription to front end paper. Dust wrapper, generally smart. Chips and creasing to extremities. Loss of paper to top and tail of spine. Loss also to bottom corner of rear board. Closed tears to upper front joint and rear board. Significant discolouration from sunning to spine and extremities of boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Scattered spotting and dusting to fore edges. Collated complete. Very Good Indeed. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Sutcliffe, Norman; Lance; Sindall, A.W.; Holloway, Cyril; Prater, Ernest; Spence, Percy; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Inns, Kenneth; Seper, George (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Bill Carlisle, Train Robber - An account of the amazing exploits of a man described as "the last of the train-robbers", who would notify officials when he was about to rob a train!; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part I - A thrilling account of adventures on a remote Dutch East Indies island in pursuit of prehistoric flesh-eating lizards (the Komodo dragon) - with photos; The City of Golden Geese - A lively photo-illustrated account of the foie gras industry in the old city of Strasburg in Alsace; Mungoro Meets His Match - A Rhodesian tale; The End of the Chase - A hunt for a monstrous elephant near Lake Nyasa; Photo of a Kentish stilt-walker in field of hops; The Man in No. 35 - How a British officer discovered, in a Russian prison, Julius Weinberg, a Jewish banker who had actually handed Lenin and his accomplices ten million marks from the German Government in order to finance the Bolshevik revolution that destroyed Russia as a fighting force - the little man knew too much, and paid with his life for his refusal to surrender the incriminating receipts; Cycling Round the World - Part II - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years riding over 20,00 miles! - with photos; The bachelor Homesteaders of British Columbia - A breezy photo-illustrated account of the adventures and hardships of this cheery, happy-go-lucky class of men; The Girl Stowaway of the Cecilie - Part II - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; A Ride in the Night - An officer of the King's African Rifles falls ill on the Abyssinian frontier of Kenya Colony; The Chief's Gift - A tale from a New Zealand sheep farmer; Teddy Murphy's Close Call - A child disappears into a well in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.

Eine Forscherfahrt zu den Waranen auf Komodo. Brockhaus/Leipzig 1930, 155 S.,Bildtafeln, Karte, braunes OLeinen, sauberes Exemplar. 3504581 Sprache: Deutsch.