captain john noel (8 Ergebnisse)

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. 258 pages, third printing, illustrated with photos. Moderate wear and staining to the blue covers; cracked front hinge; pages yellowed with age; a good copy otherwise. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Exploration; Inventory No: 231561.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Good. Later printing. 9th Edition. Octavo hardbound, tight binding. Cover wear, front board bowed. Previous owner's name inked on front pastedown some pages creased.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. Cloth, no dj. Slight shelf-wear. Pages speckled, showing signs of age. Cover scuffed in spots.

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Very Good (-). No Jacket. First Edition. 258 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, blue topstain, photo frontis (Author in 1913); a.e. lt tanned, gift inscription dated year of publication inked ffep, f.e. gouged. Cover: med bluer, lt blue/white artwork front, lt blue titles front/spine; modest shelfwear, extrems a bit worn, sm tear back t.e., 2 crnrs bumped, modest mottling to front board. The first and second British expeditions. 37 photos.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Captain John Noel (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this collection of photographs from British mountaineer Captain John Noel, signed by his daughter Sandra. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page, dated 2004. Illustrated with photographs throughout, some of which are in colour. A account of the expedition of John Baptist Lucius Noel, a British mountaineer and filmmaker best known for his film of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition. With still images of the drama and tragedy of the expedition, outlining the extreme weather conditions and complex technical demands of high altitudes. Written by his daughter, and only child, Sandra Noel. With a foreword by Brian Blessed, an English actor known for his distinctive bushy beard, booming voice, and exuberant personality and performances. Blessed has attempted to climb Mount Everest three times without supplemental oxygen never reaching the summit, and is the oldest man to have reached the North Magnetic Pole on foot. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. signed by author. book.

Third printing. Portrait frontispiece & 31 photographic plates. 8vo. Very good in publisher's blue pictorial cloth, with a lengthy inscription to the front free endpaper & some loosely inserted ephemera. xiv, 258pp. Boston, Little Brown & Co. The inscription reads: "It was most certainly one (if not the most pleasurable of all times I have spent after a lecture in the den of Dr. Wolf - And to a lecture such 'after' times are the most pleasant times despite the splendid interest & attention of audiences met. I shall always remembers Dr. Wolf's hospitality. Yours cordially,  John Noel."   The ephemera includes an advertisement to a meeting at the Travel Club on February 11th, 1930 for Noel's lecture on his expedition to Mt. Siniolochu.