Cargill morris editor (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First American edition. Anthology of articles about Jamaica - 'history, its people, its politics, its religions and dialects, its natural history, its brids, its painters and writers, its archives, its stamps, and the delights of skin-diving it its waters and eating its food (including some recipes) - told from the Jamaican point of view, with preface & introduction by Ian Fleming, who spent part of every year at Goldeneye, his Jamaican house in which he wrote all the James Bond books. Illustrated with color photographs. appendices, bibliography. 240 pp. Map endpapers. Very good in a good dust jacket (light toning to the pages,several small chips to upper edge of dj, closed tear with associated creasing to bottom edge.).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Book has previous owner's inscription partially whited out on front illustrated fly, very good. Dust jacket not price clipped, very good. 2nd Impression November 1965.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very good tight copy in dust wrapper, light age spotting to page edges, owners details written neatly inside, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book has a book plate with a pen name to the half title page. The jacket has two paper repaired closed tears, very minor edge wear and is price clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Front top leading corners a little compressed and some very light tape stains to ep's and dj flaps from jacket protector now removed for the books sake. Clean, Bright and tight.Small closed tear to the jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Second impression. Orig. orange cloth. Map endpapers. 240 pp. [24] pp. colour photos + colour frontis. Dust jacket is age toned, with 1" tear to head of rear joint, some light bumping to extremities. Ian Fleming spent part of every year at Goldeneye, his Jamaican house in which he wrote all the James Bond books. He loved Jamaica and used to regret that there was no book on it which he considered worthy. His friend Morris Cargill, the distinguished Jamaican journalist and broadcaster, urged him to write one himself. After many conversations at Goldeneye a 'team' was collected: Ian Flaming to open the book, of course, with an account of his own relationship with Jamaica and a general picture of the pleasures of living there; Morris Cargill and the novelist John Hearne to fill in the background, historical and human; and ten other writers, either Jamaican or long-term residents of the island, chosen because of their special knowledge of and enthusiasm for various aspects of it.…

dj. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); burnt orange cloth, titled in gilt on spine; yellow topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket; [10],11-240pp; illus. faint, shallow tide-mark to base of spine and lower front board edge, upper corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with some scattered underlining and marginal annotations to a few preliminary leaves; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped, with printed price crossed out and re-priced $4.20 in ink directly above; light wear to extremities, corresponding faint tidemark to base of spine and lower front panel, with a few tiny tears; Very Good+. GILBERT B6b.(1).…

dj. First UK Edition. A nonfiction book on Jamaica by noted espionage author Ian Fleming, who maintained a second home in Jamaica for many years after World War II. Boards lightly warped, topstain faded, overall Very Good or better in a Very Good plus dust jacket with light toning to the extremities and a short closed tear to the top of the front flap fold.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Very good tight copy in dust wrapper, a touch of wear to wrapper edges, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition, second printing. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel, small piece missing from top of front panel. Number written on front free endpaper in grease pencil. Nice condition overall.