Chambers herbert e (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth with gilt titles. End papers are maps.Illustrated. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 219 pages. Item Type: Book. Clean and bright pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's signature in ink. Illustrator: Austin Garland and Herbert Steadman. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; . Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 034733. Austin Garland and Herbert Steadman (illustrator). …

Zustand: Very Good. Second revised edition hard back binding in publisher's original racing green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, hand-drawn maps to end papers. 12mo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 239 pp with monochrome line drawings in text, archive photographic plates throughout and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LINCOLNSHIRE.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A smart four volume collection of literary "Guide-Books" on English literature from The Warwick Library, with cloth designs by Talwin Morris. Four volumes. The Warwick Library. A collection of "literary guide-books" intended to prove serviceable to the student and tasteful to the lover of letters. Each volume is devoted to the history of some singular literary growth, to enable the reader to follow the most important phases and influences. With cover designs by Talwin Morris, a prolific book designer and decorative artist known for his Glasgow Style. This set includes: English Pastorals, 1906. Selected with an introduction by Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar. English Masques, 1906. Selected with an introduction by Herbert Arthur Evans, a British scholar. English Essays, 1906. Selected with an introduction by J. H. Lobban, a British author and editor. English Literary Criticism, 1906. Selected with an introduction by Charles E. Vaughan, an English author and professor. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Fading to the spines, particularly English Masques, with the odd small split in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinge starting but firm to English Essays. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. The odd pencil mark to English Essays. Light spotting to the first and last few pages. Minor worming to the odd page of English Masques. Some of the text block remains unopened. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 18 [ads], 313-374 pages. Features: A Diver Down a Gold Mine - an Italian worker stranded 1,000 feet down a flooded Australian mine is saved by deep-sea divers; The Forgotten Islands - The Chathams; A Tasmanian Robinson Crusoe - In 1904 the British barque Brier Holme went down and the only survivor lived three months on an uninhabited island; The Green Scarab; The Thief-Catcher - a holy man in India; Money to Burn - experiences while left in charge of a Transvaal farm; The Woman Who Walked to Siberia - Lillian Alling; Smugglers All; On the Edge of the World - final installment of Richard Brenton's adventures in Tierra del Fuego; Coin counterfeiters in Tanganyika; The Taking of Ventotene - a naval story in the Drake tradition; The Jinx - a man brings bad luck to others but escapes unscathed; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Nicolson, W.C. (cover) (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of the "Mary Clyne" - A chief officer's story of a weird and nerve-trying affair that happened on board a tramp steamer; Housekeeping in the Wilds of Bechuanaland - Vivian France explains how she set up her home a month's ox-cart journey from civilization - with nice photos ; Following the Frontier Trail - Part II - The continued adventures of Edith Ammons Kohl in Wyoming; Our Caribou Hunt - How four young Newfoundlanders went into the interior one winter to shoot caribou, and what happened to them; Pekin [Peking / Beijing] to London - Mostly By Car - Part II - A most adventurous 15,000 miles, with nautical detours around civil war in China, and floods in Siam and Burma - with nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I - The amusing narrative of a decidedly unathletic 46-year-old Londoner who decided to tramp from the French coast to Lourdes; The Black Trackers of Australia - follow-up to "The Great Boulder Murder Case" which appeared in the prior issue; Photo of sheep being used as pack animals on the way from Tibet to the Rampur Fair; A Chinese Night's Entertainment - A lively interlude in the peaceful routine of life at a mission-station in a remote Chinese town; Buddy Assheton's Return - A tragic story from Western Canada, as told by a member of the Mounted Police; My Room-Mate - The amusing story of what happened one night at a hotel in a Queensland township; The Unmasking of Gola Singh - A member of the Indian police goes bad, creating the need for a delicate investigation; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part I - C.V. Warren travels to a tea estate in Ceylon and describes his experiences and the general routine of the tea-planter's life, with photos. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Wightman, W.E.; Hiley, Francis E.; Goss, G.W.; Cleaver, Reginald; Holloway, Cyril; Thompson, Kenneth; Sherie, E.F.; Prater, Ernest; Vedder, S.H. (illustrator).…