Charles amery (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boards are black with gilt lettering. Very minimal bumps and scuffs, if any. Pages are clean, with very detailed black and white/coloured pictorial illustrations. The pages are in a fine condition. Jacket has a few very minor shelf ware scuffs on the top and bottom of the spine. The jacket has a clear protective wrapper. There is a frontispiece of a house built by George Washington's Brother-in-Law. The overall condition of this book is near fine. Robert Fermor-Hesketh (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. 4to. 224pp. Very Good. Hardcover. Gray cloth over boards. Mostly color plates throughout. Sealed in protective plastic wrap. * There might be an additional charge due to the large size of the book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 100 pages. Large/oblong 4to. Very good clean copy of the full contradictions of the life and times of James Cook. The dust jacket is creased on the front and has a 10cm tear on the front edge. Illustrated with b&w and colour drawings and paintings. *** This book weighs more than 1kg and may require additional postage if sent out of Australia.***.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in very good condition: firm and square, strong joints, just mildly rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket: slightly edge-worn and a little darkened, even so still showing well. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks, save a previous owner's inscription at the endpaper. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid copy of a pencil drawing by David Low (1891-1963), the political cartoonist. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Became, after a spell as leader-writer for the Daily Telegraph, editor of the Observer. He also edited the Enclyclopaedia Britannica. Drawn By Low (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original blue cloth (some spotting, mostly to leaf edges and endpapers, else clean & bright; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 252 (last blank), with 35 illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate A44: Further memoirs of leading British politician-mountaineer]. Includes climbing in the Alps, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original blue cloth (a little rubbed & marked, scattered spotting, two small 'Shrewsbury School Rovers' RSMs to FFE, else clean & unmarked; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 320, 16 (pubs. advts.), with 53 illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate A43: Memoirs of a leading British politician, who was president of the Alpine Club, 1944-6]. Includes climbing in the Alps, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere. …

Zustand: New. In shrink wrap.

Relié. Zustand: Bon état. in-4 Description :Une petite déchirure sur la jaquette. Langue : Anglais.

London, Hutchinson, [1953- 1955]. Three volumes, 8vo. Original sturdy cloth with illustrated dust-wrapper (not price-clipped); pp. 492; 536; 464; plates after photographs, a near fine set, rarely found complete and in the wrappers, which are not price-clipped; ownership inscriptions Bowie in lower outer corners of front fly-leaves.First edition of these important political memoirs covering the period from the last years of Queen Victoria's reign to 1940. The politician and journalist Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery served as intelligence officer specialised on the Balkans due to his knowledge of languages and later focussed on the geopolitics of the Middle East. A lifelong Zionist he supported the foundation of Israel, having drafted the agreed text of the Balfour declaration in 1917. He abstained from voting on the Munich agreements and worked with Churchill to press for a national government and war cabinet. 'In the twentieth century few, if any, British politicians who built their careers round a vision of a consolidated empire or Commonwealth gained recognition at the highest level, Amery among them' (ODNB).…