col etherton (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Used - Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None. 1st Edition. Spine, binding and cover all fine; contents clean and no inscription. Spine is faded but no other issues. 259 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Jarrolds cheap edition January 1934 on orange cloth and SIGNED BY H. Hessel Tiltman + owners name to end paper.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Prater, Ernest; Peddie, Tom; Soper, G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Wightman, W.E.; Potts, Leonard; Tayler, Laurie; Bestall, A.E. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 170-252, plus 20 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Warden of the Marches; Seeds of Fortune; An Elephant-Poacher's Odyssey; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - part 2; "Denied Admittance" - an Ellis Island Story; The Shrine or Ordam Padshah; The Two Portraits; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - part 2; The Isles of the Arafura; Cave-Hunting in New Mexico; A Rolling Stone. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.

First American edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 305, [1]; folding map printed in 2 colors; spine a little dull else a very good, clean and sound copy in original green cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine. Etherton, who was posted to British India in 1903, travelled from Kashmir in British India via Yarkand, Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan over the Heavenly Mountains (Tian Shan) along the Russian border to Chuguchak in the Mongolian foothills of the Altai Mountains and then, after crossing the Russian border, back to England on the Trans-Siberian Railway. In 1912 he was transferred as a captain to the 39th Garhwal Rifle, became a member of the colonial administration of India in the field of intelligence gathering. Between 1918 and 1922 he was British Consul General and political resident in Kashgar (see Wikipedia). Yakushi E107.