Eddy clyde (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. When Clyde Eddy first saw the Colorado River in 1919, he vowed that he would someday travel its length. Eight years later, Eddy recruited a handful of college students to serve as crewmen and loaded them, a hobo, a mongrel dog, a bear cub, and a heavy motion picture camera into three mahogany boats and left Green River, Utah, headed for Needles, California. Forty-two days and eight hundred miles later, they were the first to successfully navigate the river during its annual high water period. This book is the original narrative of that foolhardy and thrilling adventure.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good Former owners name on top edge of title page, panel corners and spine ends bumped, panels and spine rubbed with light fading and some soiling, light browning of pages, clean text and sound binding.

Zustand: Very Good. NY Stokes 1938. 1/0/00 Binding: Unknown VG. in no dj blue c wlite rubbing; owner's name inked out on fly 317. Illustrated by illus. 1st edition. 8vo.

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 317. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Very slight rubbing, otherwise very good.

First edition. 288pp. Portrait frontis. + 15pp. of illustrations. Orig. khaki cloth, black lettering. Extremities slightly rubbed. Prev. owners inscription to front free endpaper, endpapers browned, some occasional foxing throughout o/w contents clean and sound. A lovely copy.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Dead Men's Tracks - Part I - A story from Western Australia about a lost mine; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part II - How the first white woman in history succeeded in entering Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet; Stumbling Pete (Peter Dawson) - a tale of two trappers on the northern coast of British Columbia; Down the World's Most Dangerous River - A thrilling 750 mile boat voyage down the Colorado River, with photos; Muskrat Farming in Canada - One of the latest industries to be established in Canada - breeding muskrats for their pelts on a commercial scale; Marooned in the Swamps - A veteran hunter is abandoned in the heart of Africa; Murder will Out - How R.N.W.M.P. Constable Pennecuick searched for three missing travellers - one of the most remarkable cases in the annals of the famous Mounted Police of Canada, with photos; The Gorilla of Ubangui - A trip to French Congo in search of a huge gorilla; The Promotion of Constable Sidi, a Nigerian Policeman; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part III - The continued adventures of two city-bred sisters who took up homesteading in South Dakota. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Robinson, T.H.; Tresilian, S.; Leigh, Conrad; Prater, Ernest; De Walton, John; Wightman, W.E.; Tresilian, S.; Sindall, A.W.; Brock, R.H. (illustrator).…