eva stuart watt (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1951. First Edition. 158 pages. Green dust jacket with white lettering over green cloth. B&W photographs throughout. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Sticker and pen marks to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine and board edges. Front board curved. Clipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine, with foxing and soiling to DJ.

Zustand: Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 175 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over grey cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild tanning, rubbing and marking.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. French flaps, jacket attached at the spine.Tears, creases, scuffing and dust spotting on cover and spine. Wear is mostly on the spine including a small peeling tear at the base.

Zustand: Good. 1962. Fifth Edition. 175 pages. Dust jacket over grey cloth. Clean pages with noticeable tanning to pastedowns. Tightly bound. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine and board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Mild rubbing and marking all over.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. COVER A LITTLE GRUBBY WITH MINOR CREASING AT THE EDGES. PAGES APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A VERY CLEAN EXAMPLE OF THIS HARD TO FIND BOOK.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. 158pp. Original green cloth with light blue spine titles. Covers with light shelf wear, otherwise very good indeed in a very good, slightly edge nicked, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some rubbing to ends of spine. Light bump to top corner of rear board. Narrow split to gutter between frontispiece and title leaf.; 215 pages + colour frontispiece + 35 plates (1 colour, 34 black-and-white) + folding black-and-white map. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 246 x 181mm. With a Preface by Harry H. Stileman. "In Part II the authoress gives from her own experience and observation a vivid description of mountains and plains of tropical foliage and wterless, barren scrub land which is most telling, culminating in her account of the asecent to the 19,000 ft. crater of Kibo." - from the Preface, page 8. East Africa, Anthropology.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A brightly illustrated interesting account of the Wachagga people of Kilimanjaro from Eva Stuart-Watt. Illustrated with a colour frontispice, thirty-five plates, numerous in-text images, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete, with loss to the folding map. The first descriptive history of the Wachagga people of Kilimanjaro, their evangelization, and a girl's pioneer climb to the carter of their 19,000 ft. snow shrine. Exploring the landscape surrounding the area and the origins of the tribe. Written by Eva Stuart Watt, an Irish missionary who lived in Africa for forty-three years before returning to Ireland. She wrote several books about her missionary endeavours. Dated from the British Library. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine as well as the board tips resulting in light fraying. Hinges starting but firm with front free endpaper lost. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. The odd small closed tear to the edges of the plates with loss to the folding map at the rear. Good. book.

8vo, pp. 215; with coloured frontispiece, 35 plates, and 1 folding map; a little foxing at fore-edge; very good in original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover lettered in bronze, original pictorial dust jacket; a little wear to extremities, some tears, small areas of loss and spotting to dust jacket.First edition. 'In Part II the authoress gives from her own experience and observation a vivid description of mountains and plains of tropical foliage and waterless, barren scrub land which is most telling, culminating in her account of the ascent to the 19,000 ft. crater of Kibo. The scene on the lip of the cauldron is dramatic, when one of her Chagga porters on viewing the mighty spectacle for the first time, broke the silence with: "This is the abode of God: there is no house is all the world clean except this one."' (p. 8).Neate S175.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart and interesting account of the Wachagga people of Kilimanjaro, with illustrations. Africa's Dome of Mystery comprises the first descriptive history of the Wachagga people of Kilimanjaro, their evangelisation and a girl's pioneer climb to the carter of their 19,000 ft. snow shrine.Written by Eva Stuart Watt who was brought up in East Africa. This volume explores her love of the land she was brought up in.With thirty six plates.Collated, complete.Dated from the preface. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some fading to the spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good. book.

their evangelization, and a girl's pioneer climb to the crater of their 19,000 ft. snow shrine. Preface by Rear-Admiral Sir H. H. Stileman, KBE. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B].

Preface by Rear-Admiral Sir H. H. Stileman, KBE. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1930 Cr.4to. 214pp. 36 plates, (2 in colour), folding map, glossary. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[ ].