Evans captain e r g r (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Faiir. 1st edition. 326pp, small octavo, blue cloth, front and rear hinges are split, owner's name, no marks to the pages, boards mildly worn with soiled edges, spine fade, worn spine ends, toned endpapers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 244pp bound in the Publisher's faded blue cloth starting to split at the spine. Coloured frontis. and many photographs. Clean internally and unmarked with no inscription. Undated but 1930's. Thick 8vo. Black & White photographs (illustrator).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 8vo. pp. [16]; map of Antarctica to title, 8 photo. illusts., very good in original printed grey wrappers, photographic portrait of Scott mounted to upper cover, the portrait a little creased, previous owner's inscription inside front wrapper. On his return from the British Antarctic Expedition led by Scott, Commander Evans, the expedition's second-in-command, was placed temporarily on half-duties by his Navy superiors. During this time, he commenced a series of lectures around Britain in response to the huge interest the expedition had generated. The present pamphlet, printed as a souvenir for the series, includes 4pp. of text relating basic details of Scott's life and achievements and 3pp. extracted from the Daily Telegraph's leading article for Feb. 11th 1913, with a long discussion of Scott's impact.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt stamped title and author lettering to the spine (dulled) and to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains portrait frontispiece, 327 pp with 15 full-page monochrome archive photographs throughout. Rubbing to the boards, contents in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. FIRST WORLD (Great) WAR. …

hardback, large 8vo, xiv,284pp, 6pp adverts, portrait frontis., diagram, 3 maps, foxing on page edges, title page, frontis. and prelims, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth, corners bumped, Good condition, in Fair dustwrapper, wrapper browning, rubbed and edges frayed, some larger tears in several places but with only minor losses.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Story of John Jewitt - A young Englishman is taken as a slave by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island; The Children of the Wilderness - Part I - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated journey in little-known Mongolia; Winning a Wife - An incident involving an Englishman in Tirah; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-Out - Part I - The conclusion of Frederick C. Glass's adventures on a little-known Brazilian river; The Sea Devil - An extraordinary six-hour battle with a huge West Indian manta, or ray; Where the gold went - Charles Siringo describes the pursuit of two men who had robbed the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska; The Cannibal Islands - Part I - Clifford W. Collinson has spent several years in the Solomon Islands - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees (conclusion) - a couple with a donkey cart set out to explore the area without any modern luxuries; My Motor-Boat - what happend when a man tried to run a second-hand boat he purchased; How We Killed the "Rat" - a scheme to kill an intruding rat goes sadly wrong; A Woman in Unknown Albania (conclusion) - Rose Wilder Lane explores the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish; A Lonely Job - a young ship's officer acts as caretaker of a vessel wrecked off the Australian coast; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World magazine, August 1923, Maquinna, Nootka, Slaves, John Jewitt, Prisoner, Slave, Maquinna, Nuu-chah-nulth, Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, The Children of the Wilderness, Juliet Bredon, Mongolia, Winning a Wife, Tirah, Araguaya River, Down the. Illustrated by Skelton, J.R.; Robinson, T.H.; Nicholson, W.C.; Cleaver,Reginald; Hiley, G.E.; Hall, Tom; Woodville, R. Caton; Carruthers, G.P. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 84 pages. Features: Nice mini-golf cover illustration; Heinz vinegar and olive oil colour ad inside front cover; Nice vintage full-page photo ad for Clark's Tomato Ketchup features grocer behind counter speaking with lady customer dressed in contemporary fashion; Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late J.Pierpont Morgan - discusses modern women - ad with photo of Miss Morgan as part of Pond's ad; Some Truths about Wheat - W.W. Swanson argues that there has been no "foolish overproduction of wheat"; Backstage at Ottawa; The Dark Road (fiction); Pigeons on Patrol - the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force pigeon service whose winged messengers have pulled many a pilot out of a tight hole; The Hyams Twins Case - Did the Hyams brothers kill Willie Wells in Toronto in 1893?; Barry's Clarissa (fiction); The Silver Scale (fiction); Patrick "Pat" Burns - One of the West's Dominant Business Figures; Bonds of Danger - the story of "Surge" the steelhead; Canadians in Hollywood - great article with five nice photos of stars Fifi Dorsay, Walter Huston, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer (photo of Pauline Garon appears later); The Devil in the Jade - a strange tale of mysterious Burma; The Western Mennonites - a graphic description of life among a group of New Canadians now in the throes of the conflict between orthodoxy and modernism - with photos; Sir Oswald Mosley and his New Party cause stir in Britain; Nice full-page photo ad for Kraft cheese and Velveeta; Nice full-page ad for the Chrysler Eight De Luxe; Nice full-page illustrated ad for REO speed wagons and trucks; The Brome Lake Duck Farm of Knowlton, Quebec - article with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Swift's bacon; Great colour full-page art deco ad for Calay soap; Full-page illustrated ad for Studebaker Trucks features a 2-ton model for $1125; Nice photo ad for Spud cigarettes features a pilot lighting up; Fashionable full-page ad for Penmans new silk hosiery; Excellent full-page colour ad for International Harvester commemorates the centennial of the McCormick reaper; Nice colour full-page ad for Keen's mustard; Woodward's "Gripe Water" ad; Excellent two-colour full-page ad for Dodge Trucks shows row of trucks backed up to loading gates; Nice full-page two-colour ad for the book Murder at Belly Butte; Humour; Nice full-page ad for the Graham Prosperity Six car; Lux soap ad features photos of Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Mary Brian, Lillian Roth, and William Powell; Hot weather supper dishes - recipes; Nuce full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Convertible Cabriolet; Outdoor furniture; Colour ad for Parker pens on back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent issue. Sambrook, Russell: Cover Art; Grassick, C.A.; Shreve, Carl; Dinsmore, E.J.; Chambers, W.V.; Summers, Dudley Gloyne; Sellen, H.E.M.; McCrea, H.W. (illustrator).…

First edition. Octavo. pp xiv, 284. Diagram and three maps. Six pages of adverts at rear. Original blue cloth lettered in red. Ironically, it was a life-threatening illness which prevented Evans from suffering the same fate as the other members of the expedition.Free endpapers partially tanned. Prelims spotted. Very good indeed in the rare dustwrapper which is slightly rubbed with several nicks and small chips. …