gibbon reginald (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Broken Moon Press 1994-12-01 00:00:00 Binding: Hardcover NF. in NF dj SIGNED & insc by author; dj in mylar 421. 1stde pb edition. 8vo $NRP.

Zustand: Fair. 1939. No edition remarks. 696 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Black and white fold-out frontispiece. A fold-out colour map at rear. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xxii, 696pp; various black and white photographic plates, in-text illustrations, colour fold-out map in rear. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt design on front and gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends, cloth worn through at bottom corners. Text block edges starting to tan; text block dropped, volume loose. Lender's stamps and markings on front endpapers and copyright page. Otherwise internally neat, clean and bright.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Brunswick green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, London gilt coat of arms to the front cover, top edge gilt. 8vo. 9'' x 6¼''. Contains tissue-guarded triptych fold-out frontispiece, (xxi), 696 pp with many monochrome illustrations and archive photographs on loaded paper and text illustrations throughout, large folding colour map to the rear. From Conservative Party Office Room 140a with a small white paper label to this effect to the front paste down. In very near Fine condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LONDON (Londinium).

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Tresilian, S.; Robinson, T.H.; Wenban, R.; Bestall, A.E.; Holloway, Cyril; Cleaver, Reginald; Peddie, T.H.; Goss, G.W.; Inns, Kenneth; Prater, Ernest; Abbey, S.; (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Our Wild Boar - Coolies were afraid to work on a tea plantation in Assam, India due to a huge wild boar; Two Mysteries - Two strange incidents that happened in a North Country hospital during WWI; Bred in the Bone - What happened to an Australian aborigine couple who offended their tribal elders; Photo of an excellent example of French topiary; Round the World in a "Baby" Car - Part II (of II) of Gladys de Havilland's world-tour in a midget car, with photo of her in Hollywood talking to Mr. Lupino Lane plus five other wonderful photos; The Forbidden Valley - The fascinating photo-illustrated account of how RCMP officers Horsfield, Berger, and Greenfield accompanied a surveyor sent to the Kitwancool Valley in Northern British Columbia where the local natives had previously evicted the few settlers, wanting nothing to do with the white man - with photos and illustrations; the "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part V - John Gibbons continues his amusing walking trip; Photo and explanation of "Sati" memorials in India, where wives were burnt in the same funeral pyre as their deceased husbands; The Haunting of the "Flamingo" - Bad luck strikes a vessel named Flamingo after her third engineer takes a shot at an albatross; Filming in the Wilds - Part II - Major C. Lestock Reid and his film crew experience major adventures as they attempt to film an adventure story in Siam - with photos; The Brand of the "Circle H" - A charming little story from the far west by Edith Ammons Kohl; Payment in Kind - A curious tale from Western India; The Mystery of the Post - Sergeant A.R. Cooper of the French Foreign Legion is sent to a lonely Moroccon outpost where N.C.O.s have been murdered - with photos; My Island Home - Henry G. Lamond describes his idyllic life on Homestead Bay on South Molle Island - article with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue.