Grenfell a g (13 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1971. Exploration, South Pacific. Dover Publications. Good paperback 292p. Minor edge wear otherwise text is tight and clean 11/24.

Zustand: Good. 1928. 4th Edition, Revised & Enlarged. 102 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. 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.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. p. 1- 176. Some articles: Long Beach earthquake; A recent survey in Little Tibet (40 pages, several b/w illustrations and a large coloured map of the Eastern Karakoram); white settlement in Saba Island, Dutch West Indies; the population of the Malay Peninsula; Murray River basin; An Eskimo discovery of an island North of Alaska; Discovery of a new sketch of Cape Hudson in the Antarctic; Altitude and location of Minya Konka; and other articles.…

Zustand: Fair. 1923. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Brown paper covered boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Liquid mark on back free endpaper. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor scuffing to edges and corners. Lettering is clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Boards are bowed. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Ex-academic library copy with stamps to front free endpaper and blind-stamps to front free endpaper and title-page. However, the contents are otherwise remarkably clean and unmarked, although slightly bumped at the lower outer edge. Rebound in plain black library buckram (sellotape mark across the spine and boards) with gilt lettering to spine. Please ask for photo(s) if there isn't an image of our copy. Priority orders will be dispatched by Royal Mail TRACKED 24 or courier (particularly if over 2kg). Standard mail will be dispatched by Royal Mail TRACKED 48 (up to 2kg), heavier items by courier . Overseas orders will be dispatched by Royal Mail International.Tracked. PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR MY PRIVACY POLICY.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine antique colour copy of a photographic portrait, printed in 1900. Very fine, fresh colours. An attractive and decorative portrait of an army celebrity, with autobiographical details.

1st edn. Tall 8vo (10 x 7 ins). Rebound in recent gilt tooled red half morocco, top edge gilt (Fine). Pp. xiii + 311, , illus with b&w photos and maps (small tear at bottom edge of pp. xiii - 4; no inscriptions).

82pp. 1st ed., very fine in original card covers.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains (xv), 241 pp, 3 folding maps and 4 in-text maps. Light rubbing to the covers, else in Very Good condition. From the private library of artist and military author Cecil Constant Philip Lawson and SIGNED by him opposite the title page 'Cecil C. P. Lawson - 2 rue Cassini, Paris.' Housed in paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 303-396 plus 28 pages of ads, many wonderfully illustrated. Numerous black and white illustrations and photos in text. Features: Saved by Two Inches - How a big-horn sheep brought a veteran hunter to the verge of destruction in Montana; Gun-Running with Mexican Outlaw Emiliano Zapata - article with great photos; A Terrible Trip - Gold Searching in German New Guinea; Twenty Years in Newfoundland (Part II) - article with nice photos; Fishermen's Luck - a story from New Zealand involving T. Colthart, H. Hewlett and D.G. FitzGibbon; Across the Andes and Down the Amazon - the story of an adventurous journey (part II); The Well of Skulls - a story from Hyderabad; The Lake of Life - the Idiong secret society in Africa; The King Who Met His Match - a story from Sierra Leone; Trapped in a Tank (cover illustration); Captured by the Monkey-Men - an explorer's tale from the Orinoco River; The Smugglers of Gibraltar; Pete the Pup - an adventurous dog in New Mexico. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Minor chipping to back strip. Three inch opening between front cover and base of spine. Overall a pleasing copy of this wonderful vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Barr, William; Dunn, H.H.; Nicholls, G. HeatonGrenfell, Wilfred T.; Fagan, D.W.O.; Pratt, A.E.; Burton, Colonel R.G.; Talbot, P. Amaury; Blake, Harry M.; Guinand, W.B.; Villepion, Guy De; Barracliffe, Captain James The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine f. Illustrated by Evison, G. Henry; Robinson, Wyndham P.; Wigfull, W.E.;Somerfield, Thomas; Peddie, Tom; Holmes, Fred; Burton, H.M. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part II - Tragedy befalls French troops overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; The Disappearance of Ivan Varlamoff - an epic fight in Uleaborg, Finland; Locked in a Freezing Chamber - a meat inspector's ordeal in South Africa; "UMRI" - the tragic story of a panther, once a police officer's pet, which becomes a terror of the district in India; The "White Man's Grave" - Filming The "Gold Coast" of Africa - article with great photos; The Friend of the Birds - photo-illustrated article on Jack Miner, Ontario's friend of the Canada Goose; My Jiu-Jitsu Combats - Captain S.L. McLaglen is a Jiu-Jitsu expert; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part III - an exciting trip to the "Mysterious Richtersveld" of Southern Africa - article with photos; Adrift in the Atlantic - Grenfell of Labrador sets down a remarkable experience related by a former engineer of his; A Man's Luck (conclusion) - the author met the girl of his dreams and tried to build a dream home for them in Alaska, but he keeps being jailed; A Film-Hunter in the Amazon - Part V - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies - article with excellent photos; The "King of the Brushwood" - the brigand chief of Corsica; Roping a Bear - foolish youngster ropes a cinnamon bear; A Barbed Wire Frontier - people not allowed to pass between Hungary and Czechoslovakia; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3] 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. de Walton, John; Robinson, T.H.; Whitaker, W.G.; Reynolds, Warwick; Prater, Ernest; Wigfull, W.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Small, A.G. (illustrator).…

First Edition. With the bookplate of Major-General Neil McMICKING, CB, CBE, DSO, MC of the Black Watch to the front pastedown. Bookplate ad ownership inscription of modern owner to verso of half title. Nice association copy. Spine faded and mottled otherwise VG\n.

London 1906-1955. 4to. 2 vols. xiv,410-xiv,187 pp. With 14 plates. Orig.half-cloth (Egypt Exploration Soc.).