Leonard handley (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1933. 267 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Octavo. 254 [1], 32 (ads) pp. Cat stamp on front fly. Binding cocked with a ring stain on the lower board and lower shoulder splitting, some internal foxing, good only. Uncommon travelogue with over 30 pages of publisher's ads in the rear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Undated, circa 1939. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. xv, 265pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Covers lightly used with faint fading to spine, slight foxing to fore-edge otherwise very good indeed. No jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st edition, published in 1933. Hardback, navy blue cloth boards, with title to spine. Title on spine heavily worn and only partially visible. Some evidence of rubbing and occasional scuff to boards. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, also small address sticker and address stamp. No annotations or pen markings present. Light tanning to pages. Front and rear gutters are a little cracked / torn, but binding seems sound.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1933). 1933 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 221mm). Ppxvi,268,ii[ads]. B/w photograph plates, illustrations, end-papers maps showing India, Burma and the Malay Peninsula. Slight use and wear to cloth, hinges tender, slight foxing. Reading copy. Major Handley describes two decades of big game hunting and observations of his surroundings, in India, Burma, the Mergui archipelago, and Malaya. "The knowledge and experience of twenty-two years are [here]; and the yearning desire to express them. But the ink was wrung from my infacile pen, even as the blood drops from the brow of a martyr. .I have striven to depart from the normal account of indiscriminate slaughter, and the incredibly dismal unfolding of the correct paraphernalia, and methods, necessary to outwit the jungle denizens. Striven to interest not only the tyro - eager to absorb jungle lore - but to inflame the average, out-door-loving reader with the glamour and romance of these vast green silences." Slightly over-written (see preceding quote) but nevertheless engaging and interesting. Chapters include: 'Jungle wise'; Gondia - the mhowa-scented valleys of laughter; Smoke in the wind; Through the Mergui archipelago to farthest Tenasserim; The man-eater of Danauli; Tanoy, Siamese; Another point of view; The great blue hills of Ranga. . …

Cloth, Hardcover. Zustand: Good Plus. No Jacket. The author states that he has striven to depart from the normal account of indiscriminate slaughter, and the incredibly dismal unfolding of the correct paraphernalia, and methods, necessary to outwit the jungle denizens. Striven ti interest not only the tyro - eager to absorb jungle lore - but to inflamr the average, out-door loving reader with the glamour and romance of these vast green silences, where only man is vile. xiv, 267pp+2. Illustrated with black and white plates and a colour frontis. Maps to end papers. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed otherwise very good. Size: 220x140mm.…