Olive murray chapman (20 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1941. Reprint. 193 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed.…

Zustand: Good. 1941. Reprinted. 193 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription and ink mark to front pastedown and endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bu…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Fourth printing of Murrays' well illustrated Icelandic travelogue, with new introduction. Spotting to edge of block but this rarely intruding onto pages which are clean and bright. Green boards with red titling, faded to front and spine. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Chur…

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book. Lacking d…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1945 hardback, lacks dustjacket produced to war economy standard. Contains fold out map to front showing author's route across the length and breadth of the island "by car, cycle, mule or foot" , also several period photos showing locals in traditional dress. Interior very clean with no…

Printed Wrappers. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine Dustjacket. First Penguin Edition, First Printing. First Penguin printing, 1939, #226. From the collection of Ian Ballantine, who was the American representative of Penguin Books prior to his founding of Ballantine Books in 1952. Each book from the Ballantin…

Zustand: Good. Third impression (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 254pp. Colour frontispiece, b&w plates, folding map. Original green cloth, no dustwrapper. The rear board is somewhat rubbed, there is some foxing to the edges of the text block, ownership inscriptions to the front endpapers, and light creasing to the foldong map.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bookplate tipped in on the front inner board by Ian Mackenzie. Complete with all illustrations. No date stated c1942. Publication of 144 pages. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is foxing on the early and last few pages. Internally there are minor crease…

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Light foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xi, 183 pages : illustrations (map) plates ; 18 cm. Subjects; Sami (European people). Samis. Sami. Travel. Lapland De…

8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 212, [4]ads. 1 map, frontis. portrait, 7 (of 8) colour plates after water-colour drawings by the author, & 61 b/w illus. on 39 plates after Chapman's photographs. index. cloth. A nice copy in dw. (edges of dw. trifle worn). First Edition. In the foreword Chapman states that she undertook her journey to study t…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. A fascinating travel text about Iceland. his is the new 'cheap edition' of this text, printed eleven years after the first edition. Illustrated, with thirteen photographs over twelve plates. Written by Olive Murray Chapman, an individual described as a 'de…

First Edition. Account of Iceland in the years between the world wars, illustrated with 8 beautiful watercolours. With a gift inscription from the author to the Arctic traveller and filmmaker Isobel Wylie Hutchinson. Tipped in is a letter to Hutchinson "A fellow lover of Iceland" discussing the book and the illustrations. Fronti…