olive murray chapman (21 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. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Considerable water marks to edges and corners.

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 Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 193pp.

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 bumping. Split to bottom edge of spin with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket is in two parts and has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to front panel. Foxing overall.

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 writing, marks or tears and all pages tight in binding, covers clean and unscuffed.

Printed Wrappers. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine Dustjacket. Photographs Throughout (illustrator). 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 Ballantine collection comes with a loose card indicating it is from the library of Ian and Betty Ballantine. Book is fine, no wear or fading. DJ price clipped, light wear and very small chip at head of spine, light brownig to spine, tiny loss near bottom of front flap fold.

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. Overall, this book is in good condition.

Zustand: Good. Reprint. Boards are clean. Content is clean with spotting on the outer edge pages. Good DJ with some tears, toning and marks.

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 creases and the pages are slightly wavy. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Zustand: New.

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Boards stained. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 144 pages: illustrations, 1 map; 19 cm. Subjects: Madagascar Description and travel. Madagascar Manners and customs. 1 Kg.

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 Description and travel. Europe Lapland. 3 Kg.

1st Ed. [xii] + 193pp. + [i] publ. advert. 12 ills., sketch map. From the Library of Ann Savours Shirley, some light browning, prize bookplate, inscription, original red lettered turquoise cloth, foxed d/w. chipped with loss to edges. US$37.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. 255pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine titles. Light foxing to fore-edge otherwise very good indeed. No dust jacket. 1937 1st edition.

N.Y., 1932. 212 pp. Ills. Hardcover - Spine faded & top sl. worn.

Zustand: Good. Tanning/marks/scuffs/tears to dustjacket. Tanning to cover. Dark tanning to pages & some creases at corners. Text good.

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 the life of the Lapps under winter conditions and to obtain a pictorial record by means of sketches, photographs, and a cinematograph film of the people and their customs, and especially of the famous Lapp Market at Bossekop at the beginning of March, and of the Easter Festival at Karasjok, near the border of Northern Finland.

Illustr., XIV, 212 pages Orig. cloth binding With signature of the Author on the title: "Olive Murra Chapman. Nov. 27, 1933." little foxing, ex libirs.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. None (illustrator). 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 'determined English lady traveller'. Chapman was inspired to travel following the death of her husband during the First World War. She decided that instead of remarrying she would see the world and document her travels. Across Iceland was her first book, and following this she went on to write books on Cyprus and Madagascar. This book gives an insight into the life and conditions of Iceland in the early 20th century. It discusses the advance towards civilisation, the people Chapman met in addition to a reflection on the natural features and history of the island. In original green cloth binding held in original dustwrapper. Externally, very smart with some bumping to the head and tail of spine. Spine has faded slightly. Dustwrapper is excellent with minor shelfwear, though is rather age toned. Prior owner's inscription to front pastedown, Ex Libris A E Tydenian Major RME Reykjavik 1944. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age toned, particularly to the edges, and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed. book.