stewart blacker (25 Ergebnisse)

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

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Robert M. McBride & Company January 1934 Binding: Hardcover NO DJ.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by National Travel Club, 1934. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with toning to the pages throughout, and the previous owners name and address on the rear pastedown. No dust jacket. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Writing inside. Owner's name on front endpage. (travel, exploration, aviation).

Ganzleinen, 8°, 299 S., 1.-5. Auflage, mit einem Vorwort von John Buchan, einem Bericht über die Verfilmung des Fluges von Geoffrey Barkas, sowie 46 Flugbildern und 6 Karten, Plänen und Tabellen Rücken etwas ausgeblichen, sonst guter Zustand.

Ca. 22,5 x 15,5 cm. 299 (5) Seiten, mit 46 Flugbilder auf Tafeln, 6 Karten, Plänen und Tabellen. Türkisfarbener Original-Leinenband mit Kopffarbschnitt. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Aus dem Englischen übertragen von Peter Wit. Schönes Exemplar.

frontispiece and 18 two sided photo plates, photo endpapers. (illustrator). First edition, 8vo (9.5 x 6.25 inches), pp. (1-8), 9-264, frontispiece and 18 two sided photo plates, photo endpapers. Original white cloth with pictorial gold medallion on the upper side. Near fine with slight wear to edges and extremitied. Sheets and plates clean, unmarked, complete. No owner names or inscriptions. H11196 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 2 to 5 days of cleared payment. The estimated shipping times and estimated arrival dates given in the listing are not provided by us and are usually wrong or very misleading. We do not pay for any foreign taxes or customs duties and have no information about them. These are the responsibility of the buyer. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. first edition as stated. 7 x 10 in. 264 pp. Gray cloth boards with gilt medallion. Photo endpapers. Lavish B&W photo plates. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean but front board has some foxing/toning at edges. Spine mildly toned. Corners and spine ends bumped, minimal shelf wear. Binding tight. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Text clean and unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; very clean, toning to edges and spine, large chips at front upper corner and spine head. Not clipped ($3.50) In a new Mylar wrapper. Expl. RGR.

2467 pages, Orig. cloth bindung with protective cover signs of using.

Original-Pappband. Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Gut. gr8 Original-Pappband en xii, 206 pp. Schutzumschlag: Gut.

Cloth. Zustand: Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None. Reprint. With a foreword by John Buchan and an account of the filming of the flight by Geoffrey Barkas. With 57 illustrations from photographs, diagrams and maps. Navy cloth, red titles to spine. Reprint in same month as first edition. 279 pages. Colour fading to covers with some wear to extremities of spine. Complete with spectacles to view anaglyph between pages 222 and 223. . ("Anaglyph will appear in stereoscopic relief when it is seen through the viewing spectacles contained inside the back cover of this book.") Ownership decorative initial "P" and other ownership details in copperplate on front endpaper.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. No Jacket. Cheap Edition. 8vo. original blue cloth (a little rubbed & sunned with a few marks to boards, extremities slightly bumped, prev. owner's name to upper pastedown, spotting to leaf edges and endpapers; blub from rear jacket flap loosely enclosed, otherwise lacks dustwrapper); pp. xviii, 280 [last blank], [4 (pubs. advts.)], with 33 illustrations + endpaper maps. [Neate F17: This first flight over the summit of Everest, and film record, was a considerable achievement and a most dangerous undertaking].

Cheap Edition: Hardback, blue bds., red titles, 165 x 240 mm., 900g., 279 pp., with Index, Appendix + adverts, Foreward by John Buchan and an Account of the Filming of the Flight by Geoffrey Barkas, illustrated with photographs, diagrams and maps, some double-page, diagram feps. and map reps., original, photographic, unclipped dw., some chipping and creasing to crns. and edges, G/VG copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, 279; port. frontis. of Lady Houston, 64 photo. illusts. including "An Anaglyph from Vertical Photographs Taken Over Everest. Made to Appear in Stereoscopic Relief" (with accompanying 3-D spectacles in pocket at rear), 3 double-page photo. panoramas, maps inc. 2 folding, one folding table; very good in the navy cloth, lettered in red, in original d.-w., which is worn with some loss to head of spine with, loosely inserted, a letter from expedition member L. V. S. Blacker relating to the production in 1950 of a map of the Everest region. The first, and successful, flight over Everest using two Westland P.V. 3 aircraft. The superb images were later to provide information for the successful southern approach to and ascent of Everest in 1953. This copy contains a letter from expedition member L. V. Stewart Blacker to Ian Mumford, then at the Cartographic Department of the RGS, who at this time was working with Michael Ward to produce a map of the southern approaches to Mount Everest, based on photographs taken on Blacker's flight over Everest. Signed by Author(s).

299 Seiten mit 46 Flugbildern, 6 Karten, Plänen, Tabellen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 740 Gr.-8°, Originalganzleinenband.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original blindstamped blue cloth (rubbed & sunned with a few marks to boards, extremities a little nicked, prev. owner's name to upper pastedown; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xx [last blank], 280 [last blank], with 62 illustrations, maps & diagrams & 3-D glasses in rear pocket. Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. [Neate F17: This first flight over the summit of Everest, and film record, was a considerable achievement and a most dangerous undertaking].

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The fourth impression of this exciting account of the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition in 1933, with illustrations throughout, and with 3D glasses. The fourth impression of this work, published in the same year as the first impression.Illustrated with frontispiece and fifty-six plates from photographs, diagrams, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. Viewing glasses for looking at the three dimensional photographs in rear pocket.A detailed account of the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition of 1933, with reference to technical planning, oxygen, strategy, tactics, objectives, and much more. Written by Air Commander P. F. M. Fellowes, L. V. Stewart Blacker, Colonel P. T. Etherton, Squadron Leader the Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading to back strip, and board perimeters. Fraying to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Leinenband. Zustand: Gut. 279 S., Gr.8°, Ln., Rücken gebleicht.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG-. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo. original blue cloth gilt (rubbed & bumped, ex-Victorian Railways Institute Library with RSMs & bookplate, some spotting & marking, faint number to spine; lacks dustwrapper); pp. x (last blank), 308 (last colophon), with 2 illustrations & endpaper map. A good copy of an uncommon work. The Imperial War Museum identifies the author as L.V. Stewart Blacker, who was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1907, serving on the Western Front in WWI, as well as Afghanistan, Russia, Persia and Turkistan.

Large octavo, original blue cloth; xx, 280 pp., portrait frontispiece, numerous maps and plates, stereoscopic glasses (see further details of collation provided below). Cloth a bit rubbed and dulled with moderate localised stain affecting the backstrip, slight preliminary foxing. A very good copy, internally quite fresh and pleasing. First edition of one of the great aviation books, describing the bold plan to map Mount Everest from the air. This copy includes the stereoscopic plate and glasses, providing a three dimensional rendition of the mountain. In his foreword, John Buchan summarises the outcome of the expedition as such: 'The first purpose was to put Everest and the untrodden ground south of it on the map. There could, of course, be no hope of producing a complete map of so big an area; for that many flights would have been needed. What was obtained from the two flights was a series of survey strips, based upon vertical photographs. Thus the experts were able to piece together a map strip some twenty miles long and something under two miles wide, culminating in the summit of Everest It was not expected that the flights would reveal any startling new geographical features, but two glaciers, hitherto unknown, have been discovered, and a small high-level lake, which may possibly be hot water.' This book is often encountered missing some plates and the stereoscopic glasses. However, the present copy is collated and complete, as follows: frontispiece, 36 plates (including the stereoscopic plate printed in colour), five double page panoramic photo plates, three folding maps and diagrams. The stereoscopic glasses are also present and well preserved in the sleeve attached to the rear pastedown endpaper. Importantly, the two printed tissue guards overlaying plates facing pages 32 and 58 are extant and well preserved. This copy also includes an additional map which is not listed in the contents of the book. This is a single page map facing page 219 titled "Diagram of portion of Everest flight". And for further clarification, the technical diagram of the Eagle III Williamson camera is included in the letterpress pagination (although it is not listed in the contents).

First edition. Blacker's account of service with the Guides in Persia, Afghanistan, Transcaspia, Ferghana, and Sinkiang is rarely found in such sharp condition. "This is a tale of strange post-war happenings on the far frontiers of Persia and Turkestan which for high adventure and hairbreadth episodes would have delighted the heart of Charles Lever -whilst retaining all the advantage of historical accuracy. Told in the language of the modern British officer, which, if not classical, is at least picturesque and sometimes most expressive, it deals with the progress of a detachment of Guides projected into that amazing theatre of confused military and political action, after the Armistice, which we know as Central Asia" (Holdich, p. 247). This sentiment is echoed in Younghusband's introduction: "With the true Guides spirit [Blacker] started on a series of hazardous services which were prolonged over three years, and during which he and his patrol covered very nearly 10,000 miles on foot or on horseback During their patrol the Guides came into the vortex of wonderful exploits hidden from view by the absorbing events in the theatre of war nearer home. Of these none are greater than those of the 19th Punjabis and 28th Light Cavalry who defeated in battle some 10,000 Bolsheviks, and established the fear of God and of British-led Indian soldiers throughout several thousand square miles of Asia Those who wish to read an enthralling tale of endurance, courage, and adventure cannot do better than follow Captain Blacker and his gallant Guides on their secret patrol". After education at Sandhurst, Blacker (1887-1964) followed his father into the Indian Army but in 1914 transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and was shot down and seriously wounded on several occasions. "After the war he decided to concentrate on developing special weapons at his own expense without help from the services" and during the Second World War "complete with eyeglass and leggings, approached everyone he knew at the War Office to do something about them" (ODNB). Perhaps the most important development of a Blacker brainwave was that highly successful anti-tank weapon, the PIAT. Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich, review, Journal of the Central Asian Society, Vol. IX, 1922. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece and 27 illustrations on 15 plates, folding route map and large coloured folding regional map; terminal advertisement leaf. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, Guides badge gilt to front cover. Ownership inscription at head of title page (offsetting to frontispiece) of Hubert Carpenter Bristowe MD (1864-1945). Spine sunned, foxing to edges of text block and scattered internally, closed tear to stub of large folding map: an exceptional copy.