tom lethbridge (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 150 pages. 8.50x5.43x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. 1980. First edition. Illustrated. Hardback with DW. Top and bottom edge of boards sunned. Wrapper worn and price-clipped. Small brown marks to page edges. Otherwise clean and sound.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the 1960s T. C. Lethbridge's challenging, probing studies were well established. First published in 1969, The Monkey's Tail was as remarkable as his previous investigations. Mr Lethbridge - who was trained in Natural Science before he became an archaeologist - had for years been unable to accept Darwin's theory of Evolution. In this book he examines the theory in the light of his observations and experience. He found it wanting in every particular which he examined.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Low (illustrator). First Edition. 59 pages. Features: Black-Out By-Election in Central Southwark; Women's Army for Britain - many great photos with article; How to Photograph a Beauty - photo-illustrated tips by Angus McBean; The Happy Knitters - Keswick women knit for troops; I Was a Worker in a German Arms Factory - article with photos of German war production; Match Fishing; A Girl Goes Cycling - nice photo feature on how ladies can cycle fashionably given the petrol shortage; Sweden's Gold - article with photos of mining in the town of Boliden; Diary of the War - No. 23 - The Twenty-First Week; No. 4 in the Series "How I Would Run the War" - How I would Use the Navy; Cartoon "Hungry Mouths" shows Goring feeding the mouths of heavy artillery while families look on; Where Are Our Leaders?; Match Fishing - photos of competitive fishermen; The History of Weapons, No. 6 - The Machine Gun. Nice Shredded Wheat ad on back cover. Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Small 3/8" chips at corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; This copy inscribed by the author and his wife Mina: "Martha G. L. Tottenham / from / Mina and Tom Lethbridge / Xmas. 1950". The inscription is possibly to Martha Georgina Loftus Tottenham (1864-1953). xix, [1], 146 pages + frontispiece. 27 in-text illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Top page edges dyed blue-green. Page dimensions: 184 x 123mm. With a 2 page Foreword by T. D. Kendrick, Director and Principal Library of the British Museum. Chapter titles: Introduction; The Earliest Men of the Islands; The Bronze Age; Men of the Brochs and Gallic Walls; Roman Interlude; Saxon, Scot and Pict; The Celts in Ireland; The Sea Road to Greenland; Norsemen and Eskimos in Greenland and America; The Crofting Culture; Notes; Short Bibliography. "Finally, I am writing the book with a background of personal experience, and am not like Strabo, who criticized Pytheas from the security of his library. I have crossed all the seas mentioned in it in ships of under a hundred tons burden, and have wandered on the shores of all the lands, except Wineland the Good." - from T. C. Lethbridge's Introduction, pp. xviii-xix. "It is a remarkable picture, this voyaging of Christian monks to the far north. The skin boat skimmed like a stormy petrel over the surface of the ocean. An endless succession of fulmars glided by and peered like owls into the men's faces." - p. 77.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.