john murray 1968 (16 Ergebnisse)

hardback, 8vo, 214pp, owner's initials on endpaper, page edges slightly browned, text clean and sound, Very Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper edges rubbed, not price-clipped. ISBN: 0719517974.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. paperback, 224pp, pages browned, especially the edges, text otherwise clean and sound, cover edges rubbed, spine creased, Good condition.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth, top edge green (light spotting on page edges - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (chipped at head of spine - in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. viii + 230, illus with frontispiece (front free endpaper toned; no inscriptions).

x+182pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, short tear to lower panel. Black and white photographic plates and maps. Booksellers sticker to front pastedown. A very good copy. First edition in English.

xxi, 316pp, 101 b&w illustrations and incl 32 text figs, bibliog. 23x15, cloth, illustrated dw. Very good copy in good dust wrapper. Important study of Hope (1769-1831) and his role in landscape design, furniture, architecture etc.

xvi, 156pp, many ills (photos, plans etc). Pictorial end papers. 24x18, cloth, illustrated dw. Good in somewhat tatty dust wrapper. Sensitive late Sharp townscape study and attractive book.

xvi, 289pp. Cloth, 22x15. Ex Science and Technology Lending Library copy, library marks on front end paper and title page only, very good copy.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original crimson paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, gilt sprig of holly to front. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 227 pp with monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Ex College library copy with Dewey number to spine, front cover of dust wrapper and front flap pasted to front paste down and free end paper and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH HISTORY.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Both Volumes Very Good in Good plus jackets with small chips at front edges and spines. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 245pp, slight browning, otherwise clean and sound, laid in is a handwritten letter from the author's god-daughter, with 3 pamphlets about Ouranoupolis and the Quaker Domestic Training School, Salonika. Very Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper edges slightly frayed with some peeling laminate, fold-in flap creased, not price-clipped. ISBN: 0719517826.

gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. Reissued by Singing Tree Press;. Die Bände befinden sich in einem gut erhaltenen Zustand. KOMPLETTPREIS für 3 Bände; Text in ENGLISCHER Sprache; Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2700.

2 volumes; 688+822pp. 4to. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a little worn. Endpaper maps, black & white illustrations. A very good set. Heavy book. Please contact seller direct for accurate overseas shipping charge. First UK edition.

Zustand: Good. - Octavo, 8-3/8 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in red cloth titled in gilt on the spine, laid into a pictorial dust wrapper. The dust jacket is rubbed, creased and chipped along the edges. ix, [1] & 345 pages illustrated with a double-page map, textual maps & 16 pages of photographs. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition.From the library of professional hunter Bill Ryan, signed by him on the first blank with his Nairobi address. In a tribute to Bill Ryan (c.1908-1985) in Gamecoin Magazine, Chuck Ennis writes of him: "Bill was one of Kenya's best liked and well-known professional hunters". Bill Ryan arrived in Kenya from South Africa when he was 11 years old. He quickly became a crack shot and an expert horseman. He spoke several African languages fluently. After serving in World war II h went into the saw milling business. In 1954 he took up professional hunting full time. He was eagerly sought after and escorted many celebrities throughout East Africa - including Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper Bing Crosby and others. During the last 14 years of his life he resided in Nairobi and Malindi with his dear friend "Bimbetta", the widow of Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, Virginia.

4to. IX, (3), 188 pp. With 24 black-and-white photographic prints and 2 sketch maps of the route (one double page). Original blue full cloth with white stamped spine-title. Original illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated account of exploration along the Incense Route in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, written by "probably the first woman to have made the journey" (blurb). A gift copy with an 1969 inscription to flyleaf: "To Fred with love & best wishes for many happy returns of your birthday from Mina". - The seventh book in Toy's famous travel series involving her Landrover Pollyanna - or 'the desert gazelle', as it came to be called - narrating how her plan to follow the Incense Route was fraught with a disabling combination of immense danger - crossing war-torn Yemen - and burdensome bureaucracy. Her first attempt to cross the Saudi Arabian border was foiled, but she was able to join a pilgrimage caravan and became a valued member of the group due to her first aid box. - Toy's fascinating travelogue describes the sights and sounds along the route, includes anecdotes of Bedouin fables, and compares the rapidly developing country with memories of her previous travels in the Middle East. It includes an account of the Hejaz railway, some sections of which Toy followed on her trip, as well as the railroad's history and the various attempts to re-establish it after the destruction caused by T. E. Lawrence and his men. - Dust jacket unclipped, slightly worn at extremities. Block edges slightly spotted. A fine copy of this important piece of travel literature by one of the first Westerners to visit Saudi Arabia. - OCLC 778317775.

orig.cloth. 16pp photoplates (illustrator). 22x14cm, x,345,(16)pp Contents: The First Rhodesians; Monomatapa; The Portuguese Conquest; Mzilikazi; The Second Christian Venture; Mr. Rhodes; The Pioneers; The Shangani Patrol; Rebellion; The Referendum; Epilogue. Rubbed. Good. In a frayed and rubbed dustwrapper., dustwrapper.

First edition, first impression. In this fascinating narrative, Toy outlines her journey tracing the incense route from Bir Ali to Damascus. She made the trip in her trusted Land Rover Pollyanna and by joining a pilgrimage caravan. Copies are uncommon in the dust jacket. Barbara Alex Toy (1908-2001) was an Australian-British travel writer and playwright famed for her dramatization of Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage - the first Miss Marple stage play. In 1950, she made a bet in London which launched an extensive travel career: "Miss Toy bought Pollyanna second-hand in London immediately after some friends had bet her she couldn't go to Baghdad, as she intended, because of thigh travel and currency restrictions. She accepted and won the bet by driving to Baghdad" (Australian Women's Weekly, p. 29). In The Highway of the three Kings, she travels from Aden through Yemen and Saudi Arabia, a particularly dangerous feat in view of the emergency in Aden and the Yemeni War. After a string of car troubles, she joins a lorry of pilgrims bound for Mecca. The lorry is held up by the desert sands and strays through a minefield, fortunately without calamity. Getting her Land Rover back, she then confronts the prohibition of woman drivers in Saudi Arabia, deciding to bypass Mecca and following the Hijaz Railway. She notes that the railway "has been out of commission since it was wrecked by Lawrence and the Arabs during the First World War. There is a strange mystique about railways and the various schemes put forth for their construction across the most remote and unlikely regions of the earth" (p. 134). Toy also travelled extensively in Libya, Kuwait, Sudan, and Algeria. She became one of the first women to explore Saudi Arabia in 1953, and in 1990, at the age of 81, Toy set off on her second world tour. She successfully completed a circumnavigation, and later made a trip across the Alps, retracing the steps of the journey made by Hannibal and his elephants. "A 'toy' on wheels", Australian Women's Weekly, 15 May 1957. Octavo. With 8 plates, and double-page map of Arabia. Original light blue buckram, spine lettered in white. With pictorial dust jacket. A few light marks to cloth; price-clipped jacket, bubbling of the laminate, edges rubbed: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.