Smurthwaite, DavidMareMagnum
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Ex-library copy with usual (minimal) marks and stamps, to front end paper and title page only. The book would otherwise be classed as 'near fine'. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of handling and storage. 208pp. A fascinating narrative brings to life the war between the Boers of South Africa's Transvaal and the British Army and it heralded the end of the Empire. With over 200 colour and black & white photographs. Scarce in the UK.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 3 maps in red and black (one folding); handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sold from an institution with its small blind stamp on title. Published in The Pioneer Histories series. Hosken, p.212.
Features/Photos include: Full-page photo of the German Imperial Family; Boer War drawings, including some from the Boer side; Photo of Wepener, Orange Free State, Lately Besieged by the Boers. Average wear. Unmarked. Some moisture exposure. Sound copy. Book
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos and illustrations include: The Prince of Wales inspecting the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, Honour Roll with 16 photos, Some of our losses at Rensburg and Spion Kop, With General Buller's Column at Frere (8 photos), British Boers - Dutchmen in Yorkshire, The Hampshire Imperial Yeomanry, Boers looting a wrecked British Store-Train, The Battlefield of Colenso, Field Telegraphy, General French's Advance on Colesberg, Sir Redvers Buller's Transport Wagons Crossing the Veldt (centerfold), 2-page illustration of a Ladies' Fan-Race (laid in), one-page photos of Major-General N.G. Lyttelton and Major-General E.R.P. Woodgate (laid in). Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
2026x-9048562511Routledge 2026. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.45 inches. Routledge hardcover
1994Q-1565630114Hendrickson Pub 1994-11-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Hendrickson Pub hardcover
199440096Peabody: Hendrickson Publishing 1994. Hardcover. Very good. xvii 310pp indices. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Hendrickson Publishing hardcover books
72 pages. Features: Cover photo of George Meany; The Five Warring Tribes of South Africa - photo-illustrated article by James Michener discusses the Afrikaners, English, Asiatics, 'Coloureds' (of mixed heredity) and the black Bantu; Photo-illustrated article on Prince Sihanouk, head of a Cambodian government-in-exile in China; George Meany's Way isn't President Nixon's; In the Matter of H. Bruce Franklin - the very model of a modern militant radical and - until this month - a tenured professor of English at genteel Stanford University; One-page ad for Gold Key Lake Estates; Ad for the Garrard Zero 100 turntable features inset photo of Emile Berliner; Charming centerfold illustrated ad for Health-tex clothing; Fashion photos featuring ruffles and Taffeta; Geometric Mansion - photos of a Richard Meier designed modern mansion; Lovely color fashion photos; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, double-page facsimile and 2 large folding maps on japon; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presention. The original South African edition, published by Constable, was published a year before the standard trade edition.
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to pages and minor bumping to upper rear corner. 376pp. An attempt to understand the Afrikaner philosophy, being a plan from the radical Right, as it was set up in apartheid times in South Africa and how its roots came from the ancient Calvinist and Huguenot societies.
2003Q-1557253250Paraclete Pr 2003-04-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Paraclete Pr paperback
2007Q-0830835075IVP Books 2007-08-02. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! IVP Books paperback
Pages 290-380 pages plus 36 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver" which shot its men from its torpedo tubes! (per cover illustration); The Fetish Man's Downfall - a tale from Accra in 1899 involving prisoner Yao Dwirra; Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line - marvelously photo-illustrated article about the engineering and scientific wonders of the first phone line connecting New York to San Francisco; "Black Tom" - an exciting story from the early days of the Pennsylvania oil-fields; "On the Wing" - extraordinary adventure with a big rattlesnake in southern Mississippi; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth (part V) - incredible tales of a party working its way through hostile svages and the forces of nature; The Train-Robbers - the tragic story of a hold-up on the Northern Pacific Railroad and the long man-hunt which followed, 1892-1894; Wicks's Ordeal - the terrible menace which a man-eating tiger constitutes to a community; Two Girls on a Ranch (part II) - two young ladies try to win fortune by running a ranch in the wilds of Arizona; The Secret Post Office - an amusing echo of the Boer War showing how the well-known 'slimness' and fertility of resource of the Boers were for once turned against them; Concerning Camels - some amusing stories; A South Pacific Piracy - an account of the tragic voyage of the brig "Moa," of Auckland, New Zealand in 1870; The beacon of the Gulf - photo-illustrated article on Bird Rock, which lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Photo of a 'home-made' train run on the only railway in British North Borneo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
100 Pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Features: The Crusader's Ghost a tale from Manorbier, a village in Pembrokeshire; The Ice-Harvest of Norway - *fascinating* article and many descriptive photos explain how large blocks of ice are produced and transported to London for sale; Twenty Dreadful Days - Captain W.H. Derard's vessel, the "Siddartha" was dismasted in the Atlantic; Through the Land of Witchcraft - Part 3 - "Ju-Ju" in remote bush districts of West Africa; How We Saved the Team - an Australian teamster saves his runaway bullocks as they hang over a precipice; Paid in Full - Captain G.D. Haigh was captured and mistreated by Boers but he escaped and brought justice to his former captors; Our Trip to the Cedars of Lebanon - *magnificently* photo-illustrated article; The Hunted Hunters - While chasing a French-Canadian lumberman/murderer the pursuers are hunted by wolves!; Stopping a Runaway Engine; Across the Congo - Part 4 - photo-illustrated article describing the 3,500 mile journey of Marguerite Roby from Boma to Elizabethville; The "Beast-Man" - John Tornow vowed a vendetta against the entire human race in the Chehalis County area of Washington state; A Wanderer in Sicily - wonderful travel article with many great photos; School-Teaching in the West - wild times at a mixed composition school at Beaver Creek near Fort Benton, USA. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
38396Paris, Juven, sans date, fort in 8°, cartonnage pleine toile bleue décorée de l'éditeur, tête dorée, 556 pages ; très nombreuses illustrations hors-texte ; carte dépliante ; petits frottis d'usage à la reliure.
2007DADAX3865601758Brand: Walther Konig/Jahrbuch Fur Moderne Kunst 2007-12-15. paperback. New. 6.75x0.75x9.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Walther Konig/Jahrbuch Fur Moderne Kunst paperback
31933Félix Juven 0 demi basane, illustrations et carte in fine, début des mémoires de Kruger relié à la fin, couvertures conservées, bel état de conservation
1900170411900 Paris, Felix Juven, sans date (circa 1905) In-4 reliure demi chagrin rouge, ; 556 pages à grandes marges ; un portrait-frontispice et une carte depliante; sans les ht ? - Rare ouvrage sur la guerre des Boers.
190245856P., Félix Juven, s.d. (1902), gr. in-8°, 551 pp, un portrait en frontispice, broché, bon état
190276041902. Paris éditions Félix Juven (circa 1902) - Broché 17 cm x 23 cm 556 pages portrait de l'auteur en frontispice carte dépliante - Texte du Général Charles de Wet - Grandes marges non coupé petit manque au haut de la couv. sinon bon état bon état
22540Félix Juven, Paris, circa 1902.
40133Paris, Félix Juven, sans date. Gr. in-8°, 556-6p. Reliure demi-toile rouge, titre doré au dos.
in-4°, 556 pages, portrait en frontispice et une carte dépliante in-fine, broché, couv. Bon état. [FRA-1] Mémoires sur la guerre des Boers.
Gr. In-8, 556-6p. Illustré d'un carte dépliante et de 37 planches photographiques hors texte. Important document sur la guerre des Boers. très bel exemplaire.
M18106Abbeville , Paillart , sd ( début XXè ) , in4° 1/2 chagrin bleu nuit à nerf , 284 pp . Illustrations . Reliure récente . Langue: Français
