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1995101390Glasgow United Kingdom: Neil Wilson Publishing 1995. SIGNED DEDICATED PLUS LETTER FROM AUTHOR The half title page has a gift note from the author. There is also a letter from the author dated 11/5/97 - just over a year before his death in Sept. 98. The cover has general wearing to the corners edges and spine. The text is clean bright and tight. By Author with Letter. paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Neil Wilson Publishing Paperback
190115562Author 1901. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Very good with some wear to extremities and toning to fore edge. 281 pages. 66 illustrations. Author Hardcover
1996050126Thunder's Mouth Press 1996. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxxvii 195pp. Illustrated throughout w bw photographs. Colour photo illustrated wrapper is clean showing very light shelf wear and faint diagonal crease to back panel. Binding square and not creased. Square octavo. Forewords by Hunter S. Thompson Jerry Garcia and Ken Kesey; flashbacks by Ken Babbs text by Paul Perry <br/> <br/>On The Bus is a celebration of the unforgettable exploits of the Merry Pranksters immortalized in Tom Wolfe's bestselling book. In this engrossing popular history the spirit of an era is captured in a remarkable living chronicle. Thunder's Mouth Press paperback
19301433New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons New York 1930. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st Edition stated; xvi 422 pages illustrated 74 b/w photos 4 maps 2 folding. Frontispiece portrait of Rear Admiral Byrd drawn by Rebecca Lindon Taylor. Original covers pictorial end papers in photocopied dust jacket for protection. Shelf wear spine sunned contents clean. Byrd's official narrative of his initial Antarctic expedition. For many it marks the end of the "heroic age" in Antarctic exploration and its replacement by the "mechanical age." This is the first USA edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1433. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
19613835Hutchinson & Co. London 1961. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/Good. 1st UK Edition; x 220pages 1 illustrated end papers 1 diagram 12 pages of b/w photographs. End papers show route of the USS Skate and its internal compartments viewed from the starboard side. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on verso end paper otherwise contents clean. Shelf wear dust jacket has small repaired splits and the odd piece missing some minor spotting to page edges overall a nice copy. The story of the USS Skate the atomic submarine sent north to answer the question of whether a submarine could safely operate in the Arctic Ocean written by her commander James Calvert who directed both history-making voyages in 1958 and 1959 which proved that a submarine could safely navigate under the shifting ice pack and then surface through the frozen polar ice cap. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3835. . Hutchinson & Co., hardcover
1924008655London: Gurney & Jackson 1924. First edition large thick 8vo pp xxii 489 cloth slightly worn and rubbed spine head a little pilled and with one tiny tear in a torn and frayed dustwrapper which is lacking a few small pieces but now nicely protected in a removable plastic cover. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the front endpaper. Cloth. Good/Good. Gurney & Jackson Hardcover
19214275Cambridge University Press UK 1921. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Reading Copy/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: xii 539 pages illustrated with 26 b/w photos including frontispiece numerous text illustrations and maps 2 folding. Original covers no dust jacket as issued. Ex Library with usual stamps numbers bookplates etc. Shelf wear. covers heavily worn spine split stained frayed. Inner hinges split and front and rear end papers rubbed. Inner text block shaken but all complete. Sold as a reading Copy. This was the final book written by geographer and explorer. On the 29th of January 1916 while reading by candlelight in bed the bedclothes went on fire he was overcome by smoke and died the following day. The books was finished by his friend Guillemard and published in 1921 five years after his death. This comprehensive account of polar expeditions from earliest times until Scott's doomed final journey to the South Pole in 1912. Markham's active involvement in polar exploration spanned 60 years and ranged from the search of Franklin to masterminding Scott's first expedition. Highly acclaimed upon publication it is still regarded as one of the most important contributions on the subject. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4275. . Cambridge University Press hardcover
1909016587Edward Stanford 1909. Book. Illus. by 43 maps & plans. Good . Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. 7th edition. Covers clean no stains or splits - page 55 is loose for some tome & edges creased - some with mild creasing but in general pretty good for its age & use see scans. Posting from Cornwall ST162. Edward Stanford Hardcover
19211653The British Museum London 1921. First Edition. Paper. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Journal 1st Edition; viii 46pp 4 figures in text. Original green paper wraps. A meticulous study of auroral observations taken from winter quarters at Cape Evans in 1911 and 1912 and from winter quarters at Cape Adare in 1911 with appendix on the natural ionisation in closed metal containers. In his introduction Wright ascribes Simpson and Raymond Priestley geologist for the Northern Party for the efficacy of the arduous undertaking. Sir Charles Seymour Wright1887-1975 was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's antarctic 'Terra Nova' expedition. Wright was the member of the search party to find the tent containing the bodies of Scott Edward Wilson and Henry Robertson Bowers who perished on their return trek from the South Pole. Slightly grubby covers becoming detached small pieces missing from corners contents clean Ex Libris bookplate on half title. Very Good. Size: Large Book - between A4 and A3. 46 pages. Item Type: Journal. Ex Libris bookplate on half title. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Meteorology; Antarctic; 1900-1920; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1653. . The British Museum unknown
1909530176Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs 1909. Hardcover without dust jacket. Gilt lettering to front and to spine. First edition Thus. Previous owner's details penned to FEP and creases to upper edges of gutter pgs 118-119. Minor foxing to a few internal pages. Board edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Text is clean throughout. AD. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. Whitcombe and Tombs Hardcover
19402786Seeley Service & Co London 1940. Edition Unstated. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Undated Edition: Previous owners signature on front end paper dated Christmas 1943. Part of the publisher's 'Library of Romance' series 317 pages plus publishers adverts. This addition is a slightly later copy as there are reproductions of b/w photos and drawings. Original covers no dust jacket as issued. Shelf wear slight sunning to covers. Previous owners signature on front end paper otherwise contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2786. . Seeley, Service & Co hardcover
1924620842London: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited 1924. First edition hardcover in good condition. Removable plastic covered unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and torn including chips. Boards are blotched near the lower edges. Corners edges and spine ends are bumped. Page block is lightly foxed. Some tanning to the endpapers. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Used. J.M. Dent & Sons Limited Hardcover
1980482899Yumi Press Ltd 1980. Paperback in very good condition. A scarce travel guide to Tokyo by the late John Haylock. Lightest of shelfwear to the cover. Pages are clean; text is clear. Annotated by Hiroshi Narumi. CM. Paperback. Very Good. Used. Yumi Press Ltd Paperback
193156545Churches of Christ Foreign Missions Committee 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo 6 3/4 - 7 3/4". 115 pp. Rear hinge reinforced with tape. Spine slightly cocked and faded with slight wear to ends. Foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's inscription in ink. End papers removed. Covers marked. Corners bumped. The publication date given above is an estimate only there being no date given in the book. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Thailand Siam; Modern; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 56545. . Churches of Christ Foreign Missions Committee hardcover
1989004126Ontario Canada: Michael Gladstone White 1989. Tales of Windsor Ontario recounted mainly by old reports from newspapers and journals 1855 to time of printing. 158 pages with many old photographs. One page has small tear at top this has been mended with inert clear tape quite minor. SIGNED by MICHAEL GLADSTONE WHITE on title page. Dustwrapper is a little worn on edges with a few tears and creases along edges still a pleasing copy especially with signature SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Signed by Author. First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Good Plus. 12 x 9¾ Inches. Hardcover. Michael Gladstone White Hardcover
19044447<p>Archibald Constable and Company London 1904. Later Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1904 Edition: viii 679 pages illustrated b/w photos drawings 2 maps 1 folding. Original covers top edge gilt no dust jacket. Collated all maps and illustrations as called for. Shelf wear some spotting mainly to page edges and prelimsminor spotting mainly to prelims and page edges. Fridtjof Nansen made his first voyage to Greenland waters in a sealing ship in 1882 in 1888 to 1889 succeeded in crossing the Greenland icefield on skis from East to West. In 1893 he sailed to the Arctic in the Fram a purpose built round hulled ship later used by Roald Amundsen to transport his expedition to Antarctica which was deliberately allowed to drift north through the ice a journey that took more than three years. When it was apparent that Fram would not reach the North Pole Nansen accompanied by Hjalmar Johansen 1867-1923 continued north on foot and reached 86 degrees 14 seconds N the highest latitude then attained. The two men were forced to spend the winter surviving on walrus blubber and polar bear meat on Frans Josef's Land where they eventually connected with a British expedition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4447. .</p> Archibald Constable and Company hardcover
1921621204New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1921. Hardcover with printed front board no dust jacket in good condition. Boards are marked and spine is sunned. Edges corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed with tears at the spine ends. Spine is cocked. Page block pastedowns and endpapers are tanned with some blemishes on the page block. A couple of pages are torn at the fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
19742718C. Hurst & Co 1974. Facsimile Edition. Cloth. Very Good. English Text: C. Hurst & Company Facsimile Edition of the original 1877 Edtion: 468pp. fold-out map illustrated. Dark orange cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. Greenland pictured and described by Greenlander's themselves in a journal published in the Eskimo language. Covers have very slight shelfware contents clean book appears unread. Very Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Arctic; History. ISBN: 0903983249. ISBN/EAN: 9780903983242. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2718. . 9780903983242 C. Hurst & Co hardcover
19272994Fleming H. Revell Company 1927. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: 448pp illustrated portrait frontispiece plus 16 black and white photographs and 1 map as called for. Green cloth covers with gilt titling. An Autobiography of John Hall Young in his dog mushing days as a parson travelling and living in Alaska. Completed by him just shortly before his sudden accidental death. Shelfware sovers slightly grubby hinges splitting text block tight. Gift inscription on fep contents clean. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Arctic; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2994. . Fleming H. Revell Company hardcover
19701566National Science Foundation 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st edition; vii 349pp. Prepared at the Library of Congress and Sponsored by the Office of Antarctic Programs. Important Antarctic bibliographic reference 13 subject headings author subject geographic and grantee indices. Blue cloth with gilt titling to front cover and spine. Ex Libris with library number on spine stamps on fep title page forward page verso rear cover and page edges otherwise clean. Very Good Ex Libris. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1566. . National Science Foundation hardcover
1952620310Newport: R.H. Johns Limited 1952. Hardcover in good condition. Clipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is scuffed and marked. Edges are creased and torn including chips. Boards are marked. Corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is cocked. Light foxing on the page block pastedowns and endpapers. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Illus. by Griffith Hanmer. Used. R.H. Johns Limited Hardcover
1952621582Newport: R.H. Johns Limited 1952. Hardcover in good condition. Illustrated by Hanmer Griffith. Clipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is scuffed and marked. Edges are creased and torn including chips. Boards are marked. Corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is cocked. Light foxing on the page block pastedowns and endpapers. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Illus. by Griffith Hanmer. Used. R.H. Johns Limited Hardcover
1914621207New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1914. Hardcover with gilt lettered front board no dust jacket in good condition. Some scuffs to the boards and spine is sunned. Edges corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block pastedowns and endpapers are tanned and blemished. Binding has been reinforced at the hinges and gutter breaks noted within however binding remains sound and pages are clear. LW. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. G.P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover
19554358Lutterworth Press London 1955. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition/Fair. Signed by Author. 1st Edition: SIGNED and dated by the Author on the Title page. 194 pages illustrated with b/w photos and drawings in text in unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wearspotting to page edges and prelims contents clean. Dust jacket tatty with repaired splits. A personal account of two years spent in British Antarctica in the second year they were joined by an American expedition and later combined to complete an extensive survey of the East Coast of the Graham Land peninsula includes detail of how the expedition actually lived in Antarctica how they organized their base trained their dog teams and carried out their work. This is a fascinating account of Kevin Walton's trek to Antarctica in the late 1940s. It is written in such a way as to enable his readers in their imaginations to share in his experiences. He gives a vivid and authentic impression of what it really feels like to be a member of a polar expedition - to be wintering in a base hut or to be sledging with dogs perhaps the most exhilarating part of such an expedition. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: S1-Ant; Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4358. . Lutterworth Press hardcover
1975EW5749NY: Dover Publications 1975. Front free end page signed and inscribed by author Walter B. Gibson; Ink-stained along bottom edge of the gently rippled textblock else clean and tight; Covers edge scuffed and corner worn; Rear cover sunned along the edges; corners dog eared front and back. 163p. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Reprint. Wraps. Good. Illus. by B&W Photos Illustrations. 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Paperback. Dover Publications Paperback
