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British Adventure

Collis, Evans, Smythe, Mathew, Johnstone, Tangye, edited W J Turner · 1947

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Collins beige cloth gilt titled spine, boards VG pen inscr to end paper, age toned offset end paper. 324pp + 48 col plates and 120 b&w illustrations. chapters incl; British Merchant adventurers, Polar explorers, Mountaineers, Seamen, Soldiers, Britain in the Air. Beautiful ...

C Iuli Caesaris Commentarii rerum in Gallia Gestarum, De Bello Gallico (War in Gaul / Gallic War)

CAESARIS C Iuli Caesar edited T Rice Holmes · 1914

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Oxford University Press red cloth gilt titled spine, upper joint split 60mm down from top, corner tips rubbed, some bruising to edges, front end paper has ink name and date, endpapers browned, lxvi, 462 (2) +14 folding maps or diagrams and some in text. text block is tight a...

Northern Caballero adventures in the unexplored country of the Amazon

MERRIMAN W N · 1945

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Travel Book Club dust jacket with tears at head and tail of spine folds, some minor chipping, BOOK VG 288pp + b&w plates, not specifically to do with gauchos etc but the Amazon Highlands in general. H Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Professionals Stake Out

BLAKE Ken · 1978

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Arthur Barker DW unclipped, with wear to top and bottom edges and short tears (5mm) small chip out of tail of spine; BOOK is VG, 155pp novelisation based screenplay by Brian Clemens and Dennis Spooner from London Weekend Television hit series. H First Edition Very Good London...

The Saga of the Cowboy

NORTH Escott · 1944

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Jarrolds All about the cattleman and the part he has played in the great drama of the West. dust jacket is rubbed and chipped to the edges but generally intact apart from some chips out of the head and tail of the spine and a few at head and tail of the rear panel.the spine t...

Lawrence of Arabia

KIERNAN R H · 1938

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Harrap orange cloth titled black, DW price clipped, short tears at top edge , one small nick without loss to spine, VG and bright, book some foxing to page edges ink inscr dated 1939 to endpaper, ix , 198 + frontis, plates and maps. all plates present although one is detache...

Ancient Egypt, an easy introduction to its Archaeology

LEIBOVITCH J · 1938

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale ...including a short account of the Egyptian Museum Cairo with a description of Giza and Saqqara. trsl Alan Rowe. Buff card wrappers with pasted on colour illustration of tomb painting detail. (viii) 286 (i) sewn collations glued into...

Fiji, Handbook of the Colony

ROTH George Kingsley · 1937

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

H R Craigie Acting Government Printer original printed wraps with pasted on colour portrait on upper cover. edges are worn and rubbed. Rubbing to surface of the cover illustration Spine chipped at head and tail with some loss, First page (half-title) inscription. page corners...

Ages in Chaos

VELIKOVKY Immanuel · 1953

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Sidgwick & Jackson Sidgwick and Jackson first UK edition, after Doubleday . 350pp . map endpapers. book VG, ,slight wear to corners, top edge dusted blue (faded). DW rubbed to extremities and spine, slight chipping to corners and head and tail, not price clipped. Ages in Ch...

The French Lieutenants Woman

FOWLES John · 1969

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Cape first edn, original pictorial endpapers , top edge dusted, a few small spots to bottom edge, four line inscription to half-title, otherwise VG book in a VG but edgeworn DW all four corners (flaps ) are clipped and I think it has had a price clipped off the front flap. M...

Murder Moves In

FERRARS Elizabeth · 1956

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Collins slight lean, light soiling to boards, a name has been whited out on end paper, and there is a three letter initial in pen, top edge a bit spotty otherwise VG in a DW with some loss through chipping at spine ends and short tears to some edges, not price-clipped, most...

Madmans Bend

UPFIELD Arthur · 1963

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Heinemann VG clean tight and tidy hardback in VG price clipped DW that has a hint of short tears and chipping to spine ends and surface rubbing to the lower panel ( photo of author), really a very nice copy H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Nautilus 90 North

ANDERSON Cmdr William R · 1959

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Hodder book has a lean to the spine. and spotted top edge otherwise VG, DW is unclipped , surface rubbing to the folds with a short part of the upper fold in fold worn through. there is a short 40mm scrape to the cover, and small amount of chipping to the spine head and the he...

The Southern Alps from the Kaikouras to the Rangitata

PASCOE John · 1956

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Pegasus (200 gram rate) name in biro on upper left corner of cover and also on the inside of the cover. 72pp card wrappers, stapled. NZ Holiday Guides number 3. There are 8 pages of b&w plates at centre one plate has had the caption revised with a pen note referring to the err...

Lord Suffer me to catch a Fish

MILLS A R · 1967

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Reed reminiscences of trout fishing in Tongariro, Taupo, Waitahuna etc. 168pp with line illustrations and humorous endpapers! DW is very lightly rubbed to edges with short tears to the lower panel corners. H First Edition Very Good Wellington Very Good AS Paterson 8vo - over...

Conquistadors of the Useless from the Alps to Annapurna and Beyond

TERRAY Lionel · 1963

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

Gollancz trsl by Geoffrey Sutton, autobiography of Lionel Terray famed for the second ascent of North Face of Eiger (1947) and a dramatic rescue on it in 1957, includes climbing in the Alps, North Face Eiger, world war two in the Alps with mountain troops, Annapurna, Makalu, C...

1910-1916 Antarctic Photographs Scott Mawson and Shackleton Expeditions

PONTING Herbert & HURLEY Frank · 1979

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

MacMillan 120pp of black and white photographs taken on the Antarctic expeditions mentioned, book near fine, DW VG just a little wear including a short tear starting at top lower fold 10mm long, the white dw is a bit soiled, probably could clean up with care. H First Edition V...

Out of the Zenith, Jodrell Bank 1957-1970

LOVELL Bernard · 1973

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Oxford University Press near fine in similar dust jacket under a removable plastic cover, Jodrell Bank radio telescope and its inception and research. 255pp+ b&w plates. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Nobody Knew They Were There

HUNTER Evan (Ed McBain) · 1971

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Constable dust jacket with sunned spine faded mainly to the lighter colours, price clipped . H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Wayward Bus

STEINBECK John · 1947

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Heinemann red cloth, slight discolouration to covers, the coloured front end paper has been trimmed at the top down 55mm, and at the base of the page is an ink inscription, probably would be VG without this fault, lacks dw, first UK edition. H First Edition No Jacket London ...