a w moore stevens (12 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with no inscriptions, 524pp with B&W illustrations. Poor unclipped DJ with some edge wear and losses.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 249 pp. ; illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Raymond Houhlihan; black cloth; no dustjacket ; name on front ep ; marks on contents page ; Contents; Why the boom? -- The Travail of WIlmer McLean -- House Divided -- Firsts -- The First Battle -- Mr. Lincoln's Beard -- The Blockade -- Music, Music -- War in the Air -- The Machine Gun -- A General's Grammar -- How Young They Were! -- Famous Onlookers -- Which War? -- John Brown Ignites a War -- The Widow Fritchie -- Imported Warriors -- The Rains Brothers -- Riots on the Home Front -- The Inner Man -- Was Stonewall Jackson a Hypochondriac? -- The Marvelous Ram Albermarle -- Some Oddities of This Odd War -- Spies at Work -- The Gettysburg Address -- The Hero of Gettysburg -- Sex in the Civil War -- The Submarine Hunley -- Lincoln's Subs -- What They Said About US Grant -- Dixie -- Symbols of the Lost Cause -- The Perfect Battle -- The Human Side of Robert E Lee -- Aftermath-at-Arms -- The Price in Blood -- The War is Not Over -- Atrocities -- The Folklore. ; some marks ; G. Book.

Binding sound, text unmarked. Condizione: Very Good+. Top edges slightly foxed. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: xxvii, 246 + xi, 247-524pp., 35 illus. 10 maps. No ownership marks.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copies, complete in two volumes and in First Edition states, clean, unmarked interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in a light gray cloth, alpine illustrations to upper-right corners. Two different black-and-white illustrations of alps to each volume, front and rear paste-downs and endpapers, quite fine. Editor's Preface to Volume I, Introduction, "In Memoriam, by Horace Walker," then an Author's Preface, and list of illustrations, quite lengthy, and including sharp and distinct black-and-white photographs. Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841?1887) was known as a British civil servant but was beloved as a mountaineer. The Wikipedia entry devoted to him lists half a dozen first ascents (with guides and col-alpinists) just in the 1860s. of Volume I: xxvii, 1-246 pp.; Volume II: xi, 249-524 pp. iiMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

hardback. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. hardback, two volumes complete, octavos, knocked at the leading corner tips of the boards. Foxing to the endpapers and front pre-lims, previous owner details to the head of the front pastedown of volume one. The dust jackets are in a poor state with considerable loss and now protected in non-adhesive archival film sleeves.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. Hardbacks. A very good two volume set in grey cloth lettered in green. Some edge foxing. Gift inscription. Vol. I,pp.xxvii,1-246. Vol. II,pp.xi,247-524. Illustrations. Maps. A journal of early Alpine mountaineering including an ascent of Mont Blanc from the Brenva glacier in 1865.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Blackwell 1939 Both Volumes. Condition: Very Good. Clean copy - tight hardcover binding with clear and complete text. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2 volumes. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Complete with numerous illustrations and maps. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

First Editions: Hardback,s, 2 volumes, grey bds., green titles and decs., 135 x 205 mm., 1.4 kg. (extra postage), illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps, map eps., previous owner's name on pdfep., light foxing to feps., small chip to top edge of spine of vol. 1., light shelf wear, no dw., VG copies,

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Basil Blackwood, Oxford January 1939 Binding: Hardcover.

Hard. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Jackets tanned, rubbed, and chipped with some loss to edges. Some foxing, particularly to closed edges, otherwise contents clean and firm. Size: 8vo.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Sepia photographs(18) + several maps (5 to endpapers). Octavo cloth with vignette in dust jacket (lower corners bit bumped/jacket edge torn with losses to head/foot of spine) xi & 247-524pp. This volume two which covers The Col d'Herens, Rimpfischhorn, The Dom, The Biesjoch, The Moming Pass, The Aletschhorn, The Wetterlucke, The Eiger, The Wetterhorn, Mont Blanc from Brenva Glacier, The Winterjoch, The Tiefenmattenjoch, The Grandes Jorasses, Mont Blanc from the Miage Glacier, The Monch. S.Robinson inscription. Not price clipped and almost unused. Slight wear on edges, some tears on leaf, pagination in very good condition. 1 volume. Hardcover.