Gordon b enders (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover, lacking dust jacket, 9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches, 434 pages, 64 pages of photo illustrations. covers have slight wear with the spine slightly sun darkened and some wear to spine ends. Text from fold over of dust jacket clipped and glued onto inside cover. Hinges re-glued and now tight. Pages clean. Stamp of bookstore, Ardmore Bookshop on front endpaper.…

Illustrated Cloth. Condizione: Good+. First Edition. Former owner's penciled gift inscription on 2nd ffep, light glue staining down gutters, else textblock is clean and exceptionally tight, decorative endpages, 64 b&w photographs. Green top page edges. Green stamped illustration on front cover; Large, faded red crayon stain on front cover top corner area, otherwise great condition, minimally shelf worn, in stiff mylar sleeve. Handmade slip case with a neat little side cut out to make removing book from case simple and safe. 436pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 B&W Photographs (illustratore). Hardcover. …

hardcover. Condizione: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Large 8vo. Pp. x, [2], 3-305, followed by 127 pages of photos and full page captions. Illustrated endpapers. Bound in tan cloth with green and blue lettering and decoration on front board and spine. In the illustrated dust jacket, price clipped, spine a tad sunned and with light edge-wear. Inscribed by Edward Anthony on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "For -- --, with the sincere regard of [signed] Edward Anthony Nov. 20, 1935". A preposterous adventure involving author Enders' role as advisor to the Panchan Lama of Tibet, who adopted a plan of modernization for Tibet and his millions of worldwide followers. Somehow Enders was charged with transferring $100 million in Tibetan gold to banking institutions. Purportedly. See OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War by Maochun Yu for reference to Enders as "a bag of wind" in a brief sent to "Wild Bill" Donovan. The wrap-around dust jacket illustration by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge is a pictorial delight, evoking the exoticism of Tibet and a rakish Enders discussing a bag of gold. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. . Baldridge {Cyrus Leroy] (illustratore). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. x, 434, [1] pp. Illustrated with 64 printed photographs. 24 cm. Publishers' beige cloth. Moderate darkening to the spine, corners gently bumped, else near fine, without dustwrapper. With a typed letter, Signed, laid-in. Inscribed by Edward Anthony to the great boxing champion: "For Gene and Polly Tunney, with the sincere regard of, Ed Anthony, December 10th, 1935." Anthony, a noted writer of humor and verse, was a New York Herald journalist, and the publisher of Woman's Home Companion and Collier's Magazine. He was especially talented at imparting immediacy and freshness to his co-authored books.…

Condizione: Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935.1st edition. Sm 4to. x,434pp. Illus. Inscribed by author on flyleaf. Good book. Good dust jacket. Hinges cracked. (Central Asia, Tibet, politics and government, Eastern question) Inquire if you need further information.