Greely major general (28 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Third Edition Reissued. Ex - Reference Library with usual library markings otherwise clean and well bound 6 X 9" 330 pages. First published in 1909, this is a reissue of the 1925 edition. With new chapters on fisheries, fur-farming, fur-seals, game, gold-mining, petroleum and coal, railroads, re…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, 385 pages, 1.75 pounds. Tan hardcover with drawing of husky dogs in front of glacier on front cover. Covers are lightly soiled with tanning and more tanning on spine. FFE has gift inscription. Pages are lightly tanned. Page vii of preface has a missing 3" x .5" tea…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 356pp. Historical account of America during the mid 19th Century, seen through the eyes of a top-ranked military official. Greely served with Company B, 19th Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War. He wrote of his experiences with African American units, battles…

Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Good condition, discoloration due to age, but pages are intact and legible. See photo; This is an article/advertisement only from a vintage journal and is not the full journal ; ; 6 x 9; 7 pages; This is an article/advertisement only from a vintage journal and is not the full jour…

Cloth. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition; x, 270pp, illustrated, 28 b/w illustrations, Blue cloth covers with blue titling. An account of "the discovery and industrial evolution" of the Polar regions by a Civil War hero & North polar explorer who eventually was responsible for laying thousands of miles of telegraph cable in the U.S.…

Cloth. Condizione: Fair. 1st UK Edition; 222pp, illustrated, 28 b/w illustrations, colour folding map. Red cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. An account of "the discovery and industrial evolution" of the Polar regions by a Civil War hero & North polar explorer who eventually was responsible for laying thousands of miles of…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes 24 illustrations and 8 maps. Large color map in rear pocket. Smith lists this and a London edition as both first printings. [Smith 3824] A very handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear, minor toning to spine, small spot at bottom of rear hinge, else…

Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, xi, 356 pp. Interior hinge starting (firm, but cracked); otherwise, Very Good, with sunned spine. Military History, Discovery & Exploration, Arctic Exploration, Civil War, Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, San Francisco Earthquak…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good with no dust jacket. 8vo; 385 pages; Publisher's pictorial cloth; moderate wear, a few chips to frontispiece margin, otherwise contents VG. Spine crown torn, Murphy bookplate of Walrus. First free endpaper Inscribed to Robert Cushman Murphy and SIGNED BY GREELY. Covered in later clear plastic jacket.…

First edition hardback. VG, bumped. Slight toning to pages, few feint marks to cloth,offsetting to endpapers, edges dusty,light foxing to edges otherwise clean and bright in G dustwrapper (some overall wear,rubbing, small chips, creasing, neat tape repair to verso, tears and minor discolouration back panel) which is housed in pr…

Condizione: near fine. 1st Edition. xi,[3],356pp. Octavo. Original gilt lettered red cloth with plates from photos. Frontispiece portrait. Upper corners lightly bumped. Original printed dust wrapper. A few small pieces missing from the top of the wrapper. Price clipped on the front flap. A very nice copy in an excellent overall…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. The text is solid, good. The dust jacket has a piece 1/4 x 1, roughly, torn out of frront top edge. 3/4 tear from top of spine. The jacket is very readable, and 90 years old. I worked this out, it was quite expensive in its day, at…