Jan welzl (80 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Well worn corners and edges. Readable copy only. No dust jacket. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Card pocket removed. One page has a missing piece of the leading edge. The map is included but heavily taped and some pieces missing. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. Damage to text block, discoloration to spine and front and back cover panel. Writing on Past down end paper1932.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 336 Pages With Fold Out Map "Welzl's Map Of His Polar Home With Narchic Ocean And Siberia Marking Places With An Important Bearing On His Travels " In Rear Of Book. 9 Chapters. Some Yellowing, Smudges, Foxing On End Pages And Some Page Margins. Edges Cut Roughly And Somewhat Darkened. No Markings On Pages. Faded Light Green Hard Covers With Lettering On Front Cover And Spine. Wear On Cover Edges, Corners And Spine Ends. Some Discoloration Areas. Foreword By Karel Capek; Chapter Headings Include: Through Siberia To The Arctic Ocean; New Siberia, New Home, New Life, New Work; Along The Yukon From Source To Mouth; The Eskimos, Their Life And Customs; The Horrors Of Polar Justice; I Become A Chief, Etc. Very Rare Vintage Copy.…

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Missing. First Edition. First Macmillan edition with moderate to heavy shelf wear and rubbing to faded blue cloth boards. Binding square and tight. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Translated by Paul Selver.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Book is green cloth. There is edgewear and the spine is sunned. Map in back is there and intact.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. 5.5 x 9 inches. 186 pages. Text is in French. Traduit du Tcheque par J Gagnaire. Septieme (7th) edition. Sepia photographs. Good condition. Bottom of spine 1 cm piece missing. Foredge and cover brown with age, wear on edges.

Condizione: Good. Macmillan Company New York 1932 teal cloth boards are moderately stained and soiled. age toned spine. previous owner signature to ffep. binding secure.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 336 pages, fold-out map. Arctic circle, polar expeditions.

blue decorative cloth 8vo. fine cond. spine faded a bit. nice clean copy.front hinge a tiny bit weak. no names, inking etc.first edition. first printing. P (m,y) w/SD. collectible copy. 336p. foldout map at rear in perfect cond. exploration. travel. geography. novo siberkski islands. siberia. alaska. russian history. wrangel island. arctic ocean. the yukon. geography. eskimos. polar justice. st lawrence island. kolyuchin island. behring strait. nome. ft gibbon. ljakska. canada. lower kolymsk. middle kolymsk. upper kolymsk. kolyma. onadddir. indigirka. verchojansk. mackenzie river. …

Opb. 184S. Mit Karte und zahlr. fotogr. Tafelillustr. -Bibliothekenexemplar, mehrere St., unbesch., etw. fl. 329 gr.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: poor. very nice book with dust jacket inserted.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Blue cloth boards, gilt title and attributions to front and spine. Fading to spine and perimeter. Corners rubbed and rounded. Tilt towards front board. Firm binding. Dyed upper text block. Deckle edges. Translated by Paul Sever. Foreword by Karl Capek. Introduction by Edvard Valenta and B. Golombek. 336pp. Fold-out map. Octavo.…

Clothbound Hard Cover. Condizione: Good +. 336 pp. Translated selver. Foreword by Karel Capek. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. First Edition. First edition. Acceptable hardcover No dust jacket. First edition. The book spine and cover edges have minor wear. The book spine and covers are faded with some soiling. The book foredges have some soiling. The book hinges are cracked. The front endpaper has former owners name. Some of the pages have spotting.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First American edition. 335pp. Translated by Paul Selver. Foreword by Karel Capek. Fold-out map in rear. Owner label on front pastedown with small stains on rear endpapers, foxing on boards and page edges, sunned spine, about very good.

In-8 broché. Planches hors-texte. Couverture tachée.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Text/Bright, strong & Near New. Gilt embossed green linen boards/Good; strong & sound with marked discoloration, soiling, and edge rubs. DJ/None. Fold-out map to rear. POname to fEP. First published in Czech under the title: "Tricet let na zlatém severu". Arctic adventure story. First-hand account of Czech adventurer, traveller, writer and Eskimo chief of New Siberia Jan Welzl (1868 - 1948), also known by the pseudonym Eskymo Welzl and the nickname Arctic Bismarck. Some argue the work to be a hoax, and is a parody of travel/adventure literature by written by Czech satirist Karel Capek (1890 - 1938), author of the Forward to foreign editions. Nevertheless, the book enjoyed great success on publication and, whoever the author was, was a good storyteller.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 336pp. Fold-out (not elaborate) map. A clean, tight, unmarked, VG copy in a VG dust jacket but for a small piece torn from the bottom of the front flap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Very nice green hardcover with fold out map in the back. This is a first edition first printing! ; 5.75 x 8.75; 336 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung.

Softcover. Condizione: Fair. Beschadigung. Dobrodruzne i vesele zivotni pribehy slavneho moravskeho rodaka, ktery pres tricet let pobyval v ruske, aljasske a kanadske Arktide a jenz se stal na dalnem severu eskymackym nacelnikem.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pbk, 186 pages map plates 23 cm. Covers dulled with some scuffing to head and tail of spine o/w text and ill. clean unmarked and in very good condition. [Alaska Description and travel - Arctic Regions - Inuit] w172 / m16682.

hard cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. New York:The Macmillan Company. 1932. 336pp. Folding map at rear. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Blue boards slightly soiled and shelfworn, with light sunfading to edges. Page edges lightly soiled. Internally a previous owners name is penciled to inside front board, but otherwise pages clean and bright.  The dust jacket is still in one piece but soiled and worn, with small chips and tears to edges and folds. *"Jan Welzl, a Czech by birth, a locksmith by trade, decided to seek his fortune in the Far North, traveled by wagon across the wilds of Siberia, then on a whaling ship up to the Arctic Circle. In simple, lively, humorous fashion he tells the story of his arduous journey, and of how he became a successful trader, with headquarters in a commodious cave on the rocky coast of New Siberia, an island in the Arctic Ocean, where he has lived for over thirty years.".dj.…

First Edition. THIRTY YEARS IN THE GOLDEN NORTH, Macmillan, 1932, first edition, just about a vg copy. Capek introduction.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. NY, 1932. 336 pages, clothbound, no jacket, very good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 308pp.

Softcover. Condizione: Fair. Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung; Wasserschaden. Dobrodruzne i vesele zivotni pribehy slavneho moravskeho rodaka, ktery pres tricet let pobyval v ruske, aljasske a kanadske Arktide a jenz se stal na dalnem severu eskymackym nacelnikem.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Wasserschaden. Slavne pribehy ceskeho cestovatele, ktery prozil dlouha leta za severnim polarnim kruhem.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung; Einriss bis 1 cm. Dobrodruzne i vesele zivotni pribehy slavneho moravskeho rodaka, ktery pres tricet let pobyval v ruske, aljasske a kanadske Arktide a jenz se stal na dalnem severu eskymackym nacelnikem.…