kenneth g bowen (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Sketches from Beside the Line by Kenneth G. Bowen is a beautifully produced volume published by Shepp Books in 1993, featuring 128 pages of evocative black-and-white and color sketches that document Australian steam trains and railway scenes. Minor wear to edges of dust jacket, cover, label to frontis page.

hardcover in good condition, gift inscription on front endpaper, dustwrapper a little worn on edges; 128 pages, colour photos, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.

4to. 128pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . First edition.

Cloth. Condizione sovraccoperta: With Jacket. First Edition. Near Fine with an owners name to fep, in a like jacket PP 125 illustrated throughout Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

200 / 216 pp. Good condition; touches of wear on covers.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New large octavo 128pp., col. & b/w illusts., Steam train studies in pencil & watercolour.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 128pp., col. & b/w ills., text ills., Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New large octavo 128pp., col. & b/w ills., text ills.,

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. de Walton, John; Tresilian, S.; Caney, C.E.; Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Soper Geo.; Goss, G.W.; Thompson, Kenneth; Peddie, T.H.; Tresilian, S.; Gale, W.J. (illustratore). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Guardians of the "Last Frontier" - Excellent photo-illustrated article on the three-hundred men who patrol America's 2,000-mile Mexican border; Brown's Tiger - A decidedly unusual hunt in India in which a herd of buffaloes played an important part; "Blood Will Tell" - What happened after James Vance Marshall saved the life of a young South American; Photo of Buddhist "Rice Boat" in Ceylon; Hunting Sea-Lions - Tony Rosato hunts these creatures near California's Coronado Islands - interesting photo-illustrated article; Law and Order in East Africa - Amusing stories about police work among whites and natives; The Lost Mine - A. Hyatt Verrill was in Panama to study the wild Indians but everyone assume he came in search of Tisingal, the mythical lost Spanish gold mine - with photos; The Interlopers - A cattle drover's story of a strange adventure in Australia's little-known interior; My Monkey - A lonely rubber planter buys a monkey as a pet; The Bear Lake Affair - How two RCMP officers dealt with 150 wild Indians near Fort St. James, British Columbia; More About Africa's "Mystery Beasts" - Patrick Bowen believes hitherto unknown animals and reptiles do actually exist; At Grips With the Desert - Part II of Donald R.G. Cameron's account of a trip across the Sahara in which his party became lost for ten days - with photos; "When No Man Pursueth" - The tragic story of what happened to a 14-year-old boy on his first trip away from home; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Backstrip entirely nibbled away so front cover loose but present and back cover barely holding. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating issue.