Morris cargill editor (22 risultati)

Hard Bound. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Very good (light wear to board extremities and mild mustiness) in very good dust jacket showing mild wear including a few short tears to edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. No dust jacket.Previous owner bookplate inside front cover. Slight edge wear otherwise good to very good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The dustjacket shows some edgewear. The binding is sound.

240pp. numerous color photos + endpaper maps Collected essays about Jamaica. Contributors include: Ian Fleming, Clinton Black, Bernard Lewis, Phoebe Hart, Poppy Cannon, Dolores Keator & others. Topics include: History, Architecture, Cuisine, Natural History, Literary/Visual Arts, Religion, Birds. NF in Good+ dj w/ tears/chips & missing medium sized back piece.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Book is VG. Dust jacket is VG also with slight shelf wear. 3rd revised impression. Old price written in ink on flyleaf. Flyleaf also crease folded. U.K. price at bottom of dust jacket not clipped.

Condizione: VERY GOOD. First American edition. Anthology of articles about Jamaica - 'history, its people, its politics, its religions and dialects, its natural history, its brids, its painters and writers, its archives, its stamps, and the delights of skin-diving it its waters and eating its food (including some recipes) - told from the Jamaican point of view, with preface & introduction by Ian Fleming, who spent part of every year at Goldeneye, his Jamaican house in which he wrote all the James Bond books. Illustrated with color photographs. appendices, bibliography. 240 pp. Map endpapers. Very good in a good dust jacket (light toning to the pages,several small chips to upper edge of dj, closed tear with associated creasing to bottom edge.).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book has previous owner's inscription partially whited out on front illustrated fly, very good. Dust jacket not price clipped, very good. 2nd Impression November 1965.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Very good tight copy in dust wrapper, light age spotting to page edges, owners details written neatly inside, not price clipped.

Hardback. 1965. Hawthorn Books 1965 with 240 pages, many color photos, bibliography and end paper maps. 240 Fine. In a good, chipped dust wrapper.

First edition. 8vo. 224 pp. Illustrated. Cloth in dustwrapper, edgewear, else good. (25005).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book has a book plate with a pen name to the half title page. The jacket has two paper repaired closed tears, very minor edge wear and is price clipped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Front top leading corners a little compressed and some very light tape stains to ep's and dj flaps from jacket protector now removed for the books sake. Clean, Bright and tight.Small closed tear to the jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Second impression. Orig. orange cloth. Map endpapers. 240 pp. [24] pp. colour photos + colour frontis. Dust jacket is age toned, with 1" tear to head of rear joint, some light bumping to extremities. Ian Fleming spent part of every year at Goldeneye, his Jamaican house in which he wrote all the James Bond books. He loved Jamaica and used to regret that there was no book on it which he considered worthy. His friend Morris Cargill, the distinguished Jamaican journalist and broadcaster, urged him to write one himself. After many conversations at Goldeneye a 'team' was collected: Ian Flaming to open the book, of course, with an account of his own relationship with Jamaica and a general picture of the pleasures of living there; Morris Cargill and the novelist John Hearne to fill in the background, historical and human; and ten other writers, either Jamaican or long-term residents of the island, chosen because of their special knowledge of and enthusiasm for various aspects of it.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Fine condition copy in a Very Good condition dust jacket with original "42s net" on front flap. Anyone who knows James Bond knows of Fleming's interest in Jamaica. This fascinating book is loaded with gorgeous photography, as well as a short glossary of Jamaican proverbs and dialect. This is a second impression of the first edition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 2nd impression stated of a near fine hardcover with a gift inscription on the reverse of the ffep in a near fine dustjacket with minor wear to the extremities, a small closed tear on the back cover near the spine and a bit of loss to the front corner at the bottom near the spine. Author Ian Fleming's affectional take on Jamaica where he spent a great deal of time writing the James Bond series. Finished and edited by Morris Cargill, Fleming's friend of many years.…

Original Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Boards have some bumping and edgewear with fading to the edges. Page edges are browned with a little staining to the bottom edges. Endpapers are browned and there are small brown stains on the preface and one other page but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has some edge rubbing, some fraying along the right edge of the front panel and chipping to top edge of front panel and corners. It has also been reinforced on the reverse with a one inch strip of stiff paper along the top and bottom edges. There is also a little staining at the top of the front panel and browning to the white areas. Jacket design by David Battle. First printing. Battle, David (illustratore).…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Not price-clipped. Physical description; 240 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; Introducing Jamaica / Ian Fleming -- Preliminary canter / Morris Cargill -- Landscape with faces / John Hearne -- Political development / Frank Hill -- Dialect, magic and religion / H.P. Jacobs -- Archives / Clinton V. Black -- Great houses of Jamaica / T.A.L. Concannon -- Natural history / Bernard Lewis -- Birds / Phoebe Hart -- Jamaican literature / C.G.O. King -- Contemporary Jamaican art / Norman Rae -- Jamaica as your home / Cynthia Wilmot -- Skin diving / Dolores Keator -- Cooking in paradise / Poppy Cannon -- Some stories about stamps / Everard Aguilar -- App. I: Organisation and conduct of business entities / Jack D. Ashenheim -- App. II: Motor vehicles and driving licenses -- App. III: Passports, visas and customs -- App. IV: Postal rates -- App. V: Airlines and shipping services. Subjects; Jamaica Description and travel. Jamaica Social life and customs. Cargill, Morris 1914-2000. Fleming, Ian 1908-1964. Andre Deutsch Limited (Publisher). 1 Kg.…

First UK Edition. A nonfiction book on Jamaica by noted espionage author Ian Fleming, who maintained a second home in Jamaica for many years after World War II. Boards lightly warped, topstain faded, overall Very Good or better in a Very Good plus dust jacket with light toning to the extremities and a short closed tear to the top of the front flap fold.…

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The book is fine in a near fine dust jacket with very slight hint of edge wear and a less than one eighth of an inch closed tear at top front edge near spine. Dust jacket is in a bro-dart jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Very good tight copy in dust wrapper, a touch of wear to wrapper edges, not price clipped.

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. This book of essays on Jamaica with an Introduction by the Ian Fleming is in fine condition with 25 colour plates.