Quartermain l b (69 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. stapled paperback, printed wraps, small splash mark to front o/w a very good copy with a clean and unmarked text, two maps.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Collection of the biographies of ten lesser known explorers of the Antarctic. Owner's Name inside; DJ. Gift inscription written in pen on title page. Dust jacket a little yellowed, minor foxing on page edges. 192 pages.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Some pages are slightly browned. First issue has a patch of staining on the rear cover, diminishes quickly on the inside. ; Five issues: 1) Vol. 1, No. 1, March, 1956. 2) Vol. 1, No. 3, September, 1956. 3) Vol. 1, No. 4, December, 1956. 4) Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1957. 5) Vol. 3, No. 1, March, 1962. …

Papered Boards. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 23 cm, 220 pp, b&w photo plates, d/w. Signed by author to title page. VG signed copy. Mountaineer in New Zealand. Signed by Author(s).

Condizione: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover. (antarctica, ross dependency) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

PAPER BACK PICTORIAL. Condizione: GOOD. R. E. Owen Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand, map attached to inside back cover, 32 illustrations, frontispiece of James Clark Ross, cover hasve some smudging DATE PUBLISHED: 1964 EDITION: 78.

EX-LIBRARY, LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Super octavo, green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, xix + 269pp, illus + 2 fold-out maps + large folding map in rear pocket, VG+ (foxing) in d/w, VG (bruising & rubbing to spine extrems & corners, creasing & bruising to rear lower corner, soiling to rear).

8vo; original beige cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; tinted top edge; endpaper map; pp. xx + (ii) + 481, incl. index; plates; maps, incl. folding map at end. Dustwrapper tattered; some foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere; archival tape reinforcing to lower hinge at tail. Good condition, in a modest dustwrapper. "This first full-scale account of any one sector of the Antarctic tells the story of the area most rich in history - that from the Ross Sea 'south to the Pole'. From the courageous voyages of Cook and Bellingshausen in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the first penetration of the Sea by Ross himself, the first deliberate wintering in the Antarctic by Borchgrevink and the first great inland journeys by Scott and Shackleton, the story moves to the attainment of the Pole by Amundsen and Scott, the tragic, splendid, though little-known story of the Ross Sea section of Shackleton's abortive Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917, the Odyssey of the Ross Sea whalers and the proclamation of the Ross Dependency in 1923. These, as well as . little publicized exploits . are told with an immediacy and wealth of human interest only attainable by an author who has not merely soaked himself in Antarctic lore but who himself knows the Antarctic.".…

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, imperial octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

First Edition. Very good saddle-stapled copy in printed wrappers, now slightly edge- and dust-dulled as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; internally bright and clean. Physical description; 78 pages : maps, portraits, plates ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography (pages 77-78). Subjects; Antarctica Discovery and exploration 20th century. Antarctica History. New Zealand Discovery and exploration. 1 Kg. …

Imperial octavo, yellow cloth boards with gilt lettering in blue decorative panel to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xx + 481pp + folding map to rear, illus, VG+ (inscription in ink to half-title page, v slight foxing to page fore-edges) in d/w, VG- (bruising & nicks to spine extrems & corners, moderate tanning to interior, creasing to edges). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Very light edge wear, otherwise 'Fine' throughout. Very light toning to unclipped jacket. Please see photos for further details.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. some library marks, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear, library sticker spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First printing. Ver good in a very good dustjacket with light edgewear and a crease to the inside front flap. Not priceclipped and no markings. Profusely illustrated with photos and maps, including a large fold out map in a pocket attached to the rear postdown. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. xvii, 192pp, refrences, bw ills, maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Ten of the lesser known Antarctic explorers. Size: 8vo.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 34pp with b/w photos - blue paper covers slightly rubbed and soiled - previous owner's name crossed out on front cover - slight creasing to corners - SCARCE - Information Series 47.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Some minor shelf wear and a tiny closed tear to the jacket. Everyone knows the names of Scott and Shakleton. This book is about ten of the lesser known explorers of Antarctica and the equally heroic but little recorded deeds of the early chapters of its human history. The men recorded in this book are. William Bruce, Charles Royds, Bill Lashley, T W E David, Will Colbeck, E L Atkinson, Victor Campbell, Dick Richards, Alf Cheetham and Scotty Paton.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Softcover staple bound has wear along edges and spine. Light toning and staining to covers. G. P. Serial No. 55. PON inside front cover. ; Oblong 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

First Edition. Very good saddle-stapled copy in printed wrappers, now slightly edge- and dust-dulled as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; internally bright and clean. Physical description; 78 pages : maps, portraits, plates ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography (pages 77-78). Subjects; Antarctica Discovery and exploration 20th century. Antarctica History. New Zealand Discovery and exploration. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Beige, grubby cloth boards; foxing on spine; author, title & pbl in gilt in a black box (gilt border) on spine. Top cut edge in faded blue; other edges lightly tanned. Endpapers illustrated with a map; name & address on fpdep. Text block tight; pages clean; List of contents & Illustrations at front; Index at end; b/w illustrations on plates & 1 fold-out b/w map at end. No jacket. Please contact us for postage if shipping outside the UK. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 48 pages, maps, photos, Tape ghost on spine, library card removed from the back of the book.

SIGNED by author, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Wrapper. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1964 Stapled Soft Cover very good book, foxing to endpapers, page edges browned, covers rubbed. No inscription. 78 pages. Appendix. Maps. Folding Map. Illustrations. Bibliography.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 48 pages, maps, photos, slight soiling on covers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated in b/w from photographs maps etc. The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions small ownership label to inner blank. Publishers binding tight with no chips splits or bumps, DJ complete with no splits or chips.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good Hardback. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Good Dj. Inscription on the first front page. Dust jacket complete but rubbed around the edges. Illustrated (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Light brown cloth first edition is near fine. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. None. 1st. With five earlier Antarctic titles already published no better writer could have been found to compile this record of NZ's association with Antarctica and the expeditions that had explored this forbidding terrain. Many of the earliest venture to the southern polar regions used NZ as their final ports of call long before the country became actively involved in exploration there, although many NZers participated in various expeditions. While the bulk of Quartermain's work is devoted to NZ Antarctic work several of the early chapters examine earlier expeditions up to WWII. 269 pages including three appendices, index, 70+ b/w photos, etc, 10 maps (folded map from back pocket missing). Green hard covers with silver front/spine titles VG, punched hole top righ back cover, probably to hang the book from a cord, "Display copy" in felt pen top FFEP with "NZ Antarctic Research Programme" stamp lower on FFEP, this stamp also on title page, textblock otherwise excellent, no other markings. Photos, Maps (illustratore).…

Octavo stapled light card covers (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…