John murray london 2003 (32 risultati)

198 x 128 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (vi) + 181. Small penned number on final blank. Near-fine condition. "This is a book of cool, controlled brilliance. It is a jewel to be treasured." - The Times.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. paperback, 8vo, x,276pp, slight browning on edges, endpaper corner creased, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, light creasing on spine and front cover, Good condition. ISBN: 0719562112.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xvi,422pp, illustrated, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0719561477.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xiv,399pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0719554489.

181 p. Paperback (Pages slightly yellowed, otherwise in good condition.

24x16. Encuadernación editorial con sobrecubierta. 422 pgs. Texto en inglés. Fotografías en b/n fuera de texto. 673842.

First UK edition, first print. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. 260pp. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

First paperback edition. Octavo-sized paperback. Very good.

8vo. xiv, [4], 285, [1] pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust jacket. Very good. "In 1872 the steam corvette HMS Challenger set out from Portsmouth on an ambitious quest to explore the oceans. / The distinguished marine scientist Richard Corfield now recounts the facts of the journey again - the loss of crew overboard (as well as desertions and diseases), the adventures in ports of call, the storms of the Southern Ocean, the glassy waters of the Pacific. He gives a good sense of the ship's main task: the dredging and the trawling, the endless running out and hauling in of thousands of feet of piano wire. / Such is his enthusiasm for marine science that Corfield does not limit himself to Challenger's legacy. He cannot resist a digression into the Gulf Stream and how it works, or the mass of floating sargassum kelp that gives the Sargasso Sea its name. He also explores the strange phenomenon of methane hydrates." â" TLS.…

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 8vo. clothbound hardback in dust jacket. 365pp., indexed, ILLUSTRATED WITH B/W PLATES. Gift inscription from the Author to his mother on the half-title page. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Dust jacket not price-clipped. VG/VG. (Shelf 200) ISBN: 0719557364 PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct. …

Original publisher's gray paper-covered boards, title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: viij, 430pp., [ij], illustrations, epilogue, acknowledgements, chapternotes & references, note on sources, index. Veruy fine copy - as new..

451pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Light wear to head of spine with corresponding slight nick to dust jacket, otherwise near fine in very good indeed, unclipped jacket. True 1st UK edition with yellow and blue jacket front.

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers As New small octavo xv + 302pp., b/w plates, maps, notes, bibliog., index, In the 1930s the Zerzura Club was ostensibly a club for explorers. In reality they were mapping the desert for military reasons. This is an account of their activities before & after the outbreak of war.…

revised edition stiff wrappers As New small octavo xiii + 225pp., b/w plates, notes, bibliog., index, An account of the covert cold-war activities surrounding Operation Stopwatch/Gold traces the year-long high-risk surveillance of German Red Army intelligence from a secret tunnel and the activities of a British secret services mole who significantly impacted both sides.…

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers As New octavo xxxi + 400pp., b/w plates, maps, plans, appends., bibliog., index, Fine account of the Battle that marked the beginning of Allied victories on land in WWII. Good coverage of the contributions made by Australians, New Zealanders, Poles, Greeks, Indians, Italians etc. …

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers New Book octavo xxxi + 400pp., b/w plates, maps, plans, appends., bibliog., index, Fine account of the Battle that marked the beginning of Allied victories on land in WWII. Good coverage of the contributions made by Australians, New Zealanders, Poles, Greeks, Indians, Italians etc. …

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers As New small octavo xiv + 574pp., b/w plates, maps, bibliog., index, There had never been anything like it before, & there never has been since. For six extraordinary months the city was effectively the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China & dismissed the Arabs, struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, & of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; failed above all to prevent another war. Author argues that they have unfairly been made scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 314pp., b/w plates, maps, glossary, notes, bibliog., index, Account of the minority Uighur people & their plight in modern day China.

1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy small octavo xiii + 240pp., index.

Condizione: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 381 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0719561000 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. A nice copy of this title.; xix, [1], 506, [1 (blank)] pages + plates. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 234 x 151mm. "The seeds of conflict throughout the Middle East were sown in the first 60 years of the 20th century. It was then that the Western powers - Britain, France and the USA - discovered the imperatives for intervention that have plunged the region into crisis ever since. It was then, too, that most of the region's modern-day states were created and their regimes forged; and then that their management by the West earned abiding resentment. 'Sowing the Wind' tells of how and why this happened. The subject is painful and essentially sombre, but John Keay illuminates it with lucid analysis and anecdotes. This is that rarest of works, a history with humour, an epic with attitude, a dirge that delights.;Here are unearthed a host of unregarded precedents, from the Gulf's first gusher to the first aerial assault on Baghdad, the first of Syria's innumerable coups, and the first terrorist outrages and suicide bombers. Pre-Balfour to post-Suez, the familiar landmarks loom afresh from the obscure antics of lobbyists and the agonizings of administrations.;Little known figures - junior officers, contractors, explorers, spies - contest the orthodoxies of Arabist giants like T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Glubb Pasha and Loy Henderson. The generals - Townshend and Allenby, Gouraud and Catroux, Wavell and Spears, Eisenhower and Patten - mingle memorably with maverick travellers and femmes both fatales and formidables. Four Roosevelts juggle with the fate of nations. Authors as alien as E.M. Forster and Arthur Koestler add their testimony. And in Antonius and Weizmann, the Mufti and Begin, Arab is inexorably juxtaposed with Jew. Pertinent, scholarly and irreverent, 'Sowing the Wind' provides an ambitious insight into the making of the world's most fraught arena.".…

reprint hardback with dust jacket As New octavo ix + 274pp., 'a gathering of his most evocative writings, drawn from his books, journalism and letters - much never published in book form'.

493 p 24 cm Encuadernación editorial en cartoné con sobrecubierta en papel. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .

493 p 24 cm Encuadernación editorial en cartoné con sobrecubierta en papel. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .

1st edition dust jacket New book octavo xv + 365pp., b/w plates, maps, glossary, index.

First Edition. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and grey endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to the dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. xv, [3, maps], 346, [4] with 32 illustrations. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which has not been price-clipped.…

1st edition dust jacket New book octavo xv + 365pp., b/w plates, maps, glossary, index.

1st edition dust jacket New book octavo 422pp., b/w plates, appendix, index, Negative history.

1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo xviii + 346pp., b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index, Account of 25 years as an explorer & spy on Persia's Eastern borders in the great game against Russian expansion in India from the 1890s through WWI.