A G Grenfell (24 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1971. Exploration, South Pacific. Dover Publications. Good paperback 292p. Minor edge wear otherwise text is tight and clean 11/24.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. There are a few marginal notes to the introduction only. Edge of front cover is sun-toned. ; 9.10 X 6.60 X 0.70 inches.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover.

Condition: Good. 1928. 4th Edition, Revised & Enlarged. 102 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cover. Fray, some spliting at spine edge. Library stamps and markings. xvi, 374 pages : XVIII plates (including frontispiece, map, plans, facsimiles) ; 27 cm . "The present volume is a record of two years' excavations in the FayuÌm, the first in 1895-96 conducted by D.G. Hogarth and B.P. Grenfell, who were joined subsequently by A.S. Hunt; the second in 1898-99 by B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt . Part I (introductory), part II, iv-vii describing the excavations at Kasr et BanaÌt, Harit, &c., and part III, containing texts of papyri, ostraca, and indices, are by B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt; part II, i-iii, describing the excavations at Kom Ushim and Umm et 'Atl, with plates II and III, are by D.G. Hogarth; part II, viii on the coins is by J.G. Milne."--Preface.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. p. 1- 176. Some articles: Long Beach earthquake; A recent survey in Little Tibet (40 pages, several b/w illustrations and a large coloured map of the Eastern Karakoram); white settlement in Saba Island, Dutch West Indies; the population of the Malay Peninsula; Murray River basin; An Eskimo discovery of an island North of Alaska; Discovery of a new sketch of Cape Hudson in the Antarctic; Altitude and location of Minya Konka; and other articles.…

Condition: Fair. 1923. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Brown paper covered boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Liquid mark on back free endpaper. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor scuffing to edges and corners. Lettering is clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Boards are bowed. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Small 4to, 311 pp., illustrations, maps in text. Covers soiled, worn at edges, bumped at corners; some foxing to page edges.

1st Ed. Foreword by R. G. Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia. No pagination, 36 PP with 2 colour and 5 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.2 x 18.5. Catalogue of an exhibition holding 206 items (123 Books and Manuscripts, and 83 Prints).

8vo [26 x 18 cm]; xiii, 311, [ii, list of AGS publications] pp, 88 illus, mostly photos, many maps, tables, bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and front cover, bookplate of James S. Blackmer, spine a little darkened but lettering clear, very good, clean and tight copy. Covering regions including Florida, Queensland, West Indies, tropical Australia, Cost Rica, South America, Africa, Americans in Panama, the work covers racial problems, environment, acclimatization, health, diet, clothing, administrative problems, economics, with appendices. A picture of this book is available on request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-academic library copy with stamps to front free endpaper and blind-stamps to front free endpaper and title-page. However, the contents are otherwise remarkably clean and unmarked, although slightly bumped at the lower outer edge. Rebound in plain black library buckram (sellotape mark across the spine and boards) with gilt lettering to spine. Please ask for photo(s) if there isn't an image of our copy. Priority orders will be dispatched by Royal Mail TRACKED 24 or courier (particularly if over 2kg). Standard mail will be dispatched by Royal Mail TRACKED 48 (up to 2kg), heavier items by courier . Overseas orders will be dispatched by Royal Mail International.Tracked. PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR MY PRIVACY POLICY.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine antique colour copy of a photographic portrait, printed in 1900. Very fine, fresh colours. An attractive and decorative portrait of an army celebrity, with autobiographical details.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. New York, Dover Publications, 1971, 292 p. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Couverture un peu défraîchie. code 1445.

1st edn. Tall 8vo (10 x 7 ins). Rebound in recent gilt tooled red half morocco, top edge gilt (Fine). Pp. xiii + 311, , illus with b&w photos and maps (small tear at bottom edge of pp. xiii - 4; no inscriptions).

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 116. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1921 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 116.…

82pp. 1st ed., very fine in original card covers.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains (xv), 241 pp, 3 folding maps and 4 in-text maps. Light rubbing to the covers, else in Very Good condition. From the private library of artist and military author Cecil Constant Philip Lawson and SIGNED by him opposite the title page 'Cecil C. P. Lawson - 2 rue Cassini, Paris.' Housed in paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.78. Publisher's plain card wraps with integral dust-jacket with printed price of one shilling net to upper. Signed by the editor and contributor Gertrude Ford to the half title. Annotation to title page and to some poem titles. Dust-jacket a little worn to spine with some loss at the ends and the titles mostly faded, some marking and toning. Near fine. A scarce collection of patriotic verse, later expanded and republished in 1917, only eight copies listed as held by British institutions and not traced by Reilly. Contains Poems by Binyon and Plowman amongst others. Catherine W. Reilly: English Poetry of the First World War 63 p.20. Signed by Author.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 303-396 plus 28 pages of ads, many wonderfully illustrated. Numerous black and white illustrations and photos in text. Features: Saved by Two Inches - How a big-horn sheep brought a veteran hunter to the verge of destruction in Montana; Gun-Running with Mexican Outlaw Emiliano Zapata - article with great photos; A Terrible Trip - Gold Searching in German New Guinea; Twenty Years in Newfoundland (Part II) - article with nice photos; Fishermen's Luck - a story from New Zealand involving T. Colthart, H. Hewlett and D.G. FitzGibbon; Across the Andes and Down the Amazon - the story of an adventurous journey (part II); The Well of Skulls - a story from Hyderabad; The Lake of Life - the Idiong secret society in Africa; The King Who Met His Match - a story from Sierra Leone; Trapped in a Tank (cover illustration); Captured by the Monkey-Men - an explorer's tale from the Orinoco River; The Smugglers of Gibraltar; Pete the Pup - an adventurous dog in New Mexico. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Minor chipping to back strip. Three inch opening between front cover and base of spine. Overall a pleasing copy of this wonderful vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Barr, William; Dunn, H.H.; Nicholls, G. HeatonGrenfell, Wilfred T.; Fagan, D.W.O.; Pratt, A.E.; Burton, Colonel R.G.; Talbot, P. Amaury; Blake, Harry M.; Guinand, W.B.; Villepion, Guy De; Barracliffe, Captain James The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine f. Illustrated by Evison, G. Henry; Robinson, Wyndham P.; Wigfull, W.E.;Somerfield, Thomas; Peddie, Tom; Holmes, Fred; Burton, H.M. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part II - Tragedy befalls French troops overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; The Disappearance of Ivan Varlamoff - an epic fight in Uleaborg, Finland; Locked in a Freezing Chamber - a meat inspector's ordeal in South Africa; "UMRI" - the tragic story of a panther, once a police officer's pet, which becomes a terror of the district in India; The "White Man's Grave" - Filming The "Gold Coast" of Africa - article with great photos; The Friend of the Birds - photo-illustrated article on Jack Miner, Ontario's friend of the Canada Goose; My Jiu-Jitsu Combats - Captain S.L. McLaglen is a Jiu-Jitsu expert; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part III - an exciting trip to the "Mysterious Richtersveld" of Southern Africa - article with photos; Adrift in the Atlantic - Grenfell of Labrador sets down a remarkable experience related by a former engineer of his; A Man's Luck (conclusion) - the author met the girl of his dreams and tried to build a dream home for them in Alaska, but he keeps being jailed; A Film-Hunter in the Amazon - Part V - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies - article with excellent photos; The "King of the Brushwood" - the brigand chief of Corsica; Roping a Bear - foolish youngster ropes a cinnamon bear; A Barbed Wire Frontier - people not allowed to pass between Hungary and Czechoslovakia; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3] 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. de Walton, John; Robinson, T.H.; Whitaker, W.G.; Reynolds, Warwick; Prater, Ernest; Wigfull, W.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Small, A.G. (illustrator).…

First Edition. With the bookplate of Major-General Neil McMICKING, CB, CBE, DSO, MC of the Black Watch to the front pastedown. Bookplate ad ownership inscription of modern owner to verso of half title. Nice association copy. Spine faded and mottled otherwise VG\n.

London 1906-1955. 4to. 2 vols. xiv,410-xiv,187 pp. With 14 plates. Orig.half-cloth (Egypt Exploration Soc.).