Colonel Etherton (41 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Illustrated. No dj, cloth sunned, wear at extremities, foxing on sides, otherwise good. 600 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Weakness to inside front hinge.

HARDCOVER. Condition: very good in worn dustwrapper. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Reprint. 297pp + b/w illustrations octavo cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth Hard cover.8vo. Many Illustrations.308 Pages: Maps of Europe on End papers: Moderate Foxing Throu.some repaired Hinges.else a good solid copy Scarce.

Condition: Good. 1954. Paperback. Good clean copy with nicks and bumps to cover and spine with slight sunning to page edges but remains a good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Good condition. Very slight foxing to front and back blanks. Pages slightly dust darkened at edges but otherwise clean and bright. Glossy pictorial boards. Inscription on inside flyleaf. Only front half of jacket remains (price clipped). Cover in good condition with minor wear to spine edges and corners along with some discolouration/fading to edges. 144 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 297p, ills. Travels in Nepal, Tibet and Central Asia. Book is in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Impression. 302pp, photos, ep map. Japans expansion and British and US need to protect trade with China. Boards worn and corner bumped, small tears to cloth on spine, shaken and light foxing. 1kg.

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo, 286pp. Frontispiece, plates. Original green cloth. Light foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block, else this is a bright, very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 264 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed; spine ends bumped. Illust. from b/w photos. Contents nice.

Hardback. Condition: V.g. Dust Jacket Condition: No d.j. 3rd impression. 302pp. Frontis., 16 plates and map end-papers. A near fine copy in the publisher's black buckram, gilt.

Condition: Good. 1954. Paperback. Good clean copy with nicks and bumps to cover and spine with slight sunning to page edges but remains a good copy. . . . .

Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Foreword by John Buchan and an account of the filming of the flight by Geoffrey Barkas. With Illustrations from Photographs, Diagrams and Maps. Thrilling account of the Everest Flight by the members of the expedition. Frontis illus. is a photo of Lady Houston. Fold-Out Chart & Map. Blue cloth cover with blind embossed vignette of a Biplane flying over Mountains on front. Red lettering to spine. 279 Pages, 900g. Spine and much of front cover faded. Hinges sound. No inscriptions. Pages in very good clean condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo in blue cloth binding. B&W photographs, 2 maps, charts and one anaglyph 3D photograph with 3D view in pocket at back of book. Condition: wear, soiling & rubbing to binding; corners bumped with minor fraying; else a good, tight copy. Pages: xix, 279.

Hb original light blue cloth binding 259pp frontisplate + 16 illustrations Ink gift inscription to fep o/w A Vg copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Account of a bunch of crazy posh people who thought it would be a grand idea to fly over Mount Everest in the early 1930s with relatively basic equipment. It was there I suppose! Pretty decent looking copy with clean cloth boards although a little sun faded at the top edge and, especially so, on the spine.Also a little slitting along the outer hinge of the back board, nothing too severe but significant enough to be worthy of a mention in this description. A little toning to the page block edges and end papers. No inscriptions. No dust jacket. Terrific copy on the whole.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Approx 66 pages. Illus. nd. [circa1940]. Boards slightly marked. Inner front hinge split by 5cm to bottom. Private ownership. (q21).

314pp. 8vo. Original cloth, black and white frontispiece and plates. A very good copy.

8°; gebunden, Orig.-Leinen, Condition: Gut. 314 S. mit Abbildungen auf Tafeln; Rücken vom Buchbinder unter Verwendung des Orig.-Rückens erneuert. Guter Zustand. /lager 0165 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.

Hardback, 8vo, 144pp. Good condition (light wear; faded at head and foot of spine; bookseller's label at front pastedown; pages age-toned and foxed) in good dustwrapper (general wear and scuff marks; chipped at edges, with numerous 1-2cm tears and some loss at corners; price-clipped). Pictures available on request.

H.b. Condition: Normal Shelf Wear; Very Good. 259 pgs. Index. Frontispiece and 16 additional full pg. b&w plates. Authors' aim is to present to the reader the importance of Manchuria, seized by Japanese armed forces in 1931, for its rich land and minerals and its strategic industrial, economic and military location. In retrospect, a very interesting, historic read. Previous owner's name penned on ffep; very occasional foxing, mostly to fore-edges & last page of Index. A little fading to cloth boards, especially at spine but overall cond. is quite clean & very good cond. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".

8vo. x, 327, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 15 photo plates, 1 folding map. Yellow-ribbed cloth, black lettering on front cover & spine (minor soiling, slight lean, minor wear to corners, front inner hinge starting, ex-lib stamps on endpapers, title, d.j. flaps mounted on endpapers), G- reference copy. First edition of this insightful and prescient account of Manchuria publishes just after the Japanese began their invasion of China to set up the puppet state called Manchukuo which lasted until the end of World War II.

Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Reprint. With a foreword by John Buchan and an account of the filming of the flight by Geoffrey Barkas. With 57 illustrations from photographs, diagrams and maps. Navy cloth, red titles to spine. Reprint in same month as first edition. 279 pages. Colour fading to covers with some wear to extremities of spine. Complete with spectacles to view anaglyph between pages 222 and 223. . ("Anaglyph will appear in stereoscopic relief when it is seen through the viewing spectacles contained inside the back cover of this book.") Ownership decorative initial "P" and other ownership details in copperplate on front endpaper.

1st Ed. 259pp. 16 playes, folding map. Some sporadic foxing, ex.-libris J.H. Freeman, black lettered yellow cloth, some spotting and sl. soiling, spine sl. bumped. US$37.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original slate blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo 9'' x 6'' 144 printed pages of text. 23 pages of monochrome photographic illustrations, two sketch maps. Front free end paper missing. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with shallow chips to corners and spine tips, not price clipped, 12s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISLE OF LUNDY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Hard cover, no dust jacket. Very good. Sunfaded on spine. Solid binding. Clean pages. Illustrated. With the glasses red round clear. and blue cardboard. 1932: MARCH Headquarters of flight located at College of Aeronautical Engineering, Chelsea, flan for flight to Mount Everest, sub- mitted by L. V. S. Blacker, considered by Council of Royal Geographical Society. APRIL Letter sent to Secretary of State for India by Council of R.G.S., intimating that in their opinion the plan is likely to produce valuable scientific results. Air Ministry grant facilities at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, RAJ. School of Photography, and Experimental Estab- lishment, Mardesham. Negotiations with Bristol Aeroplane Com- pany for Pegasus engine. Lord Peel and Colonel John Buchan join the Committee of the flight. MAY Official application made to India Office for permission to fly across Nepal. Colonel Etherton communicates with British Envoy in Nepal, a former brother officer. Size: 8vo - over 7 in- 9 in Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Brick red coloured cloth boards with dulled darkened (? Gilt ? ) titling to the spine. No dustjacket. There is a blind-stamped ? Logo/motif? To the lower half of the clean front board, the spine is a bit darkened/spotted/discoloured, rear board clean. Corners and head/tail of spine slightly bumped but overall good clean sound covers. ALL hinges tight and secure. Page fore-edges a little 'dusty'/age-browned. A faded name/date from a former owner on the ffep. The book is in a protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Near VG. Internally some light foxing/spotting and pale edge discolouration on a few pages here and there in the text block but overall the contents are very clean and tight. (6) + 297 pp. 79 b/w photographic illustrations/plates, including the Frontispiece. Index. "A very interesting account of travel/travellers to Mount Everest, the Himalayas, and Kathmandu and includes accounts of local people and their pastimes including hunting Crocodile, Tigers and Tiger-Worshippers, etc. Colonel P. T. Etherton was the late H. M. Consul-General at Kashgar in Chinese Turkistan and the Honorary Organising Secretary of the Mount Everest Flight." ; Large, Thick, 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 305 pgs., plus folding map in the back. One tiny hole in one of the seams not effecting anything, pages clean, bound in green pebble cloth, gilded lettering on front board and spine, light staining along top edge of front board, otherwise a very nice copy. No writing in pages or signatures found. Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st ed Little Brown 1928. No jacket. Ex-library. Moderate external wear, pages lightly yellowed with an occasional smudge or minor blemish, binding firm.

22 cm, ril. editoriale in piena tela arancione, p. 259, 19 ill. in nero f.t. Rare bruniture.