Colonel R C F Schomberg (13 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint. Unread, unclipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bookseller stamp to f-fep. D/w very slightly creased at spine. Size: 8vo.

Softcover. Condition: Good. 274 pg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Yellow highlighting on many pages. Illustrations poorly reproduced.; A 2003 facsimile reprint of the 1935 frist edition. 274 pages. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 209 x 133mm. Bookmark ribbon. This edition has the illustrations poorly reproduced, and does not have the folding map. Contents: Introduction; The Gilgit Agency; The Fief of Punyal; The Twin States of Kuh and Ghizr; The Country of Yasin or Washigum; Lower Yasin; The Upper Valleys of Yasin; Ishkoman and its Glaciers; The Road to Hunza and Nagir; Hunza; The People and Customs of Hunza and Nagir; The History of Hunza and Nagir; The People of the Gilgit Agency; The Hunza-Nagir War; Habits and Customs of the People of the Gilgit Valley; Marriage Xuystoms; Folk-Lore; The Northern Valleys of Hunza; Chapursan; Darel and Tangir; The History of Gilgit; The History of Yasin; The History of Punyal and Ishkoman; Index.

8vo, 274 pp.; green leather bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. eps, & prelims; plates, foldout map to rear; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; lg closed tear to foldout map); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & foxing).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint ed. 8vo. 275pp. Frontispiece. 15 illus. 1 folding map. Original cloth, slightly spotted on edges & end-papers. Dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wonderful and readable memoir of what is now North Pakistan. nd; c1985; I bought it in 1991. Reprint of the 1935 ed. pp274. illus [muddy], folding map. DW liberally impregnated with Peshawar dust; I've added an archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Cloth. gr. 8°. 270 pages. with illustrations and one folded map. some pencilmarks inside. light broken, partly spotted. the back damaged, loose. in englischer Sprache (in english).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 275p, ills, folding. Main defect is spine cloth separating from spine, interior pages very good. Travels to Hunza and Gilgit and the Karakoram.

Facsimile. VG/G. 8vo. original cloth gilt (some rubbing & minor wear to extremities, bookseller's rsm & inscrip. to FFE, leaf edges slightly grubby, map slightly torn) in dustwrapper (torn with some chipping, tape repairs to reverse); pp. 274, with 16 illustrations & a folding map. Overall a very good copy in slightly defective dustwrapper.

8vo. pp 275, with fold out map at the rear. Original publisher's blue cloth lettered gilt at spine. Excellent clean copy. Very good indeed. First Edition. Hardback.

Legatura editoriale in tela bleu con titolo in oro al ds. e marca dell editore impressa a secco sul piatto anteriore. Eccellente esemplare. Prima edizione. Resoconto di due viaggi intrapresi nel 1927-29 e nel 1930-31 in Asia centrale, nella provincia cinese (al tempo appena creata) di Xinjiang. 8vo (cm. 22), 288 pp. con 8 tavv. fotografiche a colori f.t. (di cui una in antiporta) ed una carta geografica ripiegata in fine ( Sinkiang, chinese Turkestan and part of outer Mongolia ).

Hopkinson, London, 1935. First Edition. 8vo; 275pp. Illustrated; Folding map. Original blue cloth now faded to lower quarter of spine. Ex-Lib with "Deleted" stamp to library plate inside front cover. Good.