Cutting Suydam (40 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Dark Green cloth on board with slightly faded gilt lettering to front cover and Spine. Slight bumping and show through to the top and bottom of the spine and all four corners. The cover is tight and clean. Some dusting to the outer edges. No Dust Jacket. Internally the book is…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. colour frontispiece after a painting by Alexandre Iacovleff with another by the same artist, map of Turkestan, Assam and Chinese Tibet, Tibetan water colour, map of Ethiopia and 83 black and white illustrations, xviii, 393. Publisher's blue buckram with gilt titles to spine and front cover, gilt…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a slight skew to the binding, mild bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, with a soft chip to the head of the back cover, a few smudges to the fore edges of the text block, and rubbing to the covers with faint soiling across the fro…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. not known. Tight Firm Clean Copy - Presumed Reprint - Signed By Previous Owner On Ffp. Photo Illustrations. Blue Cloth Hard Cover With Faded Gold Gilt Titles To Front And Spine - Heavy Discoloured And Stains To All Sides With Rubbing And Edge Wear. Heavy Book Additional Postage Will Be…

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Please note that this is a heavy item and may incur extra shipping costs for international orders. ; No dust jacket; blue cloth boards, darkened from age, corners worn and bumped; spine sunned with faded gilt titling, edges a little frayed; binding is tight; pages are age-toned but unma…

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons. 1940. 1st edition. xviii+393pp. Illustrated with color and black and white. Hardcover.  Blue boards with title in gilt on front cover and spine lightly soiled and shelfworn with gilt on spine quite dulled. Internally, end-pages darkened…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Having spent most of my professional life traveling the world, working on development projects, I guess my interest in travel books is understood. Here's another one, and one that has surprised me in both its scope and presentation. Please find: "The Fire Ox and Other Year…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In blue cloth, edges rubbed, gilt titles. Respined, old laid down, gilt titles. Internally, half title, portrait frontis, [6], (vii-xviii), [2], 393 pp, complete with 6 coloured illustrations, numerous other illustrations, some light edge browning. (240*175 mm). Probably rebound by the previous o…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Between service in the World Wars, Cutting was a high-society naturalist & adventurer, starting with Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr.'s expedition to Turkestan; here he recounts that trip as well as visits to Assam, China, Nepal, Tibet, the Andaman Is…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii [2], 393, [1]; color frontispiece, plates including 4 in color, double-page map; full blue cloth; musty, but clean and sound. Good. Yakushi C-413: "Accounts of expeditions made during the fifteen years, to Chinese Turkestan in 1925, with Roosevelt to Chinese Tibet in 1928, and three j…

Condition: Sehr gut. Original cloth binding, xviii, 393 pages, 181 b/w illustrations, 3 col. plates, 3 beautiful coloured maps, very good condition. Wonderfully illustrated book on the travels of a rich American, mostly undertaken with his wife and mostly made in Tibet. Cutting was one of the very few Americans with official inv…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Edge wear, chipping and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, 2" loss to back jacket, corners and folds rubbed with slight loss, slight overall browning and time staining. Not price clipped (30s), no inscrip…

Condition: Sehr gut. Press photograph, taken in 1935 and published on 1 December 1935. "The Greatest Choten (Shrine) in Tibet. It is one of the Meccas of Tibet. From Cutting - Vernay Expedition for American Museum of Natural History. Description glued to the rear, the photo a bit wrinkled because of this, otherwise very good con…

8vo [24.5 x 18 cm]; xviii, [i], 393 pp, color frontis, from painting by Alexandre Iacovleff, color plates, 3 color maps, many other excellent illus, general index, index of mammals and birds, index of plants. original cloth, gilt lettering on front and spine, very light shelf wear but a near fine, solid and clean copy in a good…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition Scribner's 1940 with A and seal. No jacket. Top and bottom of spine chipped, corner tips worn through, rear bottom edge has some silverfishing and chipping, spine has a vertical crease-line. Pages yellowed with scattered foxing, minor blemishes. Binding has some cracking, remains reasona…