Cutting Suydam (41 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very good clean tight travel book, illustrated.

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 in good clean condition throughout. There is a beautiful colour illustration of a young nomad boy by Alexandre Lacovleff. Altogether there are 6 colour illustrations including 3 maps. Many many black and white photographs an amazing picture of a time and a place now long gone. A heavy book please ask for postage costs abroad.…

Hardcover. 393 pgs. Many maps and illustrations. Very good- ex-Army & Navy Club DC Library copy in cloth; call number on spine; stamped on edges, inside cover etc. Nice copy for an ex-library. Inscribed and dated by the author to "Jo Eraus (?) with a great many regards. Oct 4, '44" (shop).

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 emblem of King Williams College, Isle of Man to front cover with Prize Label to P.N. Skrine, 1951 on fpd. Account of a series of journeys 1- the 1925 Theodore Roosevelt expedition from Istanbul across the Black Sea , the Caucasus the Caspian Sea and the Turkestan Steppe to Bokhara, Samarkand, the Muzart Pass, Yarkand, Leh, Srinagar, Lahore and Bombay; 2- from Kahima in Upper Burma to Rangoon, Mandalay, Tatsienfu, Hanoi and Saigon; 3- from Darjeeling to Tashi-Lumpo, Lhasa and back to Darjeeling via Samada; 4 - from Djibouti to Addis Ababa and Gallabat and Devark via Gondar. Other journeys to the Andaman Islands and Celebes. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".…

First Edition ~1st Printing Hardcover travel memoirs of the explorer/naturalist, vg in blue cloth, lacking the dust jacket; rubbing/splitting to cloth along spine ends and board corners else a tight square unmarked copy with no dust jacket; first printing with "A" on copyright page.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. Spine lettering faded; former owner's signature on front flyleaf.

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 front. Overall, a Near Very Good copy.…

Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered turquoise cloth (spine lettering dulled, spine ends scuffed/worn; inner hinges weakened - Good), no dustwrapper. Pp. xviii + 393, illus with coloured frontispiece, coloured plate and plans and b&w plates (endpapers spotted; no inscriptions).

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 Requested For Overseas Delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Fire Ox and Other Years: An account of his travels in Tibet, Nepal, Assam and other Far Eastern lands. This book contains multiple photographs taken at the time, including Theodore Roosevelt, some of the summer palaces of the Dalai Lama and his stables, and hunting with a cheetah in India. Book itself is in Very Good condition, has a small gift inscription and a small booksellers sticker. The dustjacket has some loss to the bottom of the spine. a 2" closed tear to the top of the front and some minor water staining. Protected by an archival cover. Shipping may be dearer than the Abe quote, which is for a typical hardcover, as this book weighs over 1kg. Shipping can be combined. All overseas buyers need to contact me to check shipping rates prior to ordering.…

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 unmarked, off-setting and spottong on front and rear endpapers, black and white photographic illustrations and some colour plates. ; 7 x 1.75 x 9.75 inches; 393 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. pp. xviii 393, colour frontispiece plate and further photographic illustrations throughout. Original hardback binding, light wear only. Contents clean and tight, a few spots to endpapers only, no inscriptions. A very good clean copy. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue boards with gilt lettering to spine and front. Illustrations mainly in b/w but six in colour, three of which are maps. Foxing on rear endpapers. Extra postage will be required for overseas buyers as the book is very heavy.

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 with age, with a bookplate to inside front board. The darkening also affects the spine edge of xiv-xvii, possibly from glue? Otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good copy. …

Library Binding. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Printing. 393 pp. Three full color illustrations, 3 maps and numerous black & white photos of the author's travels through the Far East. "A" for 1st printing on copyright page. Minimal markings. Text clean. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Thick quarto; 391pp, photographic illustrations throughout. VG copy in Good dj, which is slightly spotted. May require a little extra postage overseas.

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 Years" by Suydam Cutting. This is a book about the Author's travels over a decade and a half to some of the more inaccesible places in the world-- Chinese Turkistan, Ethiopia, Chinese Tibet, the Galapagos, the Celebes, Nepal and Upper Burma. And if this book about special travels were not enough, it is inscribed by the Author to a former owner. The book is also very well illustrated with 6 color plates, of which three are maps and two are vividly painted images by Alexandre Iacovleff. In addition, there are over 150 b&w photographs, most of which were taken by the Author. This large hard cover book was published by Charles Scribner's Sons of New York, dated 1940 and bearing the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page signifying that it is the First Printing of the First Edition. Condition: This book is in very good condition, with one exception. The spine was apparently splitting and has been amateurishly repaired with common cellophane tape (a good book restorer could fix this but it would entail removing and remounting the spine strip). The boards are also a bit bumped at the corners and at the spine tips. Inside, the only mark I found is the Author's inscription on the front endpaper; the interior pages and illustrations are clean and bright, without blemish or toning or foxing. Both hinges are intact, with some darkening doubtless from the acids of the binding glues, and the binding is tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder. Alexandre Iacovleff (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

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 owner c1990. IACOVLEFF Alexandre & others (illustrator). …

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 Islands, Celebes, the Galapagos, Burma, & Ethiopia. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition (first printing), with Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Light wear to book, inner hinges tender with minor chipping, tanning; jacket tanned, edgeworn & chipped with short tears & streak on spine. Text clean; xviii, [2], 393 pages; indexes, b/w photos mostly by the author, drawings, maps. Size: Large Octavo. Alexandre Iacovleff (illustrator). …

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 journeys to Tibet in 1930, 1935, and 1937. During the journeys Cutting was accompanied by his wife, one of the very few women to visit Lhasa." Other areas visited include Nepal, Lhasa, Assam, the Turkis, etc.…

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 invitation to visit Lhasa, but also Kathmandu (where he stayed with the ambassador Eric Bailey), at that time perhaps even more difficult. But he even could visit Russian Turkestan, the Nagas in Assam (still difficult today) or the Nakhi in Southeastern Tibet, as well as the Tibetan Kingdom Muli - amazing and a very good read. Heavy book, additional shipping is likely. First British edition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1300.…

Condition: Good. Large 8vo. hardcover. 393pp. index. colour & b/w plates, maps. Good, missing fep. Small stain on spine. / no d/w.

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 inscriptions, some slight mould staining to front pastedown, internally clean tight and square, overall a very reasonable copy of a scarce book. 393pp, lavishly illustrated. American explorer Charles Suydam Cutting (1889-1972), was famous as the first Westerner to enter the Forbidden City in Lhasa, Tibet, and as a member of the Field Museum's Kelley-Roosevelt Expedition to Eastern Asia. A large heavy book, extra postage may be required. Colour illustrations by Alexandre Iacovleff (illustrator).…

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 dj (price clipped, wear). A superb account of the author's travels to the less accessible places of the earth over a 15 year period, among the Assamese headhunters, the tribes of Turkestan, the Lamas of Tibet, the Andamaese Pygmies and through Nepal, Chinese Turkestan (with the Roosevelt expedition of 1925), Galapagos, Burma, Nepal, Ethiopia, etc, with indexes of plants, birds and mammals encountered. The Fire Ox is from Tibetan chronology. An excellent and well-illustrated production. Frank Kingdon Ward was a member of the 1939 expedition to Burma. A picture of this book is available on request. …

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket. Head of spine bumped. 1cm closed tear to dust jacket front flap edge. Light rubbing to extremities of boards, otherwise in nice shape. Small faded brown stain to text block top edge. Pages crisp and clean.

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 condition. Ca. 23 x 17,5 cm. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. no dj. Fire Ox and Other Years, The. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket edgeworn with some chipping.

Hard Cover. F-. First UK. F/F-. 4to. original green cloth gilt in dustwrapper (price neatly torn away, slightly rubbed & a trifle frayed); pp. xx (last blank), 394 (last blank), with numerous illustrations. Heavy item (1.6 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy.…