Erskine Loch Captain E (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This Is a nice nonfiction expedition history of the Andes-Amazon in the uncharted lost world called Fever Famine and Gold, copyright 1938, possible first edition with no other date found, hard cover, DUST JACKET, written by Captain E. Erskine Loch. The books dust jacket has some chips and tears otherwise in good condition. The book itself has minor wear and in good plus condition with tight binding, clean, wonderful black and white photographs and 256 pages.…

8Vo Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 255p. Bound in red cloth with black titling and stamped illustration on cover and spine. Warmed pages marked by sparse foxing and labels on front endpapers. Binding is secure. Boards are bumped, cloth is notably rubbed over surface and around edges. Dust jacket remains in fair condition- unclipped though scuffed across spine with white residue and creased edges are marred by small chips and open tears.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Publisher's red cloth with black print and design on front and spine. Water spotted, discolored cloth front & rear boards. Corners sharp; mild rubbing and shelf wear to edges. Spine head and tail soft and slightly frayed. Binding tight; slight lean. Illustrated map on end papers. Frontispiece portrait of author and 22 photographs and 1 map drawing within text. pps. xiv; 257 pages. Last page unopened. Includes appendix A,B,C,& D.…

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Intro dated 1938. Blue cloth is grubby and rubbed with some staining, head of spine chipped. Front hinge cracked, bookplate removed from front pastedown, previous owner has pasted in a facsimile aticle which was of interest to Col. P H Fawcett on to front endpaper, also handwritten sentence about the author on title page, occasional grubby marks to pages and some loss to corner of p.145, otherwise contents clean and bright. Size: 8vo. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Very Good. First American edition. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-257, [1] pp. Maroon cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontis photograph of the author, and several other black and white photographs of Erskine's adventures throughout. Subjects captured by the photographs include the Andes Mountains, a Ssabela tribal-person, (according to the book the only Ssabela person ever to have been photographed up to that time), the Ecuadorean jungle, and several lakes. A fascinating account of travel to Ecuador: according to the book Captain Loch was able to gather additional scientific knowledge of the land's topography from his expedition, and found several pre-Columbian gold mines that would have been used by the Incas. A Near Fine book with a small Hampel's Bookshop Milwaukee bookstore label on the front pastedown. Dust jacket is Near Very Good with traces of rubbing and wear, and a small closed tear to the bottom of the rear panel. …