Fuchs Vivian Foreword (10 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: good+. Geology, paleontology, pre-history. 11-3/8" tall; 418pp including index; color plates & other b/w photos & ils; 2-column format; green cloth over boards; green & yellow price-clipped dust jacket has some rubbing, wear to extrems. Hardcover (dj).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0841913900. Hardcover copy in fine condition with fine condition dustjacket. Tight clean unmarked copy. First printing. CSB 15-5 4. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A clean and pristine copy, withno markings or signs of use. The jacket is protected by a mylar Brodart cover. Included is a piece of ephemera found with the book: a catalogue of an exhibit of the Hurley collection of photographs. Fast shipping, careful packing. ; 120 pages.…

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condition: Near Fine. ANTARCTICA - 119 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 27 cm. #200126/200426Q Expeditions. Antarctic, 1910-1916. Illustrations Antarctica Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

Hardcover in Dustjacket. ANTARCTICA - Facsimile reprint. First published, London: Fisher Unwin, 1914. 382p., 97p. of plates : ill., diagrs., fold.maps ; 23cm. #310126 British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913) Antarctic. Scientific expeditions: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Personal observations Antarctica (Not ex-library!) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Very Good +. Edgewear to jacket. …

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1974 Reprint with a new foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs and 3 previously unpublished poems. x, pages 1 to 376, folding map, 4 pages of "The songs of Scott's Northern Party", pages 377 to 382. Illustrated, Frontispiece plus b/w photos, 3 folding maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear to dust jacket. Covers and contents clean and bright a nice copy. Previous owners bookplate verso front cover otherwise contents clean. A letter from Priestley survives in which he states many copies of the first printing of this book (1914) were destroyed in a warehouse fire. An account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition, here covering the wild adventures and amazing survival of the so-called Northern Party, an episode which may in our time achieve greater popularity than the dour tragedy of Scott's polar march. Rosove 256.B1 Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0903983265. ISBN/EAN: 9780903983266. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4040.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is a Fine Copy of this Book in brown coloured cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine in a Fine Dust-Jacket (Super Copy AS NEW) Not Price clipped and this copy has NO previous owner's names present.The book has a firm binding and it's a lovely clean tight copy with crisp white page edges.A great copy for the collector of this fascinating account of early polar exploration.Comprehensive work well illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and then some 19 plates,12 figure drawings also there are five maps 5 maps and 12 wonderful illustrations of ships plans.Large and Heavy 4to 306pp First Edition 1st Impression [1992].…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original delphinium blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, maps to the lining papers. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. In 1910 Frank Debenham was one of a group of three geologists on Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913). From January to March 1911, along with three other expedition members (Thomas Griffith Taylor, Charles Wright (physicist) and Edgar Evans), he explored and mapped the western mountains of Victoria Land, performing scientific studies and geological observations. He did not take part in the ill-fated journey to the South Pole due to a knee injury sustained while playing football in the snow, and instead took part in the second western journey along with Griffith Taylor, Tryggve Gran and William Forde. On his return from the expedition in 1913, he entered Cambridge University to write up his field notes. Contains 264 pp with monochrome photographs and text figures throughout. Ink name to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light rubbing to the tips and corners, not price clipped, 25/-. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. POLAR [Antarctic].…

Condition: Very Good unmarked. 2nd printing. Profusely iIllustrated account of Earths anatomy, history, climate, natural phenomena, minerals and fossils. 8-1/4 x 11-1/2, 419 pp, index, b/w photos & illus, full-page color plates, b/w-photo endpapers. Oversize trade paperback in glossy color-photo wraps.…

Special limited edition of Brown's elaborately illustrated history of Kenya's northern desert region and the 13 expeditions to Lake Rudolf. Quarto, original publisher's three quarters pebbled morocco over leatherette boards, marbled endpapers, with 75 color and 50 black and white illustrations, folding map in pocket affixed to rear pastedown. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title page, this is number 49. In fine condition. The first published full chronicle of Kenya's northern desert region, Brown's Where Giants Trod includes beautifully illustrated and well-researched sections on the area's prehistory, the background on the indigenous tribes living in the area and a lengthy account of the thirteen expeditions to Lake Rudoloph/Turkana. …