Geoffrey Birch (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Three Ridings on Foot. A Walk Around The Yorkshire Border This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

(245 x 1870). pp, 192. No. 167 of a limited edition. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations. Contents very clean. Red and gilt cloth. Dustjacket in clear protective wraps. Near fine.

Rowley, R. Geoffrey. Birch, J.B., Illustrator. Tom Lee. Skipton, [G.B.]: The Craven Herald, [1982]. 72 pp. Illustrations. Softcover. Light shelfwear. Internally clean. A very good copy. $20. * The story of the murder in 1766 of Dr. Richard Petty by Tom Lee, at Grassington near Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. (Publisher's description).…

I. 6 singleside typed and illustrated pages. / II. 79 singleside printed pages with maps, illustrations and few minimal holograph corrections. / III. 17 singleside typed and illustrated pages, 1 tipped-in original Photograph. - 4to - folio (ca. 30 x 21 cm - ca. 33 x 22 cm). ~~~ [SOMMER-SCHLUSS-VERKAUF / SUMMER SALES: um über 30% reduzierter Preis bis Montag 21.09.2026 / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30% until Monday, September 21, 2026; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 48,-] --- RARE FIRST EDITIONS, PRIVATELY PUBLISHED DETAILED REPORTS OF THE EXPEDITION, ITS PRELIMINARIES AND THE MOUNTAINEERING 'SYNOPSIS'; the last on with a holograph number 17, most probably by Smith. ''During July and August 1972 the six-man Greenland (Cape Farewell) Expedition visited an Area of Southern Greenland hitherto unexlored, namely the mountain group on the east side pf Sondre Sermilik. Exceptionally good weather gave the party the opportunity of making 38 ascents, up to Difficile in standard, of 28mountains, 23 of which were previously unclimbed. . . From the outset the Expedition was purely a mountaineering-exploration venture with no scientific work attached. However apart from the mountaineering achievements, the parte collected and identified 157 species of flowering plants (one of which is new to Southern Greenland) and also made studies of the Norse ruins in the Expedition area.''('Summary')- Probably Smith's first Greenland Mountaineering Expedition but not his last. . . --- Minimally used; A VERY GOOD AND SET.…