John Eliot Text (4 results)

Map. No Dust Jacket. Map only. Light browning and creases. Explores Kingdoms and Empire, European Exploration, The Road to Independence etc. Illustrated by Timothy J. Carter, Map Compilation (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition (Stated). A fine copy in a bright and fine price-intact dust jacket with one closed tear now in a protective mylar cover. [No International shipping on this item].

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fine copy of this soft cover, square-format book of evocative b&w photographs of Scotland taken between 1930 and 1959. A selection from the 4000 photos in the Munn collection. Over 100 captioned photos with Munn family biographical detail, clean and unmarked throughout with no inscription, just very slight shelf-wear to the matt-finish of the covers. A very attractive book. 20% price reduction applied. John P. Munn [Photographer] (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: NEW- COLLECTIBLE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/trace spotting (acidic paper reaction) to front & rear covers verso. Gilt embossed beige linen boards (subsequent printings in orange cloth)/Fine. DJ under mylar/Fine. Collectible 1969, First Edition, First Thus. PLEASE NOTE: Published w/o ISBN ---ISBN: 0525095233, included for identification convenience only; 1970 marks the historic moment when ISBNs came to be! Record of Major John Wesley Powell's (1834 - 1902) 1869 journal, in 4 boats, 13-week Geographic Expedition down the Green & Colorado Rivers, marking the first passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell's diaries were first published in Scribner's Magazine. For this volume, the journal is edited & introduced by Don Fowler. Book, includes drawings & illustrations by Powell's contemporaries, and augmented w/ a 48-page gallery of 4-color photos from photographer Eliot Porter (1901 - 1990) who, since the 1940s, used Eastman Kodak's new dye transfer processes for color photography. Porter's Epilogue is a memorial to Glen Canyon, giving a new identify of Lake Powell, of Glen Canyon Dam. 168 pgs. in 7 chapters: 1, From Green River City to Flaming Gorge; 2, From Flaming Gorge to the Gate of Lodore; 3, The Canyon of Lordore; 4, From Echo Park to the Mouth of the Uinta River; 5, From the Mouth of the Uinta River to the Junction of the Grand and Green; 6, From the Junction of the Grand and Green to the Mouth of the Mouth of the Little Colorado; and 7, The Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Fine Copy. Eliot Porter (Photographer: The Canyons of the Colorado - Past & Present 1969) (illustrator). …