Katharine Sim (45 results)

Condition: Good. New Ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. New Ed. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. New Ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. New Ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No date but thought to be 1947. In beige boards with green lettering on spine. Boards rather marked with age, plus two brown marks on back and one on rear paste down endpaper. Text is slightly tanned throughout, but is otherwise unmarked. Tightly bound. Includes black and white illustrations and photos, including frontispiece of the author with one of her cats. Dust jacket is covered with clear removable plastic. Stained on the inside, plus some brown tape at the top of the spine on the inside. Minor chips along the top and bottom. Some marks on the front and back. The story of seven Siamese cats. …

Condition: Good. 1947. First Edition. 103 pages. Dust jacket over grey cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine. Moderate rubbing and marking all over.…

Condition: Good. 1947. First Published. 103 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. …

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. As photographed; a little very mild shelf-marking to covers; o/w the books appears to be in unopened condition; binding still tight, as new; clean, crisp, and unmarked throughout; private ownership; 447pp + 32pls. Although Burckhardt's own writings are known, and he has a lengthy entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, this is in fact the first full-length biography to be written in English.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have little wear. Light toning to pages. DJ has tears and loss to edges with toning. Price clipped.

Condition: Good. 1959. No edition remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Paper covered boards. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Droplets to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.…

Condition: Fair. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription and paper residue to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Stain to front board.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Paperback Edition. 447 pAGES As an explorer, the remarkable Jean Louis Burckhardt achieved the near impossible. After immersing himself in Arab culture and language, Burkhardt disguised himself as "Sheik Abraham" and journeyed through regions not yet known to Europeans. He became the first to enter Petra, discovered the colossal figures at Abu Simbel, and even penetrated Mecca, where he lived for many years as an Arab.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Condition: Good. 1969. This edition. 252 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Black and white illustration plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with a small tear to spine base. Spine mildly tanned. …

Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 248 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Lettering is clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Dust jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Extensive tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Copy in beige cloth on boards in unclipped D/J.Board spine lightly sunned. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Jacket lightly chipped around edges. Slight crack in front hinge. Previous owners inscription on FFE. Clean text with b/w plates and illustrations.…

First Edition. 1947 1st edition with B&W illustrations; binding tight but spine a little discoloured. Dust jacket not price-clipped with wear, tear and small losses to edges; spine tanned. Page fore-edges yellowed. Internally, endpapers a little foxed and yellowed; page edges yellowed; otherwise, a good, tidy copy. Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hodder and Stoughton, 1957. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 288pp. Owner name/date, tape stains to endpapers, slight foxing, d/j a little shelfworn and nicked. A fair copy. /0.4uk.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 447 pp., numerous b/w plates, maps and line drawings, publisher's original wrappers, notes, glossary, index, Talis House stamp verso front & lower covers, otherwise copy clean & in very good condition. The author first read about J. L. Burckhardt when she visited "Petra" in 1960, 150 years after the latter discovered it. Henceforth her interest in him grew and she eventually decided to write about this unassuming explorer whose other great discovery was The Great Temple of Rameses II at Abu Simbel. This book is intended as an introduction to Burckhardt, the man and his travels, the adoptive son of England, who lived and worked dangerously, strenuously in her service, and who died in so doing. #19977.…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper price clipped. A little age-spotted at the top edge of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 10" x 7" (1.5 kg); pp (xvii) 350; Index; Bibliography; Preface by Frank Bicknell; Includes: Colour plates; Black & white plates; Black & white drawings; Appendix; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #204065 ||.…

8° , Softcover/Paperback. 1.Auflage.. 447 Seiten Einband mit geringen Lagerspuren, innen sehr guter und sauberer Zustand. ------------------------------------------------ Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (* 25. November 1784 in Lausanne; 15. Oktober 1817 in Kairo) war ein Schweizer Orientreisender. Während seines Aufenthalts im Orient nannte er sich Scheich Ibrahim ibn Abdallah. Bekannt ist er vor allem als Wiederentdecker der Nabatäerstadt Petra und des grossen Tempels von Abu Simbel. Zudem war er der erste Europäer, der eine ausführliche Beschreibung der heiligen Stätten des Islam, Mekka und Medina, vorlegte. Weniger bekannt, aber wohl ebenso bedeutend sind seine präzisen und umfangreichen ethnografischen Aufzeichnungen. 9781842120866 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 731.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. light chipping and small closed tear to head of front of DJ. light foxing to endpapers. PP remain clean and binding firm. Size: 12mo.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. removeable plastic cover on DJ and Ex-Libris book plate pasted down into ffep. binding tight and pp very clean and bright. Size: 16mo.

Paperback. Condition: New. Ollam ("ollav"), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his legacy.The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising stars or great professors at the finest universities around the world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous poem Messe ocus Pangur bán; a suite of articarticles on the ideal king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known heroes like Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill.This book will be a must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the twenty-first century.…

Condition: Good. 25.5 x 17.5cm. xvii, 350pp. Con reproducciones en color y negro en láminas fuera de texto. Cartoné del editorial con sobrecubiertas. Roberts viajaba por España sept, 1832 - nov, 1833,haciendo dibujos que publicará más tarde como grabados en acero en los 'Jenning's Landscape Annuals' (Granada,1835; Andalusia, 1836; Biscay and the Castiles, 1837; Spain and Morocco, 1838), y sobre todo en su magnífico album de litografías, 'Picturesque Sketches in Spain', 1837. Muy buen ejemplar. Cartoné del editorial con sobrecubiertas. …

Very good red cloth hardcover with edgeworn dustjacket. 447p. includes index. Some staining to page edges.

Hardback. Katharine Sim, MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD. Author: Katharine SimBinding: HardbackPublisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD, 1946Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis evocative memoir, Malayan Landscape, transports readers to the vibrant, complex world of colonial Malaya through the eyes of an astute observer. The narrative chronicles the author's experiences and observations, painting a vivid picture of the region's natural beauty, diverse cultures, and the intricacies of expatriate life. Sim's prose captures the unique atmosphere of a bygone era, detailing the challenges and charms of adapting to a new environment. It presents a deeply personal yet historically rich account, offering insights into the social fabric and daily rhythms of a fascinating land. This compelling work illustrates the profound impact of place on personal identity and memory. Hardback.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Large post8vo, 447 p. 12 plates, two maps and 8 line drawings. Original pictorial light card covers. A near fine copy.

VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 1st edition, 1st issue. ISBN 0704323710.