Loch E Erskine (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound in dark red cloth over boards, with black lettering to the spine. Dated 1938 on copyright page. No date on title page. 255 pages. Good condition. Binding is strong and square. 20+ B&W plates. Signed by author. Signed by Author(s).…

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.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Ecuador, Andes-Amazon Expedition, Exploration) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Bound in dark red cloth over boards, with black lettering to the spine. Red pictorial dust jacket with yellow and black lettering. Dated 1938 on copyright page. No date on title page. 255 pages. Good condition. Binding is strong and square. Foot of the covers is water-stained. A bit of sunning to the spine. Pages are toned. The water stain extends along the foot of the endpapers, and around the edges of the first few pages. Pages toned, but otherwise clean and free of marks. A previous owners name and date written to the half-title page is the only bit of writing I can find. Dust jacket heavily toned and discolored. Head and foot of the spine and corners are chipped. No tears or creases. Spine is sunned. Overall light shelf wear, but good condition. Dust jacket has been wrapped in a protective mylar cover. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term 'biological diversity' to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. Thomas Lovejoy's name is not written in this book. It will come with a card stating provenance, with a picture of Lovejoy. Please email with questions or to see any photos. …

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. Fair condition undated hardback without dust jacket. Light wear and marking to boards with tanned textblock. Loose frontispiece with foxing to pages. Main text in good clean condition.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Shelf wear to top and bottom of spine, worn corners The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. -------------Original dark red cloth with black design and lettering, 8 1/2" tall. 257 pages, with endpaper maps and 22 illustrations and a map.------ All illustrations and map checked -- all are present and in original condition.--------- VERY GOOD CONDITION, solid tight binding, clean book------ no problems ----- no dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in very good plus condition with good minus dust jacket. 1st edition. Dust jacket has small tears and chips at edges but is unclipped ($2.75 original price) and now protected in clear mylar jacket sleeve.

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. …