Mabel Waln Smith (26 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear, number on spine. Book has clean and bright contents, Hongkong Electric Recreation Club stamps to endpapers.

Condition: Good. 1956. First edition thus. 216 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations by Imre Hofbauer. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. 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 moderate marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled.

Condition: Good. 1956. No Edition Remarks. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with faded lettering. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.

Condition: Good. 1956. First Published in Great Britain. 216 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are bright and clear with light foxing and tanning to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

Original gilt-lettered cloth. Small cut-out on first blank, else a good copy. Please see description or ask for photos.

Condition: Good. 1956. No edition remarks. 216 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by Imre Hofbauer. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine.

Les éditions du Jour 1957 Version française de M. Loutrel-Tschirret usures sur le dos de la couverture carton.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Manque sur le haut de la couverture (voir ma photo). Intérieur frais. Envoi rapide et protégé.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First Edition. 8vo. Black cloth, nicked to head of spine, with faded gilt lettering. pp. 215. Tips worn, bumped, buit internally still a clean, unmarked copy, binding firm.

Ein abenteuerlicher Sommer in der Mongolei. Wiesbaden: Brockhaus, 1958. OLn m. farb. OU. 259 S. mit 14 Zeichnungen von Rosemarie Lippert. -20,5 x 13.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1957). 216pp. VG+/VG+ copy, foxing to page edge and a little to prelims; dust jacket has a couple of small closed tears, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Condition: Fine. Très Bon Etat. 1957. Cartonné avec illustrations. 132 pages. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is creased with a 3 inch closed tear at the top of the back cover and shorter tears at bottom edge. 216 pages, illustrations in the text by Imre Hofbauer.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hofbauer, Imre (drawings) (illustrator). 216 pages, interspersed with black and white sketches. The jacket is chipped at the edges, including a series of short tears, three of which have been repaired with sticky tape. It also suffers from loss at the head of the spine, badly at the tail. There is a heavy ownership signature on the front end paper, which has left its shadow on its verso and on the title page. Minor foxing to the fore-edge and head. A clean, unmarked and solid copy, though clearly second hand. "Land of Swift-running Horses is Mongolia. Mabel Waln Smith describes how she spent a summer living there on the edge of vthe Gobi desert with a herd of wild horses, their Swedish breeder, and his Mongolian herdsmen and their families" (front flap).

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 215pp., illusts., Author was in the infamous Prootung Camp under Japanese occupation.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 215pp., text ills., Account of the great city 'disappeared forever under the boots of Japanese soldiers & the dogmas of the new Communist regime' (which saved China from the Japanese soldiers & gave the ordinary people of Shanghai a life they could never have hoped for as denizens of the 'Paris of the East') Author was an American who moved to Australia after the liberation.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Imre Hofbauer (illustrator). First Edition. Good hardback copy. No dustjacket. Some spotting on top edge. 216pp. Book.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. R160133527: 15 SEPT 1957. In-12. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Manque en coiffe de tête, Intérieur acceptable. 131 pages. Nombreuses photos en couleurs et quelques illustrations en bleu et blanc hors texte. Texte sur deux colonnes. . . . Classification Dewey : 800-LITTERATURE (BELLES-LETTRES).

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. R150141962: 1957. In-8. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 131 pages. Nombreuses planches photos en couleurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 900-GEOGRAPHIE, HISTOIRE, SCIENCES AUXILIAIRES DE L'HISTOIRE.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO20044908: 1957. In-12. Cartonné. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur bon état. 131 pages. Nombreuses planches d'illustrations bicolores et de photos en couleurs, hors-texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 636.1-Chevaux.

Good red cloth hardcover. No dj. 216p. ill. Sunning to spine,corner cut from endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Drawings by Imre Hofbauer (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Edge wear, chipping and slight loss to top and bottom of jacket, 2" loss to bottom of spine and small loss to top, corners rubbed with small loss, spine slightly browned, but overall jacket bright and unsunned. Not price clipped (15s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 216pp. A rare and unusual travel book on the adventures of Mabel Waln Smith, a Quaker born in Pennsylvania, and her summer spent with Mongolian herders and their horses.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO20180598: NON DATE. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 131 pages - nombreuses photos et cartes en couleurs dans et hors texte - frontispice bleu et blanc. . . . Classification Dewey : 950-Histoire générale de l'Asie.

aus dem Amerik. von Josef Tichy 259 S., OLn., 8°. Zustand: gut.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Hofbauer, Imre (illustrator). First Edition. No signatures. Some rubbing and slight fading to ends of spine. Rubbing and a series of 1/8" along head and tail of dust wrapper spine. 1" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" at head of rear fold of dust wrapper. Some marking to rear panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 216 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 199mm x 130mm. "The author of this unusual travel book describes how she spent a summer living there [Mongolia] on the edge of the Gobi desert with a herd of wild horses, their Swedish breeder, and his Mongolian herdsmen and their families." - from the dust wrapper blurb.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condition: Used: Acceptable. Occasion - Etat Correct - Dos un peu abîmé - Au galop d'un cheval mongol (1957) - Grand Format.