Major Hingston (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. Edgewear and chipping to wraps.

gd. gd.

GD. LOC PSYCHOLOGY.

Condition: Good. 1928. First Published. 296 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking, creasing and staining to gutters; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft splitting and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

1931. Paris. Payot. Coll : Bibliothèque Scientifique. Préface de Bouvier. In-8. Br. 37 figs. 302 p. TBE.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED: Acceptable trade paperback. Front hinge detached, tears/creases along edges. Contains "Sense & Censorship" by V.F. Calverton. Sm 4to. 224pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover without dust jacket in good condition. Covers are marked, scuffed and sunned, with tears and fraying at the spine ends. Board corners and sedges are bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned and foxed, with light foxing on the occasional page within. Bookplates of W.S. Bristowe, naturist and authority on spiders, on front pastedown and FEP. Remnant of label and surface tear also on front pastedown. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.

De la coll. "Bibliothèque scientifique". Préface de M.E.-L. Bouvier. Avec 37 figures.

Payot collection bibliothèque scientifique - 1931 - In-8 broché - 302 pages - quelques illustrations Bon état, coins légèrement émoussés, pliures de lecture et léger frottement sur le dos, déchirure sur le haut et le bas du dos.

8vo [22.5 x 14 cm]; xiii, [ii], 384 pp, 16 plates including frontis from photos, map, 150 illustrations from the author's drawings, appendix on new species of spiders. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine faded but lettering clear, name of Arthur J. Spoor on endpaper, minor foxing on a few margins, front panel of dust jacket glued to front endpaper, tipped in description on endpaper, near fine, clean. An important book on scientific exploration in these South American jungles by the distinguished naturalist and leader of the Oxford University Expedition to British Guiana. Based on long hours of watching in observation posts slung in the tree tops, enabled the author to observe a teeming and fantastic natural world. With much on insects, spiders and spider webs. Nicely illustrated including many sketches of spider webs by the author. A picture of this book is available on request.

First edition. xiii, [2], 384pp. With 16 plates and 150 illustrations in the text. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked spine sunned and a trifle cocked. Half-title lightly foxed, otherwise bright throughout. Major Richard William George Hingston (1887-1966) was an Irish physician, explorer and naturalist, who travelled and wrote extensively throughout his military career. As a naturalist, one of his discoveries (a species of jumping spider Euophrys omnisuperstes) remains a contender for 'animal with the highest permanent habitat on earth'. Hingston joined the Indian Medical Service on graduation from the National University of Ireland, remaining with them throughout much of his career, including both world wars. On one of many secondments, he served as the expedition doctor on the famed 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First, dust jacket, 384 pps. Minor foredge soil, mod soil back cov., few small DJ edge tears, former pricing code inside fr. cov. in pencil. G/VG.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Major J.R. Dugmore (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of the fifth volume on the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, following their fascinating history from 1919-1942. The first edition of the fifth volume of Lieutenant Colonel Walter Higston's historical narrative on the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Published by Lund Humphries and Co. in 1950In the publisher's original decorative cloth, with a frontispiece of The Regimental Chapel in Yorkminster. Contains all other 25 attractive illustrations by Major Dugmore, and 9 maps of areas in which the regiment fought. Collated complete.Written for future generations, Higston's stirring narrative follows his esteemed regiment and their significance across British military campaigns. In this particular volume, Higston details their service in India and Mesopotamia, as well as their struggles in the turbulent Burma campaign of World War II. In the publisher's original decorative cloth. Externally, very smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and the occasional marks to boards. End papers are bright and clean, with the rare spot to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very minor offsetting to half-title. Very Good Indeed. book.