Olive Murray Chapman (53 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Heavily sunned spine area as well as front cover top. Spine slanted. No DJ. Binding is tight. No markings in book. After her husband was killed during the WW I, the young widow, Olive Murray Chapman, was determined to make the most of the education provided to her by her surgeon father. Ignoring…

Condition: Good. 1941. Reprint. 193 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed…

Condition: Good. 1941. Reprinted. 193 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription and ink mark to front pastedown and endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Vintage Penguin. #226. Olive Murray Chapmanâs Across Lapland is a vivid early-20th-century travel narrative in which Chapman recounts her solo journey through the remote northern landscapes of Swedish and Finnish Lapland. She writes with clarity and quiet determination, describing encounters with Sám…

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. A good condition book. Lacking…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1945 hardback, lacks dustjacket produced to war economy standard. Contains fold out map to front showing author's route across the length and breadth of the island "by car, cycle, mule or foot" , also several period photos showing locals in traditional dress. Interior very clean with n…

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Dustjacket. First Penguin Edition, First Printing. First Penguin printing, 1939, #226. From the collection of Ian Ballantine, who was the American representative of Penguin Books prior to his founding of Ballantine Books in 1952. Each book from the Ballantine co…

Condition: Good. Third impression (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 254pp. Colour frontispiece, b&w plates, folding map. Original green cloth, no dustwrapper. The rear board is somewhat rubbed, there is some foxing to the edges of the text block, ownership inscriptions to the front endpapers, and light creasing to the foldong map…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bookplate tipped in on the front inner board by Ian Mackenzie. Complete with all illustrations. No date stated c1942. Publication of 144 pages. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is foxing on the early and last few pages. Internally there are minor crea…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue cloth boards, title in light blue, board colour quite clean and bright, a little edge/corner wear with slight loss of colour. Binding good. previous owner's name stamp on blank end-paper clean, includes all photo plates. May incur some extra postage (at cost) outside the U…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. SIGNED, DEDICATED AND DATED Christmas 1939 on the half-title. Pages age-toned. Half-title slightly loose. Covers are very clean and sharp beecause of the unclipped, repaired jacket, the rear panel of which is detached but extant. 183pp. plus. 7pp. Penguin adverts. illus.…