Ward Capt Kingdon (14 results)
Published by Edward Arnold & Co. 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketCondition: Good. 1933. First Edition Thus. 277 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. 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 rubb…ing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Published by Edward Arnold & Co, London 1933
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Add to basketCloth Covered Boards. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Boards rubbed and stained, blind stamped image of bird to head of front board and to spine, corners and spine ends bumped, spine browned, text feint, light spotting to closed edges, endpapers and to the edges of some pages, shaken, gutters cracked, black and white photograph fron…tispiece, text clear to read, 8 black and white photographs, double page map to rear of book. Size: 12mo.
Language: English
Published by J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia 1921
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 311p, ills, folding map between pages 303 and 305. A minor bit of foxing on blank fep, a few spots on page ends, cover illustration faded, but overall in excellent condition.
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. c1925 1925
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Add to basket1st. Near Fine pp19. 18 illus. photographs. The Salween River extract from a Boy's Annual.
More imagesPublished by Edward Arnold & Co. 1924
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United KingdomGreen Ink Booksellers
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. - First edition - Green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt titles and illustration to upper board - 12 pages of publishers advertisments to rear - Map illustrating rear endpapers - - Corners and spine ends a little bumped with small areas of board exposed - Some foxing to edges… of text block and first and last few pages, with the odd spot scattered otherwise internally - Toning to endpapers - Previous owners library plate to front pastedown endpaper - Front hinge breached but not open (binding visible at start of chapter 1) - Book otherwise solid clean and content bright - 275 pages.
The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, June 1926, Vol. LVII, No. 338: Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia / Behind the Himalayas / Among the Amazons
Malcomson, F.A.; Charnley, W.; verrill, A. Hyatt; Vivian, Major V.; Elwyn, Jack; Johnston, Capt. Bernard; Ward, Capt. F. Kingdon; Jerome, Jerome V.; Dunne, Patrick; Cleaver, Hylton; Hayter, C.N.C.; The Countess Malmignati; Stradling, Jack; Dubois, Jean
Published by The International News Company, New York 1926
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Car No. 13 - A routine train trip enmeshes F. A. Malcomson aboard Car No. 13 of the "Californian Limited" at Los Angeles; My Mad Mate - The reason why young Harry Neild's hair was white; Amo…ng the Amazons - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of the Wai-woi, a little-known tribe of Indians; My Buffalo - How a hunter's first shoot was nearly his last in the Himalayan foothills northeast of Ghaggar; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - Part I - Jottings from a recently emigrated young farmer who took the plunge and began farming ; The Mozampur Dacoity - A curious robbery in India; Behind the Himalayas - Part II of II - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of an exploration to the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Cannon Idol of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies; A Duck-Shooting Adventure - Using ice-scooters to hunt ducks on the Great South Bay of Long Island; The Black Hand - A recent adventure in Kuling, China, which is currently experiencing a wave of serious brazen crime; Two Girls in a Typhoon - The trying experience of two young ladies aboard a tramp steamer from Hong Kong to British North Borneo; A Matter of Promotion - The story of a long, hard chase , in the depths of winter, of two half-breed outlaws by a constable of the Royal North-West Mounted Police at Saddle Lake, Saskatchewan; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - Part I - The exciting adventures of the Countess Malmignati, the first European woman to penetrate the little-known Inner Deserts of Arabia - this part describing her time in Damascus before the journey - with photos; Letters; The Phantom Tiger - Jean M.F. Dubois, a former planter in Lokop Province, Sumatra, explains what happened when he pursued a tiger which had caused a local reign of terror - with photo. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Average wear and soiling to back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Abbey, S.; Bird, L. Pern; Prater, Ernest; Gillett, F.; Sindall, A.; Carruthers, G.P.; Holloway, Cyril; Potts, Leonard; Soper, G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, Ernest (illustrator).
The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, May 1926, Vol. LVII, No. 337: Behind the Himalayas / A Pearler in the Philippines
Tench, C.V.; Ward, Capt. F. Kingdon; Hunter, Reginald P.; Le Mesurier, B.G.; Macgowan, Capt. Gault; Barker, Reginald; Wetherell, M.A.; Ingalese, Rupert; Bailey, Elliot; Burdett, F.D.; Parsons, Capt. A.H.H.; McLaren, Jack
Published by The International News Company, New York 1926
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reac…hes of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian, S.; Abbey, S.; Peddie, Tom; Inns, Kenneth; Wigfull; Faulks, Jack M.; De Walton, John (illustrator).
Published by Seeley, Service & Co., London 1923
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United KingdomThe Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Page edges looking a little darkened and the spine slightly faded but overall in good condition. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Environment & Ecology. Inventory No: 75929.
The Wide World, True Stories of Adventure, July 1922, Vol. 49, No. 291: Across Remote Yunnan / The Wild Men of Borneo
Verrill, A. Hyatt; Hogg, John Edwin; Pound, Reginald; Ward, Capt. F. Kingdon; Dale, Bonnycastle; Story, Sommerville; Vivian, Herbert; Reynolds, R. Frank; Herbert, V.
Published by The International News Company, New York 1922
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part II - The U.S. attempts to prevent the arming of revolutionaries in Dominica in 1906-7; Hunting Wild Goats By Seaplane and Motorcycle Near San Clemente - article… with photos; Remanded - a perfectly blameless man is blamed for a crime; Full Speed Astern - 400 men aboard the steamer Remiji Maru are saved by the action of a young engineer on watch two days out of Hong Kong; The Wild Men of Borneo - Wonderful photo-illustrated account of a visit to the Dyaks; Photo and letter from a reader who, with five friends, dressed up in KKK outfits and brought along a relative in blackface to entertain at a fancy-dress ball in Leeds; Across Remote Yunnan - Part II - Capt. F. Kingdon Ward continues his journey through the little-known region where the frontiers of China and Tibet meet - article with nice photos; Two Men and a "Pink" - terrifying experience of two returned Canadian soldiers off the coast of Labrador aboard their vessel Terra Nova, nicknamed the Turn Over; "Gentleman" Girard - Frenchman Henri Girard made a profession of poisoning people whose lives he had insured; The Ghost Dancers of the Imst - unusual customs in the Tyrolian valley village of Imst - article with photos; Down the "Old Delph" - two men venture into a disused mine near Roby Mill in Lancashire; Marooned On a Precipice - Three mountain climbers, Karl Aichner, Alois Netzer, and Conrad Schuster, are stranded for six days in the Northern Tyrol; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 180-264, 9-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear and some soiling to back cover. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Carruthers, G.P.; Holloway, C.; Wigfull, T.C.; Hiley, F.; Tennant, Dudley; Williams, C. Fleming (illustrator).
The Wide World, True Stories of Adventure, June 1922, Vol. 49, No. 290: Cover Illustration of Roy Gardner, The "Smiling Bandit"
Richards, Kenneth, F.; Scherer, H.C.; Ward, Capt. F. Kingdon; Shirley, Alfred Henry; King, James; Verrill, A. Hyatt; Clements, Colin Campbell; Kingston, Charles; Ransome, Stafford; Dickie, Francis
Published by The International News Company, New York 1922
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Roy Gardner - Californian Bandit Extraordinary; Exploring the Salton Sea - an exploration by two motorcyclists - article with photos; Across Remote Yunnan - Part I - account of a journey throu…gh the little-known region where China and Tibet meet - article with photos; Besieged by Man-Eating Lions - a woman's terrible ordeal in East Africa; Shipwrecked in Bering Sea - Thrilling story of the passengers and crew of a schooner wrecked in the icy Bering Sea; Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part I - the United States tries to preserve peace in the Negro Republic of Dominica in 1906-7; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part III - French troops are overwhelmed by Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; American Crooks in Europe - sketches of the meteoric careers of Walter Sheridan, Max Shinburn and Adam Worth; The Decoy Telegram - an engineer's narrow escape from death; A Model Town Made From Corks - model town built by M. Jean Bertrand, musical director at Maskelyne's Theatre of Mysteries, London; The Limits of the Law - an illiterate Justice of the Peace is called on to administer justice in Mink Lake, in the Lesser Slave Lake district; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 90-176, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Prater, E.; Holloway, C.; Oakdale, E.G.; Hodgson; E.S.; Wood, Stanley L.; De Walton, John; Whitaker, W.G.; Coller, H.; Waddell, J. (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by J B Lippincott Company, Philadelphia 1921
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, U.S.A.Old New York Book Shop, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. near fine. First Edition. 311p octavo, illustrated a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, unusual thus, folded map in the rear.
More imagesPublished by 1st. Ed. Pub. Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. 1921 1921
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Add to basketHardcover. pp.311 with photographic frontis., two maps (one folding), 16 further plates of photographs plus 8-page Publisher's adverts. 8vo. Hardback. Very minor amount of spotting o/w. contents exceptionally clean, short closed tear to fold of map, o/w. contents fine. Original illustrated black cloth boards showing very minor s…helf wear and very gently sunned to spine, o/w. fine. A most pleasing copy.
More imagesPublished by J.B. Lippincott Company; London: Seeley Service & Co. Ltd, Philadelphia 1921
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst American edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-311, [1]; frontispiece plus 23 plates, and 2 maps (one double-page and one folding); contemporary three-quarter green morocco, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 3, t.e.g.; extremities slightly scuffed, 3 of the raised bands rubbed, otherwise very good. Yakushi K189…: "Narrative of the author's exploration in Upper Burma in 1914." Schweinfurth III.
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Add to basketLeather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine l…ends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1924. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 328, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 328 328.
