Discovering Dorothea Life Pioneering by Shindler Karolyn, First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 16 plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in publisher's blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Very Good Dust-Jacket.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with NO leaning to spine.The book was acquired from the Private Library of Henry Kelly,Television Presenter and former Journalist and this copy is in fat written by Henry's Partner Karolyn Shindler.Henry Kelly was born in Dublin Ireland and after University he worked as a journalist and was the Belfast based Northern Editor of The Irish Times in the 1970's. In 1976, he moved to London to work on Radio 4's World Tonight and then, in a complete career change from serious journalism he moved into television.He became a household name in the UK as part of the team presenting LWT's practical-joke show Game For a Laugh in the 1980's and then he presented Going For Gold a Popular lunchtime TV quiz show on BBC1.8vo 390pp First UK Edition 1st Impression.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 2005. Original pictorial dustjacket near mint (the spine is very slightly sunned - barely noticeable without close examination). Blue cloth gilt very clean. Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 390 pages.

1st edition. "In 1898, a 19 year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering explorer and fossil-hunter and the beginning of an association with the Museum that was to last for more than fifty years." Pp.x/390, 16 black & white photo illustrations + 4 maps, inscribed by the author "To dear Douglas with the fondest of memories. Love Karolyn" to the title page. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has crease to top front edge and small tear to top front corner but is now in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G+.