Resultados de búsqueda: Desert Encounter de Knud Holmboe

George G. Harrap, 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1936. First Edition Thus. 282 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Rough-cut pages. Missing front free endpaper. Moderate staining, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and rear free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges, exposing netting and causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have moderate corner bumping and edge-wear with visible tanning, staining, and scuffing overall. Prominent splitting to joints, exposing binding and fraying cloth. Spine has heavy tanning with prominent splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

George G. Harrap & Co., 1936. Hardcover. Good. 1936. First Edition Thus. 281 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Rough cut textblock edges. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Clipping to front free endpaper. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Visible creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable sunning to spine and edges. Light marks to boards.

UK: George C. Harrap & Co., 1936. clean dark purple bds with gilt title to spine. spine fading with bump to top spine end. owners inscript to ffep. b/w portrait to frontis. b/w photo plates to text. a little very light smudgy soiling to a few pages, otherwise interior very good and clean. bindings tight. front edge uncut. Unclipped browning d.j. with creasing and tears to edges. tearing and losses to spine ends and top corners. small losses to bottom spine ends, sunning to spine, rubbing to spine edges and 28mm split to front spine edge. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.

London, UK: George G Harrap & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 282pp, some black and white photographic plates. Purple cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine; top text block edge sprayed yellow, fore edge untrimmed. 8vo. Sun-faded spine; rubbed spine ends, cloth fraying; quite cocked. Top text block edge colour fading, remaining edges tanning and foxing. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Gutters strained, volume loose. Internally neat and clean, barring some foxing throughout.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 266pp.; HB red w/white&ornge labels; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; bookplate; ft.hinge cracking; some lt.fox w/clean,tight pgs. "Written some time before the invasion of Abyssinia it foreshadows the methods of colonization and subjugation which Italy may be expected to pursue in her newly conquered territory." illus.

George G. Harrap & Co, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. George G. Harrap & Co 1936. Hardcover with loose binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text.

George G Harrap & Co, 1936. 1st UK ed VG in G+ (slightly chipped) dw. Account of an eventful 1930 journey by car, across the Sahara desert from Morocco to Egypt

London: George C. Harrap & Company Ltd, 1936. Translated from the Danish by Helga Holbek. With an Introduction by J. H. Driberg. 61 b/w illustrations. 282 pages, clean and clear. White endpapers. Ffep missing. Red cloth cover with gilt titles on the spine. Faded spine, light wear to head and tail of spine, corners bumped, stains on front cover. VG.

Putnam, 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1937 Putnam hardcover in a chipped and price clipped dust jacket unmarked b136

Harrap. London 1936 1st edition thus.. Inscription on ffep. minor foxing only. spine faded. a sound clean reading copy.. Mauve cloth boards. 281pp illustrated b/w photos. 8vo. Translated from the Danish. A convert to Islam, Holmboe wrote concerning his travels in 1930 from Morocco through Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli, to Cyrenaica. He was murdered near Akaba by brigands the following year.