cameron commander (14 Ergebnisse)

Pictorial Cover. Zustand: Good +. No Jacket. A.w.cooper (illustrator). 384pp. Cover in brown yellow and gold shows lion menacing 2 natives. Average wear, spine a little rubbed and worn at head and foot.

8vo; ornate pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed and a little bumped at head and tail of spine; previous owner's name on front free endpaper; inscription on half-title page reading: "J. Boyd Varty; III Prize York School; Xmas 1888"; tissue-guarded frontispiece; black-and-white illustrations; pp. 384; foxing and browning to endpapers and scattered throughout; small stain to edge; front hinge starting. Good condition. Novel of adventure set in Central and East Africa.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second edition large 8vo. Red with pictorial back and gilt to front and spine, pale speckling principally to both fore-edges, dulled spine, minor bumps to extremities, front hinge cracked, back hinge starting, binding firm if spread in places, frontis detached, eps tanned, very good page condition, many latter pages still uncut. A highly readable autobiographical account of life at sea in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century.

hardback, 8vo, xvi,379,(24)pp, illustrated, folding map, owner's name on endpaper, slight browning on edges, text clean and binding sound, red cloth pictorial, gilt titles, Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. A swashbuckler from the past. A rare book . A nick on the front cover Prev. owners name in ink. Otherwise sound, clean and tight . Very good shape for a 117 year old book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very nice copy of the First U.S. EDITION issued in 1877. No dust jacket. 508 pages, including index. 8 additional pages devoted to Harper catalog of "Valuable & Interesting Works for Public and Private Libraries." 29 Full Page Plates and Woodcuts. Includes original folding map of journey in 2 parts stored the Front Pocket. Very clean and tight inside, with "Numerous Illustrations" (full page plates) complete with tissue guards. Photos are of the actual book being offered.

Zustand: Good. Engraved plates [32 including 31 full-paage and half page engraving to pictorial titlepage as listed in plate list] Octavo pale blue cloth with gilt and brown and green pictorial cover and spine on bevelled boards [edges rubbed/corners sl.bumped/plain blue lower cover with some discoloration] All Edges Gilt 359pp Lower corner of Rear end papers with pale damp mark and affecting a few leaves of last pages in the lower margin - no printed area affected. The blank verso of a plate at page 304 small brown mark which was also offset onto the facing page. Award label to front pastedown by the School Board of London to Ben Jonson. All pages well bound and tight, paper clean and no underlining or other marginalia. * Exciting victorian travel adventure in Africa. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Stanley Berkeley (illustrator). First Edition. Lovely copy of this scarce juvenile, dedicated to Richard Burton (the explorer). Publisher's illustrated olive cloth, all edges gilt. Undated on title page but with code dating for 1888 at rear. Prize bookplate from 1898 on ffep but an exceptionally clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in tan pictorial cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 309pp. Gold gilt page edges. B/w frontispiece, b/w plates throughout. Not library copy, pencil inscription to ffep, ink inscription to reverse half title and frontispiece, rubbing to board edges, repair to inner hinges. (37/2).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 29 Full Page Plates and Woodcuts. Large Folding Map in the Front Pocket. First U.S. EDITION. Very clean and tight inside, with the full page plates complete with tissue guards. We, at Coalesce Bookstore, thank our customers and supporters, acknowledging that what we do would not be possible were it not for each of you. Books over 2.2 lbs require additional shipping cost outside US, approximately $40USD ($25USD for Canada).

With black and white frontispiece illustration and spot illustration on title page. (illustrator). Verney Lovett Cameron was an intrepid explorer in Central Africa who was the first European (1875) to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea. He entered the Royal Navy and was employed for a considerable time in the suppression of the East African Slave trade. A tight, clean very nice copy with hardly any rubbing. Only a tear and a small hole near the fore-edge of the free front endpaper which also has the previous owner's name in pencil written on the recto side. Also a couple of stains in the margins of pp. 2 and 3. Otherwise a very good to fine copy. 8vo. 7-9/16" x 5-3/8". 314 pp. Decorative pictorial cloth cover stamped in red black and gold.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the book cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Some identifying marks on the inside cover, but this is minimal. Very little wear and tear.some foxing to page edges, but in vgc for age The book you see is the book you will get! 1st Editio.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition with new material and corrected map located in a pocket in rear. Board hinging loose, spine edge wear.

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), plates and facsimiles (a number folding), woodcut illustrations in the text and large folding coloured map in pocket at end of first volume; original navy cloth, upper boards framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, chocolate endpapers, uncut, hinges tender (but binding entirely sound), a very good, unusually bright, crisp, clean copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of John Davies Enys on front paste-down of first volume, and 4pp and 8pp publisher's catalogues bound in at end of first and second volumes respectively. Hosken, p.38.