Chapman esther editor (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Edition. Nice, clean, tight copy of this third revised edition with minor shelf wear.

Revised seventh edition. 306, [6] pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket lightly toned and soiled, bumping along top edges. Red cloth with vibrant silver stamping, bumping at spine ends and bottom board corners. Ink ownership inscription dated 1970 on half-title page. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. With Foreword, Introduction, b/w photographs throughout, and advertisements on front endpapers and on six pages at rear. Also laid-in is a foldout pamphlet "Esso Jamaica Road Map" by Esso Standard Oil, S.A. copyright 1958 by General Drafting Co. Inc., Convent Station, NJ; approximate unfolded dimensions of H 42.5cm x L 61cm; full island map and Index on verso with recto featuring six close-up maps of Montego Bay, Port Antonio, Ocho Rios, Mandeville, Spanish Town, and Kingston-Lower St. Andrew (with accompanying street index).…

Pamphlet. 56p., slick alkaline paperstock throughout provided with many captioned photographs, very few in color. Multiple ads for hotels and booze. 11x8.5 inch color wraps, mildest signs of any handling or age, a very good copy of this tourist come-on for white Americans.

Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavo, 304 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. spine yellow with blue and red lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: '21/- net (Three dollars)'. Some general shelfwear and rubbing, small water-stain to front cover, fading and chipping to spine. Shelved Caribbean. 1380672. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

dj. [Travel] REVISED EDITION, third overall. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.316; [1]. Illustrated throughout with photographs and a colour map. Publisher's clothbound hardcovers in illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 21s. A clean, fine copy in a gently used jacket with one tear at crown. James Bond novelist Ian Fleming refers to this book (and borrowed the title) in his travel article 'Pleasure Islands' (Spectator, 4th July 1952). He also reviewed it for The Sunday Times (1st June 1952) under the heading 'West Indian'. Fleming, who is mentioned in person on p.142, was a prominent resident of the island and set several of his thrillers there. This particular example is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. See Gilbert, C31.…