Captain F Kingdon Ward (18 results)

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 78 pages. No dust jacket. Pink cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book - very good (occasional spotting), dust jacket - good (residue of price label on front). Date: 1930's (1931?). Pioneer Series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Undated c1931. First Edition. Hardback copy in blue cloth boards with black lettering to front and spine. Unclipped dustjacket (3/6 net printed to spine) in new removable protective clear sleeve. 78pp. B/w photographic frontispiece, b/w photographic plates throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, some page foxing, marks and small tears to dustjacket. (8/6).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 8 Plates (illustrator). First Edition. Dust jacket in a clear protective sleeve, small pieces to edges, staining to back. Blue cloth with black titling. Previous owner's na=eat details on f. paste down. A few foxing spots mainly in margins and page tips. 79 pages. Size: 8vo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 272pp., 16 illustrations. Unusual to see this book with a dustjacket. Photographs come from all corners of the globe, because Kingdon-Ward was an acclaimed botano-explorer (or whatever the hyphenated term is). Some rubbing, some chipping, some fading to jacket, but still good. Inside the pages are a little yellow and a little foxed in places. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. No inscriptions .A few chips around the wrapper otherwise a clean tight copy.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in library cloth. Library stamps and markings. xv, [1], 328 p., [17] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (reproductions of photographs), folded col. map, ports. ; 23 cm. Fold out map present at rear, taped with some closed tears. Yakushi K194.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. dark grey cloth title in gilt 328pp rough cut all ills collated (20) immaculate large fold out map at rear,very clean and tight,slight rub t/b spine,very nice book purchased well will consider offers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Black cloth title in red on spine317pp 1pp ad 20 monochrome plates and immaculate colour folding map book clean and tight no foxing at all.purchased well will consider offers for quick sale.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book condition: very good, scarce, highlighted by 23 b/w illustrations and two maps, one a fold out, black cloth boards feature a green tinted illustration on the cover and green lettering on the spine, spine shows wear to the top and bottom with a one inch tear to upper right, bookplate and library stamp on front pastedowns, stamps also on title page and back pastedown and back endpapers, interior very clean with no marks or tears, binding tight, 311 pp. with index, 6 X 8.75 inches. * Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. If actual shipping cost is less than the AbeBooks estimate, it is our practice to REFUND the difference to the buyer. * NOAMZ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 328 pp.+ BW Photo Plt at Frontis & 15 Other BW Photo Plts, Lge Color FoldOut Map at back, Orig Drk Grey Hardback, Gilt title (Bright), some light foxing else VG in Orig DJ with edgetears (in Protective Plastic), 1st ed.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. - First edition - Blue cloth with black titles, in dustwrapper - Black and white photographic plates - Wrapper is toned and worn with some stains, small tears and chipping to edges, some repair to corners and spine ends - Small stain to corner of upper board - Foxing to edges of text block and some internally, primarily to titles and first 20 pages - Book ow/ solid, content clean and bright - 78 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. B & W PHoto Plates (illustrator). Octavo, PP.78, H. Clifford Crook's Copy With His Signature At Front Pastedown and Dated April 1938; Crook Wrote an important book on Campanulas, Very Good, Second Owners Book plate at Fep.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60124283: 1926. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Déchirures. 328 pages. Photo-gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photo-gravures en noir et blanc sur planches hors texte, et d'une carte dépliable en couleur. Couverture et quelques feuillets se détachant. Quelques feuillets détachés. Carte déchirée. Jaquette manquante. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926 324 pp with 21 B&W illustrations and a fold-out map. Text is clean, tight and unmarked save for library stamps on the back of the illustrations. There is a pictorial library bookplate (Forbes Library, Northhampton, Mass) on the front endpapers. The front hinge is cracked but holding. Blue cloth boards with gold-stamped spine are rubbed, bumped at spine ends. There is the start of a split at the top of the spine. Library numbers on spine. Pictures on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first edition of Franks Kingdon-Ward's study of the people, plants and fauna surrounding the rivers of Tibet. The first edition of this very scarce work.Francis Kingdon-Ward was an English botanist, explorer and plant collector. In this work, he describes in impressive detail 'the little-known land where Asia's mightiest rivers gallop'.Illustrated with twenty-two photographic images, and with three sketch maps, and one large folding map. Collated, complete.Many of these images are devoted to depicting the people, mountains and rivers of the region.With four pages of advertisements to the rear.With the stamp 'Disposed of by the Royal Institution' to the front free pastedown, alongside the inscription of J. F. Coals. Blind stamp to the title page.A bright example of this very scarce work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with closed tear to spine head. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Inscription and stamp to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Blind stamp to title page. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. A few small stains to rear board, board corner and spine ends very lightly bumped, foxing to closed edges, prelims, and some page edges throughout, front gutters strained, all plates present but plate to p.62 partially detached, map present also with a couple of small tears and a larger tear along one folded side. Overall, clean and tidy, plates clean and bright. Size: 8vo.

Condition: VG. London 1924 first edition Edward Arnold. Important classic in botanical exploration. Hardcover. Octavo, 317pp. 1 page book ad at end, foldout map, 20 monochrome photo illustrations, general index and plant index, cloth. A few pages as yet uncut. VG, faint foxing on fore-edges, tiny stain on lower edge of rear end paper, no DJ. Text clean, binding secure; no ownership marks. Lovely condition. Pictures available on request. Scarce.