Bates Robert Et Al (20 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st ptg. 245 pp. 6 x 9. Glossy red and white wraps. Ex-lib copy with usual markings. Lightly worn.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gernsback Publications, Inc. NY 1953 66 page Vintage Science Fiction magazine. Contents page in Photos. A very good copy with light wear and light dust soiling. See photos bx mag13. Cover art by Alex Schomburg (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine paperback. 48 pages. Joshua Rose, editor-in-chief. ; OV21; 7x9 inches; 48 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Soft Cover. Illustrated in color. Ten multi-paneled screens, each by a different artist, shown obverse and reverse on facing pages. Introduction by Anne MacDonald Walker, Director of ArtSpace. With laid in four panel exhibtion brochure. Covers show light rubbing and scuffing, bruise to bottom right corner. Bruise to bottom right page corners; otherwise interior is clean, crisp, tight & bright, unmarked. Unpaginated [48] pp. Approx. 9" x 9". Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Ask all questions; glad to respond.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 5th or later Edition, Special Edition. New edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 381; photo. illusts., illusts. to text; fine in original pictorial wrappers. Signed by Bates and Charles Houston to title. A reprinting of the original edition of 1939, with a new Introduction by Randy Wayne White. Richard Sale's copy, with his signed bookplate. Richard Sale is author of On Top of the World and other mountaineering titles. Signed by Author(s).…

Super octavo, light card covers with white lettering, x + 249pp, VG+ (v slight creasing to cover edges).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. First edition, 1939. Compelling story of this expedition illustrated in black and white from photographs taken expedition members. Red cloth, map endpapers, no dustjacket. Ex-library, with spine numbers and other lettering on spine in white ink, spine a little faded, good hinges, sound text block, school library stamps on front free endpaper and half-title, "donated by" bookplate inside front cover, no patrons pocket on rear endpapers, gift notation on verso of front free endpaper, private owner red Asian style square stamp on half-title, pages a little age-toned but clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Condition: very good. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008. 2 Volumes. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xix,452; xl,719 pp. With CD-Rom. Library stamps. Condition : very good. ISBN 9780521878487 9780521878494 Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780521878494. Keywords : ECONOMICS.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 68 pp. NO number line or printing indicated, but ' 1947, 1949 ' cited on CP: presumed First Edition, First Printing; ' J195195 ' printed at lower left inside front cover [which also appears on later editions with later printing identifications] and ' 463: 195 [underlined]' at top right front cover corner; endpapers illustrated with multifarious animals. NO dust jacket. 1" piece of cellophane surface missing in gutter front cover at 3 3/8" down from top right spine edge, with 1/8" hole at middle of it (NO impact on binding (7 sites of sewn threads along inside front cover hinge); nugatory cellophane 1" tear on rear cover gutter at 3" down from top left spine corner (NOW reglued so as to be virtually undetectable; small rubbing wear at cover and spine corners; text lightly age-toned around perimeters and on text block edges: describes worse than it is, but there you have it: Strong binding (stretched only a bit at first few pages front and back, else tight); corners still sharp (NO bumps or curls); NO previous owner names; NOT ex-Library. Clean text. Solid copy. Arguably, Holiday or Birthday Gift-Giving Quality, especially, given that the book is more than 60 years-old or near 75 years-old. The way to read Classic Children's Poetry from many well-known Children's Poets. Gertrude Elliott (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Scarce Work in This Wonderful Condition.Produced and Printed By Ernest Nister.Rare title graded Very Good + in the Rare Dust-Jacket graded Very Good + with gold silk bow binding with coloured pictorial Night scene to the front cover.All the page edges are in gilt.These Night songs and sketches were selected by and arranged by E Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack and are superbly illustrated with sepia plates,featuring poetry by Robert Browning,Mainwaring,Andre Lang and Others.Binding remains firm with no loose leaves,one small nick to base and head of spine of the dust-wrapper,but it has survived remarkably well given it's age undated Ernest Nister work of genuine quality,but it's Circa 1886 and all the page edges are in gilt.Contents remain lovely and clean internally.A most charming and handsome copy that would make an ideal gift.8vo unpaginated circa 32pp First Edition [1886]. ellice mack,dewey bates,wg addison,fred hines agens pearce et al (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red boards with titles in silver gilt to spine. Top edge red. Endpapers showing maps of the region. 319pp illustrated with black and white photographs taken by expedition members. Head and tail of spine v slightly bumped and a small Foyles (Booksellers) label to bottom corner of front pastedown but otherwise a very good+ bright tight copy with no foxing, signatures or marks. Members of the Expedition (illustrator). …

Condition: New. Limited signed 1st Edition. A mountaineering classic - a modern reprint with some new material. Flat-signed on special members page by both authors. Mint new copy, unread. 5-3/4 x 8-3/4, 214 pp, glossy color-photo section, creame map endpapers. Hardcover in gray-white paper illustration over gray cloth boards w red/gilt spine titling; no jacket as issued.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this hardcover book in red coloured cloth boards with bright silver title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.Maps as endpapers.The book has no previous names or inscriptions present.There is just one small previous owner's stamp to the rear pastedown.Illustrated with 31 wonderful photographic plates from photographs taken by members of the expedition.Top edge of the book is stained red as issued and the binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.There is a little light spotting to the fore-edge of the book.Uncommon title and highly sought after,8vo 319pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1940] Neate Page 96pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, 381; photo. illusts., illusts. to text, one folding temperature chart, map endpapers; age-toning to text, good in the original cloth, faded on spine. Signed by Bates and Charles Houston to title. Bates, Houston and the other members of the 1938 K2 expedition put American Himalayan mountaineering on the map, and their book is now a classic of the genre. Bill House climbed the chimney on the lower section of the Abruzzi Ridge - "probably the hardest single pitch climbed at that time in the Karakoram or Himalaya" (Richard Sale, On Top of the World, p. 86) - and it is still known as House's chimney. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edn, Hale, London, 1940. 8vo, 319p. Plates. Attractively bound in 1/4 calf, twin labels, marbled boards and endpapers. Important attempt on K2 by first US expedition. Neate B58 'one of the classics of American climbing literature'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed by Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson, Martin Nodell and Julius Schwartz. Shelfwear, primarily at head and heel of spine. DJ has a 1/2-inch and a 1/4-inch closed tear in front panel. yu. Carmine infantino, Gil Kane, Jack Cole, C.C. Beck, Joe Kubert, Jack Cole, Jack Kirby, Ross Andru, Don Heck, Curt Swan, Bob Kane, H.G. Peter, Martin Nodell, Murphy Anderson and Neal Adams (cover) (illustrator). Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this mountaineering classic. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. Original red cloth boards; pp. xvi, 381. Complete with frontispiece and dozens of full-page photographs. A very good copy, no jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Light shelfwear to boards with a bit of loss to cloth at spine crown, spine sunned, light offsetting to rear board. Owner's name to first blank, else internally clean and fine. Scarce. …

Condition: Good. Hbk, 1st edition, 319pp, 381pp. illustr 34 b+w photo plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps, warmly INSCRIBED (1943) by William P. House on title page to fellow-mountaineer Paul Petzoldt, lacks dj, rubbed red cloth boards with black titles to the spine, spine mildly sunfaded but with no tears or fraying, now in custom acetate jacket, front hinge cracked but holding between frontispiece and tile page, altogether a very good, sound, clean copy of this mountaineering classic. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1939 Dodd, Mead, NY, 1st edition, 8vo, pp.xii, 381, photo frontis, 36 bw photos, folding chart, appendices, map endpapers, red cloth; cloth fine. --------------------------------------------- This is the classic story of the 1938 First American Karakoram Expedition to K2. This small team made a tremendous attempt on the mountain and nearly reached the summit. An important and scarce work in the original edition. Neate B58. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1939 Dodd, Mead, NY, 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 381, photo frontis, 36 bw photos, fldg chart, appendices, map eps, red cloth; signed Bates & Charles Houston, cloth spine darkened, internally tight, fine. ---------- This is the classic story of the 1938 First American Karakoram Expedition to K2. This small team made a tremendous attempt on the mountain and nearly reached the summit, paving the way for subsequent expeditions. An important and scarce work in the original edition. Neate B58. ---------- Note: Wavy lines showing in image on red cloth are an artifact of scanning reflection and not actually present. signed by author. Book.…