Bernacchi L C (34 results)
More imagesPublished by Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1933
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Second impression. Light wear to boards. Faded spine. Content has toning to page ends. Gift message to ffep. No DJ.
Language: English
Published by Thornton Butterworth, London, 1933
- Hardcover
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Third Impression. Purple cloth has faded spine which extends onto front and back and along top edge. White paint? spots on front. Spine ends and corners bumped and top of spine is damaged. Some minor holes along edge of spine. Hinge cracked inside e/p at rear but binding tight. 240pp. Previous…owner's name embossed on front e/p. Some foxing, particularly of e/p's. Musty.
Language: English
Published by Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1933
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd impression. Bookplate from a previous owner. 3rd impression, 1933. Publication of 240 pages. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, slightly faded marks and the edges are a little frayed. There is sporadic foxing around the block of the book and on the early pages but very…little in the body of the book. The text within the book is bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Language: English
Published by Blackie & Son, London, 1938
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, Hardback, D/J is poor, nicked at top and bottom of spine, bumped, scuffed and creased to all eges, some stains at bottom of d/j. Internally good.
Published by Blackie & Son, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHARDCOVER. Condition: Fair. 1st edition. 240pp. 8vo in blue cloth. B&W illustrations. Cover wear, foxing to textblock edges, some soiling to text.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1935
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Previous owners' names inside. Edges lightly spotted. Binding a little edge-worn and faded but sound; white titles on spine almost rubbed away. Some wear (especially to head and tail of spine) to the unclipped jacket, spine darkened; now in protective film. A sound copy of… the second impression of the Keystone Library edition.
Published by Blackie and Son, 1938
- Hardcover
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Add to basketCondition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN.
Published by Blackie & Son, London and Glasgow, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. 240 pages, indexed and illustrated. The book has been recased in library binding: marbled boars and green spine strip with gilt title and gilt Dewey number on spine. It sufferes form the usual library markings:cancelled stamp on the front end paper; small libray one on the title page; the ba…ck end paper has another cancelled stamp, library stamp and handwritten accession number plus the remnants of a date due slip and finallly a library pocket on the back paste down. Themaps on the end paper are missing, lost by the rebind as is the one titled '"Discovery's " First Voyage'. The fold out map and the ones cealing with the seasonal distribution of whales are present. The book has been read but remains a clean, unmarked and solid copy, for indeed the one advantage of library binding is that it is indestructible. First edition, not recommended for perfectionists. "The RRS Discovery was a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom. Her first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first, and highly successful, journey to the Antarctic, known as the Discovery Expedition. After service as a merchant ship before and during the First World War, Discovery was taken into the service of the British government in 1923 to carry out scientific research in the Southern Ocean, becoming the first Royal Research Ship. The ship undertook a two-year expedition - the Discovery Investigations - recording valuable information on the oceans, marine life and being the first scientific investigation into whale populations. From 1929 to 1931 Discovery served as the base for the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Douglas Mawson, a major scientific and territorial quest in what is now the Australian Antarctic Territory. On her return from the BANZARE, Discovery was moored in London as a static training ship and visitor attraction until 1979 when she was placed in the care of the Maritime Trust as a museum ship. After an extensive restoration Discovery is now the centrepiece of a visitor attraction in the city where she was built, Dundee. She is one of only two surviving expedition ships from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, the other being the Norwegian ship Fram (not counting the ARA Uruguay, which survives and sailed in the Antarctic in 1903, but was not built specifically for Antarctic Exploration. " (Wikipedia) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.
Published by London, Thornton Butterworth, 1933. Third impression., 1933
- Hardcover
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Add to basket8vo., 240pp, with black and white illustrations. Original cloth with faded backstrip., prize label, a very good copy. The Antarctic experience of Capt. L.E.G. Oates.
Published by Thornton Butterworth 1933, 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Add to basketFIRST EDITION, octavo, purple buckram boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 240pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy fading to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims, moderate cracking to som…e gutters, item between pgs 10-11 missing).
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd January 1942, London , 3rd Impression, 1942
- Hardcover
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United KingdomE.J Morten Booksellers BA
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Add to basketHb original green cloth 240pp,frontisplate and 9 illustrations ink inscription to fep, sunned spine lightly shaken binding . A biography of Captain Oates of Scott of the Antarctic fame. A Good+ copy.
Published by Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1935
- Hardcover
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United KingdomAnybook.com
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Add to basketCondition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN.
Language: English
Published by Thornton Butterworth, London, 1933
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Marion Pitman Books, Reading, United KingdomMarion Pitman Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Spine faded and worn, front joint split; corners a little worn; bookplate; some writing on endpapers Biography of Captain Oates. 8 b/w plates, 2 maps 2A9 / 1A14.
More imagesPublished by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942
- Hardcover
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, CA, U.S.A.curtis paul books, inc.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Third Printing. Teal cloth third Keystone Library impression is toned along edges and has light wear. Foxing to edges. Unclipped jacket has light foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by Blackie, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are a bit marked and worn. Soundly bound. Some tanning and library markings. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
More imagesSeller: Devils in the Detail Ltd, Oxford, United KingdomDevils in the Detail Ltd
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Add to basketCondition: Good. A Very Gallant Gentleman by L. C. Bernacchi, O.B.E., 1933.Publisher: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London.Binding: hardback cloth.Illustrated: yes.Description / Condition: Shelf wear/sunning to boards with crease to spine and a little edge chipping; no jacket. Light foxing to pages with spotting in places. Please s…ee pictures for further information.
That First Antarctic Winter: The Story of the Southern Cross Expedition of 1898 - 1900 as told in the diaries of Louis Charles Bernacchi
CRAWFORD, JANET (written & edited, granddaughter of LC Bernacchi)
Published by South Latitude Research Limited 1998, 1998
- Hardcover
- Signed
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Add to basketSIGNED BY AUTHOR, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt illustration to front board, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 269pp, illus + folding map to rear, VG+ (slight brusing to board corners) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing to corners, v slight soiling to jacket).
More imagesPublished by Thornton Butterworth, London, 1935
- Hardcover
Seller: Polar Books, Llandudno, CONWY, United KingdomPolar Books
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Add to basketHardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. PHOTOCOPIED. Early Edition. Keystone Library, 2nd impression 1935; 240 pages, illustrated, 8 b/w photos, 2 double-page maps. Original covers in PHOTOCOPIED dust jacket. Covers bumped and faded, spine faded with small cut, slight foxing on a few pages,pages age toned, previous own…ers name on verso front cover, contents clean. A nice copy.Biography of Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "No Surrender" Oates. who died with Captain Scott on the return from the South Pole in 1912. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Biography; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1282.
Published by Blackie & Son, London, 1928
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United KingdomSt Marys Books And Prints
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Add to basketHardback. 1st Edition. Ex Libary copy so has stamps on inside front board. book.
Published by London and Glasgow Blackie & Son 1938, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketCondition: very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc, illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. Some light foxing, primarily to edges with some minor wear to title page, from removal of label? very good Spence 129.
Language: English
Published by London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Meridian Rare Books ABA PBFA, London, United KingdomMeridian Rare Books ABA PBFA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 240; photo. illusts., map front endpapers, 2 folding maps, 4 sketch maps; previous owner s inscription to half-title, else very good in original cloth, gilt, in original d.-w., which is somewhat chipped, soiled and creased on s…pine. Bernacchi's 'biography' of the Discovery includes details of Scott's first Antarctic expedition, in which Bernacchi himself participated, and of the BANZARE under Mawson.
Published by Blackie & Son Limited, London & Glasgow, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, CanadaJ. Wyatt Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: VG-. First Edition. 240 pages in very good condition; outer edges and endpapers a little yellowed and foxed. With plates and maps. Front endpapers illustrated with a map; previous owner's name and address on the reverse of the ffep. Blue hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Spine faded, small stains. L…ight wear on corners and edges. VG-. Book.
More imagesPublished by Thornton Butterworth (1935), London, 1935
- Hardcover
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New ZealandRenaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Ex-library. Some library stamps, labels and markings. Library label taped to tail of dust-jacket spine. Label on front endpaper "Glen Historic Collection / Southland". Rubber stamp on copyright page, Hewitson Library. Contemporary inscription on front endpaper "[Lin…a?] Wildes / from J. G. / Xmas 1935. Moderate patchy foxing to text leaves. 10mm fading at tail of cloth spine. Foxing to dust-jacket. 20mm tear and 10mm chips at ends of dust-jacket spine. Rear panel of dust-jacket with small chips and abrasions from insect damage, with loss of a few letters from the advertisements. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; June 1935 second "Keystone Library" impression, of a title that was first published in May 1933. The first Keystone Library printing was March 1935. 240 pages + frontispiece + 7 plates. 2 double page maps within the pagination, "Map of Antarctica" on pages 86-87, and "The Polar Routes" on pages 148-149. Purple cloth boards with white lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 206 x 138mm. Account of Antarctic explorer Captain L. E. G. Oates. "More than twenty years have passed since that tragic journey in 1912 when Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, of the Inniskilling Draoons, made the supreme sacrifice on his return journey from the South Pole, 'by willingly walking to his death in a blizzard to try and save his companions beset by hardship.'" - page 15. [Reference: Rosove 36.B2 - "The first biography of Capt. Lawrence Edward Grace 'Titus' Oates (1880-1912). Most of the book is a retelling of Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-13), with the focus on Oates."].
Published by Blackie, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Anytime Books, London, United KingdomAnytime Books
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-lib. pp. xv, 240pp. Rebound by library; very solid. Maps.
More imagesPublished by Thornton Butterworth, London, 1935
- Hardcover
Seller: Polar Books, Llandudno, CONWY, United KingdomPolar Books
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Add to basketHardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. 2nd Keystone Library impression; 240 pages, 8 plates, 2 double-page maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket tatty, closed repair. Covers bumped, spine sunned, foxing to page edges,discrete inscriptions dated 1936 fron…t end cover. Contents clean. Biography of Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "No Surrender" Oates. who died with Captain Scott on the return from the South Pole in 1912. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 969.
Published by London and Glasgow Blackie & Son 1938, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
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Add to basketCondition: good to very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc, illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. Covers slightly marked on the front and rear boards else a tight clean copy. Spence 129. Inscribed on the half title "Many Happy Returns… " L." Oct, 1941. We believe this to be Bernacchi's handwriting.
Published by London and Glasgow Blackie & Son 1938, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketCondition: very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc, illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. very good Spence 129.
Published by London and Glasgow Blackie & Son 1938, 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketCondition: very good. 1st Edition. xv,240pp. Octavo in original dark blue cloth and worn dust jacket with front endpaper map and plates (both sides) from photos,etc., illustrations (maps) and 2 folding maps. Dust jacket missing large chunk at top of spine and smaller piece foot of spine. very good Spence 129.
More imagesPublished by London Orskey-Bonham-Niner 2002, 2002
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. Centenary Edition. Three volumes bound in the matching vertical grained blue cloth. The first two volumes have a mounted image of the Discovery in Winter Quarters on the front board. The third volume has a mounted image of the hut on the front board. Spine titles in gilt as well as on boards. All edges gilt. Gil…t rope work around illustration. Numerous plates and illustrations including mounted images, full page and in text. Illustrations are both colour and black and white. The coloured illustrations all appear to be chromolithographs. A mint set of the very high quality facsimile edition. Included with the set is the new Volume 4 published in 2010 and edited by Ann Savours. This facsimile edition is limited to 350 copies, this being 342. Rosove 287.A1 and 291.A1; Spence 1094; Taurus Collection 42 all for the original edition To quote from the original text: 'During the Antarctic winter of 1902 and 1903, the officers of the National Antarctic Expedition on board the Discovery, among other diversions wherewith to lighten the long and dreary darkness, brought out at monthly intervals a periodical to which they gave the name of the "The South Polar Times". The contents of "The South Polar Times" range over a wide field, grave and gay, scientific and humorous, prose and poetry. It contains a diary of the events of each month, a record of the proceedings of the local Debating Society, a monthly acrostic, humorous notes, besides articles of a more solid nature, as well as stories, sketches of various kinds, and poems of a standard considerably above average'. One of the cornerstones of an Antarctic collection and very fairly priced for a reprint of this quality.
More imagesPublished by 1907 & 1914., 1907
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United KingdomMaggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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Add to basketFirst limited edition. 3 vols. Volume I April to August 1902 [Volume II April to August 1903], [April to October, 1911]. V1&2: 70 plates in colour, b&w and sepia, mostly within pagination of vols 1 & 2, including 1 folding map, numerous illustrations in text; V3: 3 colour frontispieces and 33 full page plates, as above. Vols. I…& II, unnumbered and with an additional limitation leaf noted "presentation copy" in print. In variant bindings without pictorial vignette. Vol. III no 218 of 350. Folios. V3 with standard pictorial cloth, gilt. A.e.g. Vols 1 & 2 in near fine condition with bright unfaded cloth, a little offsetting between illustrated tp and frontis of V2; V3 with slight dampstaining to cloth and pastedowns. (2)ll, xivpp, (iv), 27, (iii), 48, (iii), 41, (ii), 47, (ii), 49ll; (2)ll, viiipp, (iv), 40, (iv), 69, (iv), 58; xvpp, 152ll, 153-160pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co., Loosely inserted in vol 1 is a business card from bookseller Richard Kossow, noting on the back that these volumes were bought privately from Jock Murray, son of John Murray. This may explain the binding and additional presentation leaf - this variant is not noted in Rosove's comprehensive bibliography. "The owner of these volumes will possess an exact reproduction of the original "South Polar Times" which appeared month by month during the winters of 1902-3, produced as they were for the sole edification of our small company of explorers in the Discovery, then held fast in the Antarctic Ice." Thus begins Captain Scott's preface to the South Polar Times, which became a major diversion for the men on board the Discovery during the long sunless winter from 23rd April until 21st August. Scott wrote of it more fully in the official account: "The scheme for publication was discussed long before the sun left us, and by general consent Shackleton was appointed editor. It was decided that each number should contain besides the editorial, a summary of the events and meteorological conditions of the past month, certain scientifically instructive articles dealing with our work and our surroundings, and certain others written in a lighter vein. As the scheme developed it was found that other features, such as full-page caricatures, acrostics, and puzzles could be added; and now each month sees the production of a stout volume which is read with much interest and amusement by everyone." Shackleton "was responsible for the most famous examples of printing in the Antarctic. In addition to the first book printed in Antarctica, Aurora Australia (1907), Shackleton oversaw and contributed to the South Polar Times, first published on Scott's expedition to Antarctica on the Discovery, and again on Scott's fatal Terra Nova expedition of 1911-1914. Shackleton was also a contributor to the Antarctic Petrel, printed during his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09" (Stam & Stam). Rosove, 287.A1 & 291.A2; Spence, 1094; Scott, R.F. The Voyage of the Discovery (London, 1905), vol. I, p.362; Stam, David & Deidre, "Bending Time: The Function of Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Polar Naval Expeditions" in Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 2008), p.312.
