Published by J. & A. Churchill, 1955
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: USED_GOOD. 1955. Sixth Edition. 628 pages. Brown dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations and plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.
Published by J.& A. Churchill, 1960
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: USED_GOOD. 1960. Eighth edition. 704 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.
Published by J. & A. Churchill, 1939
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Condition: USED_POOR. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1700grams, ISBN:
Published by Edinburgh: Livingstone, 1944
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. 564p blue cloth with gilt lettering, fraying to head and foot of spine, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good Language: English.
Published by E. & S. Livingtone Ltd; Edinburgh., 1947
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Hard. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings within text. (illustrator). Near fine in very good dust jacket. 644pp.
Published by Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1944
Seller: Lazy Letters Books, Market Rasen, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Bumped boards with light edge-rubbing. Minimal internal wear. A heavy book wioth additional postage charges for Overseas orders,
Published by J & A. Churchill, London, 1950
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Fifth Edition. The dustwrapper, which is price clipped, is very bright, having been protected by an outer paper wrapper.
Published by J & A Churchill, 1942
Seller: Jenhams Books, Dundee, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FAIR. A hardback volume in Acceptable condition, moderate general wear to boards, some pages have extensive underlining to text in red or green crayon, but everall quite clean. No dustjacket. Still a readable and useful book. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). Overseas buyers please also note that shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel.
Published by Livingstone E. And S., Edinburgh, 1947
Seller: Ashtree Books, Holsworthy, DEVON, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. No Jacket. Third Edition. Bound in blue cloth with lettering in gilt to the spine. Containing many photographic and diagramatic illustrations. Boards quite heavily marked and rubbed, with a slight bend from head to base. Light bump to head and base of spine and board corners. Owners name and adress to f.f.e.p. Page edges show signs of wetting at some point leaving stain and wrinkling mainly to foredge. Though much referred to, and notwithstanding the mentioned faults, the copy remains intact and entirely legible internally, with binding tight and square. Overall an interesting text at the lower end of good condition. Size: 6.25" By 9.75".
Published by Edinburgh: Livingstone 1944., 1944
Seller: Jenhams Books, Dundee, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. A hardback volume in Good condition. No dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). Overseas buyers please also note that shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel.
Published by E. & S. Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1952
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. Fourth Edition. HEAVY. xii, 744pp, index, num bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Jacket somewhat worn and toned with several short tears; prev owners name etc on front free endpaper. Compiled by 22 eminent contributors. Size: 8vo.
Published by E. and S. Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1953
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. 1st ed. Presentation inscription by author on front free end paper, partly damaged where label removed; school stamp on front free end paper; pages clean; binding tight; dust jacket tatty, with ragged tears & some loss; dust jacket not price-clipped Used - Good. SIGNED copy. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket.
Published by Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1953
Seller: Tinakori Books, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
First Edition
Green Cloth. Condition: USED_GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. vii, 287 pages. Many b/w and colour illustrations, dust jacket has tears and a few lacks.
Published by E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., EDINBURGO, 1944
ISBN 13: 2560846429352
Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, Italy
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. IIED. INGLESE Volume rilegato in cartoncino rigido ruvido, con caratteri in oro al dorso. Buono stato di conservazione generale. Pagine ossidate da tonalità avorio, brunite ai tagli. Presenti CCXXX ( 230 ) figure in nero, nel testo. Numero pagine 564.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. 702p blue cloth with gilt lettering, fraying to head and foot of spine, 1cm cut in the middle of spine, pages unmarked with many b&w plates, index, binding firm, very good Language: English.
Published by Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1953
Seller: M and R Clark, Halifax, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a heavy book which may incur a higher postage charge.
Published by J & A Churchill
Seller: Phatpocket Limited, Waltham Abbey, HERTS, United Kingdom
Condition: USED_FAIR. Used - Acceptable. Worn cover and occational pencil markings. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.
Published by George Newnes Ltd., London, 1948
First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: USED_GOOD. Nicolson, W.C. (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. 18 [ads], 313-374 pages. Features: A Diver Down a Gold Mine - an Italian worker stranded 1,000 feet down a flooded Australian mine is saved by deep-sea divers; The Forgotten Islands - The Chathams; A Tasmanian Robinson Crusoe - In 1904 the British barque Brier Holme went down and the only survivor lived three months on an uninhabited island; The Green Scarab; The Thief-Catcher - a holy man in India; Money to Burn - experiences while left in charge of a Transvaal farm; The Woman Who Walked to Siberia - Lillian Alling; Smugglers All; On the Edge of the World - final installment of Richard Brenton's adventures in Tierra del Fuego; Coin counterfeiters in Tanganyika; The Taking of Ventotene - a naval story in the Drake tradition; The Jinx - a man brings bad luck to others but escapes unscathed; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1927
First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: USED_GOOD. Holloway, Cyril; Illingworth, L.G.; Goss, G.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Cleaver, Reginald; Prater, Ernest; Potts, Leonard; Vedder, S.H.; Soper, G.; York, W.G. (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Ning Wo Pays His Debt - The Chinese servant of a Chief of Police in a Malay state settles a score with an enemy who killed his brother; My Sea-Trip - Peter Carden's amusing experience as a 'horseman' aboard a cargo-steamer; Photo of a Mariamma goddess in India, used to ward off epidemics; Photo and brief write-up of a marine fruit market in Bangkok, the "Venice of the East"; Passages With Pachyderms - exciting encounters with these great beasts, as told by Captain C. Lestock Reid; Dead Man's Treasure - A consulting engineer for the Cyclops M. and M. Company of Montida USA makes strange discoveries on a prospecting trip; Through Spain in Disguise - Part III - A continuation of the adventures and misadventures of Count and Countess Malmignati who travelled through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars, singing and dancing for a living; Zaki and Zomo - The Dog and Pony who both lost their lives while serving Captain J.F.J. Fitzpatrick in battle against the Germans; On Foot Through South America - G.C. Thompson and his two young sons travlled all over South America in search of work for four years; The Tale of the Toheroa - The curious shellfish found only in New Zealand - with photos; On the Trail of the "Thirstland Trekkers" - Part I - Colonel Deneys Reitz describes his exploration of mysterious terra incognita in what was formerly known as German South-West Africa - with many interesting photos; Timothy Murphy's "Donkey" - Great story about a logging donkey-engine at Calfton's logging outfit on Myrtle Island on the British Columbia Coast; The Mine Under the Creek - A brush with death when a mine floods in the Gulf country of Australia; The Chrissie C. Thomey's" Last Voyage - A gallant old Arctic schooner is lost through a most unlikely mischance - with photo; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" - Part V - The amazing voyage of several young men from Shanghai to Copenhagen - article with nice photos. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue.