Edwin Schary (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Undated. 312pp, [8]pp publisher's ads, various black and white photographic plates. Grey cloth-covered boards, green titles on spine, top text block edge sprayed green. 8vo. Boards soiled, tanned and foxing. Spine sun-faded, white initials; ends rubbed. Text block edges tan…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Undated. 312pp, [8]pp publisher's ads, various black and white photographic plates, single fold-out . Grey cloth-covered boards, green titles on spine, top text block edge sprayed green. 8vo. Boards soiled, tanned and foxing. Spine sun-faded, ends lightly rubbed. Top t…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Good Copy of this Book in Original Mustard cloth boards with black title lettering to the spine.The outer boards are marked in places (see pics) No Dust-Wrapper.Maps as endpapers.This copy has one very small owner's name to the top edge of the front pastedown.Slight…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust jacket. 1st Edition. Yellow boards with black titles to the spine. Short gift inscription dated 1942 on the half title page, otherwise clean pages. Firm binding. 1st edition. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard pack…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book measures 22x16cm, 312pp. Complete with Illustrations and Maps. Bound in original publishers yellow cloth, with gilt title lettering on spine. Binding with some wear, scuffed corners, light dust dirk marking, some fading to spine. Binding in good clean condition. Internally, some spotting to end p…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDBACK. Undated: circa 1937. No edition mentioned. 22x14.5cm. 312 pages plus 8 page publisher catalogue. All the listed illustrations & maps are in place. Darkened spine. Clean & very tight. Pencil name written on the half-title page. No other inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIR…

Condition: Sehr gut. Original cloth, xii, 312 pages, frontispiece, 15 illustrations on plates (including folding plate), route map, spine a bit sunned, binding a bit dusty, good condition. The author travelled disguised from Ladakh to Kailash - Manasarovar and also tried his luck with Lhasa, but "only" got to Shigatse and Gyants…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, circa 1937, dated from the publisher's catalogue at the end. 312pp. Yellow cloth covered boards. Endpaper maps. B + w illustrations. Gift inscription to the flyleaf, a few small spots of foxing to the foredge, a light mark to the bottom edge, otherwise ii…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first edition of Edwin Schary's travel documentation of his journey to Tibet, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.A travel work documenting the author's journey through Tibet in 1918.Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifteen plates, two maps, and maps to th…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Language: English. THIS RARE/ANTIQUE BOOK PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1986 BY Indian Insititute of Asian Studies, Bombay HAVING 324 PGS AND SIZE 8.50*5.50 WRITTEN IN English. THE BOOK IS IN READABLE CONDITION Originally in Hardcover with some issues like loose binding and some Pin Holes. THE IMAGE OF THIS BO…

London [1937], Seeley. Yellow cloth, very good, 312p.,index, 16 b.w. photos, map,end paper maps. Fascinating narrative of an American's three attempts to enter Tibet, from 1913. RARE He finally succeeded in 1918, travelling down the Tsangpo t Shigatse and to India, via Gyantse and Sikkim. He travelled through Tibet, enduring int…

London [1937], Seeley. Yellow cloth, very good, 312p.,index, 16 b.w. photos, map,end paper maps. Fascinating narrative of an American's three attempts to enter Tibet, from 1913. RARE He finally succeeded in 1918, travelling down the Tsangpo t Shigatse and to India, via Gyantse and Sikkim. He travelled through Tibet, enduring int…