Etherton Lieut (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth Hard cover.8vo. Many Illustrations.308 Pages: Maps of Europe on End papers: Moderate Foxing Throu.some repaired Hinges.else a good solid copy Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. One of the Asian Series by this publisher with special limitation page bound in. This is hand numbered as "110" out of 500 copies that were printed and scarce as such. Evidence of some scuffing to some small areas on red padded binding that have been filled in with a close matching red dye by an amateur - but still easily visible but not too detractive. All edges with gilt and a bookmark bound in. Marbled end papers, raised bands with decorated compartments and gilt mountains decor and titles on cover. This is a facsimile of a rare 1911 edition. Fold-out map in fine condition. About very good condition due to the faults mentioned. No other faults.

1st Ed. 259pp. 16 playes, folding map. Some sporadic foxing, ex.-libris J.H. Freeman, black lettered yellow cloth, some spotting and sl. soiling, spine sl. bumped. US$37.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good clean firm interior, no usage marks, library number to blank page in ink, no further library markings, contains a frontispiece, contains numerous black and white photos and fold-out colour map to rear - boards have been recovered by the library, these have average usage with a little spine-lean, all tight and firm; Please email for more photos or further information required.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A Record of Sport and Travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, The Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia. First ed. Small 4to. xvi, 437pp. Frontispiece. Numerous text-illus. 1 folding map, repaired. Original pictorial cloth, gilt top, rubbed, the inner hinge repaired. Ex-libris on the front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 305 pgs., plus folding map in the back. One tiny hole in one of the seams not effecting anything, pages clean, bound in green pebble cloth, gilded lettering on front board and spine, light staining along top edge of front board, otherwise a very nice copy. No writing in pages or signatures found. Rare.

Red leather. Condition: Near fine. Limited reprint. Limited edition # 288 of 500 copies, near fine red leather hardcover with gilt letter and illustration, page edges gilt, decorative endpapers and ribbon marker shows just a light bit of trace wear in cloth slipcase showing just a touch of wear as well. 437 pages with index, black & whites and foldout map. Still an attractive copy of this installment in the series of classic Asian hunting works.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1700grams, ISBN:

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good+ decorated gilt-stamped green cloth; wear and bumping to spine ends and corners; wear from age and use; foldout map present.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Prater, Ernest; Peddie, Tom; Soper, G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Wightman, W.E.; Potts, Leonard; Tayler, Laurie; Bestall, A.E. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 170-252, plus 20 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Warden of the Marches; Seeds of Fortune; An Elephant-Poacher's Odyssey; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - part 2; "Denied Admittance" - an Ellis Island Story; The Shrine or Ordam Padshah; The Two Portraits; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - part 2; The Isles of the Arafura; Cave-Hunting in New Mexico; A Rolling Stone. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Presumed First Thus. xii, 305 pages and a fold out map at the back. 1926. Faded gold lettering on the spine, gold lettering on the front cover. Cover is shelf worn. Previous owner's name blind embossed on the half title page. A very good copy of this scarce account of life and travels in China, Central Asia and Mongolia in the early 1900's. The map in the back of the book appears unopened.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Sutcliffe, Norman; Goss, G.W.; gale, W.G.; Sindall, A.W.; Moorsom, F.G.; tresilian, S.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Carruthers, G.P.; Saunderson, E.J.; Prater, Ernest; Cleaver, Reginald (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Record of Sport and Travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, The Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia. First ed. Small 4to. xvi, 437pp. Frontispiece. Numerous text-illus. 1 folding map. Original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed, gilt top, spotted throughout, slightly binding weak.

Hardcover. First Edition. Presentation copy from Ian Malcolm Bonham-Carter, "Captain Viatkine(?) from I. M. Bonham-Carter, School of Military Aeronautics, R.F.C., Reading - May 1917". Bonham Carter was a member of the Royal Flying Corps at this time, eventually serving in World War II also, as Duty Air Commodore in the Operations Room of Headquarters RAF Fighter Command. Decorated cloth boards are faded patchily especially on rear cover. Boards and spine worn especially at edges, joints and coners. The spine has a 3.5" split midway with splits across the spine making a flap, which has, however, been neatly reattached. Front hinge cracked and front free endpaper almost loose. Rear hinge cracked and some inner hinges loosening. Good only. Loosely inserted is a 'just published' flyer from the publishers.

Hardcover. First Printing. Houghton Mifflin, 1926 xii, 305 pp with a large folding map bound in after text. At the height of the 'Great Game' tensions between british India and Russia, Leuit.-Colonel Etherton, in his capacity as British Consul-General and Political Resident in Chinese Turkistan, led an expedition in 1918 north from Kashmir thru Hunza and thence to Central Asia , Chinese Turkistan and Mongolia in order to ascertain what the Soviets were up to. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. a slip attached to the title page states that this is an advance review copy pre the release date of 2/26/1926. A foldout map of Central Asia is bound-in after text. The map is "as new."The grey-green textured cloth boards with gold-stamped titles are intact with light bumping to extremities. First Printing. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition. Tall 8vo. xvi, 437 pp. Illustrated from photographs, folding map (tear near hinge). The author hunted sheep, gazelle, ibex, wapiti, and roe deer. Czech, p. 73: "This book represents a wonderful blend of travel, explorations, and big game hunting." Original three-color and gilt-stamped decorated green cloth, t.e.g. Abrasions at head of spine, else very good. (2806).

First American edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 305, [1]; folding map printed in 2 colors; spine a little dull else a very good, clean and sound copy in original green cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine. Etherton, who was posted to British India in 1903, travelled from Kashmir in British India via Yarkand, Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan over the Heavenly Mountains (Tian Shan) along the Russian border to Chuguchak in the Mongolian foothills of the Altai Mountains and then, after crossing the Russian border, back to England on the Trans-Siberian Railway. In 1912 he was transferred as a captain to the 39th Garhwal Rifle, became a member of the colonial administration of India in the field of intelligence gathering. Between 1918 and 1922 he was British Consul General and political resident in Kashgar (see Wikipedia). Yakushi E107.

Hardback, 9 x 5.75 inches. In brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some light rubbing along edges. Inscription to front endpaper dated 1925. Light tanning to endpapers. Some mild foxing to prelims, and foxing spots to outer page edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 305pp. With folding map at rear.

First English edition, 8vo, pp. [7], x-xvi, 437, [1]; gravure frontispiece portrait, folding color map; 130 illustrations throughout the text, largely from photographs; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt, black, blue and white on upper cover and spine; light wear at the spine extremities, front joint strained at p. xi; all else very good, sound, and clean. "Etherton's journey of 1909 made northward from Srinagar across the Pamirs, well-known route via Gilgit and Hunza over the Mintaka Pass into Tagdumbash Pamir, to Chinese Turkestan and Kashgar, and thence by Kuldja across the steppes beyond to a final junction with the Russian trans-Siberian railway" (Yakushi). "This book represents a wonderful blend of travel, explorations, and big game hunting" (Czech). Czech, Asia, p. 73; Yakushi, E-106.

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