Houot Willm (58 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Penguin printing. Explorations with a bathyscaphe, illustrated with with 24 photographs. Slight wear to the edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. STATED FIRST EDITION! NOT a library discard; privately owned hardback book with dust jacket. The jacket is NOT price-clipped ($4.00) and has rubbing along the edges and some chips/tears. It looks pretty good under the fresh mylar cover I've added. The book is sturdy, clean and complete with no writing. The endpapers are very tanned/age-toned but the text pages are very clean.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. 233 pp. Penguin Book 1329. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams. Translated by Michael Bullock. Foreword by Jacques Yves Cousteau; Introduction by Philippe Tailliez. The Chapters are: The Plans; The Night of 15 - 16 May 1953; The Launching; The Data of the Problem; Small Dives; The First Big Descent; The End of a Cycle; An Alarm in the Sphere; A Ride in a Canyon; First Contacts with the Atlantic; Minus 4050 Metres; and First Steps in the Field of Science; followed by an epilogue and a technical description. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Georges Houot was a French naval officer and commander of the NRS III bathyscaphe unit. Orange Penguin 1329. Illustrated. Page edges tanned and some damage to spine but no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. NOT ex-library. Faint tape marks to jacket flaps. end papers and boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Leinenband ohne Schutzumschlag - kleine Nummer im Vorsatz - kaum sichtbarer Fleck am Rücken.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 233p period paperback with orange cover, nice fresh copy, well preserved, with plates, not used, first Penguin edition Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Brockhaus, Wiesbaden, Germany 1955. In German. 231 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Spine cloth slightly faded. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Has b/w photos of deep sea equipment. Nautical::History Science/Nature::Marine Biology Engineering German Nautical::History Science/Nature::Marine Biology Engineering German 7469.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First British Edition; First Printing. Missing DJ, sunned spine with some sunning and spotting to boards with a few ink marks, corners bumped with some shelf wear, gift message opposite half title. Some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First UK edition, first printing with no other printings listed. Green cloth boards with faded gilt lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers showing cut away side elevation of bathyscaphe FNRS 3 by Rolf Kleb. Good reading copy. ; B&W Photographs; 256 pages; An account of the record breaking descent to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean by the French Navy's bathyscaphe FNRS 3, with a foreword by Jacque Cousteau and an introduction by Philippe Tailliez. Translated from the original French by Mchael Bullock.…

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. Trans. from the French by Michael Bullock. Foreword by Jacques Cousteau. London: Hamish Hamilton & Rupert Hart-Davis. 1955. 256pp. Illus. Spine faded, otherwise a v.g. copy.S002.

Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (poor); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Reprint. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 236 pages. Subjects; English literature. English fiction. 20th century; English literature. Drama novels. Classics authors. 1 Kg.

paperback, 233pp, illustrated, pages browning, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, light creasing on spine, Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ Hardback. No Dust Jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Georges Houot was a French naval officer and commander of the NRS III bathyscaphe unit. Page edges tanned but no inscriptions.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Green cloth titled in gilt on spine, illstd endpapers, b&w photos. Tight and square, faded at spine, a small name in front. Dust jacket is unclipped, edge wear, small tear, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Condition: Good. 1955. No edition remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over green cloth. Black and white photographs. 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, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine. …

Reprint. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 236 pages. Subjects; English literature. English fiction. 20th century; English literature. Drama novels. Classics authors. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dj.

Condition: Good. Naam op schutblad.

Broché. Condition: Bon. ( IN FRENCH - EN FRANÇAIS ) 194 pages; Histoire de la construction et des essais du bathyscaphe F.N.R.S. III. Nombreuses photos en noir et en couleurs.; Broché. Bords et coins un peu rognés. Ex-libris avec les marques habituelles. La carte dépliée à la fin du livre a une déchirure au bas. Livre propre et solide. En bon état. Size: 8vo. Livre.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Vintage Penguin First Edition. #1329. 2000 Fathoms Down in the Penguin edition is Georges Houot and Pierre Willmâs gripping account of early deep-sea exploration, centred on the bathyscaphe FNRS-3 and its pioneering descents into the abyss. The authors blend technical clarity with vivid storytelling, describing the hazards, improvisations and scientific breakthroughs that defined these record-setting dives. Their narrative captures both the claustrophobic tension inside the vessel and the awe of entering a world previously unseen by humans. Itâs an atmospheric, historically important volume that showcases the courage and curiosity driving mid-century oceanography.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First English Language Edition. 256pp, bw ills, diagrams, pictorial endpapers. Or green cloth in jacket. Boards edgeworn and with stains. Jacket price clipped, heavily edge worn with tears and creases, damage to front panel from old sticker, some staining. Translated from the French. Size: 8vo.…

Condition: Good. 1955. First Edition. 192 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Signed by the P.H.Willm with dedication to Mr. and Mrs.Betts on front free endpaper. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.…

Wiesbaden: Brockhaus, 1955. OLn. 231 S. m. 37 Abb. auf Kunstdrucktafeln und 11 Zeichnungen im Text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Jade cloth titled in gilt on spine, tinted top edges, pictorial endpapers, b&w illstns. Unmarked apart from a small gift inscription on the half-title page. Dust jacket is intact and bright, slight wear to corners, tiny tear to crown of spine. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. DJ with a few tears, creasing.

Broché. 194 pages. Jaquette défraîchie.

Masson et Cie, éditeurs, Paris - 1958, Annales de l'Institut Océanographique publiées sous la direction de Louis Fage, Nouvelle série, Tome XXXV - Fasc. 4 et dernier, 22,50x28 cm, broché, 108 pages, nombreuses planches et figures Bon état - Pour les envois hors de France, la tafication «livre & brochure» pour les frais de port a disparue.Les frais de port annoncés correspondent à une moyenne. Ils seront calculés au plus juste en fonction du poids de votre article. …