Owen Col (28 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. trade paperback in very good condition.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Thomas Somerfield and Reginald Mills R.B.A. (illustrator). Not Stated. 256 pp, color frontis, ils, some soiling to edges and spine, orange cloth with black lettering and dec, sticker glue on spine, hinges pretty tight. ID# OR34.

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Large Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 540p. Maps. Photos. Large Wraps. Missing title page. Near Fine.

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Paperback. Condition: Fine. 541p. Photos. Large Wraps. Oversize. Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 271 pages. Lightly toned pages; tight binding; very good shape. The jacket has light wear and discoloration. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military History; ISBN: 0853687544. ISBN/EAN: 9780853687542. Inventory No: 231057.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair original illustrated boards, depicting indian on horse, general wear, 1" broken at head of spine, remains of bookplate on ffep, otherwise clean throughout.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Tight cloth bound edition with illustrated front board showing three native American indians on horseback. Not dated but probably1930's. Some slight rubbing around the board edges. Small neat inscription inside front cover.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st. 1st ed. 142p. Photos. Maps. Official account. Wraps. Spine worn. Good Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. 1st Edition. original cloth hardcover, 88 pages, covers faded and spotted otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 89.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. Good DJ with some edge wear and some fading.

130 col. photographs (illustrator). Contents 1 Thimphu capital of the dragon kingdom 2 Tsechu Living festival 3 West a glimpse of the dragon 4 North abode of the Gods 5 Centre spiritual heartland 6 South jungle-clad foothills 7 East forbidden lands 8 Bragpa Nomadic yak herdersFor many years the outside world had no name for Bhutan although its people call it Druk Yul The Land of the Thunder Dragon Perched precariously between India and Tibet it is a remote and little-known kingdom which until 1974 admitted no foreign tourists Now its spectacular mountain beauty and a way of life still firmly rooted in medieval tradition attract visitors from all over the world although the Bhutanese well aware of how easily their ?gross national happiness? could be compromised by the demands of tourism firmly control the numbers which are admittedTom Owen Edmunds was fortunate enough to be invited to Bhutan as the guest of a member of the royal family Accompanied by guides who produced astonishing six-course meals over a campfire and spoke twelve of the innumerable Bhutanese dialects he was able to travel east to villages which had never before seen foreigners In the course of his two journeys he covered the entire country from the jungle-clad foothills of the south to the frozen wastes of Great HimalayaThroughout his visits to Bhutan he enjoyed unquestioning hospitality He attended festivals notably the great Paro Tsechu the highlight of the Bhutanese religious and social calendar which has been celebrated in exactly the same way for centuries He watched people at work ploughing their fields and carrying their produce to market on yak-back In the far east of the country he visited the almost inaccessible Bragpa people who wear five-pointed hats and animal skins over their clothes He saw everywhere the include of Buddha and the gigantic castle-monasteries called Dzongs from which the country is governed And he recorded it all in a unique collection of photographs Nobody who sees ?Tom Owen Edmunds? portrait of Bhutan will fail to agree with his assessment that although this mystical mountain kingdom may not be Sangri-la it does come very very close 160 pp.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 2nd Edition . With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Gerald Templer. From the collection of Ex-Library with their stamp marks and a small label on the spine. Publication of 272 pages. The dust jacket is worn. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There are old tape residue marks on the back boards. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Clean scarlet boards and spine, the latter lettered in gilt and faded at base. Jacket, in clear removable sleeve worn on all corners, chipped and torn. Internally first six pages foxed.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Colour Plates & b/w Drawings (illustrator). No ffep. Yellowing to pages. Colour frontis plate. 125 pages. THE RED JUNKby G. E. Hoperoft; THAT'S YOUNG TOMLINSON by Wallace E. Arter; SKY QUEEN'S FINEST FLIGHT by B. C. Lawley; THE PERIL OF SIR AUSTIN byMartin Bishop; CONWAY CLEARS HIMSELF by S. Beresford Lucas; AN AID TO THE DEAF by Lt.-Col. A. Lloyd Owen; BRANDO OF THE FOURTH by John Denham Strange; HOLIDAYS START WITH A THRILL byK. Nelson Abbott; THE SPEED KINGSby G. Gibbard Jackson; THE SCARLET TRAIL by Eric Wood; LONE ASH MIRESby Martin Bishop; WICKS OF 'ARRY'S 'OUSE byR. A. Moss; A JOB FOR THE HOLIDAYS by William Carver Haynes; NOT CRICKETby A. E. Seymour; THE UNKNOWN CHALLENGERS by Martin Bishop. COLVILLE CAVES by M. M. Stevenson; TRUANTS IN LUCK by M. R. Sherlock; QUEER CARGO by W. H. Morris; ONE GOOD TURN by F. S. Blomfield; THE ART OF ARTHUR AMES by M. M. Stevenson; BY RIGHT OF CONQUEST by A. W. Seymour; THE CLASSROOM FEAST by P. Martin.; Binding a bit loose in places but generally sound. Size: Illustrated Boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 271p. Photos. Map. This is the story of Y2 Patrol of the Long Range Desert Group told by its leader. Red cloth. Spine letering not bright. Slight foxing to page tops. Fine Copy.

Both items 2pp., folio. Each on a separate leaf, the two leaves attached to one another by small gummed labels. Both items in good condition, lightly aged and worn. ONE: Signed by Woods. Announcing the appointment, and enclosing a warrant ('ordinary Member of the Military division of the Third Class, or Companions'. TWO: Signed by Cox. The word 'duplicate' in red ink at head of first page, but with Cox's genuine signature. Announcing the appointment, 'on the recommendation of Secretary Sir Michael Hicks Beach'.

8vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page map, small neat signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. An SAS classic. In the war in North Africa, LRDG (Long Range Desert Group), forerunner of the SAS, won a reputation out of all proportion to its size and short existence. Lloyd Owen's classic account of Y2 Patrol is a key account. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.251.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3d ed. 472p. Photos. 18 Folding Line drawings. Rebound in russet cloth. Heavy. Some tape on margins of title page and last page. Text block Very Good. Binding Fine.

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