Peter Blanchard Editor (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. MARKHAM IN PERU, THE TRAVELS OF CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, 1852~1853, edited by Peter Blanchard, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket [price never printed], stated first edition, illustrated, 1991. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition with no tears, marks, or dog-ears. Some rippling to pages with no effect on reading. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. The boards are in near fine condition (very slight bumping to top of spine). The dust jacket is in fine condition. 9 x 6, 148 pages, 16 ounces XX [From the dust jacket flaps] An account of considerable charm, a deceptively simple record of people met, meals eaten, scenery viewed, and roads taken that has great cumulative effect in its very modesty of purpose. Markham conveys a wonderful sense of what it would have been like to travel in nineteenth-century Peru, and, for the criollo coast even more than for the Indian highlands, he evokes a vanished way of life (Frederick P. Bowser, associate professor of history, Stanford University). LIKE MANY a young person before and since, Clements Markham had his own ideas about what his life's work should be. In 1852, Markham left his father's choice, the British Navy, and set out for Peru to study the ruins of the Inca empire. His ten-month sojourn in Peru produced this journal, one of the few surviving accounts of Peru at mid-nineteenth century, and launched Markham on a career that led ultimately to the presidency of the Royal Geographical Society. Markham's journal captures Peru in transition from the colonial past to the modern era. He was one of the first English travelers to visit Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, and he also witnessed the waning of slavery on the great cotton and sugar plantations as modern machinery and Chinese coolie labor were introduced. He enjoyed the hospitality of all classes of society, from the Indian peasants, who still lived much as their Inca ancestors had done, to the Spanish- descended elites, whose Europeanized lifestyle was underwritten by fortunes made in the guano industry. XX Peter Blanchard has skillfully edited, annotated, and introduced the journal, noting Markham's occasional failings as a historian. Taken together, Markham and Blanchard provide a colorful and informative picture of Peru at a significant period of its history. Peter Blanchard is associate professor of history at the University of Toronto.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Geoffrey Buckingham "Travellers' Tales" / Peter D Blanchard "Corner Short Magic" / Brian Lead "Excerpts From Magician's Diary From The Art Of Coarse Conjuring" / This Is Your Life Geoff Rushworth" / F A Buttress "Pat Page at The Circle" / The London Society of Magicians Entertains The Magic Circle" (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. Edwin A Dawes "A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities No.22 Laughing Gas" / C Hansford Beere "The Rambler" / Arthur Ivey "A History and Description of the Magic Circle Museum" / Henry Goad "Plymouth Magicians and Music-Halls" / Peter D Blanchard "Captain Kettle" / Eddie Dawes lecture (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 20 pages. Illustrated. S H Sharpe "Through Magic-Coloured Spectacles" / G E Arrowsmith "Seasonal Magic" / This Is Your Life Henrique / Peter D Blanchard "'Countdown' Card Effect" / Tom Ellis "'Building Up An Effect' - Frederick Barlow" (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Illustrated. John Le Rossignol "The Magic Circle Show - 1980-81" / S H Sharpe "Through Magic-Coloured Spectacles" / Cliff Townsend "Magic, a State of Mind" / G E Arrow smith "Easy When You Know How!" / John Salisse "October inLos Angeles" / Peter D Blanchard "Roving Rovi Returns" / Ian Keable-Elliott "The Blenheim Bar" / John Salisse "Siegfried and Roy" / Tom Ellis "'My Kind of Magic' - Alan Saxon" / Stephen Blood "The Psychology of Kid's Magic - Bart Harding" / Charles Goodliffe Neale - Obituary (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 28 pages. Illustrated. Alan Snowden "Backstage" / Edwin A Dawes "A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities No.46 Indian Jugglers" / Eric Widger "More Magic from the Fenlands" /Peter Warlock "The Incredible Mr. Maskelyne" / G E Arrowsmith "Two-Way Flight - (A Personal Reminiscence) / Bill Nagle "M4" / Alan Shaxon lecture / Stephen Blood "Len Wallace" / Peter D Blanchard "'The Goldin Visible Change'" (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Edwin A Dawes "A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities No.87 Vonetta" / Peter Warlock "The Grand Seances" / J B Young ", Transatlantic Thaumaturgy" / This Is Your Life - Harry Devano / Peter D Blanchard "Where Did The Queen's Go?" (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Alan Snowden "Backstage" / Edwin A Dawes "A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities No.75 Richard Blanchard" / Harry Carson "Cecil Lyle's Cavalcade of Magic" / S H Sharpe "Through Magic-Coloured Spectacles" / This Is Your Life - Ben Harris" / Peter D Blanchard "Blanchard's Severed Hand" / Henry Goad "Plymouth, Magicians, and Music Halls" / Owen Griffith's "The Magic of Buatier de Kolta" (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 28 pages. Illustrated. Alan Snowden "Backstage" / Edwin A Dawes "A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities - No.61 Philip Astley" / S H Sharpe "Through Magic-Coloured Spectacles" / Robert Miller "Chicago Ring 43 Harry Lorayne Teach-In" / R W Harland "Kiltpintrate - A Prize Winning Close Up Effect" / Peter D Blanchard "The Vanishing and Reappearing Kings" (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Illustrated. Alan Snowden "Backstage" / Edwin A Dawes "A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities" / Henrique "Mutterings" / G E Arrowsmith "Parochial Magic" / S H Sharpe "Acted Magic - An Undelivered Lecture" / Maldino "A Chat on Illusions" / Bill Nagler "M3" / Peter Blanchard "'Out Of This World' - And The Corner Short" / Ronald Herman "Montreal Magic" / Allen Benbow "Allen Benbow's Tambourine Routine" (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. Peter Blanchard "'It Ain't What You Do'" / Bob Telford "Calculators Can Talk?" / Edwin A Dawes "A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities No 49 Hercat" / Ray Waters "Video magic" / George Arrow smith "The Travelling Pips" (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. illustrated. Edwin A Dawes "A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities No.77 E L Blanchard" / Peter Warlock "Cause and Effect - Magical Invention" / Bobby Voltaire "Visit to Paul Daniel's Show B.B.C. TV Centre" / S H Sharpe "Through Magic-Cokoured Spectacles" / Victor Monleon "Impromptu Card Routine" / Stephen Blood "Do That Again - Rex Cooper" / The Magic Circle Thames River Cruise, 17th June 1981 / This Is Your Life - Peter Pinner (VM10).

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!