Stewart Wavell (34 results)

Condition: Good. 1964. First Edition. 247 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Contains colour photographic plates. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Plates are bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Ink price to front free end paper. Boards have mild edge-wear…

Condition: Good. 1964. First Edition. 247 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white and colour photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Tape mark to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine en…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. New York: Atheneum Press, 1965. First American edition, 1965. The story of the Cambridge University expedition to southeast Asia, and the search for lost civilizations on the Malay peninsula. Illustrated in both color and black and white. Navy c…

Condition: Good. 1958. No edition remarks. 195 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and heavy foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mi…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good +. First American Edition. 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped title on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with photo of Thai temple; profusely illustrated with color and B&W photos of Thai and Malaysian Buddhistic and naga si…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 22cm. VG h/c in pictorial DJ with sligh chips and repaired tear at back. 195 pages, 33 b/w photos, map. A broadcaster familiar to BBC and Malayan listeners Wavell has a way with the written word as he recalls adventures, explorations among Malayan p…

Hardcover. Condition: Gut bis sehr gut. 247pp, 31 plates (15 coloured). Colorful account of the Cambridge expedition to Malaysia and Thailand (Cambridge University Explorers' Club expedition to Malaya & Thailand in summer 1961), in search of the legendary kingdoms of Funan. It claims to be the first attempt by an expedition to r…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Moderate corner, edge wear. Pages very good. An epic born of Wavell's accidental discovery in how to trigger the unconscious mind through his leadership and morale boosting efforts for the Malays against terrorism and later his expeditions into the jungles to experience ancient trance practices…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Acceptable condition, boards a little grubby and worn, edges quite flecked, interior generally clean and quite bright. No dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illus…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black and yellow tonic cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back and front. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains (vi), 247 pp with 16 pages monochrome and 15 pages colour photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper…

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 253pp. From the dustwrapper, "Trances is a strangely disturbing, even prophetic book. Through a gap in the scientific curtain, it reveals glimpses of trance rites and shamanistic skil…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Good condition, in a dustjacket with considerable wear and tear, and some loss esp. to top edge. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover ill…