Eothen, First Edition (38 results)

Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition Thus. 240 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Tanning to jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Solid with light wear on the covers from rubbing. "30c" writtten on the top left corner of the inside front cover.

small blue cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~.first printing (NAP) of this edition. 261p. 2 b&w maps. travel. middle east history. balkan history. palestinian history. ottoman empire. ~In 1834 Alexander Kinglake set out to jouney through parts of the Ottoman Empire, the Holy Land, and Egypt. He travelled with Greek mariners and Bedouins, met a wizard and the monks of Palestine, survived the Great Plague an of 1835 in Cairo, and paid an unforgettable visit to Lady Hester Stanhope, then living in splendid isolation and sublime idiosyncrasy in an old convent in the Lebanon. The account that resulted, Eothen, was acclaimed on publication in 1844 and has long been considered one of the seminal (and most enjoyable) works of travel literature, the seed from which the work of Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh and Bruce Chatwin later grew. COVER ILLUSTRATION: Kinglake's own frontispiece for the first edition of 1844. His sketch shows post~horses marshalled by the Tatar, Mustapha Methley's servant, Steel, in his pantry jacket, leading the rear with Mysseri: and Methley in a broad~brimmed hat, with Kinglake himself bringing up the rear. Alexander William Kinglake was born in 1809, educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and called to the bar in 1837. Subsequently he devoted himself to politics, and wrote a substantial History of the War in the Crimea (1863~87). Eothen (1844), describing a journey made in 1834~5, has long been considered one of the seminal achievements of travel literature. Kinglake died in 1891.

Condition: Fair. 1907. First Edition. 387 pages. Red leather with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Insect damage to first few pages. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. 1948. First edition thus. 240 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Bound in blue cloth, stamped in silver. Tight, clean copy of this reprint of the Travel classic. 226 pp. - 19th Century Travel.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. A4, 126pp, with B/W and colour illustrations. CONTENTS : A preface  p. 3 Shahd Abusalama  Nine drawings  p. 5 Shahd Abusalama  Gaza from afar  p. 19 Suna Alan  Six songs p. 23 Suna Alan  On becoming a singer p. 32 Amy Dawn  The sky and two bridges p. 35 Anna Gretton  A poem p. 64 Louise Druelle  Five graphics p. 65 Peta Jones  Letter from Africa p. 69 Ed Emery  Three sketches p. 73 Amal al-Jubouri  Four poems p. 85 Amal al-Jubouri  On becoming a poet p. 98 Darcy Emery  A drawing p. 101 A.W. Kinglake  The desert  p. 102 Decca Muldowney  Letters to Keziah p. 103 Harriet Paintin with Hannah Kirmes-Daly  Four sketches p. 109 Maya Shams  Beirut p. 119  For Mohamed Khamisse Zacharia  p. 125 Illustration credits p. 127.

Paperback. Condition: VG+. 1st Thus. Label, stamp or embossed stamp of owner at start of book. Inscription of owner at start of book. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. John Lehmann, 1948.First edition hardback gilt titles to blue cloth no jacket 240 pages With an introduction by P H Newby. 'The Chiltern Library' series, stains to boards name to fep and light tan spots to ectremeties but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 290 grams. The book has been exposed to moisture at some stage.

23,5 x 15,5 cm. Condition: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. 304 Seiten Softcover, Broschur in sehr gutem Zustand, innen wie außen wie neu. Mit vielen Abbildungen. Bitte beachten Sie unsere Bilder. Büro 25 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 715.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition.

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. First Easton Press Edition (First Thus). The Book Is Bound In Burgundy Leather With Three Raised Bands On The Spine. Gilt Stamped Lettering And Decorations On The Spine. Gilt Decorations On The Front And Back. All Edges Gilt. Gold Marker Ribbon Bound In. Original Easton Press Book Plate Unused And Laid In. There Is A Small Scuff On The Lower Page Edges, Else As New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited. Hardback, decorative paper covered boards. 25.5 x 15cm. 31pp, [1]. Text illustrated with ten wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. Number 61 of an edition of 300 copies. Tiny mark on colophon otherwise a fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. First Edition. 340+ pp. Green cloth, stamped cover design with red accent, gilt spine lettering and head edge, deckled fore edges, frontispiece, 40 b/w illustrations. Ex-lib with bookplate to FPEP and stamp to FFEP, light foxing to end papers, small tear to contents page, some rubbing to extremities, otherwise very sharp for its age.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Previous owners presentation plate on front free end paper. Corners bumped.

Internally VG bright copy in publishers cloth marked in two corners. 1st edition, 1st issue. Illustrated by Frank Brangwyn. Presentation copy from Brangwyn's Contemporary William Russell Flint to his Wife and dated 1937. ISBN B009GNNV12.

8vo., First Edition thus, original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, dark top, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy. SCARCE. EL 337; Seymour 587.0.

First ed. NVG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus. 8vo. Title page in red and black. Illustrated with 40 b/w drawings by H.R. Millar. Original gilt and red cloth with oak leaf designs; t.e.g. 22 page publisher's catalog bound in at end dated 4/98. Includes ads for A.C. Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Bookplate of Vincent Lloyd Russell. Very good. 341 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. Decorated paper-covered boards with black leather spine. 31pp. B&w illustrations. #9 of 50 specially bound copies with an extra set of 8 plates in a separate black paper folder. Fine in very good original black cardboard slipcase.

4th Ed. xi + 423pp. Tinted litho. frontis., tinted litho. plate. Light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, with the armorial bookplate of William Cook, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, corners scuffed, gilt ruled compartments with gilt lettered label to sl. faded spine. First published in 1844, a journey Kinglake made about ten years earlier in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, together with his Eton contemporary Lord Pollington.Abbey Travel, 362 (First Edition)."In truth though the book was rather absurdly compared with the ordinary records of travel, it is more akin to Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey', and is a delightful record of personal impressions rather than outward facts." D.N.B. US$88.

1st edition 3/4 leather Very Good octavo xi + 418pp., colour plate, Lacks frontispiece & has one colour litho only: 'Passage of the Jordan' tissue-guarded. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with five raised bands at spine, over purple boards. Light rubbing to leather spine; a neat ownership signature o/w internally excellent.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Mr Alexander William Kinglake, author of Eothen & Invasion of the Crimea Travel writer/Military Historian. Coloured lithograph dated March 2nd 1872. With full page letterpress biographical details Good wide margins. Measures 23 x 35 cm. Very Good+ Not been framed before!

First Edition. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 232 pages; Description: 1 p. L. , x, 232 p. 19 cm. Subjects: Middle East & the Levant --Description and travel. Series: Wiley and Putnam's library of choice reading. [v. 1]. An unread copy with [some] unopened pages. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 232 pages; Description: 1 p. L. , x, 232 p. 19 cm. Subjects: Middle East & the Levant --Description and travel. Series: Wiley and Putnam's library of choice reading. [v. 1]. An unread copy with [some] unopened pages. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp xi, 418. I hand-coloured litho plate (only). Half calf over marbled boards. Raised bands. A nice copy.

original cloth binding, in 4°, 305 pages, a good copy, 20th century bookplate First Edition en 1200 Buch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large 4t0. pp 306. Original publisher's quarter vellum, green cloth; gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Covers somewhat scuffed; dents to tail of spine; discreet name at corner of front pastedown, boards slightly scuffed sound about VG. With the 12 tipped in coloured plates by Brangwyn as called for, and line drawings including chapter heads. Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is no. 25 signed by Frank Brangwyn. This book is very heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Signedes.

vi, 418 pp. Folding color frontispiece and one color plate. 8vo, old half calf over marbled boards, t.e.g. First edition. Old blind-embossed name stamp at head of title page; old ink gift inscription; some light inoffensive stains to a few pages, including the title page; frontispiece expertly backed with linen repairing a short marginal tear, a partial split at the fold and wear to the margin at fore-edge; joints and corners rubbed; but tight and sound.