Fifty Adventures Unknown (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear and light fading to boards. Content is aged toned. Weak hinges. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. with seventeen full-page illustrations (illustrator). Undated edition. Blue-gray cloth boards. Front inner hinge cracked. Fading, scuffing and marks on cover and spine. Marks on front end paper. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with several short closed tears along top edge along with a small tape repair. Non-authorial gift inscription in front reads "To Frank, To remind you of Schenectady and the mighty works therein, " from Bert. Small bookstore sticker on rear pastedown from a Schenectady bookstore. Illustrated with photos. 8vo. 150 pp. In protective Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. hardback bound in red cloth with blind stamped titles to front and gilt titles to spine. Vintage travel writing and fiction by various authors with 17 black and white illustrations at the front of the book . Interior extremely clean with no writing, marks or tears. Covers clean and unscuffed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No dustwrapper, some fading to the spine of blue boards, old water-marking to outer edge of front board, original owner's name on rev of f/ep, binding just starting to give way at half-title, minor foxing to outer pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Fifty" series, this one has fifty pieces by various authors on episodes of travel, exploration and dscovery from mediaeval to modern (early 20th century, at least) times. No publication date given, but code on rev of title page makes it 1938. 703pp, 17 full-page b&w drawings Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. very good overall condition (superb for age).Quality book with speedy dispatch from the u/k 0.0.

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wonderful collection of accounts of exploration. One of the 'Fifty' series. nd. c. 1930's pp703. Woodcuts. Gilt title on red boards.