Shanks Mare Compendium Remarkable (19 results)

Condition: As New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 420 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good.

Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear.

Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition (stated).Clean and tight hardcover book with clean jacket. Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wonderful. A Treat. Walking with the literary giants. Fresh clean tight strong bright unmarked jacket boards text. 420 pages Top spine and jacket show rubbing not harming overall presentation. 16 Essays.

Paperback. Condition: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED; Good trade paperback with creasing, loose pages, staining on back cover, nicked, and prompt shipping with tracking.

Condition: Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Bargain book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Uncirculated library (Regents Point Library, Irvine, CA) copy w/Library Stamp to FEP & red check mark to rear cover verso. Stated 1988 First Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Green linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF w/faint creasing to upper front corner. Collection of 20th century remarkable walks and walkers. "Shank's mare" is an old Scottish term describing walking . that is to say, getting around on the strength of one's own shanks or legs. The anthology begins with Winston Churchill's 14 mile hike in Uganda taken during a safari trip, rewarded by a ". a sense of completeness and self-satisfied detachment . a simple programme, which leaves nothing more to be demanded or desired." The last entry is Robert Marshall's 1930's walk through Alaska wilderness with the ending thoughts are: "It had been just an active unexciting [though readers might well differ] trip physically, but the most thrilling in aesthetic pleasure." Between these two, if you are short time to stroll yourself, walk in the good company of Shiva Naipaul, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lawrence Durrell, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis, Vladimir Nabokov, and many, many others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

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Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 9.4 X 6.5 X 1.5 inches; 420 pages.

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

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