Laing alexander ed (9 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. Clean and tightly bound paperback, spine creased and tanned, card covers a little rubbed, minor foxing to page edges, no inscriptions. 222 pages.

1st edition dust jacket As New quarto 344pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., index, The deluxe edition. Well-illustrated account. In original decorated cloth slip-case as issued.

Hardcover. pp. 376. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Publisher's red topstain. B&w frontispiece, map to page 7. Front board bowed, cloth creased at spine, edges quite worn, front free endpaper excised, a bit of foxing; fair. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. Volume 1 of 4 only. 22×14cm; xi,[3],406pp. Series II Vol. CXXIII. Light blue buckram boards with gilt title on spine, gilt centrepiece on upper board, blind bands and borders. Binding square and tight. Dust jacket with very light foxing and minor wear at edges, price clipped. Foxing to top edge. Clean within. Plates and folding maps. A 'Very Good' copy.…

Cambridge, 1964. 1 vol. (of 4). XI,[1], 406 pp. 4 b./w. plts & 8 maps on 6 plts. Hardcover, d./j. - Dustjacket worn. (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, no. CXXIII).Only volume 1 of the set.

First Edition. Near fine library copies in cloth boards, all with near fine, slightly dust-toned dust-wrappers, now mylar-sleeved. Edges slightly foxed, with minor library marks remaining. Text blocks remains otherwise tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered; a well-preserved set overall. Series; Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., no. 128-130. Physical description; 3 volumes : illustrations, maps (some folded), portrait ; 23 cm. Notes; Vols. 2-4 of 4, lacking Vol. 1 : The journal of Friedrich Hornemann's travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the years 1797-98. This set comprises the complete Bornu mission 1822-25. Subjects; Niger River, exploration. Africa, West, description and travel. Bornu (Nigeria), history. Africa, exploration, 19th century. Sahara, exploration, 1820s. 1 Kg. …

Cambridge, 1964-1965. 4 vols in 3. XI,406,VIII,798 pp. Ills. Cloth. (The Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, vols 123, 128-130). - Ex-libris & owner's-name on first free endpaper ov vol. 1.Volume one is the orig. Hakluy edition of 1964, vols II/III and IV are Kraus reprints (Nedeln, 1975). - Cont.: I: The journal of Friederich Hornemann's travels fro Cairo to Murzük in the years 1797-1798. The letters of major Alexander Gordon Laing, 1824-1826.…

Cambridge, 1964-1965. 4 vols. XI,406,VIII,798 pp. Ills. Cloth. (The Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, vols 123, 128-130).Cont.: vol. I: The journal of Friedrich Hornemann's travels fro Cairo to Murzük in the years 1797-1798. The letters of major Alexander Gordon Laing, 1824-1826; vols II-IV: The Bornu mission, 1822-1825.…

First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xvi [1-2] 3-848, 62 black and white illustrations, fifteen full-page, by Lynd Ward, original flexible blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light green. An excellent anthology collecting 42 weird and supernatural tales by W. F. Harvey, M. R. James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Algernon Blackwood, F. Marion Crawford, W. W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lafcadio Hearn, May Sinclair, Ambrose Bierce, John Collier, Edith Wharton, and many others. Stunning illustrations by Lynd Ward. Ward's "most outstanding achievement was a series of sixty [i.e. 62] illustrations for THE HAUNTED OMNIBUS in 1937, one of the major ghost story collections published before World War II." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 450. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 978. Bleiler (1978), p. 117. Reginald 08538]. Front corners bumped, a nearly fine in very good dust jacket with light wear to corners and spine ends, which has shallow loss, rubbing to front fold. An attractive copy of a book which normally appears either without jacket or in mediocre condition. (30761). …