thesiger sir wilfred patrick (5 resultados)

Original boards. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo (234 x 151mm), pp. [2 (blank l.)], [i]-xvii, [1 (blank)], [2 (fly-title, facsimile on verso)], 1-207, [1 (blank)], [2 (part-title to index, verso blank)], 209-214, [2 (blank l.)]. 2 colour-printed maps after Thesiger, 12 leaves of monochrome illustrations after photographs by Thesiger, one full-page facsimile and illustrations in the text. (Some light browning, as often, due to the paper stock, and a few light spots on fore-edges.) Original publisher's maroon boards, spine titled in gilt, dustwrapper. (Dustwrapper slightly creased at edges and price-clipped.) A very good copy. ¶¶¶First edition. 'In 1930 Wilfred Thesiger attended the coronation of HIM Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa [as honorary attaché to the Duke of Gloucester], at the Emperor's personal invitation [on the basis of his own and his late father's friendships with the Emperor]. Afterwards he spent a month hunting alone in the hostile Danakil desert of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), a thrilling experience which led three years later to his successful exploration of the Awash River. Today he still regards this expedition as the most dangerous he ever undertook. Aged only 23, Thesiger became the first European to travel through the fabled Sultanate of Aussa, a forbidding land where two Italian expeditions and an Egyptian army had previously been wiped out by Danakil tribesman. Thesiger's remarkable journey solved one of Africa's last remaining geographical mysteries [.] A vivid, compelling narrative, The Danakil Diary records how the young Thesiger surmounted overwhelming obstacles and survived the constant threat of death and mutilation by the Danakil, warriors whose tribal status depended on the number of men they had killed and castrated' (dustwrapper blurb). In the course of this expedition, Thesiger collected and preserved some 872 birds from the Danakil region (including 192 species and three new subspecies), publishing his findings with M. Meynell as 'On a Collection of Birds from Danakil, Abyssinia' in The Ibis series 13, vol. V, no. 4. The photographs that illustrated the book were, as Thesiger notes in the preface, some of the first that he ever took. P.N. Grover, 'Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger', p. 272. ¶¶¶FURTHER INFORMATION: please contact us for further information about this item and prices for shipping.

Condición: Fine. First Edition, first impression, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED to 'Pauline' (Lady Rumbold 1927-2008, actress and writer), printing sequence line '135798642'. Original black cloth with gilt ettering to spine and boards, light-brown endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Large Octavo. pp. [xvi], 224, photographic illustrations after Thesiger. Lady Rumbold was the daughter of the actress Hermione Baddely and the writer Stephen Tennant, marrying Julian Pitt-Rivers, then Euan Graham and finally Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Bt. Rumbold had known Thesiger at Eton and was his contemporary at Magdalen College, Oxford. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped.

Condición: Fine. First Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '135798642'. SIGNED by the author and inscribed to 'Pauline' [Lady Rumbold - and from her library]. Original maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [xx], 214, [2]. 2 colour-printed maps after Thesiger, 12 leaves of monochrome illustrations after photographs by Thesiger. Lady Rumbold was the daughter of the actress Hermione Baddely and the writer Stephen Tennant, marrying Julian Pitt-Rivers, then Euan Graham and finally Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Bt. Rumbold who had known Thesiger at Eton and was his contemporary at Magdalen College, Oxford. A book in Near Fine condition, with slight toning to page edges, in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped. P.N.Grover, Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger, p.272.

Condición: Near Fine. First Edition SIGNED by the author on the half-title 'Wilfred Thesiger'. Provenance: although not marked as such, this copy is from the library of Michael Shaw of Curtis Brown, who succeeded Graham Watson as Thesiger's agent in about 1980. Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and board. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Quarto. pp. 176, monochrome photographic illustrations, one colour printed folding map after Thesiger tipped onto lower pastedown. This is the first edition of Thesiger's travel classic 'Arabian Sands' to be illustrated with his photographs and prefaced with a new introduction. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket.

London, HarperCollinsPublishing, [1994]. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, light-brown endpapers, dustwrapper retaining price; pp. xiv, [2 (full-page map, verso blank)], 224; photographic illustrations after Thesiger, some full- or double-page; dustwrapper very slightly creased at edges, with short tear on lower panel, and slightly faded on part of spine, extremities very lightly bumped, very light marginal marks on pp.188-189, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Signed on the title-page 'Wilfred Thesiger'. An autobiographical account of Thesiger's thirty years in Kenya, where he settle in the latter part of his life, which complements Thesiger's books on the earlier years of his life: 'When he first came to Kenya in 1960, Thesiger made a series of long journeys on foot with camels to Lake Turkana, Marsabit and other remote areas, drawn by the lure of what was formerly Kenya's Northern Frontier District, its varied wildlife and distinctive, nomadic tribes. In Tanzania, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and traversed the Maasai country with donkeys. Later, as an Honorary Game Warden, he led anti-poaching patrols in Kenya. [â¦] My Kenya Days offers fresh insights into Thesiger's motivations and enigmatic personality. His descriptions of Kenya's northern tribes are picturesque, vivid and authoritative: Rendille warriors dancing by moonlight; Turkana in pursuit of buffalo; and a closely observed account of Samburu moran during their initiation ceremonies' (dustwrapper blurb).