marching wind de clark leonard (50 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Black titles on beige spine with brown cloth covers, 368 pages including index plus 16 pages of introductory material. Previous owner's name and date (1958) inked on front free endpaper. Mild staining to spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Photo-illustrated Ilustrador. No Edition Noted. Brown covers with grey spine. Brown print on spine. Tight & Sound. 368 pages including index. Owner's signature on inner front cover. "Please Return" admonition on frt fly. Lower corner tips crushed page 39 to 98. Dust jacket has light fading on spine and tears at upper tips and spine end. not price clipped. Interesting narration of quasi-military journey into central asia in 1949.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

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

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

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Torn cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 347pp hardback, lilac cloth giilt, bw plates and map.

Hardcover. Condición: VG+. 1st Edition. Record of a 1948 expedition to the Amne Machin mountain region in northeastern Tibet. Includes meeting with the Tibetan Panchen Lama, "the 12-year-old living Buddha whom some ten million followers in China, Tibet, the northern hill states of India, Manchuria, Siberia, Inner and Outer Mongolia, and Ladakh (or Little Tibet), all directly honour. The author explored an unmapped and unexplored region inhabited by the fierce Ngolok Tribes. xvi, 368pp, maps, index. Xmas note, 1954, to th ffep, otherwise unmarked. Tight, square binding, no wear to the cloth except for very mild bumps to the lower corner tips. The clipped dustjacket is clean and unmarked, with a number of very short edge tears. This book is too thick/heavy to qualify for the rate shown which applies only to 500g or less when packed, and/or under 20mm thick [CPO Lettermail]. The amount shown on this Listing, by ABE, is not correct, and is a 'one price fits all' figure. A Single Page or a Set of 24vols shown as the same postage. Best shipping can be via the Canada Post Flat Rate Box - at OUR cost. GST also included. It is boxed, tracked, faster and less expensive than regular Parcel Post. Less expensive rates may be available to some Urban areas all across Canada. Postage to the USA - at our cost - on request.

Clark, an American explorer, looked for a mountain higher than Everest (and believed that he found it), and explored regions of western China whose features were unknown. The backdrop of intrigues and civil war in the late 1940's made this a dangerous expedition. Good in orig. cloth, with some soil and browning on endsheets. Dust jacket is soiled but intact.

Hardcover , Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. 347pp, maps, illus, d/w. *A fine account of Tibetan exploration. SECOND EDITION PRINTED IN 1955. HARDCOVER, NO DUST JACKET, NO MARKINGS, VERY GOOD CONDITION, EXCELLENT VALUE .

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First British edition. Foxing to edges and endpapers, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear with a few short closed edge tears and one small chip) dust jacket.

Condición: Good. 1954. No edition remarks. 368 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces. Spine noticeably sunned.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good Minus. First Edition. travel to far tibet.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. NY, 1954. 368 pages, clothbound, no jacket, very good condition.

Condición: Very Good. Pirated ed. Very good.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is a near perfect first edition published by Funk & Wagnalis Company in 1964. Brown and tan linen cover with brown lettering on the spine. Comes with a very good condition dust jacket. It is a record of the 1948 expedition to the Amne Machin mountain region in northeastern Tibet. Includes meeting with the Tibetan Panchen Lama. 368 pages with no markings except an owner mark on the inside cover first page (photographed) and across the page edging. Binding is solid. Dust jacket is in very good condition and protected in foil. Numerous photographs, illustrations, and maps. Please review the photos as they form an important part of the description. The current owner, anthropologist and writer Don Messerschmidt, PhD, is known for his research and writings on the Himalayas and related topics. He has published books and articles internationally since the 1960s when he first lived in Nepal as an American Peace Corps volunteer. He went on to enhance his understanding of Himalayan peoples and places as an independent researcher and on numerous consultancies. For over a half-century, he has been engaged in field studies, university professorships, and writing about the rich cultures of Bhutan, Nepal, North India, and Tibet. Along the way, he amassed an extensive library of Himalayan studies and has written several of his own, including two prize-winners. He has also been an editor for two regional magazines and has been called upon to review and pen chapters and forewords for Himalayan-oriented publications.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hardback book (368 pages) illustrated with vintage b/w photographs and maps. Dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve shows moderate rubbing/scuffing with small tears top edge of back panel. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-6-TS-Down2) rareviewbooks.

Condición: Good. 1st GB ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. brown boards over tan cloth, tall 8vo, [xvi] +368pp, VG/VG, light foxing to dj spine, Asia exploration.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. B/W Photographs Ilustrador. First Thus. SUBTITLED : `A Mounted Explorer Rides into Forbidden Tibet ' . Hard on his experiences in WWII as an espionage agent, Leonard Clark in 1949, decided to lead a group to prepare a base of operation for General Ma Pa-fang, an anti-communist leader. These 370 pages - INDEX at back - tell that story. LEARN more about : China's Sorrow, Minchur Tsewan Dorje, Tou Long Ra, Amne Machin, Gitong River, and Gomtsun. Two b/w maps aqhead of page 3. Section of b/w photos at center. Cond : Paper wrapper is lemon yellow with black lettering. Bright, tight, square and clean. No names nor marks. Giftable !! Quote (p. 93) : " Hectic, busy preparations for our venture continued. Our spirits had improved. Copper cooking pots were purchased. Tsamba, the main food other than meat, for we had no foreign food of any kind except Chinese tea, was brought in on horses and put into leather bags. these tough bags would ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.

Black & White Plates Ilustrador. 2nd. Printing. London, UK: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. Good plus condition; slight staining/No Dustjacket. (1955). 2nd. Printing. 8vo., 347 pp. . Good plus condition; slight staining/No Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. ex-Lib. 347 Pages. The boards are a bit shelf rubbed and scuffed, but remain strong and sturdy. Internally, there are pen inscriptions and stamp marks on the early pages, there are no other marks or inscriptions, the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound. Good copy. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

1st U.K. edition. 8vo. 347pp. Frontispiece and b/w. illustrations, maps. Rebound in leather backed marbled boards, spine letered in gilt. US$13.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, previous owners name on front end paper.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Top left side of dj has a piece missing ex lib; 8vo; 368 pages.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. 2nd Printing. 347pp/illus. 368 pages, 8 plates, maps, cloth, dust jacket, very good. Clark explores previously unmapped Central Asia searching for a great mountain peak. Includes an account of General Ma Pu-fang. Light wear/chipping to dj. Text clean.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Second Printing. London: Hutchinson, 1955 347 pp with two maps and sixteen B&W plates. The author led an expedition to the upper reaches of the Yelllow River in search of a mountain, Amne Machin, reputed to be taller than Everest. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Dark red cloth boards with blacktitles along spine are clean and undamaged. Dust jacket is price-clipped, bright and whole except for a short closed tear along top edge. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

xvi, 368p., b/w illus., slightly chipped dj. History of the expedition to the mountain Amne Machin in Central Asia.