Search Results: tahiti nui by de bisschop eric

0: Collins. Good. Hardcover. 1959. pp 255 illus d/j some wear .

London: Collins, 1959 Original red cloth with gilt titles, endpaper maps, b&w illstns. Translated from the French by Edward Young. A very tidy book with intact dust jacket, just some edge rubbing and tiny tears. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: McDowell, Obolensky. Hardcover. 1959. 1st Edition. 8vo 284pp . Fine in Good DJ. B&W Photographs DJ spine faded, some small tears, and a crease line along bottom edge of front panel "Tahiti Nui" is the name of an exact replica of an ancient Polynesian craft. The author sailed it across the Pacific from Tahiti to Chile in a daring challenge to the "Kon-Tiki theory" .

LONDON: COLLINS, 1959. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Wrapper is rubbed, with a closed tear to the top of the spine where the wrapper has been crushed downwards to reveal the cloth. Some closed tears and wear to the heel of the wrapper. Corners are rounded, and the boards are clean. Foxing to the fore edge but clean throughout. Good.

London: Collins, St. James Place, 1959. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Illustrations; maps [ Colour jacket Design; by Brian Keogh ]. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1959. Hardback. Illustrated with 15 plates. Red cloth; silver letter spine. Map end-papers. In blue and colour pictorial dust-jacket. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Jacket particularly bright and clean with no tears. Fore-edge foxed. VERY GOOD in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. 356 pages. Includes bibliographical references. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, Inklings, Literature, Rarities, Theology and History. ].

McDowell, Obolensky, 1959T. hardcover. Very Good. 1.1000 in x 8.3000 in x 5.5000 in. Hardcover with good dust-jacket. Gift inscription on front fly-leaf. Otherwise, clean and solid. Ships from a smoke-free home. 284 pages. Tearing and chipping to edge of jacket, which comes in a mylar wrapper.