Search Results: from scott to fuchs by gerald bowman

Evans Brothers, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1960. Cadet Edition. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black & white illustrations and plates. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket. Panels have light edge wear with tears and creasing.

Evans Brothers Ltd., 1958. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1958. First Edition. 191 pages. Colour illustrated dust jacket, laminated, over blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black & white photographic plates and maps throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild crinkling, occasional foxing, mild tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild edge wear with light rubbing and crushing. Some light marking and tanning. There is bumping to corners. Boards are bowed. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Tanning to spine and edges. Lamination peeling at back. Tape remnant to flap edges.

London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1964. Second Edition. VG in Good jacket with chipping at edges and corners, a sticker tear on cover and half inch chip missing from top edge of front. Chipped at top of spine. Binding square and solid.. 192 pages. Second edition after first in 1960. Approx. 5 by 8 inches. A biography of the two British explorers who conquered Antarctica.

London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1958. First Edition. VG. No jacket. Binding very slightly cocked.. 192 pages with index. Approx. 5 by 8 inches. A biography of the two British explorers who conquered Antarctica.

London, Evans Brothers Limited, (1958).. First Edition; 8vo; pp. 191; frontispiece, 10 pages of plates, 2 appendices, index; dark blue cloth worn, title lettered in gilt on spine, chipped dustjacket, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, light flecking to page edges, price clipped, a good copy. The book tells the full story of Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmond Hillary's triumph and discusses the many controversial aspects of the events which led up to their expedition. He compares successes and failures of previous polar explorers, Scott, Roald Amundsen, Shackleton and Admiral Byrd up to the recent Fuchs and Hillary.

Evans Brothers, 1958. 1958 First Edition. hardcover. 191pp, original blue cloth, slight lean to spine, small bump to top corner, a little water marking to first few and last few pages, light foreedge foxing, bump to one corner, Good in Good dw.. Bowman looks at the recent success of Fuchs and Hillary with their crossing of Antarctica and relates the achievement to previous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Auckland: Evan Brothers. Very Good. Hardcover. 1960. Cadet edition. 192 pages. <br> .

London: Evans Bros. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. 191 pages. Index. Four polar explorers Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton Byrd are studied as well as the Fuchs and Hilary expedition. Appendix 1 has a list of known Antarctic explorers, Appendix 2 has a list of all personnel on the expeditions dealt with in this book. Light surface wear to cover which is intact, but price cut.; 8vo .

Evans, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. The jacket is worn and marked.First front end page missing.Tanning.Excellent binding.Good copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Evans Brothers. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (travel, polar exploration, antarctica, biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

London: Evans Brothers, 1958 Xmas sticker on flyleaf. A very clean and tightly bound book. Black and white photos. Dust jacket poor.

Evans Brothers, 1958. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition; 191pp, photgraphic frontispiece plus 12 plates, maps in text. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine.No dustjacket. History of Antarctic exploration, written just after Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Antarctica; the author places this achievement into historical context by relating it to the previous expeditions of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, and Byrd; includes an appendix giving a 'list of the explorers, from the earliest known to the present day, whose names are perpetuated on the charts of Antarctica; Gift inscription on fep, spine bumped, minor markings to covers. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1529. .

London: Evans Brothers, 1958. 192pp. Blue boards. Gilt lettering spine. Albury private lending library label pasted to front board and front of original wrapper pasted to rear board. Section of flap blurb to front endpaper. Book firm and tidy. Black and white plates.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Ex-Library.

London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1960. Cadet Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Inscription to verso of frontis. Light tanning to ep's andlightly rolled corners. Jacket price clipped, with one short closed tear and rubbing.

London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1960. Blue cloth, gilt text on spine. 192pp. B/w Frontispiece. B/w photos & Maps. Ffep has tiny wite-out mark, small name partially crossed out neatly. Internally tight & clean.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1964. Cadet Edition. 15 b/w illustrations. 192 pp. White endpapers, with previous owner`s name on ffep. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Blue DJ with white titles and colour illustration. Small chips, light wear along the edges. VG+/VG+.

London: Evans Brothers Limited. 1964. Cadet edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Few small open tears throughout. Light scuffing on front panel. .

London: Evans Brothers Limited, [1958]. 191pp, [1]. With a photographic frontispiece and a further 18 photographic illustrations. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper price-clipped, and trifle marked and chipped. Later bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, near contemporary inked gift inscription and booksellers ink-stamp to FFEP, lightly spotted. The first edition of a study of four notable polar explorers; Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, and Byrd, as well as an account of the Fuchs and Hillary expedition. From the library of New Zealand-born mountaineer George Lowe (1924-2013), a member of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition, the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29th May. The day prior, Lowe had led an advance guard, wielding an ice axe with legendary skill, to cut a path into the Lhotse Face… Read More