Search Results: Titles starting with D from Barking Mad Books

DEEP-WATER SAIL 1955 1st edn., 2nd imp. & SAIL TRAINING AND CADET SHIPS 1956 1st edn., - Harold UNDERHILL, Brown,Son & Ferguson, 2 vols, VG+ original green cloth with gilt titles, VG+ jackets. beautifully illustrated endpapers of sailing ships, incredibly detailed descriptions of every class of sailing vessel with many fold-out plans in the rear of each volume. A terrific addition for a specialist library...will only sell as a two volume set.
THIS item is heavy and may require extra postage when sent internationally outside New Zealand. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED.

THE DESERT ROAD TO TURKESTAN - Owen Lattimore - Methuen, London, 1928, 1st UK edn., 330 pages, hardback in original brown/orange cloth, ex-lib with usual lib markings & one end paper map torn - numerous B&W plates - An exciting overland journey with camel caravans from Peking to India through desolate Mongolia and on into Central Asia. Lattimore was America's foremost expert & prolific author on China, Mongolia and Central Asia who was persecuted in USA during the McCarthy era....a scarce book in any condition . Priced accordingly THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

DOWN TO THE ICE, LES QUARTERMAIN, School Publications Branch, Dept Education, Wellington, 1965 48 page softbound VG+ booklet, B&W plates, maps - a great introduction to life at Scott Base - Uncommon THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

A DREAM OF WHITE HORSES, Ed Drummond, Foreword by Allen Steck, Diadem Books, UK 1st edition 1987, 220 page VG+ hardback VG jacket, well crafted essays and poems of a life spent climbing rock - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED.