Search Results: Authors starting with A from Chet Ross Rare Books

London: Constable, Printed by R & R Clark, Edinburgh. 1922 — First Edition, First Printing. Large 8vo - 23cm. Quarter course tan linen on blue-gray papered boards, all edges uncut, blue-gray endpapers. A complete 2-volume set in its original publisher's First Printing state in Very Good condition with strong hinges, soiling to paper covered boards, clean internally with some intermittent foxing, no folds or tears; slight wear and fading to extremities of board covers; some small dark spotting of read boards, linen spines with some wear at extremities and with original paper spine labels, publisher's extras spine labels tipped in each volume; all tissue guards, plates and panoramic fold-outs in place. — Rosove 71.A1. Very Scarce.
Volume I: pp. lxiv, 300, 4; 30 plate leave including color front-piece with tissue guard, 2 folding panoramas, and 27 plate leaves (3 color; 36 sketch, paintings, and photographs), and 4 maps [3 folding]; Appendix.
Volume II: pp. viii, 301-585, (1), 28 plate leaves… Read More

Tokyo: Asahi Newspaper Publisher, August 1910 - November 1910. Documents assembled in 1955. 24.2cm. Printed soft covers with black cloth tape spine and paper label; frontispiece full-page sepia toned photograph of the "Kainan Maru" + 16pp table of contents, 300pp text, 9pp. tipped in corrigenda. Title label on spine; text in Japanese. Housed in a custom fold-out container covered in red silk with printed spine and cover labels. Very Rare and in Near Fine condition. Ross 5.3.A
A publication containing private internal documents and bound by the Asahi Newspaper, Tokyo. Marked (in Kanji) 'For Internal Use Only' and 'Not For Sale'. Tokyo Asahi Newspaper was a major sponsor of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition 1910-1912, so very likely few were produced as these were most likely meant to be used internally among the higher-ups at Asahi. The signifi­cance of this publication is the unique information provided by one of the primary sponsors of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. The Content's titles indicate… Read More