Search Results: Authors starting with H from Lansdowne Books

Folding maps, v, xi, 414p. dj. 24cm. Facsimile of the rare 1857 edition with a New Introduction (2 1/2p.) by Robin Bidwell.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Signed limited edition of 1000 of which this is number 215. Illustrated with full-page sepia-toned plates by Frank Harding.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dust jacket edges and corners. Illustrated with Black and White plates.Attempts to capture the changing historical mood of the Australian colonial experience illustrated by art and engravings of the time.

Tan leather binding with gilt lettering and vignette on spine with embossed symbol in gilt on cover. Slight rubbing to cover. Endpapers and page edges marbled. A near fine copy with pages clean and tight throughout with 37 illustrations from drawings by Thomas Bewick & index. Overall a fine copy

Signed by the Author. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: V.G+ Cloth boards with slight bumping to top and bottom edges with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. The life and times of its founder George Pitches Manning. Includes fold out family tree, decorative end pages, photos, previous owners bookplate. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.

First editions. Publisher's cloth backed boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Inscribed AG Smith March 1946. Tight clean binding with slight colouring of pages.For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Ivory/light blue/light green pictorial spine with red and blue text. Near Fine Dust jacket in protective Mylar covering.

Signed by author to previous owner. First Hardback Edition in unclipped dust jacket with protective acid free sleeve. As new. Decorated endpapers and fore edge. Bound-in placekeeping ribbon.For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

Michael Joseph, 1977. Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1977. Michael Joseph. First UK. Hard Cover. Book-VG. Unclipped price DJ-VG in protective cover, 9x5.5. 256pp. 24 b/w line drawings by Larry as chapter headings.

1st Edition. Near fine hardback purple cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Dust jacket in protective mylar. Physical description: . Subjects: Melba, Nellie Dame 1861-1931. Melba, Nellie Dame. Opera Singing Melba, Dame Nellie Biographies. Opera - Singers. Singers - Biography. Singers Australia; Biography. 1 Kg.

Condition : Very Good in Very Good Jacket in Mylar Index, bibliography, appendices, Black & white illustrations. Colour frontispiece. pictorial endpapers. black cloth. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Top Edges very slightly spotted or marked.

First Edition. Hardcover. N Fine Condition/Fine. Signed by Authors. Dust jacket unclipped. Decorative endpapers.
Remains particularly well-preserved overall with pages clean and tight.
Biography & Autobiography General; Mazari, Najaf, 1971-; Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre.; Refugees -- Australia -- Biography.; Signed by Authors.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: V.G+ . A very good copy bound in red deckled cloth with gilt logo on front with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Signed by Redman. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.

No inscriptions and not price clipped. The DJ is bright and clean with no shelf wear. The book itself is very smart with marbled navy blue boards and red letters to the spine. The book is fine - all tight, bright and clean. Decorative endpapers. 184 pages. Copious sepia and bl/wh photography . This book explores the enduring fascination that the area now known as the Middle East has exerted on western women and the freedom that it offered. Sumptuously illustrated with paintings, engravings and photographs.

First Edition, orig. cloth-backed boards, rare unopened & uncut pages in the original title-blocked cloth-backed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Series: Bibliographical Society. Subjects: Bookbinders, London ; Directories.
The introduction deals with the sources used in compilation and there is a seventeenth-century price list and a list of the directories consulted.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original grey boards with gilt letter in dust jacket with mylar protective cover; pp. xxiv, 520 (last blank), with illustrations.Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty. The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Gertrude turned her back on house parties and debutante balls, choosing instead to read history at Oxford, where she took a first in only two years. [This book] is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude's own writings, both published and unpublished. It is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy."

Well-preserved cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy.

Hardcover. Black Boards with Gilt Lettering in Red Box on Spine. Pages clean and tight. Unclipped DJ now protected in our mylar sleeve. Previous owners inscription removed. Overall a very nice copy.Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE, née Grant (1907 - 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. She left Africa in 1925, earning a degree in agriculture at Reading University in England and studying at Cornell University in upstate New York. She returned to Africa periodically.

As New Hardback in unclipped As New Dust jacket, 631 pages 32 Photographs 23.5cm x 15.5cmEquator Crossings: Travelogue Extraordinary is set against a backdrop of nineteenth-century Africa, Zanzibar, Europe and Oman. An upstage American press magnate's single three-letter-word telegram to his British competitor leads Henry Morton Stanley to 999 gruelling days of exploration in a quest to discover and define the watersheds of Africa's two gigantic rivers, the Nile and the Congo. This geographical and scientific feat, that drastically changed the economic and political history of the world, now provides an epic narrative of adventure, travel and romance.Paul Huygelen's professional career has been mostly involved in international affairs, be it with the United Nations, a multinational corporation or a major Middle East financial institution. His thorough knowledge of East and Central Africa, through his extensive business trips in the region, helped him with the research fo rhis book. In the framework of… Read More