Search Results: Authors starting with U from Jacques Gander

Oregon, USA: The Combat Bookshelf, 1966. Soft back book, 88 pages, illustrated. 4.5 X 6.75 inches. Very good copy.. Reprint.

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1984. Near fine book in a near fine dust wrapper.. First Edition.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1937. First edition of the second crime novel by William Underwood writing under the pseudonym of "Francis Duncan".1937 First Printing, so stated on the copyright page.Orange cloth with black lettering and ruled borders with the Herbert Jenkins winged pegasus logo on the spine, in illustrated dustwrapper. 310 pages, plus 10 pages of publisher's adverts. The book is very good with offsetting to the endpapers, all clen and in good ordre through, binding is firm and solid, sharp corners, cloth clean and bright, with a slight shadow to the spine from the wrapper illustration. The dustwrapper is quite good, with several tears, one with creasing, but all fairly neat and bright, only miimal loss to one tear, there is an oval 3/- price label fixed to the spine. There is foxing to the inside of the dustwraopper, almost none of which shows through, what with the wrapper design being mostly black. The book measures 5.25 X 7.5 inches.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995. First Edition,Near fine book In a near fine dustwrapper..

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1964. This is from the dustwrapper: "Climbing is a particular branch of mountain­eering that has become increasingly popular over the last decade. Before the war, climbers who lived near any outcrop of local stone would use such a crag for prac. tice climbs. But more recently this form of climbing has become an end in itself, and many outcrop routes are of a severity only occasionally found in the mountains. Further, some of these inland cliffs are now becoming the home of artificial climbing, a technique demanding special equipment such as pegs, etriers and double ropes. This development of artificial techniques has given British climbers some of the exper­ience needed for tackling the very hardest Alpine routes, and has, so to say, helped to put Britain back on the Alpine map. The crags themselves are fascinating and often beautiful though only a few exceed 100 feet in height or 200 yards in length. They are far more numerous than many people would think:… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1984. Selection of Alison Uttley's children's stories, twelve in all, illustarted with delicate drawings by Shirley Felts. Very good book in a very good dustwrapper.. First Edition. Illus. by Shirley Felts.