Fellowes blacker (27 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Poor. No Jacket. Wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, edges and corners a little creased and worn, top and bottom of spine chipped and worn, bottom 1 cm of spine missing, top 8 cm of back cover ripped and missing, also top 1/3 of page 173 - 176 , internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft Cover/Stiched. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : None as Issued. Unstated. Text/VG; Near New w/faint margin discoloration. Illustrated soft cover/NF. No publication date; Preface dated 1933. Adventur/expedition. Chronicle of the first successful flight over Everest. The early 1930's marked a historic era of aviation 'firsts'. Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing and Byrd's reach to the poles sparked the race to fly over Everest. This is the story of how England earned that fame. Funded by Lady Houston, the acheivement is known as the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition. 10 chapters: I, First Over Everest; II, Preliminary Steps in Technical Planning; III, Oxygen on the Everest Flight; IV, Air Photographic Survey; V, The Flight to India; VI, Nepal; VII, The Flight to Everest; VIII, The Flight Over Kangchenjunga & the Second Flight to Everest; IX, Filming the Flight; and, X, The Authors' Appreciation of Those Who Contributed to the Success of the Expedition, followed by 2 appendices, the 2nd of which describes the "Bristol" Pegasus S.3 Engine.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Dust Jacket. this copy is tight and the interior is clean of marks, previous owners bookplate on the back of the front cover, quite a few newspaper clipping in the interior about the climb.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Robert M. McBride & Company January 1934 Binding: Hardcover NO DJ.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 264 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed; spine ends bumped. Illust. from b/w photos. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by National Travel Club, 1934. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with toning to the pages throughout, and the previous owners name and address on the rear pastedown. No dust jacket. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Etat : Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (aeronautics, mount everest) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Ganzleinen, 8°, 299 S., 1.-5. Auflage, mit einem Vorwort von John Buchan, einem Bericht über die Verfilmung des Fluges von Geoffrey Barkas, sowie 46 Flugbildern und 6 Karten, Plänen und Tabellen Rücken etwas ausgeblichen, sonst guter Zustand.

EX-LIBRARY, Super octavo hardcover (G+), scruffy: spine shakey, segments lost, cracked, viewing glasses in pocket at rear): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition, First Thus. Stated First American Edition. Text/Bright, clean As New. Gilt embossed black linen boards/VG; Strong & sound w/light rubs to corner tips & upper/lower spine, and fading to spine. DJ/None. PO label to front cover verso, and name & date to fEP. Photographs of the two participating Westland aircraft to endpapers. Frontispiece: Photo taken 100 feet above Everest. Chronology of the Everest Flight precedes text. Aircraft used were the original PV-6 prototype, registered G-ACBR (and also known as the Houston-Wallace) along with the Westland PV-3 G-ACAZ. Both airplanes were modified to inclued heating and oxygen equipment, fully enclosing the rear cockpits and using highly supercharged Bristol Pegasus IS.3 engines. Text, supported by photos, in 10 chapters: I, The Challenge of Everest!; II, Strategy & Preliminary Tactics; III, Final Tactics & Objectives; IV, The Flight to Indian; V, Flights Across India; VI, Nepal, Land of Mystery & Contrasts; VII, The Flying House-Party at Purnea; VIII, The Great Adventure; IX, The Flight Over Kangchenjunga; and, X, The Second Assault of Mout Everest. 3 appendices follow: I, Oxygen, Special Masks & Clothing; II, Duties of the Observers; and, III, The "Bristol" Pegasus S.3 Engine. Fine copy less dust jacket.…

Cloth. Etat : Near Very Good. No Jacket. Foreword by John Buchan and an account of the filming of the flight by Geoffrey Barkas. With Illustrations from Photographs, Diagrams and Maps. Thrilling account of the Everest Flight by the members of the expedition. Frontis illus. is a photo of Lady Houston. Fold-Out Chart & Map. Blue cloth cover with blind embossed vignette of a Biplane flying over Mountains on front. Red lettering to spine. 279 Pages, 900g. Spine and much of front cover faded. Hinges sound. No inscriptions. Pages in very good clean condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Ca. 22,5 x 15,5 cm. 299 (5) Seiten, mit 46 Flugbilder auf Tafeln, 6 Karten, Plänen und Tabellen. Türkisfarbener Original-Leinenband mit Kopffarbschnitt. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Aus dem Englischen übertragen von Peter Wit. Schönes Exemplar.

Cloth. Etat : Good Plus. None. Reprint. With a foreword by John Buchan and an account of the filming of the flight by Geoffrey Barkas. With 57 illustrations from photographs, diagrams and maps. Navy cloth, red titles to spine. Reprint in same month as first edition. 279 pages. Colour fading to covers with some wear to extremities of spine. Complete with spectacles to view anaglyph between pages 222 and 223. . ("Anaglyph will appear in stereoscopic relief when it is seen through the viewing spectacles contained inside the back cover of this book.") Ownership decorative initial "P" and other ownership details in copperplate on front endpaper.…

299 (3) S. + 46 Flugbildern und 6 Karten, Plänen und tabellen. OLn. feines Ex. EA.

Hard Cover. Etat : VG. No Jacket. Cheap Edition. 8vo. original blue cloth (a little rubbed & sunned with a few marks to boards, extremities slightly bumped, prev. owner's name to upper pastedown, spotting to leaf edges and endpapers; blub from rear jacket flap loosely enclosed, otherwise lacks dustwrapper); pp. xviii, 280 [last blank], [4 (pubs. advts.)], with 33 illustrations + endpaper maps. [Neate F17: This first flight over the summit of Everest, and film record, was a considerable achievement and a most dangerous undertaking].…

Etat : Wie neu. Fourth Edition. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. Photographic portrait frontispiece, XIX, 279 pages. 52 plates. One fold-out maps showing 'the flight from Cairo to Purnea. Numerous diagrams and photographic plates with captioned tissued guards. A pair of 3D Glasses in rear pastedown pocket for viewing the Anaglyph on p.222. Hardcover [publisher's original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind embossment on front board. Stained top edge. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded and slight rubbing and abrasion to heel. Small section cut out of front endpaper. Interior tanned but clean and unmarked. Includes, for example, the following: Preliminary Steps in Technical Planning / Oxygen on the Everest Flight / Air Photographic Survey / The Hundred Years' War Against Everest, 1823-1923 / Strategy, Tactics and Objectives / The Flighty over Fangchenjunga and the Second Flight to Everest / Filming the Flight etc. John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps and MP at Westminster provides the Foreword. This is the account of the first flight over Mt. Everest in April 1933. Dressed in multilayers of sheepskin clothing, with inbuilt electric heating, the pilots, relying on rudimentary oxygen equipment were seated in the open cockpits of two fragile biplanes carrying only enough fuel for no more than fifteen minutes of flying time over the mountain. The lead aircraft was equipped with a fully automated Eagle III Williamson aerial camera to take the first images of the roof of the world. The two aviators were 28-year-old Flight Lieutenant David Fowler McIntyre and 30-year-old Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquis of Clydesdale and commander of 602 City of Glasgow squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force. Their flight made them world famous. A documentary film of their adventure, Wings Over Everest, won a Hollywood Oscar in 1934. (National Geographic).…

Cheap Edition: Hardback, blue bds., red titles, 165 x 240 mm., 900g., 279 pp., with Index, Appendix + adverts, Foreward by John Buchan and an Account of the Filming of the Flight by Geoffrey Barkas, illustrated with photographs, diagrams and maps, some double-page, diagram feps. and map reps., original, photographic, unclipped dw., some chipping and creasing to crns. and edges, G/VG copy. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Hard Cover, No Dust Jacket. Very Good. Sunfaded On Spine. Solid Binding. Clean Pages. Illustrated. With The Glasses Red Round Clear. And Blue Cardboard. 1932: March Headquarters Of Flight Located At College . With 61 Illustrations From Photographs, Diagrams And Maps. Of Aeronautical Engineering, Chelsea, The Original Cardboard 3D Spectacles In The Rear Pocket For The Anaglyph Photograph Folding Maps. The Original 3D Glasses Flan For Flight To Mount Everest, Sub- Mitted By L. V. S. Blacker, Considered By Council Of Royal Geographical Society. April Letter Sent To Secretary Of State For India By Council Of R.G.S., Intimating That In Their Opinion The Plan Is Likely To Produce Valuable Scientific Results. Air Ministry Grant Facilities At The Royal Aircraft Establishment, Raj. School Of Photography, And Experimental Estab- Lishment, Mardesham. Negotiations With Bristol Aeroplane Com- Pany For Pegasus Engine. Lord Peel And Colonel John Buchan Join The Committee Of The Flight. May Official Application Made To India Office For Permission To Fly Across Nepal. Colonel Etherton Communicates With British Envoy In Nepal, A Former Brother Officer. …

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Reprint. Very slight fading to section about one inch by two, top of front board. Jacket has largish chips, but 90% present & protected by clear sleeve.

299 Seiten mit 46 Flugbildern, 6 Karten, Plänen, Tabellen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 740 Gr.-8°, Originalganzleinenband.

London, John Lane the Bodley Head limited. 1933. First Edition. Cloth. l With 37 illustrations from photographs, diagrams and maps.279 p. With viewing spectacles to see Anaglyth Plate in cardboard pocket adhered to rear paste down, Spine discoulered and worn at the top.

Hard Cover. Etat : VG. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original blindstamped blue cloth (rubbed & sunned with a few marks to boards, extremities a little nicked, prev. owner's name to upper pastedown; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xx [last blank], 280 [last blank], with 62 illustrations, maps & diagrams & 3-D glasses in rear pocket. Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. [Neate F17: This first flight over the summit of Everest, and film record, was a considerable achievement and a most dangerous undertaking]. …

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. First edition. The fourth impression of this exciting account of the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition in 1933, with illustrations throughout, and with 3D glasses. The fourth impression of this work, published in the same year as the first impression.Illustrated with frontispiece and fifty-six plates from photographs, diagrams, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. Viewing glasses for looking at the three dimensional photographs in rear pocket.A detailed account of the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition of 1933, with reference to technical planning, oxygen, strategy, tactics, objectives, and much more. Written by Air Commander P. F. M. Fellowes, L. V. Stewart Blacker, Colonel P. T. Etherton, Squadron Leader the Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading to back strip, and board perimeters. Fraying to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). book.…

Leinenband. Etat : Gut. 279 S., Gr.8°, Ln., Rücken gebleicht.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET WITH PUBLISHERS PRICE OF 12s. 6d INTACT, HALF TITLE PRESENT, NUMEROUS FULL PAGE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES PLUS FOLDING MAPS, INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL 3D GLASSES TO REAR POCKET. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9.5 x 6 INCHES WITH 19 + 279 PAGES. SOME WEAR & SMALL AMOUNT OF RESTORATION TO JACKET AT TOP OF SPINE, VERY MINOR EDGE WEAR & CREASES TO JACKET, SLIGHT FADING TO CLOTH AT TIPS OF SPINE, CHIRSTMAS INSCRIPTION DATED 1933 TO FRONT ENDPAPER. OVERALL A VERY NICE COPY WITH MINIMAL LOSS TO JACKET & CLEAN INTERNALLY. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.…

Etat : Gut. Vorw. v. J. Buchan u. ein Bericht über die Verfilmung des Fluges v. G. Barkas. Fischer, Bln. 1934. 299 S. mit 48 Abb. u. 2 Ktn. Ln. Rand gering fleckig u. bestoßen. 82734 / 18455 Mit Ausnahme von Direkt-Recycling Materialien erfolgt der Versand ohne Einsatz von Kunststoffen. Sprache: Deutsch. …