Frederic whyte translator (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hard-cover first edition in green elephant-illustrated boards, no dust-jacket, has light staining to twenty-five per cent of front and back covers to volume 1, similar wear to volume 2, with modest edge-wear and slightly sunned spine, tight, bright, and unmarked. Even with the wear, a solid copy, not ex-library. Your purchase supports the Oak Park San Diego Branch Library. Price includes extra postage. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. -----------Original dark cloth covers, thick book, 9 1/2" tall. 716 pages, most profusely illustrated with more than 300 photos, direct from the author's negatives and other illustrations----------GOOD CONDITION, exlibrary book with little old spine label and bookplate inside cover only, NOTE wear covers and a general loose feel to teh book, this book is heavy for its size. no dust jacket.…

Cloth. Etat : Good. First edition. The first edition of this memoir from German Field Marshal, Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig Graf von Waldersee, translated into English. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The memoirs of Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig Graf von Waldersee, a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) who served as Chief of the Imperial German General Staff and Commander of the International Relief Force during the Boxer Rebellion, recorded from his personal diaries, correspondence, and reminiscences. Born into a military family, von Waldersee saw decorated service as an artillery officer, and became Prussian military attache at the Paris embassy in 1870. Which gave him insight into the French defences that would prove crucial in the upcoming Franco-Prussian War, in which he played a significant role. Condensed and translated by Frederic Whyte, a British writer and journalist. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards with small splits in the cloth to the head of the spine. Front hinge starting with the front free endpaper lacking. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light spotting to the endpapers with library ink stamps to the half-title. Residue of a library bookplate to the front pastedown with the previous owner's bookplate and bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Good. None (illustrateur). book.…

First Edition. [Far Eastern Travel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 246 [2]. With 24 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a map to front endpapers. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Blue ink ownership stamp to half-title. Light spotting to edges. Light wear to cloth; spine sunned. Very good. An account of the Swedish traveller's time on the Kurile Islands, disputed by Japan and Russia in modern times.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Boards have some heavy rubbing and old dampstains. Internally very good. Circular sticker with ink number "219" on spine and both endpapers, this appears to be a private owner's numbering system for their books. There are no other library-type markings.; First edition in English, presumably predating the US edition (The translator Frederic Whyte's papers are held at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne). 352 pages + frontispiece + 10 illustrations on 7 plate leaves + Errata leaf between pages 8 and 9. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 220 x 143mm. Text in English, translated from Italian by Frederic Whyte. With a 2 page Preface by Benito Mussolini. "First of all, a confession! I detest those who take me as a subject for their writings and their discourses! No matter whether they speak well or ill of me - I detest them all equally." - from the Preface by Mussolini, page 9.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. Quarto. 24×17cm; xvi,716,[2]pp. Decorative green buckram boards with gilt title to spine and centrepiece on upper board. Light general wear and fading. Binding square but a little loose. Top edge foxed. Clean within. Lavishly illustrated with many monochrome plates and figures. A 'Very Good' copy.…