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DUST IN THE LION'S PAW: Autobiography 1939-1946.
Edition: Trade paperback.
London: Century, (1985.). The fourth volume in her autobiography - this covers the years during World War II when, despite her personal sufferings (the man she loved killed by the Germans, her mother imprisoned by Mussolini) she used her knowledge of the middle East to act as a liason to the Arabs and to the United States, and to counter the Nazi propaganda in the area. Illustrated with photographs, chronology, index. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-712604510.
Condition: Good overall - some spine slant, contents clean.
Book ID: 80253More details Price: $11.50 -
DUST IN THE LION'S PAW: Autobiography 1939-1946.
Edition: First American edition, printed from the British sheets.
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1962.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth volume in her autobiography - this covers the years during World War II when, despite her personal sufferings (the man she loved killed by the Germans, her mother imprisoned by Mussolini) she used her knowledge of the middle East to act as a liason to the Arabs and to the United States, and to counter the Nazi propaganda in the area. Illustrated with photographs, chronology, index. 297 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (gift inscription, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 52889More details Price: $50.00 -
FROM SCOTLAND TO SILVERADO.
Edition: First thus.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1966. dj. Hardcover - Comprising "The Amateur Immigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook and Across the Plains" and "The Silverado Squatters & Four Essays on California." This is the remarkably vivid, still fresh chronicle of a young writer in the early stages of a hard and sentimental journey. A John Harvard Library Book. Editor's note and introduction, Frontispiece portrait of Stevenson and one inserted plate. li, 287 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a poor dust jacket (stamp on front endpaper of editorial department of Harvard University Press, several large chips to dj, tears and overall edgewear.)
Book ID: 57746More details Price: $16.00 -
POLAR DREAM: The Heroic Saga of the First Solo Journey by a Woman and Her Dog to the Pole.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1988, at the age of 50, Thayer became the first woman to ski solo to the North Pole, her only companion a black husky named Charlie. Illustrated with a map and full-color photographs. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671793861.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 55521More details Price: $15.00 -
A LIFE IN THE WILD: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - For more than fifty years, explorer-naturalist George Schaller has been on a mission: to save the world's great wild beasts and their environments. This biography, illustrated throughout with Schaller's own full color photographs and maps, examines how his landmark research revolutionalized field biology, demonstrating that it is possible to study dangerous animals in their own habitats: mountain gorillas in Central Africa, tigers in India, leopards in the Himalayas, and many others. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Sources, index. 103 pp. Square format, slightly oversized. ISBN: 9780374345785.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 56691More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LOST MEN: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 66924More details Price: $18.50 -
BUFFALO DANCE: The Journey of York.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a good dust jacket (long tape repaired tear and small chip to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 88340More details Price: $75.00