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F. Kingdon Ward. The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges. Edward Arnold, London, 1926.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: xv 328 17 pls. wanting folding map. ex lib with perforated t.p. and small stamps on verso of pls. 1 page cleanly torn w/o loss 3lls with sl.frayed edges o/w OK in sound lib. 1/4 morocco
Seller: Bath House Books, Ditchingham, United Kingdom
Kingdon-Ward, Captain F.. Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges. Edward Arnold & Co, 1926.
Price: US$249.97 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardcover. Rebound in library cloth. Library stamps and markings. xv, [1], 328 p., [17] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (reproductions of photographs), folded col. map, ports. ; 23 cm. Fold out map present at rear, taped with some closed tears. Yakushi K194.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Ward, F. Kingdon. The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges. Edward Arnold & Co, London, 1926.
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 8vo. Pp xv, 324. Plates and folding map - all as called for. 16 page publisher's list. Original cloth showing considerable uniform wear and with remains of a Mudie's Library label to top of front board. The map is split to many folds and had been inaccurately folded. Inner hinges cracked. A sound working copy.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
KINGDON WARD, F. The Riddle Of The Tsangpo Gorges. Edward Arnold, London, 1926.
Price: US$442.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Scarce. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 21 illustrations, 324pp. Text block has been reset and hinge repaired, map repaired where one of the folds had been cut through cutting off a small slither. Repaired with hand made paper, however there is a small loss mostly to plain paper. Front cover has a slightly darker shadow where a label has been removed. Spine caps have been restored. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 751g. Postage within the UK remains at £3. For international orders ABE use an estimate based on a 1kg book. Where a book is lighter/heavier, we will reduce/request additional postage accordingly. We make no profit on postal charges. We expect a parcel of this weight to cost between £13.65 (Europe) and £25.15 (USA) to ship using Royal Mail's International Tracked Service. All our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 003043:15(1b)) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall 751 G
Seller: YattonBookShop PBFA, Bristol, United Kingdom
KINGDON WARD Captain F.. THE RIDDLE OF THE TSANGPO GORGES. Edward Arnold & Co, 1926.
Price: US$554.96 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO60124283: 1926. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Déchirures. 328 pages. Photo-gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photo-gravures en noir et blanc sur planches hors texte, et d'une carte dépliable en couleur. Couverture et quelques feuillets se détachant. Quelques feuillets détachés. Carte déchirée. Jaquette manquante. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Kingdon-Ward, Captain F.. The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges. Edward Arnold & Co, London, 1926.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926 324 pp with 21 B&W illustrations and a fold-out map. Text is clean, tight and unmarked save for library stamps on the back of the illustrations. There is a pictorial library bookplate (Forbes Library, Northhampton, Mass) on the front endpapers. The front hinge is cracked but holding. Blue cloth boards with gold-stamped spine are rubbed, bumped at spine ends. There is the start of a split at the top of the spine. Library numbers on spine. Pictures on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.
Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
Ward, (Captain) F. Kingdon. The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges. Edward Arnold & Co, London, 1926.
Price: US$769.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A few small stains to rear board, board corner and spine ends very lightly bumped, foxing to closed edges, prelims, and some page edges throughout, front gutters strained, all plates present but plate to p.62 partially detached, map present also with a couple of small tears and a larger tear along one folded side. Overall, clean and tidy, plates clean and bright. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
KINGDON-WARD, Frank.. The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges.. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926, 1926.
Price: US$1026.14 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of this account of an expedition to south-eastern Tibet in 1924-25 by "the last of the great plant hunters" (Lyte). The author (1885-1958) set out for Tibet's Yarlung Zangbo Valley in the company of John Duncan Vaughan Campbell, the fifth Earl Cawdor (1900-1970), with the pair proceeding via Darjeeling, Sikkim, Phari, and Gyantse. Following the course of the river further than the Bailey-Morshead expedition of 1913, Kingdon-Ward and Campbell encounter cataracts and several waterfalls including the 21-metre "rainbow fall". As Troelstra notes, for Kingdon-Ward "the botanical harvest is substantial; especially many rhododendrons are discovered. Another important plan introduction from this journey is the blue poppy Meconopsis baileyi". Kingdon-Ward was one of the most important botanist-explorers of the first half of the 20th century. After participating in the zoological Bedford expedition, he began working for the prominent nursery Bees of Chester in 1911, journeying to China the same year in search of botanical rarities. In the following decades, he undertook many other expeditions to Asia, often in uncharted regions, and developed a "sure eye for flowers of garden potential" (ODNB). In these inhospitable climes, he overcame a multitude of adversities including "arthritis, bouts of deep depression, porters who were surly or drunk or absconded, the loss of his spectacles, [and] impalement on a bamboo spike (in 1937)" (ibid.). Kingdon-Ward was awarded the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (1930) and numerous botanical honours. Troelstra, pp. 238-245. Charles Lyte, Frank Kingdon-Ward: The Last of the Great Plant Hunters, 1989. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blueish grey, edges untrimmed. Housed in custom card slipcase with adhesive illustrations and lettering. With half-tone frontispiece showing "the wooded cliffs of the Gorge", 15 similar plates, folding map. Recent bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown, mid-century commercial bookplate on half-title. Cloth fresh with a little rubbing, small chips at foot of first blank, couple of leaves with adhesive browning, plates lightly toned, map with stub tear not crossing neatline, repaired somewhat crudely with adhesive tape on verso: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Kingdon-Ward, F (Captain). THE RIDDLE OF THE TSANGPO GORGES. Edward Arnold & CO, Ldn, 1926.
Price: US$1690.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 328 pp.+ BW Photo Plt at Frontis & 15 Other BW Photo Plts in Text, Lge Color FoldOut Map at back, Orig Drk Grey Hardback, Gilt title (Bright), some light foxing else VG in Orig DJ with edgetears (in Protective Plastic), 1st ed
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Kingdon-Ward, F.. The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges. Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1926.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some spotting to page edges. Moderate dust stains to top page edges. 4" repaired tear to stub of folding map, not affecting printed area. No signatures or stamps. Hinges intact. Cloth covers clean and bright. No tears to cloth. No bumps to corners of boards. Cloth boards protected in loose mylar jacket. A nice copy. ; xv, [1], 328 pages + frontispiece + plates + folding colour map at rear. Charcoal grey cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and pale blue-grey lettering on front board. Dimensions: 8 7/8" by 5 3/4". ; 8vo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand