PLANT HUNTER'S PARADISE by Ward, F. Kingdon - 1937

Hippocrene Books, 1986-07. Paperback. Good.

Hippocrene Books, Incorporated. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

J. Cape, 1938. Hardcover. Good. 1938. 347 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

(London: Jonathan Cape: 1937) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 347. Illustrated. Maps. Appendixes. Lower edge uncut. Two contemporary book reviews laid down on prelims; otherwise a very good copy.

New York: The Macmillan Co., 1938. 1938, 347pp, illus., maps, some soiling to cover, slight browning to eps, owner's name & catalog number to feps, no dj, contents clean & unmarked.. Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket.

London; Jonathan Cape, 1937 1st edition good maroon cloth hardcover. No dj.347p. includes appendix and fold out maps. Past owners name on half title page.

New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1938. 1st US Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st US edition. New York 1938. 8vo. 347 pages with 12 b/w photographs & 2 maps. Green cloth, tattered dust jacket. The adventures of travelling in the mountains and valleys of Burma and Tibet between 1922 and 1931.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. Book Book Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. Very Good/Fair. Book in very good condition in fair dust-jacket, which is worn and rubbed with fading and soiling. Repairs to inside of jacket. Internally clean, previous owner's name to front free endpaper, occasional spotted foxing, which is quite heavy to title-page, binding tight. No front free endpaper, but it looks like the book was bound without it. Illustrated with black and white plates. 347 pages.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1937, First edition. . original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, lower corner chipped, very good copy. . 8vo [20.5 x 14 cm]; 347 pp, frontis, 12 other plates, 2 folding maps, appendices. . Traveling in the mountains and valleys of Burma and adjacent areas, including the unexplored country on the Burma-Tibet frontier, in 1922, 1926 and 1930-31, this famous botanical explorer describes plants, nature and native customs in his usual readable way. There are appendices on zoological specimens collected and new plants he introduced to Europe that he found in Burma. The American edition was first published the following year. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1938, First American Edition. . original cloth, dj (chipped at edge), near fine and clean copy in good dj. . 8vo [20.5 x 14 cm]; 347 pp, frontis, 12 other plates, 2 folding maps. . Travelling in the mountains and valleys of Burma and adjacent areas, including the unexplored country on the Burma-Tibet frontier, in 1922, 1926 and 1930-31, this famous botanical explorer describes plants, nature and native customs in his usual readable way. There are appendices on zoological specimens collected and new plants he introduced to Europe that he found in Burma. A picture of this book is available on request by email.