Titles starting with Z from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Pinchon, Edgcumb. Zapata the Unconquerable. Doubleday, Doran, New York 1941, 1st edition. 8vo, 332pp, portrait frontis. Orig. yellow cloth decorated in green & red, fine, with a dusty & edgeworn dj. ... more information

New York:: Harcourt Brace,. 1937.. First American edition. Very good in slt. marked dj. 8vo, 115pp. Orange cloth covers with silver title on spine. Original pale blue dj with title in white on blue cover, and in white on spine. Spine is sunned and dusty and rubbed at top and base of dj spine; back cover somewhat dusty. Internally, light even toning, o/w very good. The play was written for performance in 1937 at the annual Festival of Canterbury Cathedral, and deals with the rebuilding of the Choir of Cante... more information

Innsbruck.. Very good. 8vo, 400pp, b&w frontis and b&w illus throughout, with folding mountain panorama. Includes a folding color map inside back cover entitled "Karte der Marmolatagruppe". Medium green cloth covers with black title on cover and on spine. Covers are rubbed at top and base of spine and at corners. Internally, very good with no fox spotting. Folding map at back cover has two small tears at folds. In German. ... more information

Innsbruck:. 1907.. Very good. 8vo, 400pp, b&w frontis and b&w illus throughout, complete with folding map. Includes a folding color map inside back cover entitled "Karte der Allgaeuer & Lechtaler-Alpen". Medium green cloth covers with black title on cover and on spine. Covers are rubbed at top and base of spine and at corners, and front cover has small random discolored spots. Internally, very good with no fox spotting. Folding map at back cover only one very small perforation at fold.... more information

New York & London:: Harper & Brothers,. 1929.. Third printing. Attractive large format children's book with Art Deco inspired illustrations by Garthwaite. The first animal illustrated is the Kangaroo, the second the Penguin and so it continues, including the Polar Bear, Walrus, Badger, Fox, a total of 29 animals. Each is decorated with line verse which initial letter spells the name of the animal. 4to, 32pp. Original slick papered boards in color, with the orig. pictorial dust jacket, which i... more information

Paperback. J.F. Steintopf, Stuttgart 1916, 2nd edition. Large 12mo, 157pp, 3 pp adds, frontis, 14 pp ills, 8 ills in text, some full page. Brown kraft paper- type binding, title printed in brown on cover & spine, pale pink endpapers. Sml. brown stain on upper spine, and slt. marked o/w a very nice copy. Not recorded in Spence. A very scarce first person account by a member of the German "Gauss" expedition under Drygalski. A first edition was apparently published in 1905. A very scarce work. ... more information

Hardcover. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1904, 1st edition, a fine wide margin copy in a presentation binding. 4to, (xvi) 668pp, photogravure frontis & 19 plts, mostly double-page, 2 panoramas & ca. 400 ills. in text, 1 large folding map. Presentation binding half cloth & papered boards, vellum & gilt title label on spine, a fine copy. Drygalski's account of the German Antarctic expedition, which he led. The ship "Gauss" was the second ship to winter in the Antarctic ice pack. The expe... more information

Berlin:. 1922.. Hardcover. Die zweite deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition. Ullstein. xix + 410pp, b&w ills in text 2 fold-out maps. Blue cloth w/gold gilt lettering, g+ Spence 457. Narrative of 1911-12 Filchner German Antarctic expedition in "Deutschland," 9 months icebound in Weddell Sea. ... more information

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe. The Zuni Indians. Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities & Ceremonies. 23rd Annual BAE Report. 1901-2. Washington 1904. Thick 4to, 634pp, many plates. Orig. leather & brown buckram boards, front cover detached, back cover cracked, o/w in very good condition. ... more information

Micha, Franz Josef. Zur Geschichte der australischen Eingegorenen. Reprinted from: Saeculum XVI, Heft 4, 1965. pp317-342, signed presentation copy, paper wrps. ... more information