PHIPPS, CONSTANTINE

Among the Thin Ghosts

London, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780747504344). Hardcover. Used, Very good condition, first edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Jacket is slightly marked and sunned, and edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are a little bumped, and page block is lightly blemished. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Very Good/Very Good.

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PHIPPS, CONSTANTINE

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London, Bloomsbury. 1992, First Edition. Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, 5 x 7.75"; 216pp; paperback; very good copy;. Very Good.

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Book number: 6051

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PHIPPS, CONSTANTINE

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London, Bloomsbury. 1992. Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, Very Good.

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Book number: 6291

Catalogue: Spy & Espionage

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PHIPPS, CONSTANTINE

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 216pp.. VG : in very good condition with rubbed dust jacket .

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Catalogue: Fiction

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[Constantine Henry Phipps]

The Contrast

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of Constantine Phipps' novel 'The Contrast', complete in three volumes. This novel follows Lord Castleton, whom the author decides to allow to 'speak for himself' when titling the work in the advertisement. Written by Constantine Henry Phipps (1797-1863), a British Whig and author. His other works included 'The English in Italy', 'Historiettes' and 'Matilda: a Tale of the Day&apos. He also served as Home Secretary between 1839 and 1841, and was British Ambassador to France between 1846 and 1852. This was his last work.Complete in three volumes.A first edition of this very scarce work. In the original paper covered boards. Externally a trifle worn, with loss to the spine labels and some bumping to the head and tails of the spine. Gift inscription to the title page of each volume. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages have just the odd spot. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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PHIPPS, Constantine Henry (First Marquess of Normanby) (1797-1863)

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This British Whig politician was Viscount Normanby from 1812-31and rose to Earl of Mulgrave from 1831-38, when the Marquess of Normanby was created for him in 1838; he served as Governor of Jamaica (1832-34), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1835-39), Home Secretary (1839-41), British Ambassador to France (1846-52) and Minister to Tuscany (1854-58). Free-Franked Envelope, 5" X 3½", n.p. [London], n.y. Very good. On a typical light grey envelope of the period, bearing Normanby's black wax seal still present on the verso, he signs a bold "Normanby" in brown ink at lower left, addressing it to a "J. Horsley Pye / 10 Charlotte Street" in his usual challenging scrawl. Interesting piece. .

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PHIPPS, Constantine John.

A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773.London, William Bowyer and John Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. Large 4to. With 15 large double-page and larger folding engraved plates, and many letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled board edges, rebacked soon after with a richly gold-tooled spine with globes and numerous floral stamps, red morocco spine-label.

VIII, 253 pp.First edition of Phipps's account of his expedition to the Arctic. The expedition with the ships Racehorse and Carcass sailed north by way of the Shetlands, reaching the coast of Spitsbergen on 29 June 1773. They passed Magdalena Hoek in early July, but were unable to penetrate the pack ice. A second attempt also failed. Notwithstanding this failure, the crew was successful in making numerous scientific observations and discovering several new species of animals, among them the ivory gull. "Phipps was also incidentally the first to give an adequate description of the polar bear (Thalarctos maritimus Phipps) and to give it a scientific binominal" (Savours). The crew included the future Admiral Horatio Nelson as midshipman and Olaudah Equiano, a former slave whose autobiography would cause a huge sensation.With bookplate. With minor marginal water stains in a couple plates, occasional minor foxing, and the fore-edge of the first folding plate slightly tattered and repaired (not approaching the plate edge), but generally in fine condition and with large margins. Binding very good, with the board edges slightly worn. A lovely and well illustrated account of an important arctic voyage.l Chavanne 1944; ESTC T152604; Hill 1351; Maslen & Lancaster, Bowyer ledgers 5043; Sabin 62572; cf. Savours, '"A very interesting point in geography': the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole", in: Arctic vol. 37 (December 1984), no. 4, pp. 402-428.

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riverrun. 2014-05-01, First Edition. (ISBN: 1848664346) hardcover, 4x1x6. First Edition, first impression. The number line contains 1. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Good.

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