JOHN R MUIR (29 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 316 pages. 7.50x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 202 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Fair. 1948. Reprinted. 328 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate sunning and marking. Lettering is darkened. Bleaching marks to spine and boards.

Zustand: New. 2021. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 310pp, folding chart, octavo. mild cover wear, tight binding, light foxing to interior, clean throughout, Very Good- soiiling to covers, dampstaining along top front, some chipping, in mylar cover, Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition, as stated. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. xiii, 269 pages. Condition of the book is Good+; Ex-library with stamp on title page, and remnants of a pocket on rear endpaper, no other library markings, text & illustrations are very clean, binding is tight. Dust jacket is Very Good; 1 inch tear at base of spine, price-clipped. Nature RGR.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 316 pages. 7.50x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 202 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

1st edn 4th printing. 8vo. Original black lettered blue cloth (casing with slight lean and light spotting on page edges - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 328, illus with b&w plates (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper).

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut bis sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 1073 S., Lwd., goldgepr. Rückenkurztitel , etwas berieben , Bibex., typisch gestempelt und mit Reg.-Schildchen auf dem Rücken , sonst sauber , stabil und komplett , Versand in De 5,50 EUR !!!

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1990). 120pp. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Zustand: New. A guide to the Physical Therapist Assistant s (PTA) role in patient management, covering the core concepts related to physical rehabilitation and emphasizing the PTA s role in intervention. Suitable for physical therapist assistants, it addresses musculoske.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 719 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 132 Pp. Bright Red Cloth, Elaborately Gilt On Front Cover, Elaborately Stamped In Blind On Rear Cover; Floral Endpapers. Pacific Press Imprint On Copyright Page, And Their Pacific Press Book Bindery" Paper Label On Front Pastedown. Possibly The Earliest Book To Include "Pasadena" In Its Title. Presentation Inscription To A Member Of A Prominent Pasadena Family From Winifred Farnsworth Hall, Daughter Of The Editor, Dated In 1945, And With The Recipient's Ownership Signature And A Few Pencil Notes Around The Printed Text Referring To His Family.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Sindall, Alfred; Tresilian, S.; Golden, Grace; Leigh, Conrad; Cuneo, T.C.; Prater, Ernest; Lathan; Wenban, R.; Stott, W.R.S.; Soper, Geo. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 85-168, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Queen Side of Things - The Shot That Failed; Derelicts of Misfortune; Short Stories - The Novice, My Friend the Sea; Clearing the Road; Through Borneo by 'Bus; Tshaka's Treasure; When Davy Jones Invaded Eden; Work-Hunting in New Zealand - part 1; A Run on Raincoats; Phases of Life - When the Tanker Took Fire, The Tribal Law, Streets Paved with Gold; Man and His Needs; Stamps of the World. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Sindall, A.; York, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Wightman, W.E.; Inns, Kenneth; York, W.G.; Burns, Inder; Abbey, S.; Tresilian, S.; De Walton, John; Hiley, Francis E. (illustrator). First Edition. Features: The Singing Tree - a story from the Bushveld of South Africa; The Road to Romanc - Part I of the amazing round-the-world travels of Cyril Holloway; Photo of ice-fishing in Vladivostock Harbour; Timber-Laden Round Cape Horn - a windjamming tale; An Aeroplane Adventure in Waziristan - the story of a British officer who was captured by the Wazirs; A Tenderfoot in Canada, Part II - a disastrous season on a prairie farm; Trapped in the Volcano of Kilauea, in the Hawaiian Islands; The Hundredth Chance - a story from the Union-Castle cargo-steamer Ripley Castle; What Happened to Ah Fong? - an unsolved Chinese mystery; Monasteries in Mid-Air - the remarkable monasteries of Meteora, in Greece - article with excellent photos; A Mystery of the "Bad Lands" - a cowboy story from Wyoming; The Rogue - a rogue elephant in central Africa; Bakhai, the Rebel of Babban Kurmi; The Mountain of Gold - conclusion of the author's journey to Canada; Nice vintage ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, the Muscle Builder. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Sutcliffe, Norman; Goss, G.W.; gale, W.G.; Sindall, A.W.; Moorsom, F.G.; tresilian, S.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Carruthers, G.P.; Saunderson, E.J.; Prater, Ernest; Cleaver, Reginald (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Somerfield, T.; Drigin, Serge; Sutcliffe, Norman; Holloway, Cyril; Cameron, John; Hiley, F.E.; De Walton, John; Inns, Kenneth (illustrator). First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Jogi's Curse - An Indian government official is cursed by a wondering jogi (priest) and the prophecy is tragically fulfilled; An Underground Wonderland - Fantastic photo-illustrated article on the Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico; Adrift in the China Seas - Sent off to fetch help for their crippled steamer, H.W. Millard, G. Grant Simmons and their companions are blown off course and suffer an eight-day ordeal; "Watu Wa Miti" - R. St. Barbe Baker founded the "Men of the Trees" in Equatorial Africa to preserve trees which were continually being burned to secure land for cultivation - with photos; The Man Who Wanted a Change - A factory hand seeking escape travels to the South Seas, only to return sadder and wiser; Two Years in Borneo - Part I - Oscar Cook spent eight years there, the last two of which were quite strenuous - with photos; "The Man With the Buried Head" - photo of alms-seekers in India; The Promotion of Private Smith - The inside facts of an affair involving Private Smith, a young soldier in the American Army, stationed in the Philippines; The Last of the Bushrangers - Mrs. Mary J. Nichols reflects on the old pioneer days in Tasmania and the 'sticking-up' of an isolated station by the last gang of bushrangers that operated in the island - with photos; Forbidden Nepal - Hugh Walter had unusual opportunities to visit this closed state and provides interesting glimpses of the manners, customs, and principal religious festivals of the Nepalese - with photos; White Man's Magic - While exploring the interior of New Zealand the author and his companion fell afoul of a rascally Maori tohunga, or medicine man; Where Cannibals Roam - Part II - An eventful journey into the unknown interior of Papua, with photos; "Old Peter" - C.N.C. Hayter, formerly of the Royal North-West Mounted Police, describes instances of 'second sight' he witnessed among Eskimos, thus providing independent corroboration of a story about apparent Eskimo telepathy in this publication a few months ago; What Happened to Spott - A funny story about a miserly old South African storekeeper and a black mamba snake; The World's Largest Goldfish Farm - founded by Eugene Shireman of Martinsville, Indiana - with photo. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A pleasing association copy of this autobiographical work from accomplished yachtsman and Surgeon Rear-Admiral, John R. Muir. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper, dedicated to one R. Lionel Foster, "with grateful thanks for much [illegible] help".With a laid in letter also signed by the author.The first edition, first impression of this work. Complete with the very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and seven plates. Collated, complete.Offered here is a charming volume of reminiscences of the sea and of the author's adventures in his boats, including his first yacht, his entry into the Royal Navy, cruises in Holland, the North Sea and more.From Surgeon Rear-Admiral John R. Muir.Bearing Foster's armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. With the bookplate of R. Lionel Foster to the front pastedown. Dust wrapper is smart, with edge wear, most notable to the spine head, and marks to the wrap. With a couple small closed tears to the rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves, and the odd spot throughout. Author's inscription to the front free endpaper, alongside an additional contemporary ink inscription dated 1940. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Webb, Arch.; Reynolds, Warwick; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Soper, Geo.; Elcock, H.K.; Waters, D.B.; Woodville, R. Caton; Robinson, T.H.; Lloyd, S. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.

Zustand: Good. Folio. 34 x 47cm. Original gilt morocco with all edges gilt, with restorations. Marbled endpapers. 478 text pages and and 120 hors text plates. 5 volumes. Stamped with the name of an original subscriber? Mrs. R. McElroy. Fine condition. OCLC Number 36006168. Very heavy.Note from the Sierra Club: Picturesque California was an 1888 elephant folio edited by John Muir, published by the J. Dewing Publishing company, featuring over 600 etchings, photogravures, and wood etchings, 700 additional illustrations in the text, and 120 tinted plates. The original work was sold by subscription and was distributed monthly in thirty parts. Muir wrote six of the articles, which we provide here:ContentsPeaks and Glaciers of the High Sierra (by John Muir)The Passes of the High Sierra (by John Muir);A Glimpse of Monterey (by J. R. Fitch);The Yosemite Valley (by John Muir);Totokonulu (poem by J. Vance Cheney);A Visit to the Lick Observatory (by Edward S. Holden);About the Bay of San Francisco (by W. C. Bartlett);Game Regions of the Upper Sacramento (by Joaquin Miller);The Heart of Southern California (by Jeanne C. Carr);Mount Shasta (by John Muir);Southernmost California (by T. S. Van Dyke);North of the Golden Gate (by Kate Field);Early California Mining and the Argonauts (by Joaquin Miller);The Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains (by George Hamlin Fitch);The San Joaquin Valley (by Joaquin Miller);The Foothill Region of the Northern Coast Range (by Charles Howard Shinn);The New City by the Great Sea--San Francisco (by Joaquin Miller);On the Height (poem by J. Vance Cheney);The Sacramento Valley (by John P. Irish);The Tule Region (by Charles Howard Shinn);Monterey to Ventura (by WIlliam L. Ogle);The Plain of Oaks (by Albert E. Gray);The Land of the Redwoods (by Charles Howard Shinn);Washington and the Puget Sound (by John Muir);The Basin of the Columbia River (by John ;Muir);The Canadian Rockies (by Ernest Ignersoll).Bibliographic InformationOriginally published as thirty parts, then ten, and finally as two volumes (J. Dewing and Company: 1888-1890). Reprinted as West of the Rocky Mountains (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1976). Chapters 10, 24, and 25 were reprinted in Chapters 3-5, 17-20, and 21-23, respectively, of Steep Trails.

Zustand: Good. 4to. 12 folders, as issued in quarter morocco chemise and slipcase, a little worn. Ex libris of David Anderson. Facsimile letters with commentaries by notables of 1935. 1) George Sterling (Robinson Jeffers). 2) Bret Harte (George R. Stewart, Jr). 3) Frank Norris (Franklin Walker). 4) Richard Henry Dana (James D. Hart). 5) John Muir (Charles Keeler). 6) Henry George (Howard Jay Graham). 7) Joaquin Miller (Juanita Miller). 8) Josiah Royce (B. H. Lehman). 9) Mark Twain (C. S. Wood). 10) Clarence King (Francis P. Farquhar). 11) Edward Rowland Still (Aurelia H. Reinhardt). 12) Jack London (Charmian London).