armstrong henry e (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. 476 pages. Ex-library with typical marks, rebound; the pages are yellowed; a sound binding. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Education; Inventory No: 208724.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Fair. 1903. No Edition Stated. 476 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed with considerable tanning. Prominent forward lean to text block.

xxxi+276pp. 8vo. Original cloth, some rubbing to edges. Name on ffe. A very good copy. First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG for age. 1st ed. xiii+476+(4, pub.'s education list); 1908-dated sig. top front end-paper, front gutter cracked, now partly closed with tear repair tape but remains tender, rear end-paper and pastedown have some very light browning in places, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked. Red cloth covers clean and unworn, gilt spine lettering bright, very faint hint of rubbing to back joint. A scarce and significant collection of papers of various kinds passionately espousing the teaching of science in schools and colleges, from 'An Appeal to Headmasters' and a British Association Address to 'Science Teaching in Schools in Agricultural Districts'. Armstrong was Professor of Chemistry in thye London City & Guilds Institute and on th Consultative Committee of the Board of Education, as well as active in the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers, yapp edges; 32pp. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled and lightly worn from handling, glue residue in title page gutter, a few unobtrusive pencil check marks in margins, else Near Very Good and sound. Lecture on the life and career of Scottish chemist Sir James Dewar, best known for the vacuum flask which was used for the liquefaction of oxygen and hydrogen.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 322 pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 07-33932 ; Gullans & Espey ; 283; LC: PS3117 ; OCLC: 26560136 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Days off -- A holiday in a vacation -- His other engagement -- Books that I loved as a boy -- Among the Quantock Hills -- Between the lupin and the laurel -- Little Red Tom -- Silverhorns -- Notions about novels -- Some remarks on gulls -- Leviathan -- The art of leaving off. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in Illustrations by F.E. Schoonover.; Dark blue (C183)--calico grain cloth; gilt lettering framed by gold, pale green, pale blue and white lupin and laurel design; wear to covers ; flower motif repeated on spine in gilt; partially untrimmed ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; G. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. xi, 357 pages, [8] leaves of plates : portraits ; 20 cm LCCN: 29-21279 ; LC: PR99; Dewey: 809 ; OCLC: 596932 ; ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Lights in poetry -- Problematic natures in English literature -- Four noteworthy modern novels. ; Binding is similar to those designed by Margaret Armstrong, but it is signed E.L.F ; Dark blue (C183) calico grain cloth; gold, purple, and aqua grape vines, clusters, and tulips, gold lettering, signed "ELF."; motif repeated on spine in gold; partially untrimmed. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ;"The thirteen essays contain penetrating and well-seasoned studies of the work and personalities of literary figures from Chaucer to Thornton Wilder" ; authors include Thomas Hardy Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Lee Masters, Poe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Carlyle, Byron, George Meredith and Walt Whitman ; foxing ; VG. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Gilbert, A.; Pape, F.C.; Wood, Esmond; Wright, Frank; Rountree, Harry; Buchanan, Fred; Smith, Reg. F.; Evison, G. Henry; Gillett, F. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 194-284 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Romance of the French Foreign Legion; Adrift in a Mine-Field - two men drift through a mine-field in a crippled seaplane, fending off mines with their bare hands!; That Night - a rice-planter's cyclone ordeal on Bordelieu Island off the Florida coast; An Englishwoman in South America - Mrs. Mayer-Nixson describes the ways of Chilean (Chilian) policemen, the curious manners and customs of the people, and the odd habits of Chilean servants; The End of the Rainbow - an adventure of Etienne, a half-breed trapper in Northern Canada who had not heard of WWI; Rua the Prophet - the curious history of a Maori fanatic, Rua Kenana, who established a native "New Jerusalem" in the heart of the wild and inaccessible Urewera Mountains of New Zealand - article with great photos; Canada's Last Frontier - part II of a photo-illustrated narrative of a trip to Canada's Eskimo country - including a photo of Fort McMurray which was but a tiny clearing in the woods, plus a photo of an early oil well, and the Pelican gas 'gusher' which had been buring for 18 years!; Our Zambezi Lion-Hunt - adventure involving a black-faced lion; The Tale of the "Tara" - the adventures of the crew of the auxilliary cruiser "Tara," torpedoed off the North African coast - photo-illustrated article; Exploring the Black Canyon - A.L. Fellows and W.W. Torrence help tap a river by a tunnel which irrigates a previously barren valley in Colorado. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue.