Brown kenneth irving (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 206 pages. Ex-university library marks, some wear, pages yellowed; cracked front hinge; a reading copy still. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Education; Inventory No: 214489.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. 133 pages. Ex-college library marks, light wear; pages toned; a sound binding; good shape. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Education; Inventory No: 232872.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Mr. Brown's business card taped to front fly leaf. Name on front endpaper. Dust jacket is faded on spine, is worn at spine tips and corners, and is rubbed at the edges. 249 pages. …

Hardcover. dj. First Edition. 8vo. Brown and black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 206pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight, quite nice first edition of this study by the noted educator Ohio college president (Denison University and Hiram College) turned educational foundation director (Danforth Foundation). Signed and inscribed by him large and bold in blue ink on front flyleaf: "To August Fry / with proud / confidence at / the significant / contribution he / has within him / to make to / American education. / Kenneth I. Brown / St. Louis / 30 Jan. / 1954." (Brown was correct, as August J. Fry went on to publish a biography of Dwight L. Moody and other texts.). Signed. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 482 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN: 58-13278 ; LC: QE711; Dewey: 560 ; OCLC: 547382 ; "The story of life during the past two billion years. . . Here the Fentons tell what fossils are, where they are found, what they mean, and how they are related to plants, animals, and other creatures living on earth today." ; brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; Contents: Tales told by the dead -- Rocks, fossils and ages -- Groups, names and relationships -- Earth's oldest remains -- A variety of protists -- Sponges, true and probable -- Simple coelenterates -- Moss animals, or bryozoans -- The sturdy brachiopods -- Armored echinoderms -- Sea stars, urchins and cucumbers -- Snails and their kin -- Pelecypods: clams, mussels and oysters -- Feet before heads: the nautiloids -- Ammon's stones and naked cephalopods -- Worms, burrows and trails -- When trilobites roamed -- Crustaceans -- Arthropods from shoals to air -- Nets and wrigglers to sharks -- The bony fishes -- New plants on old lands -- Lungs, legs and land-dwellers -- Amphibian and reptile groups -- Farewells to land -- Scale-bearers and lizard-hipped dinosaurs -- Bird-hipped dinosaurs -- Flying reptiles and birds -- The rise of mammals -- A revolution and its sequel -- More and better mammals -- Ancient families -- Beasts and birds of the Ice Age -- Read, see and collect. ; VG. Book. …

dj. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; dustjacket; [i-xiv], 258pp; with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Generically inscribed by the editor on the title page, with his business card laid in: "With sincere regards, Kenneth I. Brown / 16 May 1934." Ownership names to front pastedown and endpaper, mild softening to spine ends, with spot of board exposure at lower corner of front board; Near Fine, Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, and dusty overall; Very Good+. Narrative of Harold Studley Gray's career as a C.O. during WWI, told through his letters from prison. Gray worked as a YMCA volunteer in British prison camps at the beginning of the war, then refused to accept conscription upon his return to America in 1919, claiming it would "mar his relation to God." Gray was reputedly one of only two C.O.'s to be threatened with the death sentence for refusal to serve in the Great War, though he eventually was released from service with a dishonorable discharge. Includes much on his incarceration in Leavenworth and Alcatraz. Uncommon in jacket. SUVAK 407. Signed. …