Ernest muir (18 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. dj. First Edition. Octavo, ix, xii, xvi, 465 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine dark gray with yellow lettering. Exterior has slight wear including slight sunning and light edge wear. Boards have very light wear including faint sunning with light age toning to the rear/flaps. Text block has mild wear including slight age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge colored blue. Map frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Column L. 1416561. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Zustand: Good. 1948. No edition remarks. 207 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white and colour photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Page torn at rear. A previous owner's name label to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.…

Zustand: Good. 1918 ed. (Presumed First.) Brown cloth with title and publisher's logo to front board. pp36 + 1 fold out chart Stickers to front board.Tape mark to spine. Barcode sticker to front paste-down. Some pencil to margins and an odd mark to margins. 5 Photographic plates of outcomes. . Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Zustand: Very Good. 1918 ed. (Presumed First.) Brown cloth with title and publisher's logo to front board. Sticker to front board. Barcode sticker tofront paste-down. pp36 + 1 fold out chart of outcomes. 5 Photographic plates. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1953, London, First edition. A first edition copy of this naval record, with illustrations and maps. Fleet Admiral King A Naval Record is written by Ernest J. King and Walter Muir Whitehill, an interesting naval record that covers the First and Second World Wars.With twenty four plates and six maps/charts. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards have gilt lettering to spine over blue cloth. There is light fading to board edges and spine ends. page block is tinted blue to upper edge, with light foxing visible in the tint, no other foxing. Previous owner's name on pastedown, otherwise no notes or inscriptions. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Dust Jacket is in Good Condition, not price clipped (30s. net), general edge wear, chips around head and heel of spine and corners, but complete and bright. Book has slight forward lean.…

Zustand: Good. 1948 No dust wrapper. Suppliment is a 16 page pamphlet held in with cord. Text unmarked. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with gilt lettered front board, no dust jacket, in good condition. Boards are scuffed and marked. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned and foxed. Previous owner's name stamped to FEP. Light foxing to a few of the pages, and tissue paper protecting the plates is tanned. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover without dust jacket. Blue cloth boards are bumped at corners and lighlty edgeworn. Hinge break at FEP, REP and title page. Endpapers are tanned. Pages and text clean throughout. AD. Used.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Very Good. Condition Notes: Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding which is a little sunned at the spine; Hardback. Green boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 10" x 6½" (0.7 kg); pp (ix) 192; Index; 6th edition, first published 1924. Contains: Black & white photographs; Diagrams; Tables; Advertisements; Appendices [7]; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #180812 ||.…

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. 1921. iv, 118 + 4 fold out plans (One taped in.). Colour frontis and 1 further colour illustration. Review request tipped into endpaper. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hardcover, first edition with blue cloth boards, no dust jacket. Includes 65 illustrations from photographs, a map showing the world distribution of leprosy, and numerous charts and diagrams. Boards are bumped at corners, rubbed along edges, chipped at spine ends and tanned at spine. Page block is foxed. Stamp from British Empire Leprosy Relief Association and signature of previous owner to half-title page. Lightly pencilled marginalia to margins of some pages and penned notations to index pages and page 29. Light foxing to a couple of internal pages. AD. Used.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 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. Sindall, Alfred; Tresilian, S.; Golden, Grace; Leigh, Conrad; Cuneo, T.C.; Prater, Ernest; Lathan; Wenban, R.; Stott, W.R.S.; Soper, Geo. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. 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. 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).…

2. London, Cassell and Company, 1952, first edition, in-8°, ix pp + 105 pp, index, dark blue publisher's cloth with printed dust wrapper. Top of wrapper a bit damaged , some slight foxing at the first leaves but still an acceptable copy.

2. London, Cassell and Company, 1952, first edition, in-8°, ix pp + 105 pp, index, dark blue publisher's cloth with printed dust wrapper. Fine copy.

Brochure/Pamphlet. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. An exciting collection of First World War pamphlets from the Oxford University Press. First edition of this collection printed in its entirety. As stated to each cover, a number of the pamphlets were printed previously and are now in later impressions. Collection comprised of: Oxford Pamphlets 1914: Series IV; Oxford Pamphlets 1914-1915: Series XVI; Oxford Pamphlets 1914-1915: Series XVII; Coronel and the Falkland Islands by A. Neville Hilditch; Bombastes in the Shades : A Play in one Act by Laurence Binyon; National Ideals by P. E. Matheson; Canada and the War by A. B. Tucker. Each series is comprised of five pamphlets. Series IV is bound together in the publisher's original red card boards. The collection is also accompanied by a resourceful guide to the 1914-1915 series, also as a pamphlet, and four further pamphlets from alternate series, as listed. Alsace-Lorraine and Coronel and the Falkland Islands are each illustrated with a map to the inside front cover. A vast selection of First World War pamphlets, printed by the Oxford University Press as an exploration into the philosophy, politics and history of the contemporary war. With contributions from the likes of Ramsay Muir, Ernest Dimnet and Sir Herbert Warren. Each series is comprised of five pamphlets. Series IV is bound together in the publisher's original red card boards. The collection is also accompanied by five further pamphlets, including the contents pamphlet. Externally, smart with minor shelf wear. Series IV features subtle tearing to the spine head and tail and sunning along the spine, top and fore edge. Covers generally a little spotted, most notably to the contents copy, with the occasional crease, but otherwise in very nice condition for their age. Internally, firmly bound. Page one of Nietzsche and Treitschke to Series IV lightly creased. First and last few pages of Series IV moderately discoloured, leaving the remaining text bright and clean, with only the odd spot. Pamphlets also remarkably bright and clean, mildly age toned with the rare spot. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…