George w wait (5 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Part one only of four. 16 fine coloured plates by G M Henry with a page of descriptive text by W E Wait. Original wrappers repaired , minor marginal creasing to two plates but generally good to very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Oversized hardcover. Bound of purple cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine. New, in original shrinkwrap. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might to match this actual book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Bound of purple cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Covers are clean with minimal wear. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean and crisp with light toning on edges. Printed in B&W. 268 pages. No date on title page or copyright page. Signed by author in blue ink on title page, inscribed "Best wishes to my good friend Richard Jones" and dated "8/25/77." A very good copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might to match this actual book. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Thick oversized hardcover in blue paper-covered boards over brown cloth spine. The first and only printing. Illustrated endpapers. 434 pp. 4 pp. of maps and illustrated with 174 photographs of rare New Jersey currency issues. Rubbing to the edges of the boards and a non-detached split to the front gutter of the spine strip. A very uncommon and highly sought after reference work for those interested in New Jersey history and those intensely interested in notaphily. The book opens with an essay on the history of money and banking in New Jersey and is followed by sections on wampum, colonial and early state coins and paper money, n enormous section on obsolete state bank notes and old scrip (local bank issues), national bank notes , and paper money of the Great Depression. All sections well illustrated with actual examples. The colonial section is detailed issue-by-issue with issue dates, amounts and denominations of each as well as additional information on print colors, watermarks, and printers when known. The encyclopedia obsolete bank notes section is organized by town, city, township, bank or company, each entry providing dates, color, design, possible duplications and counterfeits based on incomplete or absent historical information, printer imprints, denomination. the nationally chartered bank section is arranged alphabetically by place with the name of the bank, its charter number, and the year of issue. The section on scrip notes issued in New Jersey during the 1930s is arranged alphabetically by place with detail on color, denomination and imprint when known.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1927 - 1935 , 64 fine coloured plates from paintings by George M Henry, each plate accompanied by a short text by W E Wait , Bound in a local binding of black cloth, coloured end papers. Some toning to the pages, some damp staining to the rear end papers which slightly touches the margin of the final coloured plate. Title pages to each part bound in. A good copy of this attractive series of bird paintings by George Henry an artist who spent much of his working life in Sri Lanka.…