gill rev william (15 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition paperback with light wear, creasing. Contents are clean and bright throughout with no markings. Light creasing to page ends.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise, this is a clean, tight copy. Dispatch within 24hrs from the UK. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. pp.(viii)+344. 18cm. Wood engraved frontispiece and full page illustrations in the text. Vignette illus. Two maps. Hard cover in the original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover. Corners of the covers stained. All edges gilt. Hinges weak. Collated and complete but A POOR COPY. (A new edition, no date but the first was c.1855, this is c.1856-1870. Eastern and Western Polynesia including the New Hebrides and New Caledonia).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 383pp. 19cm. Frontispiece and two illustrations. Soft covers. Very good clean copy. (Originally published London 1894).

1892, Sydney, Charles Potter, pp38, printed wrappers. Front wrapper missing, title page has corner missing with no loss of text, writing on verso of title page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. pp.viii+360. 18cm. Frontispiece. 2 maps (one double page; the other - of New Guinea- folding and repaired on a fold, on which there is some damage and loss). 64 wod engraved illustrations in the text, some full page. Index. All edges gilt. Hard cover. The original cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt and with wear to the edges. Light foxing. Generally soiled and marked. Hinges weak but holding. A complete but fair copy only Gill was 22 years a missionary prior to writing this work. [628g].

Hardcover. Zustand: VG- for age. Reprint - 1st 1855, this signed 1869. Black blind-stamped cloth cover. f/piece+vi with map verso+344, decorative chapter head-pieces and end-piece at end of text, 18 further engr.plates ex-pagination, 3 smaller text figs, 1 further map on recto of a plate All as called for in Illustrations list); papers split on end-gutters exposing netting but these remain tight and secure, 1869-dated signature top recto f/piece but no other date, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked bar a few small, light, tanning spots recto rear endpaper faintly off-set on facing page below the end of the text; covers excellent being clean and unworn bar trivial token corner bumping. Originally issued in 2 vols, presumably divided between Eastern and Western Polynesian parts. Chapters each devoted to a different island, 19 in all, including Raratonga, New Caledonia and Tongareva. As title indicates this is primarily focused on author's missionary work. Only significant flaw is the end-gutter openings, otherwise would rate VG or better.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Octavo. 232pp. Illustrated. Contemporary half morocco gilt and marbled paper covered boards. Leather on the lower 1.5" of the spine lacking, contemporary bookplate on front pastedown effaced, else a good, tight copy.

Boards. 1st edition. Octavo, original halfleather boards, b&w frontis, vignette, folding map, map, b&w plates, text illus, faded marbling to page edges, pp 360. N.d., c. 1876. Very rubbed to edges, contemporary library plate, previous owner's plate, good condn. The missionary William Wyatt Gill (1828-1896) worked mainly in the Cook Islands from 1852 to 1872. A long section of the book (pp 198-270) also describes a visit to New Guinea. Numerous illustrations.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A 1 1/2" tear to cloth at head of front joint. A 2 1/2" split to cloth along rear joint. Cloth torn horizontally along tail end of spine. Front free endpaper missing. Hinges broken. Text block in good condition. Some foxing. ; viii, 232 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt and black decoration. Page dimensions: 211 x 131mm. Ex-libris bookplate of George Whitefield Armitage on front endpaper. ; 8vo.

Illus. 344pp. 8vo. Illus. 344pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters mottled brown calf and marbled boards. Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG- for age. 1st ed. 'Printed for Private Circulation' on t.p. f/piece portrait with tissue-guard+316, plate with tissue-guardof his memorial in Rectory Place Chapel, Woolwich facing p.314; major fault is excision of nearly all front endpaper leaving 2 cm. strip along gutter, otherwise clean aside from occ. small faint tanning spots to t.p. and last leaf, quite unmarked and tight with good end-gutters, top edge has some ingrained dustiness; bevelled edge covers excellent being bright and clean with no significant wear, blind-stamped top and bottom edge borders. Islands visited included Raratonga, Samoa, Eromanga, New Hebrides and Maniiki. Loss of front endpaper regrettable but remains VG- in my view due to age and general condition otherwise.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Plastic protective jacket attached with adhesive tape to endpapers and margins of boards. ; 383 pages + advertisements on rear endpapers. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 182mm x 120mm. Owner's inscription on front free endpaper, "To Brydon Speedy with the warm regards of C R H Taylor, 17/7/56." Selected contents: Summary Revenge; With Song; A Dress Of Feathers; The Giant Moke; The Twin Kites 'Song Of The Kites,'; Two Memorable Ovens; With Fragment Of Song; Adventure Of The Survivor Of The Aitu Tribe; A Boy's Vengeance. War-Dirge (Continued). ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

First edition. Octavo. 383 pages. Frontispiece. Publishers' adverts on rear endpapers.Endpapers a bit spotted. Very good.

First edition. Woodcut frontispiece & other woodcuts to text. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine professionally repaired, with a very short tear at head of upper joint. Very good. 383pp. London, R.T.S.,