Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Safe Harbor Pub Llc (edition ), 2012
ISBN 10: 0983573123 ISBN 13: 9780983573128
Anbieter: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Verlag: The Poetry Review, London, 1970
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 93pp. Printed wrappers. Rubbing with a crease along the rear spine fold, near fine. This issue features Robert Graves, James Kirkup, John Smith, Hardiman Scott, Brian Patten, Stewart Conn, Thomas Blackburn, Clive Sansom, and Ilsley Ingram. Additional contributors include Eddie Eainwright, Robin Lee, Robin Fulton, Bernard Saint, William Hayward, Lucien Stryk, Patience Tuckwell, Martin Booth, David H. W. Grubb, Gerda Mayer, Maureen Duffy, A.E. Dudley, Miriam Waddington, Jeremy Robinson, William Golightly, Steve Marsling, Gordon Symes, Paul Coltman, Eric W. White, John Hatfield, Maurice Carpenter, William Kean Seymour, Jean Overton Fuller, Alan Pearson, Ilsley Ingram, Edward Lucie-Smith, Raymond Durgnat, and John Headlam.
EUR 24,12
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In den WarenkorbPaperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 72 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1894
Anbieter: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 91 Pp + Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth, Gilt, Slate Endpapers. First Printing, 1894. Charles Larcom Graves Was An Irish-Born Editor And Author (1856-1944), Largely Resident In England, Robert Graves's Uncle. Near Fine, Touches Of Rubbing At Corners. Elaborate Heraldic Bookplate Of John Alexander Fuller Maitland (7 April 1856 - 30 March 1936), An Influential British Music Critic And Scholar From The 1880'S To The 1920'S. He Encouraged The Rediscovery Of English Music Of The 16Th And 17Th Centuries, Particularly Henry Purcell's Music And English Virginal Music. He Also Propounded The Notion Of An English Musical Renaissance In The Second Half Of The 19Th Century, Particularly Praising Charles Villiers Stanford And Hubert Parry.
Verlag: Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1973
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First paperback edition. Small octavo. 253pp. Illustrated with a few maps. Printed wrappers. Toning and light wear on the wraps, sticker shadow on the first page, else near fine.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1994., 1994
ISBN 10: 0821221280 ISBN 13: 9780821221280
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First North American edition ; 208 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 32 cm ; ISBN 9780821221280, 0821221280 ; OCLC 31677506 ;LCCN 94075736 ; LOC No DA951 .S36 1994 ; "A Bulfinch Press book." ; Dewey 941.081 ; green cloth in photographic dustjacket ; tiny watermark on bottom corner textblock ; Carey Schofield OBE is the British principal of Langlands School and College in Pakistan, noted for its academic excellence. She had a previous career as a journalist and writer, particularly on military affairs. ; Contents: Early photography in Ireland -- The Administration -- The Land -- At the Big House -- In the towns -- Revival & revolution -- Notes on the photographic processes ; VG/VG. Book.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0847819582 ISBN 13: 9780847819584
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.
Verlag: Argo Records, London, 1967
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reissue 12" mono 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record. Light wear from playing and handing, else near fine in a very good cardboard sleeve with some toning, waviness, and splitting along the bottom. PLP 1087. Readings by John Betjeman, Robert Graves, Stephen Spender, Kathleen Raine, W.H. Auden, Basil Bunting, William Empson, Patric Dickinson, R.S. Thomas, and Hilary Corke.
Anbieter: Studibuch, Stuttgart, Deutschland
paperback. Zustand: Befriedigend. 269 Seiten; 9780983573128.4 Gewicht in Gramm: 500.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1989, 1989
ISBN 10: 0252015533 ISBN 13: 9780252015533
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xix, 127 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm ISBN 9780252015533, 0252015533 OCLC 17676686 LCCN 88004825 LC KF5692 .C67 1989 Dewey 346.73045 and 347.30645 ; grey cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents : Aesthetics in the Museum and in the Courthouse -- East side, west side all around the town (and nation) -- The case for coherence -- Aesthetics at any price opr no aesthetics at all -- The case for legal aesthetics -- Aesthetics and the Legal System -- The swinging pendulum -- A blessed union? -- A return to first principles -- Legal Aesthetics and legal institutions -- Icons and Aliens -- A format for aesthetics controversies -- The aesthetics impulse: Beauty as a nonstarter -- Aesthetics and Process Values -- Legal language and lay language -- Process and end-state values: Pathways to accommodation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index ; Discusses issues surrounding the daily war being fought in cities across the country--developmental change and business growth versus historic preservation. Can there be a meeting of the minds beween those who strive to preserve our environment and historical landmarks and those who continue to try to meet the needs of a changing society? publisher's promotional materials laid in, associated with a Kiwanis Club presentation to Memphis area Law alumni ; SIGNED letter to attorney Richard W. Foster from the author with comments upon the city of Memphis, laid-in with envelope ; John Costinis was dean of the Vanderbilt Law School who previously taught in the urban design, historic preservation and property fields on the law faculties of New York University and Illinois. A frequent contributor of essays on design and land use topics to legal and lay publications, Costonis was also the author of Space Adrift, Landmark Preservation and the Marketplace, a seminal study of the use of incentive zoning to finance the preservation of endangered urban landmarks. ; Allan Jacobs was was a professor of environmental design, University of California at Berkeley and the former director of planning, Department of City Planning, San Francisco ; includes discussions about the Zucchini on Park Avenue, East Side buildings on Manhattan's West Side, Billboards along a scenic Arizona highway, Sodium vapor lamps in downtown Bronxville, An international style tower atop the Beaux Arts Grand Central Terminal, a Con Ed pumping station on Storm King Mountain, the Transamerica Building in San Francisco, McDonald's Speedee Service Drive-in, Goodyear Airdock, Isaac I Rice Mansion, Upper East Side Historic District, ; inlcudes numerous New Yorker cartoons and black and white photographs ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.
Verlag: The Tiger's Eye Publishing, Westport, Connecticut, 1947
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Magazine. Small quarto. 116pp. Illustrated paper wrappers. One tipped-in illustration loose and laid in, creases on wraps and spine, tears at spine ends, very good. A literary magazine feature prose, poetry and artwork from Stephan, Boris Paternak, Kenneth Rexroth, W.J. Parrish-Martin, Raymond Queneau, William Jay Smith, H. Richard Chew, Mary Barnard, Weldon Kees, K.O. Hanson, Doris B. Branch, Thomas Cole, John Nerber, Mario Carreño, Paul Goodman, Harvey Curtis Webster, Philip Murray, Herbert Cahoon, Paul Valley and art from by Leon Kelly, Photographs by Alexander Hammid, Kay Sage, Theodoros Stamos, William Baziotes, René Magritte, Milton Avery, Hokusi, Morris Graves, Max Ernst, and Adolph Gottlieb.
Verlag: New York ; Toronto ; London : McGraw-Hill Book Comapny, 1963., 1963
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 4th Edition. 4th ed. ; 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 26 cm. ; Series: McGraw-Hill series in chemical engineering; McGraw-Hill handbooks; LCCN: 61-13168 ; LC: TP155; Dewey: 660.83 ; OCLC: 249632 ; blue cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; tear at edge of spine ; owner stamp ; Contents: Mathematical tables / Robert H Perry -- Mathematics / Arthur E Hoerl, William F Ames, Robert J Hunn, John J McKetta, I H Silberberg -- Physical and chemical data / Peter E Liley, Yeram S Touloukian, W R Gambill -- Re action kinetics, rastor design, and thermodynamics / Robert H Perry, C M Sliepcevich, Donald Finn, Don W Green, Riki Kobayashi, Thomas W Leland, J M Smith -- Fluid and particle mechanics / Donald F Boucher, George E Alves -- Transport and storage of fluids / Raymond P Genereaux, Philip P O'Neill, Joseph C Thompson, William D Webb -- Solids transport and storage / Robert G Zilly -- Size reduction and size enlargement / Lincoln T Work, Arthur L Stern -- Heat generation, transport and storage / Charles E Day, Rowan P Perkins, Elmer S Monroe, Frederick M Brunn, A C Mueller, D Barton Turkington -- Heat transmission / Charles H Gilmour, Hoyt C Hottel, Eric Weger -- Heat-transfer equipment / Frank L Rubin, David Stuhlberg, F C Standiford, Arthur D Holt -- Refrigeration / Carl F Kayan, Victor J Johnson -- Distillation / J A Gerster -- Gas absorption and solvent extraction / R E Emmert, R L Pigford -- Humidification and drying / Eno Bagnoli, Frank H Fuller, Robert W Norris -- Adsorption an d ion exchange / Nevin K Hiester, Theodore Vermeulen, Gerhard Klein -- Other diffusional operations / Karl Kammermeyer, K C D Hickman, Coleman J Major, G P Monet, James O Osburn, John E Powers, J W Riggle, Lenard O Rutz -- Liquid-gas systems / Aaron J Teller, Shelby A Miller, Edward G Sheibel -- Liquid-solid systems / Julian C Smith, Chalres M Ambler, H Leslie Bullock, Donald A Dahlstrom, Lawrence a Dale, Robert C Emmett, C Fred Gurnham, Robert F McNamara, A W Michalson, Shelby A Miller, Julia n Nardi, James Y Oldshue, J Tom Roberts, Edward R Vrablik -- Gas-solid systems / Paul Y McCormick, Robert L Lucas, David F Wells -- Gas-Gas, Liquid-liquid and solid-solid systems / Sherman S Weidenbaum, F WIlliam Bloecher, WIlliam J Bronkala, Edwin E Cockrell, Paul E Cook, Fred D DeVaney, William F Dyrenforth, Morgan C Sze, Robert E Treybal, Glenn O Wilson -- Process control / Douglas M Considine, Louis Bertrand, Glenn F Brockett, Steven Dnstos, Richard C Gillette, George A Hall, Wilfred H Howe , John Johnson, J B Jones, Alfred H McKinney, Neal Richter, Sanford M ROberts, Carl W Sanders, Thomas M Stout -- Materials of construction / Robert B Norden, Leland H Honnaker, Emil G Holmberg -- Mechanical, plant and project engineering / David B Rossheim, Fritz W Peterson, Christian M Vogrin -- Electrical engineering / Ludwig Braun, Joseph B Aidala, Coleman B Brosilow -- Cost and profitability estimation / James B Weaver, H Carl Bauman, W F Heneghan. ; contributions from nearly 100 engineers , chemists and other specialists ; G. Book.
Verlag: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1956
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. Thin quarto. 64pp. Page and board edges dampstained, a little foxing on the first and last couple of leaves, tiny label on front fly, good only in a good only dampstained dustwrapper with small tears and a couple of rubbed spots. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. Graves, a mystical painter from the Northwest, and Ben Shahn, despite disparate styles, were often linked by critics. Both were close friends of the Japanese furniture maker and architect George Nakashima.
Verlag: St. James Press / St. Martin's Press, 1975
Anbieter: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, USA
Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Blue boards. Facsimiles of first editions of early twentieth-century poetry: Robert Graves, Over the Brazier (1916); H. D., Sea Garden (1916); Wallace Stevens, Harmonium (1923); John Betjeman, Mount Zion (1931); Conrad Aiken, Earth Triumphant (1914). Size: Octavos.
Verlag: Artforum, 1983
Anbieter: castlebooksbcn, Barcelona, B, Spanien
Magazin / Zeitschrift
Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Bien. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Bien. Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Robert Cumming's Subject Object," by Charles Hagen; "Unpopular Culture (Travels in Kienholzland)," by Carrie Rickey; "A Project," by Nancy Graves; "Carroll Dunham: Painting Against the Grain - Painting with the Grain," by Klaus Kertess; "Getting Ready for the Golden Eighties: A Conversation with Chantal Akerman," by Gary Indiana; "Art in the Dark," by Thomas McEvilley; "A Fvnny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forvm (In the Name of Love)," by Duncan Smith. Reviews by Lisa Liebmann, Thomas Lawson, Kate Linker, Glenn O'Brien, Jeanne Silverthorne, John Howell, Donald Kuspit, Charles Hagen, Richard Armstrong, Barbara Kruger, Rosetta Brooks, Ronny H. Cohen, Susan C. Larsen, Mark Johnstone, Suzaan Boettger, Annelie Pohlen, Paul Groot, Luciana Rogozinsky, Max Wechsler, and J. Hoberman. Cover: Chantal Akerman.
Verlag: Artforum, 1983
Anbieter: castlebooksbcn, Barcelona, B, Spanien
Magazin / Zeitschrift
Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Bien. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Bien. Essays "Robert Cumming's Subject Object," by Charles Hagen; "Unpopular Culture (Travels in Kienholzland)," by Carrie Rickey; "A Project," by Nancy Graves; "Carroll Dunham: Painting Against the Grain - Painting with the Grain," by Klaus Kertess; "Getting Ready for the Golden Eighties: A Conversation with Chantal Akerman," by Gary Indiana; "Art in the Dark," by Thomas McEvilley; "A Fvnny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forvm (In the Name of Love)," by Duncan Smith. Reviews by Lisa Liebmann, Thomas Lawson, Kate Linker, Glenn O'Brien, Jeanne Silverthorne, John Howell, Donald Kuspit, Charles Hagen, Richard Armstrong, Barbara Kruger, Rosetta Brooks, Ronny H. Cohen, Susan C. Larsen, Mark Johnstone, Suzaan Boettger, Annelie Pohlen, Paul Groot, Luciana Rogozinsky, Max Wechsler, and J. Hoberman. Cover: Chantal Akerman.
Verlag: Artforum, 1983
Anbieter: castlebooksbcn, Barcelona, B, Spanien
Magazin / Zeitschrift
Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Bien. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Bien. Essays "Robert Cumming's Subject Object," by Charles Hagen; "Unpopular Culture (Travels in Kienholzland)," by Carrie Rickey; "A Project," by Nancy Graves; "Carroll Dunham: Painting Against the Grain - Painting with the Grain," by Klaus Kertess; "Getting Ready for the Golden Eighties: A Conversation with Chantal Akerman," by Gary Indiana; "Art in the Dark," by Thomas McEvilley; "A Fvnny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forvm (In the Name of Love)," by Duncan Smith. Reviews by Lisa Liebmann, Thomas Lawson, Kate Linker, Glenn O'Brien, Jeanne Silverthorne, John Howell, Donald Kuspit, Charles Hagen, Richard Armstrong, Barbara Kruger, Rosetta Brooks, Ronny H. Cohen, Susan C. Larsen, Mark Johnstone, Suzaan Boettger, Annelie Pohlen, Paul Groot, Luciana Rogozinsky, Max Wechsler, and J. Hoberman. Cover: Chantal Akerman.
Verlag: The Boy's Own Paper, London, 1934
Magazin / Zeitschrift Erstausgabe
Paperback. Zustand: Good. Campbell, Sir Malcolm; Willis, Charles (cover); Morrison, A.; Brock, H.M.; (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 449-512. Features: In Peril Among the Riffs - How Sir Malcolm Campbell and Flight-Lieut. Don nearly lost their lives in North Africa - article with photos; With the Seal Hunters - photo-illustrated article on the heroic and arduous labours of the gallant fishermen for seals amongst the ice-floes of the coast of Labrador; Famous Figures in Football - G. (Geoffrey) N. Foster and Dr. R. Cove-Smith - article with photo; Sixty Years of Soccer - article with photos of William McCracken, Fanny Walden, G.O. Smith, Victor Watson, and Clifford Bastin; The Secret of Druid's Cross (mystery story); Why Keep a Log Book?; Field Hockey Tactics - article with photos; Making Morris Motors - photo-illustrated article on the manufacture of Morris cars; The Poacher's Wirelss (fiction); The Reversed Watermark (fiction); The Hooghly River - the World's Worst (article); The Story of Stamp Collecting. No table of contents. Covers loose but present. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy.
Verlag: George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1923
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. York, W.G.; De Walton, John; Woodville, R. Caton; Holloway, W.H.; Graves, Percy; Gillett, Frank; Spurrier, Steven; Brock, H.M.; Bates, Leo (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 90-178 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The pitfalls of a man who purchased three submarine-chasing 'M.L.'s' and set out to bring them from Rosyth to the Thames - with only one boat reaching her destination - with illustrations and a photo of the boat which survived; Some Adventures with Jaguars; Photo and brief write-up of a nine-foot boa constrictor housepet in Ecuador which showed remarkable affection for its master; Unkown Peru - an Englishman who has lived in Peru for many years describes his experience in unknown regions - illustrated with his photos (part 1); Mangahau the 'Magician' - a Maori tale of a prodigal son and Tapu ; In Search of Sea Monsters - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges sets out on a two-year expedition to find and catch the world's largest fish - with photos (part 1); The Poker Bandits; a 'hold-up' at the Red Deer Lumber Company's camp in Manitoba leads to an exciting and tragic man-hunt; A Miracle of Marine Salvage - the strange case of the 'St. Paul' - with photos; The Road to Timbuctoo - another humourous adventure of Leo Walmsley of the "Three Asses in the Pyrenees" articles; A Motorcycle in High Albania - Kenneth Robertson was the first motorcyclist to cross the Albanian Alps; Winter Wild-Fowling in Friesland (Northern Holland) - with great photos of their decoys and more; Our Adventure in Normandy - a cycle-camping trip leads to an odd experience; Frank Miller's Last Fight - a gas bomb is used to overcome a cop-killing desperado in Jersey City, New Jersey - with photos; Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy.
Verlag: A. Waldie 1839-1840, Philadelphia, 1839
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
Hardcover. Octavo, v-vi, 5-100, [6], 7-94, [4], 3-83, [6], 7-114, 137-140 (accidental insertion); 115-119, ix-xii, 17-186, [2], 49-51, mispagination (25), 53-188, [4, plates], 239-345, [4], 193-388 pp. Good; bound in contemporary leather with black spine label and gilt titling, with surface marks and scratches, scattered areas of red paste or paint, wear to spine edges and corners; boards slightly shaken, but binding else tight; text block with some discoloration; foxing and age toning to pages throughout; previous owner name in ink on ffep "David M. Wachter, M.D. Washington University Baltimore, February 6th 1845;" MF consignment. 1359889. Special Collections.
Verlag: The International New Company, New York, 1923
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Hiley, F.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Nicolson, W.C.; Verpilleux, E.; Graves, Percy; Webb, Arch; Woodville, R. Caton; York, W.G.; Prater, Ernest (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Twenty-Four Days Adrift - The appalling experiences that befell the crew of the U.S. steamer Dumaru, destroyed by fire and explosion in the Pacific in 1918 - from the logs of Radio-Operator T.W. Bean and Assistant Engineer F.J. Harmon; The Kidnapping of Father Heslin - this unassuming parish priest of Colma, California ultimately died - newspapers helped in catching the kidnapper; The Cross-Eyed Englishman - a rousing story of the Canadian North-West which occured 150 miles north and west of Winnipeg near Lake Winnipegosis; After Big Game With a Camera - Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore hunts big African game with a camera; A Wipe In the Eye - A British officer's amusing account of a lion-hunt which involves a spear; At Grips With a Leopard - Story from Jan Pienaar of the Beira Mashonaland Rhodesia Railway; The Man-Eating Crocodile - The Native Commissioner in charge at Balovale in Northern Rhodesia describes a crocodile surely responsible for many deaths; The Cannibal Islands - Part III - Clifford W. Collinson lived for several years in the Solomon Islands and here describes his visit to the mysterious island of Choiseul and its hidden stronghold - with nice photos; A Rescue By Aeroplane - Captain M.N. Albert's plane crashed on a trip over Northern Quebec and Ontario; Photo of bamboo organ in Catholic church in Los Pinas, Philippines; England's Oddest Treasure-Trove - A vast hoard of gold and silver coins is discovered at Seaton Carew, on the Durham Coast; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part I - A small expedition left England in 1921 to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study the wild Indian tribes - article with photos; Bandit-Hunting - Captain George Ash describes his 18 months serving under Francisco (Pancho) Villa, and a battle with outlaws in Santo Domingo; The Voyage of the "Sargon" - The disastrous voyage of this Grimsby trawler which arrived home weeks late - article with photos; The Bandit of Marseilles - A Bulgarian in France, upset for a sentence passed upon him,begins a vendetta against inoffensive citizens; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.