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paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Book shows usage & shelf wear. Spine is cracked and creasing. Binding intact but loose. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good used paperback. Some minor creasing.

Zustand: New. In English.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. 445-684pp. Foxing on topedge, spine lightly tanned, very good. Featuring "A Prescription to Live By: Ransom and the Agrarian Debates" by Thomas Daniel Young; "The *Compleat Gentleman*: An Approach to John Crowe Ransom by Richard Gray, "Isaac McCaslin and Keats's *Ode on a Grecian Urn* by Larry Marshall Sams; *The Age of Innocence*: Wharton's *Portrait of a Gentleman* by Cynthia Griffin Wolff; and "The Hollywood Metaphor: The Marx Brothers, S.J. Perelman, and Nathanael West by J.A. Ward. Short stories, poetry, essays, and reviews by Charles East, Elizabeth Spencer, Elaine Gottlieb, Constance Rooke, Leon Rooke, Kay McClelland, Gordon Weaver, Curtis Harnack, William Wiser, Stephen Minot, Robert Gibbons, Miller Williams, Daniel Halpern, Catharine Savage Brosman, Frank Manley, Larry Rubin, Rosanne Coggeshall, Horace Hamilton, Margaret Gibson, Wayne Dodd, Gordon Weaver, Peter Makuck, Charles Edward Eaton, Brooks Haxton, Ennis Rees, Marcy Frantom, Vernon Fowlkes, Jr., Nancy Schoenberger, Robert Hollander, Robert W. Hill, Thomas Daniel Young, Richard Gray, Larry Marshall Sams, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, J.A. Ward, Harold L. Weatherby, and Gerald Weales.…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. bound in full leather, cover shows moderate wear and rubbing. pages lightly tanned.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). 1949 1st edition. 8vo (146 x 222mm). Ppxii,113. B/w photograph frontispiece. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth faded and stained, some foxing, good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. The author of "Pike fishing" reveals that salmon are his first love. As a clergyman living on the Aberdeenshire Dee, that is hardly surprising. Here he writes of Dartmoor trout and peal, salmon on Dee and Tweed, and of pike and perch, bream and tench in pre-War England. ".whether trout fishing in Devon, fishing for bream in the Nene, angling for salmon in Scotland, or fishing for pike, he made many notable catches." (Angling, January 1950). Chapters include: Dry fly on the Kennet; Peal fishing on the Webburns, Dartmoor; Bream fishing on the Nene; On Dartmoor; The tench; Cransley Reservoir; A salmon rod on the tweed; Canal pike fishing; Wee streams on Dartmoor; Pike fishing in a Shropshire mere; Pike and perch in a lake in the home counties; Days with the salmon rods on the Royal Dee; The ways of salmon; Tackle oddments. .…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 637 p. ; 23 cm. ; LCCN 2006000487 ; ISBN 9781890650186, 1890650188 OCLC 62888967 ; LC PR1309.S5 P37 2006 Dewey 823/.0108 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Introduction / Rikki Ducornet --Lionflower hedge / Ira Sher -- Son of Chimera / Leena Krohn -- Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe / Angela Carter -- Ever and anon / Kate Kasten -- Lithia Park / William Luvaas -- Third Jungle Book : A Mowgli story / Michael Moorcock -- White girl / Maureen N. McLane -- Lucky strike / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Third initiation: A gift from the land of dreams / Mary Mackey -- Side effects / Janice Law -- Concert pianist's flight / Carole Rosenthal -- Making faces / Stephen Shugart -- Town news / Justin Courter -- Midnight lover / Carol Schwalberg -- Night reconnaissance / Tom La Farge -- Short-term Memorial Park / Shelley Jackson -- Magnificent carp of Hichi Street / Paul Pekin -- Tears of Niobe / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Lettuce / Rikki Ducornet -- Night of love's last dance / Randall Silvis -- Five letters from an Eastern Empire / Alasdair Gray -- Beginnings, endings, and middles ball / Anna Tambour -- Jack Kerouac disembodied school of poetics / Rudy Rucker -- Nobody's home / Ira Sher -- Ice cream vendor / Leena Krohn -- Jubilee dreams / Karen Heuler -- An accounting / Brian Evenson -- Armegedn, or The end of the word / K. Bannerman -- Gardener of heart / Bradford Morrow -- Maryolatry / Laura Moriarty -- Cloud room / Kevin W. Reardon -- Tree / Noelle Sickels -- Nobody walks in London / Terry Gates-Grimwood -- Tiger's eye / Gladys Swan -- Skunk / Justin Courter -- Old flames in new bottles / Michael Andre-Driussi -- Power couple, or love never sleeps / Charlie Anders -- Who's there? / Rikki Ducornet -- Secret paths of Rajan Khanna / Jeff VanderMeer -- Dream catcher / Mercedes Sanchez -- B, Longing / Robin Caton -- Three tales / Laird Hunt -- About the Henbane City / Leena Krohn -- Losing the war / Stepan Chapman -- Flowers / Mark Wallace -- White man / Jeffrey Ford -- Finding the words / Michael Constance -- English/History / Laura Mullen -- Birthday of the world / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Cake / Michael Moorcock. ; Exploring the porous boundary between mainstream literary fiction and the genres of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi, this collection of short stories juxtaposes the conventional and the fabulist--with dazzling results. In Rikki Ducornet's "Lettuce," a petitioner in a futuristic totalitarian state pays with his life when he requests permission to grow lettuce; "Birthday of the World," by Ursula K. Le Guin, is narrated by a woman whose brother destroys their culture when he decides he wants to.; FINE. Book. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b The history and antiquities of Newbury and its environs. [By E. W. Gray.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Gray, Edward William; br/b/b 1831.br/b/b no. 1.: pp. 26: plate. ; 8º. 23 cm.br/b/b 10351.g.23.br/.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). 1949 1st edition. 8vo (146 x 222mm). Ppxii,113. B/w photograph frontispiece. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight staining to boards, edges and preliminaries foxed, gift inscription to rear of half title. Good-plus in chipped dust-wrapper. Signed by the author. The author of "Pike fishing" reveals that salmon are his first love. As a clergyman living on the Aberdeenshire Dee, that is hardly surprising. Here he writes of Dartmoor trout and peal, salmon on Dee and Tweed, and of pike and perch, bream and tench in pre-War England. ".whether trout fishing in Devon, fishing for bream in the Nene, angling for salmon in Scotland, or fishing for pike, he made many notable catches." (Angling, January 1950). Chapters include: Dry fly on the Kennet; Peal fishing on the Webburns, Dartmoor; Bream fishing on the Nene; On Dartmoor; The tench; Cransley Reservoir; A salmon rod on the tweed; Canal pike fishing; Wee streams on Dartmoor; Pike fishing in a Shropshire mere; Pike and perch in a lake in the home counties; Days with the salmon rods on the Royal Dee; The ways of salmon; Tackle oddments. .…

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1831. Title page dated 1831. Collected works of the five poets in double-column format. Brick red smooth leather with spine lettering and decoration in faded gilt and in blind, gilt ruled covers, marbled edges and endpapers, tissue protected frontis engraving, various pagination, about 8.75 inches tall. Front covers holding by binder's cords, uneven coloration to the covers, spine foot chipped, other external wear, binding sound, pages clean, bookplate of Nelson Myles Adcock inside front cover, no other names or markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding A. Olive-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Bookplate adhesion to paste-down. Rear end-paper torn. Good-plus "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding B. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Some browning but a very good copy. "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding A. Olive-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Some use to cloth, quite foxed, some marking otherwise a good-plus copy. "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins. Complete in One Volume. Published by John Grigg, Philadelphia, 1831. Stereotyped by J. Crissy and G. Goodman. We believe this was the first edition thus - we have previously sold an 1832 printing, but this is the earliest we have been able to trace - and Worldcat brings up no earlier copies. A good full calf leather hardback with gilt decoration and raised bands. Covers are worn and rubbed with some scuffed leather areas and wear to hinges, and head and tail of spine. Marbled edges to text block, and marbled endpapers. Previous owner's signature to title page. Black morocco title label is worn. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard opposite title page. Second free blank endpaper has torn lower corner losses. Text has scattered foxing and age toning to extremities. Soundly bound. xxxii + 170pp + viii + 208pp + x + 47pp + ix + 23pp + iv + 19pp + 3pp advertisements (with uncut top edge). Language: English. Dimensions: 226mm high x 145mm wide x 42mm deep. A substantial volume - Unpacked weight approximately 916g. More photos on request. …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding B. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Some browning but a very good copy. Pencil ownership signature of pike specialist Malcolm Bannister. "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. .…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 92 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Old Hess Street School, Hamilton; "Fronteschwein: (Trench Hog); The History of the Stoney Creek United Church, 1792-1925; The History of Duncans of Hamilton; James Durand's Eventful Careers, 1802-1834; The Story of Archibald Kerr, Thomas C. Kerr, and Inglewood; From Washington Boultbee's Diary, 1837-1841; Burlington Beach Volunteer Firemen's Association; My Company - Bell Canada; baptismal Records of the Church of the Ascension (Anglican) Hamilton, 1854. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding A. Olive-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Serious foxing to title-page o/w a very good bright copy. "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. .…

89 (3) pages on stronger paper, illustrated throughout; loosely inserted pricelist (from $10.000 - to $140.000, or 'on request'). - Publisher's blue titled silver softcover-with flaps; 4to.(ca. 29 x 23 cm). ~~~ FIRST EDITION, LARGESIZE SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; texts and picture-comments in English, German and Japanese. - Cover slightly rubbed, bottom-sharpcorners minimally bumped, sharpcorner of foretitlepage top-right cut; else a very good copy. --- Also in stock, Steffen Wolff's rare 1995 Facsimile of Fox-Talbot's 'Latticed Window at Lacock Abbey'(The first Photograph on Paper) developed from the obtained glass-plate according to Talbot's saltprint recipe. . . isbn 3937332006. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Two topographical volumes on London and its surrounding areas bound in one, an extensively illustrated volume. Two volumes bound in one.These two volumes offer avivid history of London, looking at the great capital across time and how it has grown and developed.'The History of London', by William Gray Fearnside, continued by T. Harral, illustrated by John Woods. Undated, dated 1838 from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and twenty-eight plates. Collated, complete.'Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles Round London', by William Edward Trotter, engraved by and after many eminent artists. Undated, dated 1839 from Jisc from a copy held at the Victoria and Albert Museum Libraries.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-two plates. Collated, bound without one plate, and the map. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Marks to the boards, heavier to the rear. Spine is a little faded. Prior owner's pencil to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots, mostly to the plates. Very Good. John Woods; Various (illustrator). book.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon. Edition originale. First edition; 4 vol. 1851 and 1852; Half leather bindings of the time, tight, rubbed at edges, gilt titles on spine with the initials V.S. of the French entomologist Victor Antoine SIGNORET (1816-1889) to whom part II of 1852 is inscribed on title page; the volumes have been used and annotated by Victor Signoret on a number of pages; part I: 368 pages and 11 plates, a hand written alphabetical index of 15 pages has been added in the end by V.Signoret; part II (1852) from page 369 to 592 with 4 plates; part II 1851 from page 261 to 636 with 2 plates; part III: from page 637 to 907.with 2 plates; very scarce and important set although not complete, some parts seem to be missing.insiede very good condition. Dédicacé par l'auteur.…

Enlarged second edition of an illustrated work on British land and fresh water shells by the British naturalist William Turton (1762-1835) and extensively enlarged and corrected by the British zoologist John Edward Gray (1800-1875). Described and depicted are the shells of land and fresh-water snails and other fresh-water molluscs, arranged according to their family. The descriptions also included references to some important sources and authors. Binding rubbed and spine slightly damaged at the head. Overall in very good condition.l Junk, Thes. libr. conchyliorum 332. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth. With 12 hand-coloured engraved plates and some small wood-engraved illustrations in text. Pages: IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 324 pp.…