Harrison wilson r (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 12th. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library, bumped corners. Good otherwise. 248 pp.

Original publisher's gray cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine & frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, revised edition [1976], thick 4to: 608pp., richly illustrated, pronounciation key, acknowledgements, abbreviations, references. Fine thight copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1958; red cloth covered boards with black and gold titles; wear and discoloration around edges; spine is sun faded; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 583 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Owner name to prelim page. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1964. First edition. viii, 232pp. and 87 figures in the text. The author of this book was the Director of the Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory responsible for the examination of documents for the police forces of England and Wales, and for many government departments. The following is from the blurb on the flap of the wrapper: "Forgeries are the cause of losses which, at the present time, run into millions of pounds annually in the United Kingdom alone. Most of them could be detected by the intelligent layman without any expert scientific knowledge, or the possession of expensive laboratory equipment, and this book describes in simple language with numerous illustrations how this may be achieved." The book is bound in the original grey cloth covered boards with red titling on the spine. It is in excellent condition with light bumping to the spine ends and the contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The clipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with light soiling and rubbing down the spine edges. The spine is slightly sunned and the spine ends are bumped with nicks and creasing at the top of the spine.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp xiii, 330. Original publisher's illustrated laminated boards. ISBN: 9780199247462 Fine.

232pp, 1st ed., clean in D/W. Handwritten note on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 248, xvi pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations (4 color), 1 fold-out ; portrait ; 21 cm. ; green and orange cloth with designs ; no dustjacket ; OCLC: 9504907 ; LC: SB411 ; Dewey: 583.305 ; Contents: The early rose / Frank W Halliday -- The rose on the air / J Horace McFarland -- The Allentown rose-garden / C Chester Yost -- More municipal rose-gardens / Robert Pyle -- The garden value of rose species / E H M Cox -- The committee on old roses / Mrs. Francis King -- The duties of the old-rose committee / Stephen F Hamblin -- The old roses of California -- Francis E Lester -- Breeding new roses / George C Thomas -- Rose-breeding in Rhode Island / Josephine Brownell, Walter D Brownell -- A rose foundation / William Crocker -- Breeding better roses / Rev George A Schoener -- Roses from your ice-box / Persis Smallwood Crocker -- The wax treatment for dormant plants / James A Neilson -- The canker scare / R Marion Hatton -- Rose-disease investigations / L M Massey, Bruce Parsons -- The Central East, a symposium -- Roses along Lake Erie: Mentor, Sandusky, Toledo / Melvin E Wyant, Harry B Neumeyer, Paul Fakehany, Charles G Smith -- Roses in and around Detroit / E Genevieve Gillette -- Southeastern Ohio / Mrs. John B Wagner -- Along the Ohio River / Marie Bauer -- Roses in Cincinnati / R J Conners -- Roses in the Blue Grass /. C S Crouse, Maude M Crouse -- Roses in Eastern Indiana / Alexander McGalliard -- No roses without work / Mrs W D Bostick -- Protecting roses in Indiana / Mrs Berenice M Harrison -- Roses in Northern Indiana / A L Hubbard -- Time of planting and winter protection in Michigan / Charles M Greenway -- Roses can be grown in Illinois / E I Lanter -- Roses near the Mississippi / Dr. Ralph Graham -- Roses in industrial Illinois / Perry Wilson -- Roses in "Egypt" / Hon. Kent E Keller -- The rose-mindedness of Ontario / J Horace McFarland -- Roses in the Rocky Mountains / Maud Chegwidden -- Rugosa roses on a Kansas farm / Carol L Martin -- Why I prefer Spring planting / Agnes Fules Huntington -- Caring for a small rose-garden / Mrs Louis Hurd -- The modern way of feeding roses / Dr G J Raleigh -- Abolishing rose-bugs / Ruth O Ericson -- Failure and success in rose-growing / G F Middleton -- My lifetime with roses / E Gurney Hill -- Tributes to Ernest Henry Wilson -- Wilson, the explorer and teacher / Richardson Wright -- Wilson, the lover of plants / E H M Cox -- Frederick Loveless Atkins / Leonard Barron -- Three fine rose men pass on -- J C N Forestier / J H Nicolas -- John Hickman Dunlop / A J Webster -- Sing Sing's rose man / Lewis E Lawes -- Abyssinia as a land of roses / Franklin P Adams -- Roses in Brazil / Eudoro Ramos Costa -- The 1920 rose summer in Europe / J H Nicolas -- The American Rose Society in Europe / Robert Pyle -- The international rose test-gardens / Dr SPencer S Sulliger -- Roses abroad -- Name, names, names / E S Trott -- Proof of the pudding, 1931 -- Radio rose talks -- Rose notes -- New roses of the world ; wear to covers, else G. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; xv, 343 p., incl. front., illus., plates, ports. 20 cm. LCCN 20011644 OCLC 3247460 LC F327 .M44 ; blue cloth with lettering in black ; no dustjacket ; tear at top of spinAfter searching for more than a year for stories of heroes, deeds of daring, of interesting adventuresand worth-while happenings in the history of our state, I came to feel that Alabama's history is so filled with glorious deeds, magnificent sacrifices, thrills and heart-throbs, that the children of the state should be told what truly great men and women their forebears were." ; Contents : Jean Ortis / De Soto's Arrival in Alabama -- A Very Impolite Guest, The Battle of Mauvilla Bienville -- The First White Settlement -- The Expedition That Failed, French Massacred at Natchez Settlement -- The Girls Who Came to an Unknown Land, The First Wives for the Colonists , Twelve Ugly Ducklings, Girls of the Chest -- The Emperor of Coweta, How the French Made Friends with the Indians -- Game Losers, Conditions During Early Settlement -- A Russian Princess, An Early Romance at Wetumpka -- His Mother, An Indian's Courage -- Princess Mary, James Oglethorpe Comes to Alabama -- Stung Arm, An Indian Princess Befriends the French -- Lachlan McGillivray, English Traders Come Among the Indians -- Alexander McGillivray, A Man Whose Power Affected the Nation -- The Heroine of Little River, How the Tensaw Settlers were Saved -- The Camp Angel, British Refugees Wander Through Ahibama, Courage Wins Reward, Paro Saves the Wanderers -- A Real Hero, A Negro Saves the Lives of the Immigrants -- Little Tempey Ellis, Tiny White Girl Rescued by "Old Milly" -- Isaac Heaton's Dogs, Fort Sinquefield in the Greek War -- A Brave Indian, Talladega Fort Saved by General Jackson -- The Canoe Fight, Sam Dale, Jere Austill and James Smith Stage a Great Fight -- Kindness That Came Back, The Fort Mims Massacre -- The Red Eagle, A Reproduction of Alexander Meek's Poem of the Creek War -- Nannawyah, Indians are Warned of Their Removal to the West -- The Stranger Within Our Gates, Aaron Burr's Capture --The Yazoo Fraud, Early Settlers Come into Alabama --The One-Man Senate, Alabama Becomes a Territory, then a State -- The Vine and Olive Company, French Refugees Settle Dcmopolis -- The Man Who Could Make Cow-Bells, St. Stephen's Prosperous Days -- John Hunt's Town, The Founding of Huntsville -- Andrew Dexter's Tract, The Beginning of Montgomery -- Cedar Creek Furnace, The Beginning of Iron-Making in Alabama -- A Vice-President of the United States, Wm. Rufus King, the Founder of Selma -- A Captain of Industry, Daniel Pratt, the Founder of Prattville -- La Fayette's Visit, A French General, the Friend of Amerioa -- Francis Scott Key's Mission to Alabama, Trouble with the Indians -- The First Railroad in Alabama, Experiences of Early Railroad Builders Osceola, The Leader of the Creeks and the Seminoles -- William C. Travis, Leader in the War for Texas Independence -- Billy Goold, The Man Who Found Fortunes for Others -- Jefferson Davis, Memories Recalled by Mrs. Mary Phelan Watt -- Supplies for Southern Soldiers, The Ordnance Department of the Confederacy -- The Boy Artilleryman, John Pelham -- Emma Sansom, The Girl Who Showed General Forrest "The Lost Ford"-- A Story of Real Strategem, General Streight Surrenders to General Forrest -- Fighting Joe Wheeler, Hero of Two Wars -- The Flagship Tennessee, A Naval Battle in Mobile Bay -- A King -of the High Seas, Raphael Semmes, Commander of the "Alabama" -- The David and Goliath of the Sea, The First Torpedo Boat -- A Boy Hero, Thomas Jones Shows His Courage -- Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction Days in Alabama -- What One Boy Made of Himself, How James Pugh Became "The Patrick Henry of Alabama" -- The Birth of Birmingham, How John T. Milner Laid the Foundation for the Great Town , Difficulties of the Young Engineer, The Trick that Didn't Work, The Greatness of the Resources of "The Pittsburg of the South" etc ; scarce ; G. Book.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st. 1958 1st ed., thick 4to., 583 pgs. Uncommon title in the science of forgery detection. Near Fine in a VG, price-intact dustjacket with one chip along top edge of the jacket spine. Single strips of clear tape have been discreetly applied along several edges of the jacket, doing little to mar the overall appearance.…

251 pp.; 30.7 x 24.1 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; May 1974 issue of Studio International edited by Peter Townsend. Contents include: "The Complete Artist," by John McEwen; "2 Fisherman: 1. An Appreciation of C.M. Wells," by J.W. Chance and "2. Ivan Marks: fishing as a profession;" "Correspondence;" "Acanthonemus Lubaurus Fossil;" "The Fish as a Symbol," by Cara Montgomery; "Multiple Exercise," by William Allan; "Sea Grant second narrative and two precedent works," by Newton Harrison; "Char and char fishing," by Geoffrey White; "Feuilleton," by Marcel Broodthaers; "The paintings of Joseph Raffael," by William S. Wilson; "A/S Mowi: industrial fish farming;" "Man's Impact on life in inland waters," by H.A. Hawkes; "Recipes," by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Marcello Salvadori; and X-ray of a flounder" and reviews by Clive Phillpot, Malcolm LeGrice, John Walker, Liesbeth Corstius, Keith Albarn, Günther Wirth, R.C. Kenedy, David Troostwyck, Tony Rothon, Judy Marle, Paul Rosenbloom, Fenella Crichton, Christopher Fox, James Faure Walker, Robert Corbett, and Frank Whitford. Cover specifically designed for this issue by James Sneath. Also includes a ten page artist project by Hamish Fulton presented by Robert Self, presumably paid for as an advertisement in the magazine and not presented as editorial content. Good. Bumping of corners with creasing. 5.7 cm. area of writing in pencil on recto. 4 mm. tear to bottom right corner of verso and two 8 mm. tears across spine. Yellowing of pages. Contents clean and unmarked.…