John s cummins (3 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Magazine. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 59pp. Buff wrappers. Bumped and faded spine, near fine. This issue features Roy Campbell, F.L. Lucas, and Jack Lindsay. Additional contributors include N.K. Cruickshank, Doreen Dunlop, Wrey Gardiner, A.H. Heys, Teresa Hooley, Esther Spencer, G.W. Harris, Sonia Bentzon, Freda C. Bond, Denis Turner, Stuart Holroyd, R.V. Blakemore, P.D. Cummins, Justin Richardson, Margaret Stanley-Wrench, Frank Lissauer, Sidonie Schall, Christopher Levenson, Michael Malim, Murrell Simmons, W.H. Hamilton, Laurence H. Williams, Dennis Peck, Valmai Richardson, Mary Banes, Kathleen M. Chapin, F.D. Walker, William Wolff, Alice Alment, S. Thomas Ansell, Peter Fison, Howard Parsons, Robert Greacen, Stephen Graham, John Graddon, Kennedy Williamson, Paul Selver, K.V. Richardson, and E. Royse Pritchard.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A brightly illustrated collection of six late nineteenth and early twentieth century adventure novels with moral teachings. Six volumes. This set contains: The Renegade, 1915. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and seven colour plates. Collated complete. Written by John Finnemore, a British school teacher, novelist, and writer of history and geography texts primarily for younger readers. Illustrated by Allan Stewart, a Scottish painter and illustrator. Through Bible Lands: Notes of Travel in Egypt, The Desert, and Palestine, c1880. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates. Collated complete. Written by Philip Schaff, a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and ecclesiastical historian. With an essay of Egyptology and the Bible by Edouard Naville, a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar. The Gorilla Hunters, c1905. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title page, and seven colour plates. Collated complete. Written by Robert Michael Ballantyne, a Scottish author of juvenile fiction, who wrote more than a hundred books. He was also an accomplished artist, exhibiting some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy and illustrating some of his novels. The Lamplighter, c1890. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates. Collated complete. Written by Maria Susanna Cummins, an American novelist best known for this work. Scottish Chiefs, c1900. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title page, and seven colour plates. Collated complete. Written by Jane Porter, an English historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure. Illustrated by Walter G. Grieve, a Scottish artist and illustrator. More About Pixie, c1920. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece. Lacking title page. Written by Jessie Bell, an English writer who wrote under her married name Mrs George de Horne Vaizey. In the original pictorial red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spines of most volumes with the odd small mark to the boards. Front hinge starting to The Gorilla Hunters, The Lamplighter, and More About Pixie, with the title page lacking to the latter. Both hinges starting to Scottish Chiefs. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers with further age toning to the pages of The Gorilla Hunters. A school prize bookplate to the front pastedown of Through Bible Lands and The Gorilla Hunters. Very Good. Alan Stewart; Walter G. Grieve (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Indeed. First edition. Seven volumes from this history series on world exploration densely illustrated with plates and maps. Seven first edition works from The Hakluyt Society second series on histories of navigation and exploration.In the original publisher's cloth bindings and dust wrappers. All dust wrappers are unclipped except for 'The History of the Tahitian Mission'.Includes the following works in order of publication. The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799-1830 (1961) written by John Davies, edited by C. W. Newbury. With twenty illustrations of monochrome plates and maps and a large folding map inserted in a pocket at the rear. Prior owner"s ink inscription from 1961 to the first free endpaper. The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete 1618-86 (1962) edited by J. S. Cummins, complete in two volumes. Volume I has seven monochrome plates and three maps. Volume II has eleven monochrome plates, two of which are folding, and three maps including one folding map. Prior owner"s ink inscriptions to the first free endpapers dated 1962. Byron"s Journal of his Circumnavigation 1764-1766 (1964) edited by Robert E. Gallagher is illustrated with seventeen monochrome plates and two maps. The Letters of F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt (1968) collected and newly translated by M. Aurousseau, complete in three volumes.Volume I has four maps, Volume II has five maps one of which is folding, and Volume III has two maps.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth bindings and dust wrappers. All dust wrappers are unclipped except for on 'Tahitian Mission'. Externally, smart. There is spotting to the dust wrappers of all but the three volume 'Leichhardt' series. There is a large closed tear to the dust wrapper of Volume III of 'Leichhardt'. There is some slight wear to the extremities of the dust wrappers. To the bindings, there is some minor bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities. Prior owner's ink inscriptions from 1961 and 1962 to the first free endpapers of 'Tahitian' and the two volumes of 'Navarrete'. There is some spotting to the fore edges of all but the three volume 'Leichhardt'. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Not stated (illustrator). book.…