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Verlag: Washington:, 1912
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Aug. 24 (SALE item)* Carnegie Institution of Washington publication no. 153, original quarto paper wrappers chipped or torn marginally at lower outer corner, library markings, else good, - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and read…y for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
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Weitere BilderThe Observer's Book of Garden Flowers; Horses and Ponies; Architecture; Pottery and Porcelain; Sea Fishes (Observer's Pocket Book Series Collection, Five Volumes)
King, Arthur (compiler); Summerhays, R S; Penoyre, John; Ryan, Michael; Payton, Mary; Payton, Geoffrey; Bagenal, T B
Verlag: Frederick Warne, London, UK
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. A collection of five different titles from the Observer's Pocket Book series. All uniformly bound in cloth of varying colour, with titles front and spine. All illustrated. 16mos. All volumes in generally very good condition, some are slightly pushed at spine…ends, most have a little dust marking to the upper text block edge, and some have a previous owner's name or inscription internally, else are neat, clean bright and tight. All in glossy, illustrated dust wrappers, some lightly bumped on extreme edges, some price clipped and almost all a little shelf worn and sunned, faded on the spine. A mixture of editions and printings but all in the style of dust wrappers introduced in 1970 - glossy and laminated with a distinctive square, framed illustration - and prevalent until around 1980. Observer's Pocket books is a series of pocket-sized books published by Frederick Warne and covering topics such as hobbies, art, nature and history. The first in the series - British Birds - was published in 1937. The 99th title, the Observer's Book of Observer's Books was released in 1999 (by Peregrine Books) in a matching format. The series was rounded to 100 with the publication of Wayside and Woodland in 2003. Many of the titles have been revised, reprinted, updated and released in different dust wrappers over the years - it is estimated that there are some 800 variations - and have become collectible: the earlier numbers and rarer issues can be hard to find We have many books from the Observer Pocket Book series in stock and can offer generous discounts to those ordering more than one at a time. Please inquire.
Verlag: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. XXIX, 1909., Offprint from:, 1909
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In den WarenkorbSeries: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 38. 254 x 172 mm. 8vo. 9 pp. 2 plates. Printed wrappers. Fine.
Verlag: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. XXIX, 1909., Offprint from:, 1909
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In den WarenkorbSeries: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 34. 254 x 172 mm. 8vo. 8 pp. 1 plate, tables. Printed wrappers. Fine.
Verlag: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. XXXVII, 1913., Offprint from:, 1913
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In den WarenkorbSeries: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 65. 255 x 173 mm. 8vo. 11 pp. 3 plates; finger prints in margins of page 4. Printed wrappers. Very good.
Verlag: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. XXXVIII, 1913., Offprint from:, 1913
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In den WarenkorbSeries: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 73. 254 x 170 mm. 8vo. 26 pp. 2 figs., 2 plates. Printed wrappers. Fine.
Verlag: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. XXXI, 1910., Offprint from:, 1910
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In den WarenkorbSeries: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 46. 253 x 171 mm. 8vo. 26 pp. 10 tables. Printed wrappers. Fine.
A lifetime with the birds : an ornithological logbook. [Early days; Tennessee; Sewanee; New York; Jacksonville, Florida; Atlanta Bird Club; Cuba; Lake Mattamuskeet; Okefenokee Swamp; Louisiana; California; Hawaiian Islands; Los Angeles; etc]
Greene, Earle Rosenbury, 1886-1975. [editors, Lucien Harris, Harriet Oliver, Harold S Peters, Ray Werner, Frederick Heoard, Clarence Cortham, Philip Du Mont, Ira Gabrielson, Frederick Lincoln; Arthur A. Allen, Spencer Judd, Wallace Rogers, Ivan R, Tomkins, Willie Gray Cahoon, E P Haddon, john M Hopkins, Stephen F. Briggs, Samuel A Grimes, Howe Sadler, Joseph E King, Carl S. Koford, Steve Crouch, E R Kalmbach, Chuck Abbott, Lloyd E Woolever, Nor man Groth, Martha Odum, A Wetmore, Ruth Greene, N R Whitney, Norman French, Douglas Fulton, Jean French, Mary Anne McClendon, J J Carroll, D. Pyle, W Earle Godfrey]
Verlag: [Ann Arbor, Mich., Lithographed in U.S.A. by Edward Bros., 1966.], 1966
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; ix, 404 p. ; illustrated with numerous black and white photogrpahs, portraits; 24 cm. ; LCCN: 66-25516 ; OCLC: 1630383 ; LC: QL31.G73; Dewey: 598.2/0924 ; green cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; photos, Arthur A. Allen, Spencer Judd, Wallace Rogers, I…van R, Tomkins, Willie Gray Cahoon, E P Haddon, john M Hopkins, Stephen F. Briggs, Samuel A Grimes, Howe Sadler, Joseph E King, Carl S. Koford, Steve Crouch, E R Kalmbach, Chuck Abbott, Lloyd E Woolever, Nor man Groth, Martha Odum, A Wetmore, Ruth Greene, N R Whitney, Norman French, Douglas Fulton, Jean French, Mary Anne McClendon, J J Carroll, D. Pyle, W Earle Godfrey ; Earle Rosenbury Greene helped found both the Georgia Ornithological Society and th e Louisiana Ornithological Society. He served for a time as refuge manager for the US Biological Survey at the Okefenokee. In the 1920's and 30's Greene kept detailed notes on bird observations in the Atlanta Georgia area. From these note he published "Birds of the Atlanta, Georgia, Area", one of the first annotated bird checklists for the state, and was co-author of the first formal checklist for Georgia birds, published in 1945. The Georgia Ornithological Society established an award in h is name in 1975. ; includes a Life List of North American Birds, with locations noted for each bird ; with detailed bibliography and index ; FINE. Book.
Verlag: Printed and Bound by Truprint Litho Ltd., Margate First Edition . 2007., 2007
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Near Fine. First edition in publisher's original colour photographic card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to. 12½'' x 8¼''. Contains 272 printed pages of text with archive monochrome illustrations and colour photographs throughout. Slight curling or the corners to the front cover and in very near Fine condition, no dust wrapp…er as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Golf].
The memoirs of Queen Hortense; published by arrangement with Prince Napoleon, edited by Jean Hanoteau, translated by Arthur K. Griggs.
Hortense, Queen, consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1783-1837 ; Bonaparte, Victor Napoléon Jérôme Frédéric, prince, 1862-1926 ; Hanoteau, Jean, 1869-1939Grigg ; s, Arthur Kingsland, 1891-1934
Verlag: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, New York, 1927, 1927
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 2 v. fronts., plates (1 double) ports., facsims. 24 cm. ; LCCN 27021262 OCLC 1675917 ; LC DC216.4 .A35 1927 ; Appendix: Unpublished letters written by Napoleon I to Queen Hortense from June 10, 1796 to June 10, 1815: v. 2, p. 341-374 ; dark green cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjackets ; P…artial Contents: Volume II :The Queen Hortense: In the Days of Marie-Louise :The King of Rome ( 1810-1812) -- From the Campaign in Russia to the First Abdication (1812-1814) -- The First Restoration: The Death of Josephine (April 16-May 31 , 1814) -- The First Restoration ( continued) ( June 1, 1814-March 4, 1815) -- The Return of the Emperor (March 5-March 21 , 1815) -- The Hundred Days (March 22-June 10, 1815) -- From Waterloo to Malmaison (June 11-June 29, 1815) -- The Return of the Bourbons : On the Way into Exile (June 29, 1815-July 24, 1815) -- The Wandering Queen (July 25, 1815-December 7, 1815) -- Politics and Personalities ( December 7, 1815-April, 1817) -- Calm after Storm (May, 1817-1820) -- Unpublished Letters Written by Napoleon I to Queen Hortense ( June 10, 1796-June 10, 1815 ) ; FINE. Book.
The Purple Testament : Life Stories of Disabled Veterans. [Home TOens & Home Folks; Rookie Days; Chuckles & Belly Laughs; Strange Shores & Tense Moments; When Time Stood Still; Flotsam of Dawn & Darkness; Ny Number Comes Up; Death Has Many Faces]
Wolfe, Don M. [John Dos Passos; Dwight Eisenhower, Joe V. Adair, Rosario Joseph Aloisio, Herbert Newton Bair, Edgar Benjamin Benson, Paul Getter Bruce, Frank Louis Calderala, Howard Price Carter, Robert Irwin Clark, Anthony Paul Coulis, Robert Francis Dove, Richard Houston Frazee, Morris Aaron Garber, John Otto Goelz, William George Gontcharuk, Thodore Karl Hammill, Ellerton Vinnie Harmer, Bruno Joseph Hassen, Gerald Sterling Kelsey, Orlie Alden Kennerly, James Bernard King, Melvin Bernard Linton, John T. Marshall, Floyd Roann Mauk, Lowell Marshall McGowan, Daniel Archie McDonald, Kenneth Ray McMurry, Frank S. Mercurio, Arthur Wallace Miller, William E. Murphy, Charles LeRoy Neely, John N. Nemeth, Verne Maurice Nygaard, etc]
Verlag: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania : Stackpole Sons ; The Telegraph Press, 1946., 1946
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. xxxviii, 361 pp. ; purple cloth with green lettering on paper paste-down labels ; OCLC reports no copies held by any library ; top edge colored blue ; foxing ; name on front ep ; extremely rare John Dos Passos item features writings from disabled veterans of World War II who studied English composi…tion while attending American University in Washington, DC under Professor Don M. Wolfe, who asked them to write about home, friends and family, the war or whatever came into their minds. THe results were so moving and impressive that Wolfe had 2,000 copies printed at his own expense, while all the profits from Doubleday's edition went directly to the men ; "We cannot state too emphatically that this books is presented not as a literary effort but as a series of social documents."--foreword ; "If a foreigner should ask me what Americans were like in 1946, I would hand him this book. Naturally it is not the whole story. It is only the story of a fairly small group of young men among those most hurt in body and mind by the accidents of war. But somehow, putting down the war experiences that affected them most, these young men have uncovered a much larger segment of the reality of our time than they themselves seem to have been aware of."--John Dos Passos ; details of each serviceman and his unit included ; authors include: Joe V. Adair, Rosario Joseph Aloisio, Herbert Newton Bair, Edgar Benjamin Benson, Paul Getter Bruce, Frank Louis Calderala, Howard Price Carter, Robert Irwin Clark, Anthony Paul Coulis, Robert Francis Dove, Richard Houston Frazee, Morris Aaron Garber, John Otto Goelz, William George Gontcharuk, Thodore Karl Hammill, Ellerton Vinnie Harmer, Bruno Joseph Hassen, Gerald Sterling Kelsey, Orlie Alden Kennerly, James Bernard King, Melvin Bernard Linton, John T. Marshall, Floyd Roann Mauk, Lowell Marshall McGowan, Daniel Archie McDonald, Kenneth Ray McMurry, Frank S. Mercurio, Arthur Wallace Miller, William E. Murphy, Charles LeRoy Neely, John N. Nemeth, Verne Maurice Nygaard, Joseph Michael O'Connell, Irving Peltz, Frank Jerome Phillips, Edward Otto Podell, John James Regan, Wallice Irvin Redi, Nicholas Rezar, Philip Irvington Robrecht, Robert Shore, Pat Martin Smith, Walter Burton Spencer, Glee H. Stevens, Robert Lee Stevens, George J. Veach, Ralph Theodore Warren, Carl Thomas Welch, Alma Mary Wilhelm, John Edgar Williams, Jr, Milton Kimball Williams, and Norman Myer Witkin ; truly horrific remembrances recounted here underscore the frailness of humanity and transcendent bravery ; rare ; VG. Book.
Verlag: New York : W. Jennings Demorest, 1893-1894., 1894
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Fair. iv, 754 pp. ; illustrated ; 30 cm. ; OCLC: 1566149 ; OCLC: 2446332 ; OCLC: 8478507 ; LC: TT500; Dewey: 051 ; green and orange cloth with Victorian decorations and lettering ; three or four pages loose ; tear to top of spine ; foxing ; missing pages 67-70, 279-280, 449-450, 617-618, 727-728 ; a few very…unusual articles featuring prisons, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Temperance, Women's suffrage, Photography and Crime, Gypsies, etc ; a color oil print (chipped) possibly by Maud Humphrey; several photographs of famous persons and actors, including the Wilson Cherubs, U S Grant, Sheridan, Joseph Jefferson, Lucy Stone, Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alexandre Dumas, Phoebe and Alice Cary, Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony, Emma Calvé, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving; many fashion sections ; heavy volume ; FAIR Partial Contents : The Naval Cadet at Work and at Play, The prize article on the naval cadet, written by a naval cadet / T. G. Roberts -- Familiar talks on the Different Schools of Art : American Artists / Polly King -- Wedding and Engagement Rings / J Carter Beard -- Our National Nut (Peanuts) / Harriet Cushman Wilkie -- Within Prison Walls : Thanksgiving Day in New England / Arthur Field -- A Diary of an Athletic Girl / Constance Burton -- Cholly's Last Serenade / J H Connelly -- Society Fads / Madame La Mode -- Winter House-Flowers : What kinds to select and wat care to give them / Eben E. Rexford -- Our Girls : Madge / Emma Howard Wight -- Home Art and Home Comfort : Ugle Spots Beautified / E A Fletcher -- A Japanese Floral Calendar -- Sanitarian : Care of Infants / Susanna W Dodds MD -- The World's Progress -- Artistic Notes -- What Women are Doing -- Chat -- Boxing the Compass / L Beard -- Our Baby Prize -- Two Exquisite Panel-Pictures -- Household : The Little Luncheon -- Our New Premium Picture -- Mirror of Fashions -- Perversions of Personal Liberty / W Jennings Demorest -- Demorest's Editorial Flashes -- [Christmas Eve at Bethlehem] -- December 1893 -- Children of the Stage / Elfried De B. Gude -- The ROad to Fame or Fortune : How to Become Successful Professional Women / Margaret Bisland -- The Man Underneath : A Romance of a Christmas Journey / Leslie Kane -- An Excursion to t he Land of Dolls / Aunt Ella -- Nemesis / Anna Jaffray -- Christmas Decorations / Eben E. Rexford -- The Prodigal : A Christmas Play / Marion E Monckton -- A Christmas Carol, music by Henry George Nicholls, words C L Hildreth -- Our Girls : Christmas Lists / Lida C Tulloch -- Sanitarian : The Care of Growing Children / Susanna W Dodds MD -- The Haty Woman's Christmas / Mary E Child -- Home Art and Home Comfort : Christmas Gifts for Everybody / Frances H Perry -- A Japanese Calendar -- Household : Some Christmas Sweets -- Artistic Notes / Alice Donlevy -- Our Country's Crisis / W Jennis Demorest -- January 1894 -- A Ceylon Tea Farm / Leslie Kane -- Among the Nurses / Evan Stanton -- A Woman's Romance in Wall Street / Arthur Field -- Undercurrents of Humor from the Fair / T A DeWeese -- What the Little Chap Did / Evangeline Harvey -- With the Raconteur : Stotries One can Tell Again -- The Shouting Band from Idaho : A New and Very Lively Game / Clara J Denton -- Our Girls : Berry-Picking Immortals / Lida A Churchill -- Sanitarian : Care of the Complexion / Margaret Humphrey -- Home Art and Home Comfort : Holiday Fancy-Work / E A Fletcher -- All That is Left of the Homeward Bound -- When WOmen Vote : What Reforms Could be Effected Through Woman Suffrage / Russell Sage, Noah Davis, Lillie Devereux Blake, Jennie de la M. Lozier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Dead Love (Poem) / D J Robertson -- It Has Aye Done So Hitherto (Poem) / Philip Burroughs Strong -- What to Buy in China -- Ethics of the Mending-Basket / Christine Terhune Herrick -- Mad Bob Telford / John Lloyd Thomas -- The Most Effective Missionary Enterprise -- Our Growing Cities : Austin, Texas / J H Raymond Jr. Book.
Two Autograph Letters Signed and one Typed Letter Signed (all three 'A. W. Pimm') on 'loco matters' to King.
Arthur Watson Pimm [A. W. Pimm] (b.1881), locomotive engineer and inventor [H. G. King of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers; Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd; Vickers; LNER; LMS Railways]
Verlag: Autograph Letters: 14 October and 18 December Typed Letter: 4 November 1942. All three from 5 Oakhill Road Orpington Kent, 1942
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In den WarenkorbText of all three letters clear and entire. A well-written and well-informed correspondence relating to 'locomotive matters'. Letter One (14 October 1942): Manuscript. Foolscap, 4 pp. Good, on aged high-acidity paper. 'Knowing, and to some extent, at least, sharing' King's 'interest in loco matters', Pimm informs him that the Mi…nistry of Supply 'have ordered 360 L.M.S. mixed traffics generally like the 227 that AW's [Armstrong Whitworth] bill as their last order'. Pimm's 'chief' has told him 'that lately he met some steel foundrymen & asked one of them if he had got the order for the castings. The man asked, in return, how many tons were there on the 227 A.W.'s "mill". My chief, who was estimator at Scotswood [Armstrong Whitworth headquarters], said 'about 22 tons', and the other man went on, 'well, as these engines there are 4 tons, a pair of driving-wheels & some miscellaneous castings, the trailing drivers are - 17 tons tensile - and the tender wheels were to have been solid C.L., chilled on the tread'. Pimm comments on this statement, and on the news of another order. Paragraph on 'two Scotswood men'. Two paragraphs discussing 'the future of steam on railways' and whether 'in this Country the diesel-electric can compete with it for main line & passenger work' ('the prime cost of diesel electrics is higher than its advocates admit, the maintenance is higher and the cost of spares is ruinous'). Full-page discussion of valve-gears. Recounts an anecdote relating to 'Blacklock, chief loco technical man at Scotswood'. Ends by discussing the relative merits of Pacifics ('the best engines the L.N.E.R. had for that district, bar none') and Atlantics ('they won't steam on Scotch coal'). Letter Two (4 November 1942). Typewritten. Foolscap, 3 pp. Good, though lightly creased and aged. Lengthy and informed discussion of 'the locomotive building firms'. Armstrong Whitworth 'had a plant much less antiquated than the rest of the plants in the country. It was bought after the last war, though lately for want of funds it was not renewed it was certainly the least obsolete of all'. Explains, 'in confidence', how the 'Loco. builders [.] kept going before the war': the smaller firms 'tendered for everything, 200 ton engines for Australia, and such like. The large firms protested, pointing out that the small firm couldn't execute the order and therefore shouldn't tender, but the small firm took up an attitude of offended dignity, saying how do you know what we can and cannot do. You don't want anybody to expand, you would keep all the best things for youself. So they continued to tender and to draw their share.' Comments on 'Gresley Pacifics' and 'the old S.W. engine men'. Letter Three (18 December 1942): Manuscript. 8vo, 2 pp. 'Can you not ease off a little. I know another H. G. officer, mang. Director of a firm, who I am sure is doing far too much, but he is so far in, so to speak, that he can't withdraw, or feels that he can't.' Gives reasons for his distrust of 'railway building costs'.
