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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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HARDCOVER. minor cover wear, Very Good-. Reprint. varia pagination, small quarto. From the library of Dale W. Rice, famed writer/researcher/collector of natural history, and founder of the Dale W. Rice Memorial Library in Seattle, WA. tight binding, Dale Rice bookplate, clean throughout, Very Good.

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Zustand: New. pp. 121.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. 580 Pp. Three Quarter Morocco Over Marbled Boards. First French Printing, 1925, With 1925 Date On Title Page. Wear, Spine Leather Split Along Front Spine Edge, Fraying Along Bottom Edge Of The Marbled Boards, Front Hinge Cracked. Pages Browning. From The H. G. Wells Collection Of Larry Mcmurtry Which Was Dispersed A Few Years Ago. 39 Maps And 73 Illustrations (illustrator).…

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Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket 2 Volume Set. Corner of page 293/294 of Vol. 2 torn off. (World History) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Paper covers, illustrations, maps, portraits (some in colour). No 1 - 22 (no.22 and 23 being missing). No. 1 and 9 have covers that are detached o/w the issues are in fairly good condition. Previous owner's name written on some of them. Issued in 24 fortnightly parts between November 1919 and November 1920. [World history] s366.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. Two Volumes. Xix, 648 Pp.; X, 676 Pp. First American Printings, 1920, With 1920 Dates On Title Pages. Volume Ii With Ownership Signature Of Fanny Bixby Spencer, Dated 1921. Light Wear, Gilt Bright. Fanny Weston Bixby Spencer (1879 - 1930) Was Born Fanny Weston Bixby In Los Angeles, California, The Youngest Of Nine Surviving Children Of Jotham Bixby; He Had Arrived In California In 1852 From Maine, Where He And Several Cousins Had Formed Flint, Bixby & Company, Which Acquired Major Landholdings, Including The 27,000-Acre Rancho Los Cerritos In What Is Now Long Beach. Fanny Grew Up Wealthy, And Although She Was An Active Philanthropist, When She Died In 1930 Her $2.5 Million Estate Was The Largest Ever Probated In Orange County Up To That Point. Fanny Grew Up On Rancho Los Cerritos, Of Which Jotham Was The Manager. Later, Fanny's Grandfather, The Prominent Abolitionist And Unitarian Minister George Whitefield Hathaway, Came To Live With The Family. Fanny Bixby Wrote About His Abolitionist Activities, Including Turning His House Into A Station On The Underground Railroad, In Her Pamphlet Entitled How I Became A Socialist. Fanny Bixby Was Educated At The Marlborough School In Los Angeles And The Pomona Preparatory School.[3] She Attended Wellesley College For Three Years But Left Without A Degree. At Wellesley, She Studied Sociology With Emily Greene Balch, Who Would Go On To Win The 1946 Nobel Peace Prize. While Still At Wellesley College, She Worked For A Time At The Denison Settlement House In Boston (Founded By Balch) And The Nurse's Settlement House In San Francisco. On Leaving College, She Moved Back To Long Beach, Where She Donated Money To Various Civic Causes, Including Long Beach's First Hospital (Seaside Hospital), And The Walt Whitman School (Private) And Her Settlement House, Both In The Boyle Heights District On The East-Side Of Los Angeles. She And Her Husband Often Invited Ghetto Youth Of Working Mothers To Stay On Their Farm In Orange County To Divert Them From Gangs And Delinquency. In 1907 She Founded What Is Now Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. She Also Helped Found The Town Of Costa Mesa, California. When Long Beach Formed Its Police Force In 1908, Captain Tom Williams Brought Fanny Bixby Onto The Force Because Of Her Extensive Philanthropic Work In The City. She Was Sworn In As A Special Police Matron On January 1, 1908, Making Her One Of The First Women Police Officers In The Country. Fanny Bixby Worked With The Long Beach Police Force For Four Years. An Admirer Of Leo Tolstoy, Fanny Bixby Was A Socialist And A Pacifist. She Published Some Poetry In The California Socialist Party's Newspaper, The Oakland World, And She Attended At Least One Antiwar Meeting In Pasadena Before The Espionage Act Of 1917 Made It Risky To Speak Out Against The War. Her 1920 Play The Jazz Of Patriotism Was About A Woman Who Is Ostracized For Refusing To Salute The Flag. It Premiered At The Egan Theater (Later The Musart Theater) In Downtown Los Angeles. Fanny Bixby Met Her Future Husband, W. Carl Spencer, At A Socialist Party Meeting In 1917. They Moved To Costa Mesa (Then Named Harper) In 1919, Where They Raised Five Adopted Children And Supported Many Others. The Couple Donated Land To The City For A Park And A Library. A Couple Of Years Before She Died, She Wrote To Her Cousin Sarah Bixby Smith: "I Have Three Lines Of Work, Bringing Up My Foster Children, Helping My Neighbors (Mostly Japanese Farmers) And Banging My Head Against The Stone Wall Of Militarism And Conservatism That Hems Me In." Her Papers Are Housed At The Rancho Los Cerritos Museum. Maps, Illustrations In Text (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to, pp xxii complete with the 48 plates, including 2 fine chromolithographs (in colour) and 46 monochrome plates, the first ten retaining their original tissue guards. Publisher's original binding of dark blue/black buckram spine with crisp gilt titles, over dark blue cloth boards. Minimal shelfwear to extremities; boards straight and tight. A very good, sturdy, and entirely unrestored copy. An exceptional copy internally. All pages and plates are in excellent, clean, bright, and unblemished condition. Notably free from the foxing or thumb-soiling typical of natural history atlases of this era. Crucially, this is a non-institutional copy with absolutely no library stamps, perforation marks, or pocket remnants. Published just a decade after the okapi (Okapia johnstoni) was first introduced to Western science by Sir Harry Johnston in 1901, this monumental work represents one of the earliest and most definitive visual studies of the elusive "African Unicorn." Sir E. Ray Lankester, the director of the Natural History Museum, originally intended to publish a massive descriptive text volume alongside these plates. However, intense scientific competition from European rivals pushed him to rush this definitive atlas into print first. Scarce in this condition. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition, American issue (published with a different title than British edition). Octavo. 376pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. Slightly rubbed at tips of spine and corners, else a fine copy, with the text fresh and clean. Playwright Austin Strong's copy, with his ownership signature on front flyleaf. Contains "The Past and the Great State" by H. G. Wells, "The Artist and the Great State" by Roger Fry, "The Growth of the Great State" by Herbert Trench, etc. A beautiful copy. …

Exceptional association copy of this compilation of political essays by H.G. Wells, Frances Evelyn Warwick and many others. Octavo, original cloth. Later printing. Association copy, inscribed by H.G. Wells on the front free endpaper, "Rebecca West from H.G. Wells 1913 There are some pictures inside (Personal & Confidential only to be shown to really safe people like Taylor)." Wells has added original drawings and doodles to over 40 pages of the book, mostly cartoons drawn on blanks, in margins, or in blank spaces before or after chapter headings, often expressing humorous and sometimes cheeky comments on nearby printed text, occasionally with holograph captions or dialogue. The recipient, Rebecca West was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. In the September 19, 1912 issue of the feminist weekly, The Freewoman, Rebecca West responded to H.G. Wells's new novel Marriage by attacking the author, writing that he ". is the Old Maid among novelists; even the sex obsession that lay clotted on Ann Veronica . like cold white sauce was merely Old Maids' mania, the reaction towards the flesh of a mind too long absorbed in airships." Wells found this provocation too enticing to resist, inviting her to visit and discuss her review of his book. The result of the meeting was a decade-long love affair and a son, Anthony--mostly with the knowledge if not consent of Wells's wife, Amy Catherine Robbins. In very good condition. Wells wrote in his Experiment in Autobiography (1934) that often, "in the evening, with my writing things before me I would break off work to do 'picshuas', these silly little sketches about this or that incident which became at last a sort of burlesque diary of our lives and accumulated in boxes until there were hundreds of them." A selection of these "picshuas" were featured in Gene and Margaret Rinkel's 2006 book: The Picshuas of H. G. Wells: A Burlesque Diary.…