Mccormick j h (16 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 4to. Dk. red emb. cl., black designs, line, gilt lettering. Gilt lettering, gilt, black lines to backstr. edges sl. rubbed. Design endpapers. Prof. illus. 872pp. incl. index, emergency index. HEAVY BOOK WILL REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. POST FREE within the UK.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. Magazine. Octavo. 366pp. Perfectbound. Color illustrations. Toning on the spine and light offsetting on the rear wrappers, near fine. Several notable writers feature their work including: Howard Roman ("Bloom and the Dryad"), Harris Downey ("The Hand and Head of Molly Glass"), May Sarton ("A Village Tale"), Adrian Mitchell ("The Beggar"), and George Steiner ("The Retreat From the World"). Additional contributors include Alfred Werner, Roy Harvey Pearce, Vivian Mercier, Constantine FitzGibbon, William S. Pechter, James McCormick, Philip Booth, Hilary Corke, William Dickey, Irving Feldman, Nathan A Scott. Jr., Anthony Ostroff, John Thompson, Geoffrey H. Hartman, and J. A. Bryant Jr.…

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First North American edition ; 208 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 32 cm ; ISBN 9780821221280, 0821221280 ; OCLC 31677506 ;LCCN 94075736 ; LOC No DA951 .S36 1994 ; "A Bulfinch Press book." ; Dewey 941.081 ; green cloth in photographic dustjacket ; tiny watermark on bottom corner textblock ; Carey Schofield OBE is the British principal of Langlands School and College in Pakistan, noted for its academic excellence. She had a previous career as a journalist and writer, particularly on military affairs. ; Contents: Early photography in Ireland -- The Administration -- The Land -- At the Big House -- In the towns -- Revival & revolution -- Notes on the photographic processes ; VG/VG. Book.…

1907 Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling, with minor rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 872 pages; Description: 2 p. L. , [9]-872 p. Illus. (partly col. ) plates (partly col. ) 24 cm. Subjects: Medicine, Popular 2 Kg. …

Red hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with tattered dust jacket. Endpapers darkened. Prize label on front paste-down. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 254pp.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 117-176 plus several pages of vintage ads. Features: Forty-Eight Days Adrift! - after being torpedoed, nine Norwegian seamen spent weeks adrift; Three Mean Killers; Revenge! - in 1916 North Bay, Ontario Pole Leo Leopold vows to get Detective Fred Fefbyre when he gets out of prison; The Fatal Watch; Lost Mines; Cowboys Adrift - two youngsters from a Cariboo, British Columbia ranch make their first trip to Vancouver; Deck Passage; The Ming Jar - what happened after the author purchased a choice piece of porcelain; "Prickly Pete"; The Relapinawa Buffalo - an outlaw buffalo terrorizes an entire Ceylonese district; The Yellow Box; The Amateurs; The Finger of Fate; The Interlopers - an Australian cattle drover story; Adventures with Polar Bears; and more. Above-average wear to front cover and back strip so front cover holding loosely. Small bit of sticker remnant on front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy copy. Cuneo, T.T.; Holloway, Cyril; Osmond, Edward; Brock, H.M.; Treslian, S. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 265-330 plus 22 pages of ads. Features include: The River-Pilot - author piloted a coal barge in the Monongahela River in West Virginia; Seeking the "Ruined City" - Author's trip to a fantastic natural wonder in Australia's Arnhem Land; Old Ned - Story by a Merchan Navy "Sparks"; The Pay-Out - Author became an assistant barman at a little up-country hotel in South Africa; Canadian Police-Dogs - Close-up; Lingeros - South American hoboes; Bush Bandit - An Australian bushman's strange experience; Through Northern India on Horseback - Author needed to get six horses from Simla to Delhi; River Gold - Author's adventure while cruising down British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; Island of Dreams - Puerto Rico; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County (Part I of 4) - the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois. Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Wide World - August 1950 Vol.105 No.628 Features include: The River-Pilot - author piloted a coal barge in the Monongahela River in West Virginia; Seeking the "Ruined City" - Author's trip to a fantastic natural wonder in Australia's Arnhem Land; Ol. Illustrated by Osmond, Edward; Tresham, S.; Et al (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 56 Pages. Features: Cover photo of "Russia's Winter Army on the March" showing soldiers on skis; United States Lines ad inside front cover features Eliot Wadsworth of the Chamber of Commerce; Color-photo one-page ad for The Commercial Travelers Mutual Accident Association of America; One-page ad for Dumont televisions; Japan is Still a Dangerous Enemy - article with naval battle photos including a dramatic one-page photo of a U.S. rocket assault on Peleliu Island; The Delicate Balance to be Kept in Europe Demands Statesmanship; Poem to the leaders of the Allied Nations; Wonderfully illustrated article on Idlewild Airport (New York International Airport, later renamed in honor of JFK) by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia; Nice color one-page Celanese ad advertises their Lumarith plastic car parts; Harry Truman article on his new job as Vice-President; Article on music composer Richard Rodgers (with photo) explains that he writes musical amid office confusion; Lovely one-page color ad for Richelieu Pearls features lady in strapless top; Inside story of a Handbag - casing new light on the ways of womankind!; Nice color ad for Valliant Vineyards; Al Smith - a friend looks at the record - great photo-illustrated article on the life of Governor Alfred E. Smith; One-page ad for Congress Playing Cards; The Story of Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Nostalgic ad for the defoe Shipbuilding Company of Bay City, Michigan; Color photo ad for Thomas' Protein Bread features attractive lady in yellow dress; Color ad fo Presto Cake Flour; Photo-illustrated recipe for Coffee Cake Without Sugar; Wonderful one-page colour ad for Sand W Fine Apple Juice features two lovely young ladies; Article on tomorrow's refrigerators; Teen-Age Decalogue; Wheatena ad shows bride carrying groom over the threshold; Lovely two pages of photo of formal hat fashions for ladies; Chow for the Wacs - they don't need as much food as they've been receiving; Gorgeous one-page color-photo fashion ad for Donnybrook Classic; Color ad for Oxydol soap; Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder ad features sensuous scene; ad for Scott fine radio receivers; Color ad for Jackson & Perkins Co. flowers on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue. Thompson, Ken; Markow, Jack (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 100 pages plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Real-Life Romances - six narratives of travel in Italy; Captain Thompson's 'Catch' - Captain Thompson of Knight's Key, Florida catches a huge bizarre 'whale/shark' - article with photos; Drifting Through Mesopotamia - Russian M. Dutkevitch and his photo-illustrated account of floating down the mighty Tigris to Bagdad; A Naturalist in the Arctic - Mr. Koren, a Norwegian naturalist, becomes a castaway in Siberia after his vessel is wrecked in the ice; The "Phantom Brigands" of Pegomas - how the puzzle of these these French criminals (described in the March, 1912 issue) was finally solved; Our Trip to the Kolahoi Glacier - a journey by two officers of the Indian Army to the source of the Jhelum River - with great photos; My Adventures in Sarawak (part II) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describes her time as the Rajah's bride; Two Years in Guatemala - Alfred R. Lamb describes his eventful time organizing the police force of Guatemala; The Bishop's Visit - what happened when a Bishop visited the bungalow of an Indian planter; The Fur-Buyer's Peril - Frank J. Scheider nearly froze to death in the wilds of Ontario; Moose-Hunting in New Brunswick; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Dugdale, T.C.; Leake, Gerald; Gordon, A.; Coller, Hy.; Somerfield, T.; McCormick, H.; Playford, H.H.; Montford, Charles E.; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 194-288 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: A Millionaire's Adventure - Milan millionaire Signor Luigi Beretta becomes the victim of an infamous plot; War-Time Wanderings in the Italian Alps - a merry trio of climbers have some fun; A Fight for Life in Mid-Air - a workman dismantling a great chimney at the Whitehall Road electric power works experiences a terrible industrial accident; The Adventures of Howard Blackburn - Right Hon. Sir Edward Morris, P.C., Prime Minister of Newfoundland, describes nautical adventures of Howard Blackburn; "Grubb of Gran Chaco"- The adventures of pioneer W. Barbrooke Grubb in the Paraguayan Chaco; Six Weeks in Lahoul - a hunting trip for ibex and red bear; Allen's Well - how a man was buried at the bottom of a deep well and was rescued; The Lion's Cub - a striking story from the Coast Mountains of Southern Oregon involving 'Yellow Tail' the mountain lion, Jud Bucklin, and Dick Wimer of the U.S. Forest Service; Aunt Barbara Visits Mustypore - an amusing story from an Indian coffee-planting district; A Woman Alone in China (part II) - Mary Gaunt met with many odd experiences and saw many strange sights, which are here described in most entertaining fashion, with photos; A Tragic Ocean Race - Five clipper ships started on a race from Australia to China, but strange and terrible things happened aboard the "Island Bay"; After Gold in the "Land of Fire" - an unfortunate prospecting expedition in Tierra del Fuego; The Haunted Tomb - a tale from the Southern Punjab; and more. Covers nearly detached as one. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Somerfield, T.; Jackson, A.E.; Pitcher, N.S.; Holloway, W.H.; Buchanan, F.; Whitaker, W.G.; McCormick, H.; Lunt, W.; Wigfull, W.E.; Webb, Arch.; Wright, Frank (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 294-388 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Captain's Baby - a respected officer of the Australian Steam Navigation Company takes a little urchin under his protection, leading to humorous difficulties; A Journey into Arabistan - photo-illustrated account of a journey through a little-known part of Persia; The Quest of the Peso-La-Ki - the romantic story of a hidden Western Navajo silver mine, sought for vainly by daring prospectors for over a century; Tight Corners (part II) - photo-illustrated adventures from West and Central Africa; The Girl-Man - a young woman aged 23 tires of an unhappy marriage and sinks her identity and sex to reappear as a man named Frank Duffy and wander the United States for three years - until she is discovered by a policeman and a court orders her to 'go back to the skirts'; Icebergs - interesting photo-illustrated article by Lacey Amy; Dodging Death - in Australia, Sydney Wright falls from a building under construction, only to be saved by landing on telegraph wires (per cover illustration); A wife on an Indian coffee plantation cures her husband of constantly 'talking shop'; Milly's Hobby; Europe's "Wild West" - photo-illustrated article on the great Hungarian Hortobagy; "The Doctor" - in Ceylon Gunner Duncan is tragically burned to death; Our Travels in Safari-Land (part III) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) describes her ambitious journey through British East Africa; The Missing Ship - in 1897 the American clipper T.F. Oakes and her crew were considered lost, but miraculously saved by the crew of the "Kasbek"; Interesting photo of the grave of a British Columbia Indian chief in a hit above stumps; Photo of a Burmese boy 'undergoing the operation of tattooing', with brief write-up; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Somerfield, Thomas; Wood, Stanley L.; Gillett, Frank; McCormick, H.; Campbell, J.; Wigfull, W.E. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. 96 pages plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: Nice ad by Spiegel, May, Stern Co. inside front cover; The Johannesburg Motor Bandits - One of the most remarkable episodes in the annals of crime in South Africa - the wholesale murder of Police Officers - Robert Ward Jackson, John Maxim, Carl Neze - many great photos; Crapsey, the Sky-Worker - he loses his fear of working at heights; Some Adventurous Small-craft Voyages as told by Captain J.A. Nilsson who made a specialty of taking tiny vessels across the oceans - with photos; What Happened on the Omul - Walter Muston, his wife and a little girl experience a disaster while mountain climbing in the Carpathians - with many photos; "Pussy" - Mariner John William Nylander relates what happened when he saved two kittens from their watery graves and brought them aboard; Our Travels in Safari-Land/British East Africa - IV - by Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porth) - many great photos; Out of a Death Trap - British Missionary Rev. A. Forder rescues a party of Americans from the fierce Bedouin Arabs of Moab - with many excellent photos; The Majesty of the Law - Prohibition laws result in ludicrous events in Kansas; The Wanderings of an Entertainer - Mr. Robert Ganthony; Nice Columbia Grafonola ad; Nice color ad for Vose player pianos on back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. McCormick, H.; Somerfield, T.; Wigfull, W.E.; Pride, Sid; Reynolds, Warwick; Mins, B.E.; Evison, G.H.; Styche, Frank; Briault, S. (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. Collection of 14 CDV photographer advertisements. Photograph on face of the card mount, advertising printed on the verso. Several of the advertisements contain an image of a camera. Photographers include: Goldsmith, E. C., Springfield, Mass. Ingraham Brothers, Northampton, Mass. Conant Artistic Photographer, Portland, Maine Coleman, M. O. T., Westfield, Mass. Kuhn's, Atlanta, GA. McKenney, A. M., Portland, ME. Tyler, C. B., Adams, N.Y. McCormick, J. L., Boston Bonta & Curtiss, Syracuse, N.Y. Cross Photo. Studio, Salem, Mass. N. Little & Co., Boston Harding, William M. Philadelphia Doran, location not identified De Lan, W. H. location not identified. …

"Colonel" McCormick was the legendary editor and publisher of the "Chicago Tribune" (1920-55); Green was the 30th governor (Republican) of Illinois, serving from 1941 to 1949; and Kelly was the powerful Democratic mayor of Chicago, serving from 1933 to 1947. On the blank verso of a heavy stock 4" X 4 3/4" card bearing a printed line drawing of Chicago's "Tribune Tower" with "1847 1947" beneath, near the top Mayor Kelly and Governor Green each sign large and bold in blue ballpoint and McCormick signs large and bold in pencil. Very good. Single inoffensive light fold near bottom. This unusual trio, clearly obtained at some centennial celebration, are accompanied by an original 6½" X 8½" black-and-white glossy news agency photograph, a head-and-shoulders portrait of Governor Green. Near fine. A quite scarce autographic triumvirate -- and a most unusual pair.…