moreton stephen (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair to Poor. No Jacket. Reprint. A 4th print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a Penguin Books collection of sci-fi stories. Contents include Evening Primrose (John Collier), Laura (Saki (H H Munro)), Sam Small's Tyke (Eric Knight), Satan and Sam Shay (Robert Arthur), A Disputed Authorship (John Kendrick Bangs), Mr Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (Nelson S Bond), A Vision of Judgment (H G Wells), This I Refute Beelzy (John Collier), The King of the Cats (Stephen Vincent Benet), The Canterville Ghost (Oscar Wilde), My Friend Merton (Julius Fast), And Adam Begot (Arch Oboler), The Club Secretary (Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett)), and the Scarlet Plague (Jack London). Penguin Books 537. Light edge wear. Soiling to the covers. Browning and damp stains to the pages. A fair to poor copy. A reader.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This is the remarkable story of Scotland's richest silver mine, near Alva, Clackmannanshire. Its discovery, coinciding with the 1715 Jacobite rebellion, led to an extraordinary sequence of events told here for the first time. It is a true story of fortunes made and lost, and the cast of characters include Jacobites and Hanoverians, lords and ladies, a disloyal servant, a loyal wife, and Sir Isaac Newton. This book has been thoroughly researched from primary sources and is written in a straightforward narrative style. It is a co-publication with 'Forth Naturalist' and 'Historian'. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Illustrated Card Cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. A Monograph of the Northern Mine Research Society No.106. 96p many maps, engravings and photographs. It was this mine at Strontian in Argyllshire in the Scottish Highlands where Strontianite was discovered leading to the isolation of a new element, Strontium. The book is clean and unmarked - as new. See scans.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 136 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Tan age spots to the end papers. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped 30s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0571094953 NEEDLEWORK & TEXTILES.