Percy c m (31 Ergebnisse)

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. minor wear.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Here are fourteen stories of animals, told by writers who know just how to spin a good yarn for youthful readers. With numerous black and white illustrations. Includes 'Grouse' - Davis Watson, 'Master Robert' - Davis Watson, 'Son of the Snow' - Ben Draper, 'Trapping a Bear' - Percy Dent, 'My First Spear' - Alice F. Jackson, 'Tracked by a Leopard' - George Surrey, 'The Alligator Hunt' - Harrie T. Clarke, 'The Spotted Monkey' - Percy Dent, 'A Lucky Shot' - G. M. Rogers, 'The Runaway Team' - G. R. Northey, 'Up for Auction' - T. C. Bridges, 'Won by a Head' - C. Bernard Rutley, 'A Schoolgirl Saved Me' - A. E. Seymour, 'A Musical Dog' - Herbert W. Green. DJ; Owner's Name inside. Dust jacket is worn with several tears; inscription on first page dated 1947. Pages foxing, readable condition. 192 pages. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. A clean, tight copy. Light wear to the edges. Minor wear and tanning. To lines in black marker to the front endpaper. Clothbound in dark blue, title in gold gilt to the spine. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good -. No Jacket. Circa 1935 reprint of a book originally published in 1922. Name and date to front free endpaper. All plates have been removed but the frontis has been taped back in . Binding a little loose. Adequate reading copy. C M Padday (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No jacket. Blackie and Son, [nd]. Hardback, 8vo, 256pp, illust. Prize bookplate (1945?), loose plates. Original decorated brown cloth, a little marked and bumped, head of spine snagged. A fair copy. /0.5uk. Padday, C. M. (illustrator).

Zustand: New. In English.

Broschiert. Zustand: Gut. 208 Seiten; Das Buch ist ordentlich erhalten und kann altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren aufweisen. In NIEDERLÄNDISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Niederländisch Gewicht in Gramm: 460.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 246 pp. ; red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents : A word from the president / C H Lewis -- Peace (poem) / Carolyn Cunningham -- Adventures into American Rose Annuals / Helen D Carswell -- A priceless blessing that costs nothing (poem) -- Keep it simple / Ralph M Dasher -- Sun kissed roses / J A Herholdt -- Nearly wild (poem) / Ollie Giltner -- A way of life / Verona E Weeks -- Rose plant quality control project / Dr Dennison Morey -- To paint a rose / Mrs Henry Diener -- The most perfect phase, judging hybrid teas / Dr A S Thomas -- Understock testing in the New Orleans area / Dr. A. G. Viskell -- Old Roses, living antiques of the rose world / Mrs Walter P Merhoff -- The Isle of Guernsey / Peter D W LePelley -- One little rose (poem) -- An engineer looks at the relation between cutback and bloomtime / Thomas S West -- Pest control in roses / Harvey E Barke -- A hybridizer's dream (poem) -- Why patented roses / George M Hart -- About roses in Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary / Josef Henyk -- Report on rose research in the U. S. Department of Agreiculture / Robert N Stewart, Peter Semeniuk -- American Rose literature since the war / Theo. Mayer -- The little rosebud (poem) / Bertha McQuerry -- Finis to International Sleuthing for a Rose" / Mrs. Walter P Merhoff -- Our chemical fertilizers / Orville E Bowles -- Some species native to North America / Dr Blanche McAvoy -- Unique genes in hardy wild roses / Percy H Wright -- Leaves (poem) / Pearl Kell -- Iran rose city, Isfahan / A. Varzandeh -- Experiments in producing new moss roses / Rev Walter Stanley Smith -- Roses in Scandinavia / Homer C Lyman -- All-America Rose Selections -- New rose patents -- New roses of the world -- Ineligible roses -- Proof of the pudding -- Illustrations : Palm Springs -- C. H. Lewis -- John F. Kennedy -- Polynesian Sunset -- Planning a rose picture -- Crown Jewel -- Eminence -- Mister Lincoln -- Camelot -- Oklahoma -- Happy Birthday -- America's Junior Miss -- Lotte Cunthart -- Seneca Queen -- Valby Park -- Woburn Abbey -- Green Rose. ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. First edition. First printing [stated]. xii, [4], 511p., ill., 29 cm. Index. Foreword by Edward Steichen. Over 200 photos taken from Byron's collection of over 10, 000 prints and negatives given to the Museum of the City of New York. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Signed by previous owner. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. The Bryon Company [including Byron, Percy C. (Phot (illustrator).…

Wrappers. Zustand: Good. First Edition. xv, 63 pages, one b/w plate, 2 articles have pencil annotions and underlining, 2 holes near spine, old name on front cover, otherwise very good. Contains articles: Niue Island and its people (part IV); The Tradition of Niue-Fekai; Notes on the Art of War as conducted by the Maori of New Zealand (part V); The Whence of the Maori (Part III).…

Zustand: Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only : CONDITION : GOOD : 2025 Paperback, little wear, crease and scuff marks to cover, little peeling to corner of cover.

Wrappers. Zustand: Good. First Edition. pages 133-194, text illustrations. Covers worn on edges, rear cover detached. Articles: Polynesian origins (continued), by Edward Tregear, p 133-152; The occupation of Wai-rarapa by Ngati-kahu-ngunu, by S. Percy Smith, p 153-165; The Uhi-Maori or native tattooing instruments, by Elsdon Best, p166-172; Traditions and some words of the language of Danger or Pukapuka Island, by Rev. J. J. K. Hutchin, p 173-174; E Tuatua teia na Ura, e tangata bukabuka aia, by Tuatua Taito, p 175-176; The Maori people, by Lieut.Col. Gudgeon, p 177-192; Notes and queries, p 193-195; Transactions and proceedings, p 196.…

393 páginas. 8vo., rústica.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition - published in the Universal Art Series - edited by Frederick Marriott. With black and white illustrations throughout. Tissue-guarded and titled colour frontispiece by Hans Holbein The Younger showing the famous miniature portrait of Queen Anne of Cleves, who was to become the fourth wife of Henry VIII - based on her beauty that was represented by this miniature, he married her. This miniature portrait has not hitherto (before this book was published in 1927) ever been reproduced in colour. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with white titles and border decorations to the spine and front board. The boards are clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper over the last 99 years. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Boards edges very slightly rubbed with a light crease to the bottom edge of the front board. Top edge of text-block stained dark blue by the publisher to match the boards. Fore-edge and bottom edge of page block rough-cut (untrimmed). No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions - just some soft pencil lines marking interesting passages of text - (could very easily be rubbed out). Off-setting to the front and rear endpapers. No inscriptions or markings in pen. No foxing. Printed on thick quality laid-paper. Interior pages clean. ***In a very good indeed light blue printed dustwrapper, decorated with dark blue borders to the front panel and spine, with the publisher's printed price of 21/- net on the spine (a very high price for 1926!). The dustwrapper is complete, with just slight loss at the top and tail of the spine. Corners of dustwrapper slightly rubbed with minuscule loss. Edges slightly rubbed, creased and nicked. Spine of dustwrapper browned. No serious creases or tears. ***(xx) plus 264 pages including appendix and index of names at the back of the book. 236mm x 156mm. ***A very detailed, profusely illustrated book on the art of the miniature painter - very uncommon to find in the original dustwrapper, especially so well-preserved. A beautiful book. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Large 4to; water mark towards bottom of cover; tear to edges of cloth at top of spine; apart of light tanning to pages, contents are very good; 2 colour plates by W E Johns - 1 large pull out one is the frontis, and the final one; there are 12 colour plates in all, the others by a variery of Illustrators; ; Large 4to; heavy book (over 2 kg unwrapped) ; we have increased the price to allow for the excess postage within the uk; excess postage required outside uk ; Chums; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by John, W E; Webb, Arch; Ellis, Silas; Laidler, T; Pucket, ES; Pollock, J M; Heddon, R; Parker, Eric R Et Al (illustrator).…

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Exceedingly comprehensive work on the power and provision of equipment for coal mining including ventilation, haulage, pumping, gears and winding engines by Cornelius McLeod Percy (1846-1903), the Principal of Wigan Mining College. Percy wrote extensively on the subject of mining, and had a long career in the Wigan Coal and Iron Company before devoting himself to technical education. This work was posthumously completed by his son Frank Percy and close colleague George H. Winstanley. Fair condition. Bumps and scuffs to edges. Boards grubby. Pages tanned. Some of the fold-out plates are slightly damaged.…

Zustand: Good. 2899 sixth editio on red cloth.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2 viols, 1885. Complete 3rd. and 1st. edition. Very good copy, complete with numerous folding plates. 24 pps of adverts. Slight wear to top of spine, else an excellent copy in original cloth.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 66 pages (complete). A confident even, at times, cocky copy. This edition was published in aid of the Buxton Hostels (student residences) in Pretoria. The thick paper covers are worn and marked and scuffed. Yet, they are affable and sure. The cover has a previous owner signature. Within, the early advertising pages are foxed. The contents themselves are most happily benevolent. They are thick, clear, occasionally marked near the edges by age, clean, generous and barely aged. A pleasing, contented and competent copy. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4° - 228pp - Color & b/w reproductions. This volume contains the following articles: Modern German landscape painting, The etchings of Josef Gray, British book-wrappers, Industrial art schools in Poland, Garden Glades, Some Czecho-Slovak woodcuts, The Paris Salon, London, Southport, Edinburgh, venise, Calcutta, South Africa, Kyoto, Graz, Chicago, The L.C.C. Central school exhibition, recent Russian Lacquer Work from Palekh, The etchings of John Sloan, Russian and Western cities, Paul Jouve, Benito Quinquela Martin, Muranese glass, The Zweybrück school in Vienna, Reviews. . Half-parchment binding. Slightly foxing at End papers otherwise in very good condition.…

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large quarto, pp. xxx, 718, 12 (advertisements). Over 400 illustrations including frontispiece photographic portrait of the Author with facsimile signature to lower margin, of which 27 fold-out plates. Publishers' blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board; adverts to endpapers. Cover cloth lightly surface soiled, sunned to spine with small loss at tail and faint ink-stamp, and wear to corners. A shaken copy with weak inner hinges; ownership inscriptions to front pastedown in ink dated in year of publication and 1911, one with a Wigan address; free endpapers toned. A Good copy. Exceedingly comprehensive work on the power and provision of equipment for coal mining including ventilation, haulage, pumping, gears and winding engines by Cornelius McLeod Percy (1846-1903), the Principal of Wigan Mining College. Percy wrote extensively on the subject of mining, and had a long career in the Wigan Coal and Iron Company before devoting himself to technical education. This work was posthumously completed by his son Frank Percy and close colleague George H. Winstanley. …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Gene Tratton Porter - The Woman - Glimpses of Novelist's Inner Life Revealed in Intimate Talk with Friend; How the South Regards the Negro - "We shall speak with no malice in our hearts - We aim merely to be frank"; "Off Agin! On Agin! Gone Agin! - there have been 25 Premiers of France this century, almost one a year; Is Europe Satisfied with the League of Nations? - governments and peoples differ as to what benefits, if any, are to be derived; New Salem, Illinois - The Town That Put Lincoln on the Map; Passing of the Yankee Country Store - better transportation and mail order house have sounded knell of village emporium; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - there is much that can be done to lift up America's back lands lf neglect; Editorials - the true sesqui-centennial, up from slavery, scarcely any play can get by today on Broadway without a prostitute, war debts, Max Goldberg and the murder of "Lefty" Kanter; Woodrow Wilson - Master of Dreams (part 7); Traveling Around Without a Coat - a garment which becomes a symbol of respectability and passport to civilization; Voyage of the Victoria (2nd part of a series) - Finding of the Spiceries; What I Remember of Longfellow - famous Novelist's son give intimate personal recollections of the author of 'Evangeline'; The Bedouins and the Wahabis (short article); Nations take action for World Sanitation; A Dance a Week - The Minuet - with piano sheet music; R.C. (Mac) MacLeod and his Walla Walla, Washington magazine "Up-to-the-Times"; The Last of the Catawba Nation; Fantastic photos of unusual occupations - Paris rat catcher, alligator trainer, Swiss lace-maker, village musicians of Brittany, One-man travelling restaurant in Java, and a Cairo drinking water pedlar. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Graham, J.C.; Honore, Paul (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Twenty-Four Days Adrift - The appalling experiences that befell the crew of the U.S. steamer Dumaru, destroyed by fire and explosion in the Pacific in 1918 - from the logs of Radio-Operator T.W. Bean and Assistant Engineer F.J. Harmon; The Kidnapping of Father Heslin - this unassuming parish priest of Colma, California ultimately died - newspapers helped in catching the kidnapper; The Cross-Eyed Englishman - a rousing story of the Canadian North-West which occured 150 miles north and west of Winnipeg near Lake Winnipegosis; After Big Game With a Camera - Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore hunts big African game with a camera; A Wipe In the Eye - A British officer's amusing account of a lion-hunt which involves a spear; At Grips With a Leopard - Story from Jan Pienaar of the Beira Mashonaland Rhodesia Railway; The Man-Eating Crocodile - The Native Commissioner in charge at Balovale in Northern Rhodesia describes a crocodile surely responsible for many deaths; The Cannibal Islands - Part III - Clifford W. Collinson lived for several years in the Solomon Islands and here describes his visit to the mysterious island of Choiseul and its hidden stronghold - with nice photos; A Rescue By Aeroplane - Captain M.N. Albert's plane crashed on a trip over Northern Quebec and Ontario; Photo of bamboo organ in Catholic church in Los Pinas, Philippines; England's Oddest Treasure-Trove - A vast hoard of gold and silver coins is discovered at Seaton Carew, on the Durham Coast; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part I - A small expedition left England in 1921 to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study the wild Indian tribes - article with photos; Bandit-Hunting - Captain George Ash describes his 18 months serving under Francisco (Pancho) Villa, and a battle with outlaws in Santo Domingo; The Voyage of the "Sargon" - The disastrous voyage of this Grimsby trawler which arrived home weeks late - article with photos; The Bandit of Marseilles - A Bulgarian in France, upset for a sentence passed upon him,begins a vendetta against inoffensive citizens; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Hiley, F.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Nicolson, W.C.; Verpilleux, E.; Graves, Percy; Webb, Arch; Woodville, R. Caton; York, W.G.; Prater, Ernest (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Bill Carlisle, Train Robber - An account of the amazing exploits of a man described as "the last of the train-robbers", who would notify officials when he was about to rob a train!; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part I - A thrilling account of adventures on a remote Dutch East Indies island in pursuit of prehistoric flesh-eating lizards (the Komodo dragon) - with photos; The City of Golden Geese - A lively photo-illustrated account of the foie gras industry in the old city of Strasburg in Alsace; Mungoro Meets His Match - A Rhodesian tale; The End of the Chase - A hunt for a monstrous elephant near Lake Nyasa; Photo of a Kentish stilt-walker in field of hops; The Man in No. 35 - How a British officer discovered, in a Russian prison, Julius Weinberg, a Jewish banker who had actually handed Lenin and his accomplices ten million marks from the German Government in order to finance the Bolshevik revolution that destroyed Russia as a fighting force - the little man knew too much, and paid with his life for his refusal to surrender the incriminating receipts; Cycling Round the World - Part II - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years riding over 20,00 miles! - with photos; The bachelor Homesteaders of British Columbia - A breezy photo-illustrated account of the adventures and hardships of this cheery, happy-go-lucky class of men; The Girl Stowaway of the Cecilie - Part II - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; A Ride in the Night - An officer of the King's African Rifles falls ill on the Abyssinian frontier of Kenya Colony; The Chief's Gift - A tale from a New Zealand sheep farmer; Teddy Murphy's Close Call - A child disappears into a well in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, November 1928, Komodo, Butirski, Caucasus British Military Agency, Cheka, Tcheka, Butirski Prison, Julius Weinberg, Trotsky, Djerjinski, Bolshevik Financier, Bill Carlisle - Train Robber, Bill Carlisle, train robbers, In Quest of the. Illustrated by Sutcliffe, Norman; Lance; Sindall, A.W.; Holloway, Cyril;Prater, Ernest; Spence, Percy; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Inns,Kenneth; Seper, George (illustrator).…

EUROPA SUCHT CHINA Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag Leipzig, 1. Auflage 1938, ERSTAUSGABE, 190 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, gelbes Olb. 8°), leichte Gebrauchsspuren - mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Empfehlung, Datum, Unterschrift signiert "To Doctor Edmund Fuerholzer with good wishes from SIR PERCY SYKES 30.IX.38" (Widmungsempfänger EDMUND FUERHOLZER, Shanghaier Redakteur, Ostasienexperte). …

Profile Publications Limited - 1970 - 3rd Edition - In-4 cartonné, sous jaquette illustrée - 336 pages - Nombreuses illustrations en N&B et en couleurs, in et hors texte, dans l'ouvrage - Texte en anglais Bon état général - Menus frottements - Légères rousseurs sur les tranches - Intérieur frais.