rev john adams (14 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear, spine toned. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. Book.

Good hardcover, no dj. 181p. Some marks to back cover, past owners name on endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. The boards are rubbed and marked.Tanning.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Absolon, John (illustrator). 1863. Good condition with no wrapper. Maroon embossed cloth with gilt title pieces to spine and front cover. Full page b/w plates with tissue paper guards. 143 pages plus adverts to rear. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine darkened and gilt dulled. Covers grubby/faded. Name plate to front pastedown. A few small foxspots. Lower 1" of rear joint is cracked. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

24mo.; full leather covered boards, hardcover; 288 pages; former owner's label on front endpaper, foxed throughout, boards are split but repaired at spine hinge with a large chip on top of the spine end and spot on front and chip on back else good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. 186 pages illustrations, portraits (complete, none missing) illus by Miss Caroline Manning and major general Baden Powell and others. Original publishers grey brown illustrated cloth some rubbing slight staining otherwise sound near very good with clean text. Interesting inscription on front end paper from 1974 where someone possibly an uncle offers one Graham £1000 and a Hamble star to stop smoking for 12 months. Very anti-smoking particularly juvenile smoking which he regards as the sting of death, the cigarette devil 'lunatics or cigarette fiends'. The lengthy index has stars against the names of cigarette victims. 10 pages of advert at rear. The publisher appears to have been mostly involved with temperance abstinence and health.

Zustand: Very good. - Octavo, 8-3/8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover pamphlet bound in self-wraps removed from a larger collection of bound pamphlets with paper remnants along the spine. There are stab marks along the left edge with a tiny piece out from the bottom inner corner of the cover page where is is starting to pull away. There is also a small hole near the bottom center of the cover page. 36 pages, including the cover page. Very good. Founded as The New England Universalist General Reform Association in 1846, the words "New England" were dropped from the name in 1847. The UGRA had an ambitious agenda seeking reform in many areas of society. Indeed, the UGRA's report by the Rev. E.G. Brooks, D.D. touches on many subjects including "Peace", "Capital Punishment", "The Colored Man", "Slavery", "Temperance", "Idiots", etc.The last 11 pages is a "Report on Tobacco" authored by the Committee consisting of John Greenleaf Adams, Paul H. Sweetser and J.N. Parker.RARE.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Ehricht, Horst; Tata, Sam; Brooks, Bob (illustrator). First Edition. 68 pages. Features: Nice ad for the 1967 Oldsmobiles inside front cover; Gordie Howe Goes Home - How Saskatoon proudly hailed a hometown hero; I was a hospital strikebreaker - people pitched in to keep Montreal General Hospital clean during the dispute; 49 things to do and see at Expo 67; The New Morality; The New Moralists; The Mouth That Roars - behind Montreal radio talk show host Pat Burns' hot-line toughness is a man critics don't know - he really cares; The land where fear lays siege - South Africa's apartheid 'solution' traps both the black and the white; 101 Ways to escape Montreal's St. Vincent de Paul Prison; Will success spoil PEI?; Photographing wildlife; The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club's program for junior sailors - article with colour photos; Fantastic colour ad for the International Harvester Travelall, pickup and Scout; Cabbage Willows camp at James Bay; Gorgeous two-page colour photo ad for the 1967 Pontiacs; Awesome two-page colour photo ad for Chevrolet's new Camaro; nice ad for Electrohome, "the only color tv engineered in Canada'; Nice Coke ad on back cover features soup and sandwich; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Coffee drop at top of front cover. A sound vintage copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 348p full leather, spine cracking, water damage to last page, some charming 18th Century childish practice letters to endpapers, stories include the compelling "Story of an Indian Chief" (American interest), Author is nominated Master of the Academy at Putney in British Library entry for first edition of this very rare title, other catalogues refer to him with the dates 1750?-1814 and ascribe him the author of a number of titles devoted to the "fair sex" Language: English.

2 volumes. 8vo., (7 4/8 x 4 6/8 inches). Half-titles. Large folding map of the world, hand-coloured in outline, with the routes of 'modern' voyagers marked (torn near the gutter and repaired on verso), two engraved plates. Contemporary French mottled sheep (worn at the extremities and wormed). First French edition, first published as "The Flowers of Modern Travels, being elegant, entertaining, and instructive extracts, selected from the works of the most celebrated travelers", London 1788. A companion piece for "Flowers of Ancient History", Philadelphia, 1795 and "Flowers of Modern History", Philadelphia 1796. Including accounts of the earliest voyages of the Portuguese to America, from Columbus, Vespucci, and Magellan to the voyages of Captain Cook, and Pelew; accounts of the settlements at Botany Bay and Norfolk Island on the east coast of Australia; and various voyages to China and Japan. Sabin 224. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.