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Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

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

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

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

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

Softcover. Zustand: Poor. First Edition. [worn and externally stained, small tear in spine covering at base of spine, long diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover, heavy wear and a bit of paper loss at corners of first few pages; one-time owner's name and address in ink on inside of both covers plus another one-time owner's name in pencil at top of inside front cover; some pencil lines in margins and ink check-marks next to numerous names in the list of biographies]. (B&W illustrations, engraved portraits) A history of San Diego and environs, followed by biographical sketches (and engraved portraits) of about fifty individuals. The book is about evenly divided between the history and the biographies. (Due to condition, this should be considered a reading/reference copy only.).…

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Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 598 pages. American Sportsman's Library edited by Casper Whitney. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm ; OCLC 793852836; art nouveau design with thistles and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; missing first four pages (replacements provided); "Reading with appreciation is a fine art. This volume contains some of the gems of literature which the race has learned to love. Some of the 'old fashioned selections' and some of the most charming new short classics, are offered as a basis for study and appreciation. The average pupil will study his reading lesson with zest if he is given some definite work to do. In these studies, the brief introduction to each selection is intended to whet the pupil's appetite.The exercises following each study make his study definite and to the point. Helpful notes are added wherever necessary, and additional readings are given. ; Contents: America -- Our native land -- The young witness -- Your first duty -- The blind men and the elephant -- Washington's rules of conduct -- The captain's daughter -- What do they say? -- The whistle -- My dog Blanco -- None of the beauty is wasted -- Arthur's prayer at Rugby -- All is beauty -- Life -- Woodman! Spare that tree! -- Why do bells for Christians ring? -- Expert dervice -- The Three Graces -- Professor Frog's lecture -- Flower in the crannied wall -- The High Court of Inquiry -- A prayer -- To a waterfowl -- The mystery of life -- Song -- Santa Filomena -- The country's call -- How t he crickets brought good fortune -- The flag -- In school days -- Four things -- The flag goes by -- A message to Garcia -- The Brook -- The barefoot boy -- The old Puritan lawmaker -- Work done squarely -- Is there a Santa Claus? -- Nathan Hale -- Kind hearts and simple faith -- De. John Goodfellow-Office Upstairs -- The procrustean bed -- The book our mothers read -- Horatius at the bridge -- True courage -- The house by the side of the road -- The eagle -- The name of Old Glory -- The North American Indian -- The glove and the lion -- How sleep the brave? -- The bloodless sportsman -- An old Armenian gate -- Press onward -- A defense of teh crow -- Our national banner -- The builders -- Nature's song -- Hail to the harvest -- The wonderful one-hoss seat -- Portia's plea -- The sport of my life -- The ship of state -- The landing of the Pilgrims -- Courage -- A psalm of life -- My mind to me a kingdom is -- The barmicide feast -- The man that wins -- Books -- Leonainie -- A parable on brotherly love -- A thing of beauty -- A boy's song -- The legend of St. Christopher -- The sandpiper -- The man wihtout a country -- The seed growing secretly -- Spartacus to the gladiators -- On his blindness -- The rising in 1776 -- We seek for beauty -- Somewhere -- A call to arms -- Dare to do right -- The burial of Moses -- Service -- Think for thyself -- Truth -- The prodigal sopn -- We thank Thee -- The bishop and the convict -- A call to courage -- The Christ of the Andes -- Dear land of all my love -- Antony's oration -- Three gates of gold -- True dignity -- Lincoln, the great commoner -- Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? -- Unweaponed peace -- For a that and a that -- Lo, the poor Indian! -- The vision of Sir Launfel -- My symphony -- The great stone face -- The shepherd psalm -- The Lord's prayer. ; authors: Samuel Francis Smith, C T Brooks, S H Hammond, David Starr Jordan, John G. Saze, George Washington, James T. Fields, Benjamin Franklin, J G Holland, William A McKeever, Thomas Hughes, Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, George P Morris, Lydia Atery Coonley Ward, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sait Paul, MAL Lane, Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, William Cullen Bryant, John Ruskin, Henry Ladsworth Longfellow, Thmpson, PJ Stahl, George Hoar, Jphn greenleaf Whittier, Henry Van Dyke, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Elbert Hubbard, Robert E Lee, Charles A Dana, Francis Miles Finch, James Ball Naylor, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sam Walter Foss, James Whitcomb Riley, ;scarce ; FAIR. Book.…

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). 9 black & white plates, 8vo, green cloth, ornately gilt front cover, top edge gilt. New York: Macmillan, 1902. First Edition. A very good(+) copy. The American Sportsman's Library.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition: #28 of 100 large paper copies from The American Sportsman's Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. Three-quarters brown morrocco over marbled boards with 5 spine bands and gilt decoration & lettering. Matching marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt with deckle cut page edges. [xi, 598pp]. Photogravure frontispiece & 19 b/w illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Charles Livingston Bull and A. B. Frost, etc. All tissue-guards present. Text and hinges tight & intact. Leaves clean without foxing. Edges lightly rubbed. Spine top has a small worn, rubbed area. Early owner's bookplate "MASON W. ZIMMERMAN, PHILADELPHIA". Birds, Ornithology. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 598 pages.…

Zustand: Good. Folio. 34 x 47cm. Original gilt morocco with all edges gilt, with restorations. Marbled endpapers. 478 text pages and and 120 hors text plates. 5 volumes. Stamped with the name of an original subscriber? Mrs. R. McElroy. Fine condition. OCLC Number 36006168. Very heavy.Note from the Sierra Club: Picturesque California was an 1888 elephant folio edited by John Muir, published by the J. Dewing Publishing company, featuring over 600 etchings, photogravures, and wood etchings, 700 additional illustrations in the text, and 120 tinted plates. The original work was sold by subscription and was distributed monthly in thirty parts. Muir wrote six of the articles, which we provide here:ContentsPeaks and Glaciers of the High Sierra (by John Muir)The Passes of the High Sierra (by John Muir);A Glimpse of Monterey (by J. R. Fitch);The Yosemite Valley (by John Muir);Totokonulu (poem by J. Vance Cheney);A Visit to the Lick Observatory (by Edward S. Holden);About the Bay of San Francisco (by W. C. Bartlett);Game Regions of the Upper Sacramento (by Joaquin Miller);The Heart of Southern California (by Jeanne C. Carr);Mount Shasta (by John Muir);Southernmost California (by T. S. Van Dyke);North of the Golden Gate (by Kate Field);Early California Mining and the Argonauts (by Joaquin Miller);The Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains (by George Hamlin Fitch);The San Joaquin Valley (by Joaquin Miller);The Foothill Region of the Northern Coast Range (by Charles Howard Shinn);The New City by the Great Sea--San Francisco (by Joaquin Miller);On the Height (poem by J. Vance Cheney);The Sacramento Valley (by John P. Irish);The Tule Region (by Charles Howard Shinn);Monterey to Ventura (by WIlliam L. Ogle);The Plain of Oaks (by Albert E. Gray);The Land of the Redwoods (by Charles Howard Shinn);Washington and the Puget Sound (by John Muir);The Basin of the Columbia River (by John ;Muir);The Canadian Rockies (by Ernest Ignersoll).Bibliographic InformationOriginally published as thirty parts, then ten, and finally as two volumes (J. Dewing and Company: 1888-1890). Reprinted as West of the Rocky Mountains (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1976). Chapters 10, 24, and 25 were reprinted in Chapters 3-5, 17-20, and 21-23, respectively, of Steep Trails.…

Reprint. Reprint. Illustrated by L.A. Fuertes, A. B. Frost, J.O. Nugent and C.L. Bull. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. WITH THIS WONDERFUL INSCRIPTION: "Awarded to Wm. J. Schaldach for excellence of biological exhibit at the Central High School, June 1914, Jesse B. Davis, Prin." Schaldach (1896-1982) was 18 and a high school student in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when this copy was inscribed. "His interests were fishing, hunting and art". Ordeman notes this "well-worn copy" in his monograph, and further observes: "Some of Mr. Schaldach's writings, in Coverts and Casts and Paths to Enlightenment in particular suggest an influence of Upland Game Birds upon the author." A choice association item marking the start of a great career. Phillips p. 330; Ordeman, William J. Schaldach, pp. 15-16, describing this copy Green cloth gilt, t.e.g. Spine ends worn, dampstaining along bottom edge, hinges cracked (front repaired with tape). Good Illustrated by L.A. Fuertes, A. B. Frost, J.O. Nugent and C.L. Bull. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Signed.…