Webb d et al (16 Ergebnisse)

6pp, 4 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1250grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Good. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1600grams, ISBN:052106662X.…

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0419112200.…

Zustand: Good. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1750grams, ISBN:052141007X. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 4to, i-xxix, 370 pp, 5 maps, original green cloth, the margin of map 4 has some slight fraying due to not being folded correctly but this doesn't affect the image or text. A very good bright copy lacking the dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. (P5) no dj; boards overall clean; fore edges marked; previous owner sticker on ffep; throughout clean internally; photographs upon request.

Zustand: Good. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1800grams, ISBN:052141007X.…

Original publisher's sewn yellow paperback, black lettering spine, table of contents on frontcover, large 8vo: 450pp., 15 large articles with footnotes & references, table of contents. Very fine copy., Volume 55 nr. 1-4 [1984]. Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique / Archief- en Bibliotheekwezen van België.…

Zustand: Good. Volume 3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:9780521153683.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 140 pages. Features: Glorious Peacocks; The Skeletal System; Creating a Mixed Aviary; A Clutch of charming plumheads resulted from an arranged marriage; Cockatiels - personality plus!; A spirited conure trains its owners well; Ingenious ways to feed birds well; A Professionsl Trainer reveals what really happens at bird shows; Sometimes a persistent bird must create a bird lover out of its housemate ; Beaupre Parrot School in Toronto, Ontario; Exotic Birds on Stamps. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Webb, B. Everett (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good+. First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First American Edition. Octavo (20cm); 327pp. Boards in teal cloth with pictorial front cover and black stamping. Boards rubbed, bumped, worn, and soiled overall with fading to spine and toning to page edges. Pages lightly toned with spotting to prelims and rear pages. Interior relatively clean with some soiling to pages 170-171. Previous owner penciled name to first pastedown. Front hinge recently professionally reinforced. A Good or better copy of a collection of ghost stories, including one titled The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence, compiled by Lady Cynthia Asquith who wrote one of her own under the pseudonym C. L. Ray.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 102-196 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mutiny of the "Ziba" (part I) - a brutal captain and mates are murdered by their crew; Among Head-Hunters and Cannibals - great photo-illustrated article on some of the experiences of Captain W. Sinker who for years cruised the South Sea Islands in command of the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross"; The Rivals - two men were in love with the same lady; The Bluffing of Din Mahomed - a rascally Indian postal worker is brought to justice; The Runaway Train - story from a branch line of the C. and N.W.R.R. in Nebraska; My Adventures in Sarawak (part III) - adventures of the Rajah's bride amongst 'the lovable little people'; Hona's "Tapu" - what happened to to men who attempted to brave the curse of a Maori chief upon a rich gold-reef; An Unlucky Ride - in New Zealand a man sets of on a perilous 120 mile journey to see his lady, only to arrive late and offend her; Our Travels in Safari-land (part I) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) travels through British East Africa; The Night-Watchman's Story - an 1885 tale from the steamer 'Bengal Tiger' shipping from Paducah, Kentucky, as told by Ernest Prentis; Penelope Visits Finland - holiday jaunts to the 'Land of a Thousand Lakes"; Parker's Lesson - a 1913 story of a young man from Cambridge who went to Nigeria with ideas of how the natives should be handled; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Gordon, Alexandre; Evans, Treyer; Pride, Sid; Somerfield, T.; Evison, G. Henry; De Walton, John; Holloway, W.H.; Elcock, H.E.; Wigfull, W.E.; Webb, A. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Soper, G., Nicolson, W.C.; Holloway, W.H.; Hodgson, E.S.; Webb, Arch; Carruthers, G.P.; Prater, E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Valda, J.H. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 290-380 pages plus 36 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver" which shot its men from its torpedo tubes! (per cover illustration); The Fetish Man's Downfall - a tale from Accra in 1899 involving prisoner Yao Dwirra; Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line - marvelously photo-illustrated article about the engineering and scientific wonders of the first phone line connecting New York to San Francisco; "Black Tom" - an exciting story from the early days of the Pennsylvania oil-fields; "On the Wing" - extraordinary adventure with a big rattlesnake in southern Mississippi; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth (part V) - incredible tales of a party working its way through hostile svages and the forces of nature; The Train-Robbers - the tragic story of a hold-up on the Northern Pacific Railroad and the long man-hunt which followed, 1892-1894; Wicks's Ordeal - the terrible menace which a man-eating tiger constitutes to a community; Two Girls on a Ranch (part II) - two young ladies try to win fortune by running a ranch in the wilds of Arizona; The Secret Post Office - an amusing echo of the Boer War showing how the well-known 'slimness' and fertility of resource of the Boers were for once turned against them; Concerning Camels - some amusing stories; A South Pacific Piracy - an account of the tragic voyage of the brig "Moa," of Auckland, New Zealand in 1870; The beacon of the Gulf - photo-illustrated article on Bird Rock, which lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Photo of a 'home-made' train run on the only railway in British North Borneo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World - The Magazine For Men, February (Feb.) 1916, No. 214, Vol. 36 - Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line / The Fetish Man's Downfall vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver". Illustrated by Somerfield, Thomas; Gillett, F.; Pape, Frank C.; Reynolds,Warwick; Evison, G. Henry; Webb, Arch.; Holloway, W.H.; Gillett, Frank;Prater, Ernest; Pitcher, Sotheby (illustrator).…

FIRST EDITION, pp. 190, crown 8vo; pp. 192, crown 8vo, original turquoise and navy blue cloth, the first voluem lettered in gilt to backstrip, the second volume lettered in pink to upper board and backstrip, the latter with fading at ends, the second volume with small breach to cloth of lower board, corresponding to pierce-mark on dustjacket, this volume with flyleaf and initial blank an little spotted, the dustjackets gently soiled overall with a few light marks, the backstrip panels browned and a little chipped at ends, very good. Two volumes based on the Fabian Lectures in successive years during a critical moment in modern history, as Europe accelerated towards War - the spectre of which dominates the second volume. The contributors to the first volume 'predict the future of Capitalism [G.D.H. Cole], of Soviet Communism [Sidney Webb], of Dictatorships [Wickham Steed], and of Economic Nationalism [Sir Arthur Salter]' (blurb) - whilst in its penultimate talk, P.M.S. Blackett considers 'The Next War: Can it be Avoided?' The second volume's update to the title of its predecessor reflects the hesitancy caused by the growing threat of War, which informs the discourse to varying degrees throughout, beginning with Bertrand Russell's assertion regarding the 'lowering of the intellectual level' in Nazi Germany and the negative effect on its scientific prowess, and proceeding to Vernon Bartlett's assessment of 'The War Horizon' and G.D.H. Cole and Sir Stafford Cripps on, respectively, the economic and political implications of a new conflict. …