whitcombe harry (6 Ergebnisse)

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, red cloth lettered gilt to a mildly darkened spine, no jacket. Previous owner details on the front pastedown, the body of text clean and unmarked and the binding tight. Illustrated, 245pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1956. No Edition Stated. 245 pages. Yellow dust jacket with pink lettering over red cloth. File copy stamp to front paste down and front of jacket. Clean pages with firm binding. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear and tear to edges and corners. Minor tanning to spine, with soiling to DJ.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 5½ x 8" viii + 245 with 12 illustrations. Very good in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good dustwrapper has two ½" tears at the top but with no loss. Firm and tight with no marks, stains, inscriptions, stamps or labels.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED BY JOHN SCOTT DOUGLAS on the front free endpaper as follows: "To Ruth and Charlie / With evey good / wish, and the hope / that you will enjoy / this story of California / beekeeping / John Scott Douglas." 8vo. (21 cm.) vii, 245p. Illustrated with 12 black and white captioned photos. Black paper covered boards with yellow letters on the spine and with a vignette in yellow on the front cover of a honey bee. Some chipped spots around the edges of these very fragile paper covered boards, yellow letters and vignette in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. in 1934, when Harry J. Whitcombe moved to Davis to begin his career as a beekeeper. Besides serving on the Davis City Council from 1954 to 1958 , Harry headed a successful program in conjunction with UCD to use active pollination to increase crop yields. Harry was later appointed to be the Davis Police Commissioner. Born in Seattle in 1904, educated at the University of Washington and Harvard, John Scott Doublas was a writer, who published scores of short stories, novelettes and serials. BEES ARE MY BUSINESS was dedicated to George H. Vansell, a government research scientist who devoted his life to the progress of beekeeping and whose name appears frequently in its pages.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Beekeeping, Honeybees).