red fox story adventurous career von roberts charles (9 Ergebnisse)

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Brown cloth over boards with gold lettering and stunning gold illustration of a fox to the front cover and spine. Dated 1906 on title page. Dated 1910 on copyright page. Stated 5th impression. 340 pages. Good condition. Light rubbing to the head and foot of the spine. A bit of wear to the corners as well. Boards are square and straight. Binding is strong, with a few loose pages. The illustrations are tipped in and loose in the second half of the book. Pages lightly toned throughout. Heavier discoloration to the endpaper and page edges. Illustrated forest scene on the endpapers. No marks or writing to be found. Overall good condition. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Charles Livingston Bull (illustrator). First edition. A First Edition of this Canadian adventure, following the experiences of the Red Fox as it learns life lessons and how to survive. This is a First Edition of the work, bound in green cloth with a fox motif to the front board in gilt. This classic novel follows the experiences of the titular Red Fox, as he explores the Canadian wilderness. Roberts presents this creature as curious and intelligent in attempt to make him more understandable to the reader and ultimately to improve humanity's relationship with wild animals. Charles George Douglas Roberts was a Canadian poet and prose writer who often explored the subject of natural history in Canada. This strong interest is evident in this work. With 48 illustrative plates throughout, including a frontispiece in colour. Lacking plate on page 91, entitled The Old Woodchuck. With a bookplate of Hugh Babington to front endpaper. Bookseller label of Roffey and Clark to front endpaper. In publisher's original cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally, generally smart with some shelf wear. Slight bumping to the extremities, mainly the spine head and tail and the front corners. The occasional mark to boards. Age toning and light offsetting to endpapers. Small tide mark to the rear endpapers. Occasional mark to endpaper, with green mark to front endpaper. Booksellers label to front paste down. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned with the occasional mark. Lacking plate on page 91. Good. book.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; xv, 340 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. Subjects; Foxes -- Fiction. Animals -- Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Substantial 8vo.pp. 340. Signed presentation copy from the book's owner Dowager Countess of Dudley, her Pembroke Lodge visiting card tipped onto the front endpaper:"With her love and very good wish for Christmas and New Year." Blind stamp of Holdenby House. BOOK: children's fiction. Original publisherÕs handsome full leather binding in dark brown, lettered gilt at spine, with gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers in pale pastel swirls. Frontispiece full colour plate "Red Fox, meanwhile, had been watching the whole scene from that safe little ledge of rock." Full Page plates of black and white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. /Georgina Elizabeth Ward, Countess of Dudley (1846Ð 1929) was a British noblewoman and noted beauty. In 1865 the 18-year-old Georgina married 48-year-old William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, a wealthy land and mine owner. She was a close friend of Queen Alexandra and as Dowager Countess, Lady Dudley lived at Pembroke Lodge in London, granted to her by "grace and favour" of King Edward./Charles Livingston Bull (1874Ð1932)was an American illustrator. Bull studied taxidermy in Rochester, New York and is known for his illustration of wildlife Very good. Slight rubbing to covers. Signedes.