the hoe press (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 368 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.92 inches. In Stock.

/P. J. Lemos, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Very Good without jacket; 1914 gift inscription, spine ends bumped, all extrems lightly worn, a few tiny bleach spots on back. Juvenile hardback. Preachy in the extreme, yet quite interesting for its presentation of tools and technology to children in 1904. A three page, two column index. magnifying glass, meadow larks, match, striking, match factories, match-box makers. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /P. J. Lemos, illustrator.

Zustand: Good. Second edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), xix, 182pp. Frontispiece, plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. There is some discolouration of the binding, minor spotting to the edges of the text block, and a lengthy gift inscription to the front free endpaper; overall, this book is in good condition.

Softcover. priv. Ohlw. 243 S. m. z.T. farb. Abb. -diese mit Folie geschützt. gr. 8°. Buchblock angebrochen. sehr gutes Ex. in englischer Sprache (in english).

Octavo, pp., [4], viii, 225, [1], plus 59 monochrome photographic plates, one folding, and colour-printed fold-out map of the region in pocket to end. Publisher's pebbled crimson cloth over card wraps, titled within elaborate pictorial design to upper board in gilt, oval photographic vignette of Madras Egmore railway station mounted to upper board, titled in gilt to spine. Historic ownership inscriptions to ffep and annotations to one page only. Blind stamp of the eminent and historic Higginbotham's of Madras and Bangalore to title-page. Spine cocked, upper joint cracked, photographic vignette rubbed. Light scattered foxing to edges, not affecting text or plates, tear to first plate. Overall, a very good copy. An index and traveller's guide to railway stations and nearby points of interest, illustrated with photographic plates. Higginbotham's, founded 1844, is the oldest bookshop in India.