Dillon, Gordon W.: EditorMareMagnum
1 360 résultats
Features include: Orchids in Newfoundland; Beginners' Handbook: General Principles of Orchid Culture; Cycnoches aureum - Collectors' Items; Light Versus Heat in the Small Greenhouse; Notes on Cymbidium Culture: Care of Flowering Plants - II; Lowering Cost of Production of Cattleyas and Where Are We Going in Judging? Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
Features include: Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium; Plant Characters in Cypripedileae - Connate Sepals - Lineograph Study (Pt III); Orchid Hunting - A Perilous Game (Pt II); Collectors' Item: Dendrobium gracilicaule; Flowering by Light Control - A New Phase; and Beginners' Handbook: Miltonia, the Pansy Orchid. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
480 pages including index. " A real and memorable tribute to the universal need to express love, fear, loss, sensual and spiritual joy, the inevitability of death, and the poignant, metaphysical quests of this generation's poets. Who can say which of them will rise to the challenge of greatness?" - From the Introduction. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
Signature of Robert Bateman, dated 1990, upon half-title page. Over 175 pages. Focuses upon Bateman the painter and the conservationist. 120 all-new paintings are showcased in stunning full-colour plates. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear to attractive maroon cloth-covered boards. Dust jacket, which bears closed four inch opening to top edge of back panel at spine, bears light wear and is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice copy. Book
522 pages. A collection selected to assist in the training of teachers in the use of behavior modification procedures. - from Editor's Preface. Clean and unmarked. Tight and square. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
Undated. Unpaginated. For armchair detectives of all ages. Hours and hours of "by-yourself enjoyment" Light wear. Unmarked. Half inch cover tear at top of spine. Please note: pen not included. Undated - circa 1980? Book
First edition, 8vo, [4], vi, 279, [1], [104], xviii, [2]pp., all plates present (one taped to blank margins), some light water-staining, recent half morocco, marbled boards.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 128 pages, illustrated largely with nude models and how they can be represented in various drawing mediums. Strangely, no dongs.
167 pages including index. Packed with more than 40 projects including colorful Christmas stockings, a fabulous Advent calendar and Christmas cards. Unmarked. Very light wear. Book
236 pages including index. Presents a fairly complete list of the abnormal mental phenomena. Shows how these phenomena are grouped into the syndromes manifested in the various psychoses and neuroses, and summarizes briefly the most important etiological facts and explanatory theories of the mental anomolies and diseases. Serves as a guide for students of abnormal psychology in the absence of a comprehensive text-book. Small original bookseller's sticker at bottom of back endpaper. Average wear. Light yellowing to some pages. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
140 pages including index. To understand how plants grow, how to overcome soil problems and climatic restrictions and how to plan the garden to suit your needs, is to add to the enjoyment of gardening. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Attractive in glossy illustrated boards. Nice copy of this wonderfully illustrated work. Book
76 pages. One of five-hundred copies printed in first edition. "His poems build by the most essential, primary materials... yet sustain the effect of vision... Piccione's images are the kinds of dreams we rewrite in order to make sense of ourselves." - Stanley Plumly, American Poetry Review. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Very nice copy. Book
143 pages. Document author's life from 1946. Edwards was a past-president of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Light wear and unmarked but for prior owner's name and details upon half-title page. (Prior owner was Lillian Postgate, author of Lillian Postgate's Story) Book
171 pages. Only light wear and soiling. Quarter inch tear to bottom of back cover. "If you're bored with your job and hate getting up in the morning to go to work, maybe it's time you looked for another way to make a living. Hundreds of other Canadians have done just that... created their own jobs and turned their lives around. Author talked to them and found out why so many people across this country want to work for themselves and how they made it possible." - from the front cover. Detailed looks at more than 20 people and how they changed their lives. Book
Features: Verge Watch Movements in Wood Cases; A Tompion Watch dug up on the South Downs in 1977; The Suspended Foliot and New Light on early Pendulum Clocks; Mudge Milestones, Watch Dates; A.H.S. Tour - 1980 - Holland; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Disputes Between Masters and Their Workmen; The Use of the Ultra-Violet Lamp in Painted Dial Restoration; Visit to a Clerkenwell Clock Factory; The Froxfield Clock; The Rise and Fall of Chronometer Manufacturing; The 13th Century 'King Hezekiah' Water Clock - Addenda; A New Look at the Dating of Early English Clocks; Sundials at Hever Castle; Eclipses and the St. Alban's Clock; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
96 pages including index. Abundantly illustrated. Written especially for the ordinary collector, this book shows that one does not have to be rich to enjoy starting and building up a collection of clocks. 95 illustrations, 30 in colour. Moderate wear to unmarked book. Average wear to illustrated, price-clipped dust jacket which bears light beige discolouration at top edge of front panel. Solid copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Buying Silver Candlesticks; Ornately decorated furniture from the mide-to-late 19th century in Britain and on the Continent; Neglected Pottery - the 19th century Staffordshire firm of Samuel Alcock & Company; Seeing the Light - personal story of a "Liverpool" coffee cup and the fun, excitement and knowledge that its impulsive acquisition resulted in; Edward Frederick Brewtnall (1846-1902) - a London painter, in oil and watercolour, of genre, landscape and figure subjects; Market Report - Lighting and Mirrors; and much more. Lavishly produced upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Collecting Orrefors - the Swedish Orrefors glassworks revolutionized glass production during the 1920s and 1930s; George Barret Junior (1767-1842) - Apostle of Light; Who was Hepplewhite? - Suffolk antique theft may throw light on this mysterious 18th century English furniture figure; Birds in Branches - rare early Chelsea, Derby, Longton Hall and Bow figures and bird models; Cotswolds Creation - a masterpiece of English naive painting forms centrepiece of Cotswolds exhibition; The Spectacular 2,200 piece Swan Service - its partial reappearance makes a fascinating detective story; Worcester Porcelain - market report; many attractive ads; and much more. Lavishly produced upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
40 pages. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. Covers taped together. Includes colour full-page 'Jamavana' cigar advertisement. Features include: Craftsmanship in Mahogany; Silver Tea-Pots and Coffee-Pots; English Gate-Leg Tables; New Light on Old Pewter; Georgian Portrait Painters; Bow Porcelain 1745-75. Book
240 pages including index. Provides an accessible and informed introduction to the development of new theoretical approaches to human geography. Sets out to explain the key features of these new approaches, and to trace their antecedents and implications. Highlights points of comparison, contrast inter-connection and dissimilarity. Light to moderate wear. Minimal high-lighting else unmarked. Binding sound. Very good copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Lighting historic house museums; Tribute to Dr. William Allen; New Orleans Charter; Guidelines for light and lighting in historic buildings that house collections; Overview of light and lighting in historic houses that house collections; Lighting colonial Virginia interiors by candlelight; Light in English heritages houses; Waddesdon Manor - a case study; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as new also, now wrapped in clear protective cover. 244 pages with many large b&w photos.
224 pages. Features: An architectural alliance in New Jersey; The spirit of San Francisco reincarnated in a 1904 Italianate mansion; Neoclassical mandate in Manhattan - transforming typical high-rise rooms into a richly detailed city retreat; Queen Anne Revival for Washington, D.C. - adapting an historic Georgetown house to contemporary life; A midwestern heritage restored in Indiana; New York Revision - turning back the clock on a postmodern apartment; Northern Light for Rural Vermont - banishing gloom in a family's vacation residence near Sugarbush. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
312 pages. Features: Seaside Traditions; Light on its Feet; Mykonos, Distilled; A Question of Context; New order in the Capital; Updating a classic; Where the land leads; Functional aesthetics; Peak form in the Rockies; Shoreline Respite; Bay Area Embrace; Stepping up to the views; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Small gift label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
