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No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. By the editors of Time-Life books with text by Keith Wheeler, this book describes the Wild West workers on the pioneer railroads in a wealth of detail and with superb contemporary black & white photos from the time. Also some in colour including detailed illustrations of the locomotives. Small piece missing from lower corner of final page. 240pp.
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations and maps in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The US edition was published in 1966. Enser, p.103 (recording the first edition).
A9789211208559Paperback / softback. New. The race to net zero focuses on three key sectors from which greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced and how this can be done. It considers how the energy sector can end its dependency on coal and phase out other fossil fuels; how to support low-carbon mobility and logistics; and how international trade and investment can help accelerate the transition of the region's industries to a low-carbon future. Concrete proposals are made as to how these major shifts can be financed and how better to measure challenges and progress. The proposals are grounded in regional cooperation. The present report presents recommendations on building regional frameworks or partnerships on green power corridor low-carbon transport and a low-carbon and climate-smart transition and collaborating on policies for climate-smart trade and investment climate finance and monitoring paperback
56 pages (in two consecutive complete issues), including sketch illustrations and in-text sketch maps. Plus photographic plates and a fold-out colour map measuring approximately 7.5 x 10.25 inches (19 x 27cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. Two complete issues, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is an intriguing and detailed account of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition, originally planned to investigate certain biological problems, and dealing with several matters other than the origin of the reef. This article contains new material and views on the nature and origin of low wooded islands and sand cays. Several other problems, which had been occasionally touched upon by earlier writers, have also been elaborated on. Of particular interest, mention is made of the evidence for uplift along the East Australian Coast, the formation of sand and shingle spits, and the question of cliffing. The main object of this report was to dicuss the evidence for faulting.
8vo., First Edition, with large folding map; blue cloth, gilt back, a good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its labels on covers and endpapers. Imperial Studies No., 7. SCARCE
2003013720Sun City AZ U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan Publications 2003. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. This copy is SIGNED by all three contributors: Nisbet the Author S. Clay Wilson Illustrator and Dennis McMillan the Publisher. This first trade edition is limited to just 1000 copies. Previously only available in French. Dustjacket endsheets and foil stamping all by S. Clay Wilson. The jacket is graphically illustrated and something to see. The inside front page is embosed with a gold skull. " In this bleak noir novel set in San Francisco Nisbet Prelude to a Scream etches the lives of two wretched misfits in acid prose. At 50-plus years of age Mark "Pauley" Paulos has survived the horrifically abusive childhood trauma that forms the book's unforgettable prologue along with untracked periods of jail and other misadventures to achieve a kind of precarious stasis. Martin Seam on the other hand has little idea of who or what he is. Full of wants and needs and thoroughly amoral he is willing to steal cheat scam or do anything merely to quiet those incessant desires. Unfortunately Martin is as unsuccessful as he is unscrupulous. When these two collide in their separate orbits about the universe it seems like a cosmic joke. If Elmore Leonard had created Pauley and Martin they would shine with a fine comic sheen. In Nisbet's hands they scratch prickle sweat and stink. Nisbet can overwrite "Like the lysergic pinwheel from which depointillates all phenomenology Mark Paulos' entire juvenile world devolved upon that nail and its strop" but he also presents with wrenching effectiveness the fragile accommodations his characters have to make in order to survive in a hostile world they can never overcome and can keep at bay only for a time." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. Signed by All Contributors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Dennis McMillan Publications Hardcover
19871513664Alburgh, Archival Facsimiles Ltd, 1987. 1 Bl., 19, 464 S., 2 Bl. OLwd.
192p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
England, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964, 8vo punto metallico, pp. 25 con una carta (a pagina doppia) nel testo.
69-4608San Francisco California: Pacific Book Auction Galleries 1997. 4to. Softcover. ca 80 pp. B&W Plates. Very Good. Contains Sales results for Sale 132 at back of book San Francisco, California: Pacific Book Auction Galleries, 1997 paperback
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xv, 180 pp, 15 plates from photos including frontis, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, cover lightly soiled, interior is clean, else a fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The first half of the book describes the author's journey in 1901 to Baghdad, Basra, Bahirin, Muscat, Sherpore, etc around the Persian Gulf where he visits some areas off the beaten track. The second half of the book describes his stay on several Pacific islands including Tonga, Haapai, Fiji, etc and is remarkable for its explicit illustrations of cannibals, including one entitled 'Cannibals dragging prisoners to the ovens', two others showing cannibals slaughtering their victims. The author didn't seem too concerned about becoming a victim. There have been only two copies at auction in the last 25 years, the last at Sotheby's in 1997 selling at US$782, although it wasn't in as good a condition as this copy.
viii, 280 pages. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Covering three generations of hockey heroes, this is a fascinating history of the sport, and of its royal family." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherwise book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this important hockey history. Book
16-2681Pasadena: Pacific Asia Museum 1980. Poster for the exhibition. 36 x 18 inches. Pasadena: Pacific Asia Museum, 1980. unknown
8vo., Second Australian Edition, with a frontispiece, 16 plates on 11 and a double map in red on blue stock; handsomely bound in red full morocco, backs gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on title. Daisy Bates's classic work was first published by Murray in 1938; with a first Australian edition following in 1944.
198024145Suva, South Pacific Social Sciences Association, 1980. 5 n.n. Bll., 253 SS. 8° (ca. 21 x 14,5 cm), illustr. original Paperback.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and coloured maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; ivory tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a near fine copy. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 8.
2987New York: The Company. Evening Post Steam Presses 1876. . 8vo brown cloth over limp boards front cover lacking INSCRIBED by James H. Storrs on the title New York: [The Company]. Evening Post Steam Presses, 1876. hardcover books
251 pages. Index. Bibliography. Appendices. Over 280 black and white illustrations, photographs, maps, timetables, reproductions and scale drawings. "The steamships played a formative role in the development of the north Pacific coast of North America and the CPR's Princesses will have a long place in its history. This is their story, told candidly but with affection." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Boards with moderate wear to extremities. ; 8vo; 535 pages
large 8vo [25 x 18 cm]; lxxvii, 322 pp, plates, maps including endpaper maps showing route, bibliog, index. original pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine and clean, unused. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Bougainville sailed through the Pacific, stopping at Tahiti, through the Samoan Islands, to Vanuatu, to the Australian Great Barrier Reef, north to New Guinea, Solomon Islands, making a number of discoveries including the island named after him, continuing home via the Dutch East Indies and Indian Ocean. His voyage lead to many other French expeditions. He discovered the bougainvillea flower. His journal was first published in 1977 in French and this is the first edition in English. A 70 page introduction provides an excellent historical perspective.
DJ priceclipped and with small chips. A few very small open tear. Rear endpaper a bit browned. Neat notes to copyright page ; Including Hawaii, Guam, and American Samoa, among others; 8vo; 388 pages
596pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous plates and maps; blue boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
18871408San Francisco 1887. About very good. 668pp. including numerous in-text or full page illustrations and eight photolithographed plates plus large folding map. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers. Wraps with some soiling wear at edges; front wrap with a few signs of biopredation; two small chips to rear wrapper; spine perishing at extremities. Minor worming at upper corner of a few interior leaves. Light tanning. A rare and extravagant promotional for the Pacific Cable Railway Company which manufactured installed and operated the famous streetcar system of San Francisco and in several other American cities. The present work also serves as a declaration of patent with a list of patents and patent holders at the rear and the text comprises a detailed technical description of the wire cable system with many illustrations of its mechanisms and operation as well as general accounts of the systems running in San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago and Kansas City. In addition to the technical diagrams are several attractive line illustrations and eight photolithographed plates reproduced by artotype of the cable cars of San Francisco in action all by Britton & Rey. The folding map at the rear provides a detailed delineation of the lines running across the city. Very scarce OCLC locates only five copies.<br /><br />Cowan II p.512. books
