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Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 55 p., 18 numerous b/w plts. Türkiyede merinos. Merinos ve sun'î tohumlama tarihçesi, yerli irklarla mukayese, çogaltilmalari hakkinda mütalâlar. Merino in Turkey and its wool history. First Edition.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., neat signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WC 568. First published in WC in 1958. Dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous plates; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with rasied bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. WC 22. First published in WC in 1902. Dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 6 plates, endpapers lightly browned, fore-edges dusty; boards, cloth back, paper label, uncut, a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with some loss at edges. With the errata slip tipped-in facing p.59, and spare paper label at end. In addition to the editor, contributors include EV Lucas and Edmund Gosse.
pp. 119, cm 21x13, rileg. edit. con sopracoperta, illustrated by Susan E. Sims.
pp. xiii, 395. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with paintings and drawings; designed by Bert Clarke; printed at The Thistle Press; set in monotype Caslon Old Style; Curtis Colophon laid paper. Inked ownership of Jefford F. Oller on front fly leaf. 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Bound by the Russell-Rutter Company in full woven forest-green cloth, very slight spotting tail of spine. Original color printed paper spine label. Original yellow slip case, slightly soiled. Fifteen hundred copies have been made, of which this is copy number 420 and it is signed by the illustrator, Lynton Lamb (1907-1977). Fine. Fine Books from the Limited Editions Club make great gifts. SHELF W92
64 pages. Many lovely archival photos in text. Describes Goldstream, Highlands, Colwood, Happy Valley, Albert Head, Metchosin, Rocky Point, Sooke, and Otter Point with special reference to their desirability as sites for pleasant homes and the suitability for three special lines of agriculture: sheep, fruit and poultry. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this lovely vintage item. Book
Collana: La Gaja Scienza, marzo 1999. Traduzione di Marcella Dallatorre. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
64 pages. Features: Poston's Arizona "My Country & God's" - Charles Debrille Poston; The Lone Tree Fight; The Ghost of Sam Bass; Sam's Cohort: Frank Jackson; Tree Stumps that Talked; A Tenderfoot in a Sheep Camp; Teller City, Lulu City, Grand Lake & Places...; The Long Scout with Fred Kaiser; Those Old California Vaqueros; Abel Morgan, Soldier and Romeo; The True Meaning of "Intensive Care" - Dr. William Porter Verity. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Unknown New Zealand - Two young men set out to explore unmapped territory between Lake Te Anau and the coast, only to meet with disaster - A lake (Bloxham) and waterfall (Dorizac) discovered by these plucky young climbers are officially named after them; Saharan Adventure - includes encounters with the blue-eyed Tuaregs, the veiled nomads of the desert, who wear chain-mail armour of the Crusades and carry swords and lances; Six Wild Sheep - Describes author's experience trying to capture Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo; The Pirates of the Ethel - First published in 1929, this is an authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Oakhill's "Souvenir" - the adventure of a crocodile hunter; The Tame Bandit - An amusing story arising out of the troubles in Malaya - Dragged away from farm and family by the terrorists, and forced to serve with them under the threat of death, an inoffensive little Chinese secretly vowed vengeance, and at long last achieved it; "Cockeye" - Phases of Life From All Over the World - Vivid little close-ups of manners and customs around the world; Guardians of the Mountains - The Wardens of Canada's National Parks. Colour 'Butlin's Holiday Camp' brochure laid-in. Staining to page i of advertisements. Front cover detached. Heavy wear externally. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's name on half title page. 579 pages; sections include: Origins of domestication: environmental background; Patterns of exploitation, Methods of investigation: cereals in ancient Egypt, pollen grains of Gramineae and Cerealia from Shandiar and Zawi chemi, Domestication and exploitation of animals: Animal husbandry: the evidence from ethnography, Metrical destinction betwee sheep and goat metacarpals, Regional and local evidence for domestication: early domestic animals in India and Pakistan, early cultivated plants in India and Pakistan, Carnivore remains from the excavation of the Jericho Tell, early animal domestication and cereal cultivation in China, Studies of particular taxonomic groups, Human nutrition etc.
176p. + Plus photographs. Inked ownership of Michael Raush, Da Nang, Vietnam, United States Naval Medical Corp. 1969-1970, American Naval Hospital. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly soiled and worn. WWII 2
6 vols., 8vo., original series binding of navy cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. WC 217, 268, 298, 305, 472, 398 respectively. With splendid dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb.
6 vols., 8vo., original series binding of navy cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. WC 468, 447, 357, 450, 454, 462 respectively. With dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb (volumes 2,3,5,6) and Dodie Masterman (volume 4).
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, titles in sepia and black, several plates and illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpapers, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original series binding of brown cloth, gilt back, gilt tops, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper.
8vo., original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WC 447. First published in WC as two volumes in in 1937; as a double volume in 1951. Dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb. Bright copy of the second of the Palliser novels.
8vo. Third Impression with title-vignette and 8 full-page plates; dark red cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
100 pages plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Real-Life Romances - six narratives of travel in Italy; Captain Thompson's 'Catch' - Captain Thompson of Knight's Key, Florida catches a huge bizarre 'whale/shark' - article with photos; Drifting Through Mesopotamia - Russian M. Dutkevitch and his photo-illustrated account of floating down the mighty Tigris to Bagdad; A Naturalist in the Arctic - Mr. Koren, a Norwegian naturalist, becomes a castaway in Siberia after his vessel is wrecked in the ice; The "Phantom Brigands" of Pegomas - how the puzzle of these these French criminals (described in the March, 1912 issue) was finally solved; Our Trip to the Kolahoi Glacier - a journey by two officers of the Indian Army to the source of the Jhelum River - with great photos; My Adventures in Sarawak (part II) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describes her time as the Rajah's bride; Two Years in Guatemala - Alfred R. Lamb describes his eventful time organizing the police force of Guatemala; The Bishop's Visit - what happened when a Bishop visited the bungalow of an Indian planter; The Fur-Buyer's Peril - Frank J. Scheider nearly froze to death in the wilds of Ontario; Moose-Hunting in New Brunswick; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text, title very faintly spotted; handsomely bound in full drak green crushed morocco, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, gilt top, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The illustrations were drawn by Lamb in the Oxfordshire village around which the trilogy is written.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignettes and illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in full crushed morocco (burgundy/blue/green respectively), backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, a most attractive set ideal as a gift or for presentation. The illustrations were drawn by Lamb in the Oxfordshire village around which the trilogy is written.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text, title very faintly spotted; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, gilt top, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The illustrations were drawn by Lamb in the Oxfordshire village around which the trilogy is written.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, gilt top, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The illustrations were drawn by Lamb in the Oxfordshire village around which the trilogy is written.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 184 p., color ills. Children of the steppe: The Anatolian wild sheep. With an introduction by George Schaller.= Bozkirin çocuklari: Anadolu yaban koyunu. George Schaller'in önsözüyle. Photos by Aykut Ince.