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This spine edge of this book's red cloth covers appear to have been wet at one point and so the cover has a darker red stain on the edge and the ink from the cover has transferred the back of the dust jacket which shows wear and tears. Interior pages are clean and unmarked; tight binding. 8 1/4"w x 10 5/8"h. 244 pages. Brightly colored illustrations by Karel Svolinsky.
Un volume broché de format in 12 de 72 pp.; texte entièrement en anglais. Bon état. Voir photo.
233 p. + Frontis and full page plates. Title page decorated in green and printed in red. Top edge gilt. Title page and first few pages age stained. Rear paste down foxed. Front hinge cracked. 16mo. 160mm. Original full dark blue cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold. Hardbound. Good. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book 'Tales from Shakespeare' which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764-1847). Lamb has been referred to by E.V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as the most lovable figure in English literature. His influence on the English essay form cannot be overestimated. LIT BX 8
323p.+ Color Frontis and full page plates by Frank Godwin. Pictorial endpapers. Color penciled ownership of H. M. Clark. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding. Front board decorated with a color illustration of Shakespearean actors. Spine slightly faded. Hardbound. Very nice copy. SHAKESPEARE BOX 3
400p. + Plus Frontis and full page plates. Text vignettes. Bookplate and ownership of Rosina Boardman. Paper begining to brown but not brittle. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Pictorial decorated spine and front cover. Binding slightly worn at extremities. Hardbound. Nice copy. SHAKESPEARE BOX 1
pp. 471, (7) [Publisher's catalogue, includes advertisement for the Deaf, The Audiphone, hearing through the teeth and a Catarrh cure, a Nasal Respirator to prevent snoring] + Frontis and full page drawings. Lacks first fly leaf. Inner hinges cracked. Paper browning and slightly brittle. First few leaves penciled scribbled. Small 8vo. 200 mm. Original full black buckram binding. Front board decorated with design of a cowboy and his horse, lacks embossed gilt. Spine also lacks gilt. Graff 3328; Howes P500; Jenkins. Texas #689; Adams. Rampaging Herd #1819. W4
pp. (8), 17-471, 23-35 [Paper read by R.S. Rhodes, of Chicago, at the Fourteenth Convention of American Teachers of the Deaf, at Flint, Michigan], (6) [Illustrated Publisher's catalogue, includes advertisement for the Deaf, The Audiphone, hearing through the teeth] + Frontis and full page drawings. Many pages printed upon light color drawings, red, purple, green and blue, which cover the full page. Note: Six candid original photographs of cowboys pasted on first fly leaves. Four Photographs of cowboys and their horses, one photograph of their bunk house and one photograph of their chuck wagon. Small loss on bottom margin affecting text on pages 143 and 144. Inner hinges slightly cracked. Floral end papers. Paper beginning to brown and slightly brittle. Small 8vo. 200 mm. Original publisher's green cloth binding. Front board decorated in silver with design of a cowboy and his horse within an elaborate border. Spine decorated and lettered in silver. Extremities slightly rubbed with very small loss. Graff 3328; Howes P500; Jenkins. Texas #689; Adams. Rampaging Herd #1819. One of the Earliest Books on the Cowboy. An exceptional artifact of early cowboy culture. W4
58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Glamorous colour photo of woman wearing arctic fox evening cloak inside front cover; The Mad Giant and the Mountie - a huge Swede who worked on a section gang makes a sudden divorce from sanity; Frank Oliver - Spokesman for the West; Cold War on the Fraser River - the Yucultas near Fort Langley were dreaded by all the tribes along the river - until the day when the cold war became a hot war; The Simple Men; First Lady of the Rails - "The Countess of Dufferin"; On Board the M.V. Fort Hearne - great photo study; Robert (Bob) Chambers Edwards (Eye-Opener Bob); Trapping the Big Horn - there was lots of action when some California Bighorn sheep were corralled in the Chilcotin country for shipment to Oregon; The Formative Years - II - part 2 of an article on the early settlement of the area which, 50 years ago, became Saskatchewan and Alberta; The Story of The Sault - on the centenary of the first American locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Dr. Clever Bald sketches the history of the two towns - Canadian and American - beside the rapids; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 269-318. Features: Cover photo of Mr. H.M. Tomlinson; Nice illustrated ad for John Buchan and his new novel Castle Gay; H.M. Tomlinson; Charles Lamb; Edward John Trelawny; Sir Arthur Pinero; Biographies of the Moment; Bookman Gallery - Frank Kendon; Ambrose Bierce; Coronets and Hearts; The Trail of the Criminal; and much more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
3 vols., 8vo., with frontispieces, title-vignettes and numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, red tops, red endpapers, a near fine set in publishers board slip-case blocked in gilt. Bright set of Sassoon's classic fictional autobiography, first published by FS as single volumes in 1971, 1974 and 1974 respectively. The first two volumes are illustrated by Lamb; the last by Lawrence. This is the 1993 reissue with redesigned slip-case.
102 pages. Great cover photo of boy writing love letter while sister looks on. Features; Nice GMC pickup truck ad; Nice half-page two-colour ad for the John Deere No. 5 mower; Nice ad for 1952 Ford cars; Foot and Mouth disease discovered at farm of Leonard Wass of McLean, Saskatchewan - a major threat to Canada's billion-dollar livestock industry; Green Leaves Falling (story); The perennial problem of soil losses from erosion; Farewell to the Years (storyy); Frontier Family - The Ardills of Farrell Creek, B.C. - photo-illustrated article; So You're Getting Power - article for farmers being connected to the electrical grid; Line Breeding for Daily Gain - some account of beef cattle improvement work at the U.S. Range Livestock Experiment Station, Miles City, Montana; Runaway Trailer (story) - part II; Caterpillar diesel farm tractor ad features photo of J.B. Francis of Sedley, Saskatchewan; One-page ad for the 1952 Meteor car; Vintage 2/3-page photo-illustrated ad for the new Case DC-4 tractor; Sam Harker of Standoff, Alberta raises sheep; Fantastic vintage one-page multiple-photo ad for Farmhad loaders and power boxes displays their gangly equipment handling big loads; Ben Lodoen of Fox Valley, Saskatchewan and his irrigation improvement; Nice one-page two-colour photo ad for Firestone tractor tires features Lawrence O. Larson; Nice vintage one-page two-colour ad for the Ferguson Twenty 85 tractor; 2/3-page ads for the Cockshutt seed drill and Drive-o-matic Combine; Nice photo ad for the Oliver No. 8 tractor; One-page Dodge car ad - "test the new Oriflow Ride"; Nice one-page photo ad for the Massey-Harris No. 509 one-way disc with roto-lift; Nice ad for Ford tractors; Ad for Dodge 'Job-Rated" trucks; Fordson Major tractor ad; Fargo truck ad; Excellent one-page ad for Ford Trucks features their three V-8 engines; Lovely colour-photo ad inside back cover for Swiss watches; Awesome colour-photo ad on back cover features a variety of Minneapolis-Moline machinery at work on the prairie. Please note: pages 49, 50, 55 and 56 missing. Center page loose but present. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this nice issue. Book
Dedication, signed 'Jan' on front free endpaper. Lower front cover corner bumped. Tear to top back edge of dust jacket.
32 pages. Features: A Preacher Tells The Inside Story of Sinclair Lewis and His Preacher Book; A $20,000,000 Bond Issue That Will Cost the Taxpayers $49,500,000 (second in a series presenting some of the hidden features of modern finance underlying public bond issues); Gibson Girls, Gibson Men and the Chicago World's Fair; Japan Looks to America to Prevent Wars - Freedom from Extra Taxation for Armaments What They Most Want - article with wonderful photos; Every Person Has At Least One Book in Him; Henry Ford's Page - Finance Must Get Into Step; Editorials - Professor E.W. Kemmerer and Polish debt, Conspiracy, Fraud, the Elk Hills Oil Reserve, and Messrs. Doheny and Fall, attempt to impeach Judge Frank Cooper for upholding the country's prohibition law; People of the British Isles - The English; A Doctor Looks at Doctors - and sees them as they cannot see themselves; The True Story of Mary's Little Lamb - article with illustration of Mary Elizabeth Sawyer (Mrs. Columbus Tyler) and teacher Miss Polly Kimball; One-page ad (with photo) for Edison - Columbia - Victor recordings of the Old American Dances, as played by the Henry Ford Dance Orchestra; What is a Dollar Worth? (short piece); Chats with Office Callers - Smedley Butler cleans liquor from the San Diego Marine Barracks; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - Controversial play entitled "The Captive" and Otto H. Kahn of Famous Players, Ripon College student Lynn Wells operates a bookstore but carries no inventory, with nearly all his orders going to foreign countries; News Bits; photos of large sailboats inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear with nibbling along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
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.
8vo., neat inscription 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 508. First Published in WC in 1947. Dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Joshi & Schweitzer 1.B.ii.97.
2 vols., 8vo., Eighth and Seventh Edition respectively, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), titles in blue and black, and very numerous illustrations (16 and 14 full-page respectively) and head- and tail-pieces in the text; handsomely bound in navy half Chieftan morocco BY MORRELL, sides in blue cloth ruled in gilt, backs with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt, gilt tops, pale blue laid endpapers, navy silk markers, uncut, a most attractive set ideal as gift or for presentation. The bindings are signed on front free endpaper versos. Brock's inimitable and much-loved 'Elia' illustrations to both works were first published in 1899. A FRESH, ELEGANT SET WITH CHARMING ILLUSTRATIONS IN A NOTABLE SIGNED BINDING. Skilton, p.160.
8vo., with engraved portrait frontispiece; handsomely bound in full light tan calf BY ZAEHNSDORF, boards with double frame border stopped at corners with rosettes all in gilt, upper board with Uppingham crest blocked in gilt, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and fourth compartments with green and red leather labels ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt to an art nouveau floral design, gilt dentelles, gilt doublures, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, silk headbands, a splendid example of a notable prize binding. The frontispiece is by Finden after Wageman.
8vo., First Edition thus, with decorative title and pictorial endpapers; early series binding of maroon full leatherette, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, radial corners, ribbon marker, a near fine copy. FIRST APPEARANCE IN EVERYMAN. The most elaborate of the four original binding styles, full leatherette was introduced at the commencement of the series and discontinued around 1919 (see Seymour pp.103). Due to the delicate nature of the material, really bright, crisp copies are now genuinely elusive. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. EL 14; Seymour 604.0.
Two Volumes. Illustrated with numerous engravings. Engraved Portrait Frontis in volume one with offsetting onto title page. Double column. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Early engraved bookplate of Brown on front paste down of both volumes. Bookseller's label on front paste down of both volumes. 215mm. Disbound. Original full leather bindings. Boards ruled in gold. Both front boards of both volumes detached. Original spines decorated in gold with original title spine labels. Hardbound. Dedicated to Charles Lamb. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. ENGSETS BX 6
Features: A future for zoos?; On Eagle's Wings - spacecraft for the 21st century; Challenging a dragon - descending the mighty Mekong; Spiritual Summits - Mountainscapes; Expedition Mongolia - A window on the past; Graven Images - The Rock art of the Helan Shan; Sheep Domestication on the roof of the world. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
pp. 415, 101 + Plus engraved frontis and full page plates. Text engravings. Age stained. Original full leather backed binding. Decorated spine. Bottom of spine has an old tape repair. Worn. HORSE 1
5 vols., 8vo., with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; original cloth (red/red/red/red/black), gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. Lovely set of a standard reference; first published 1955-1978.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original orange printed wrappers, small label scar on front wrapper else a good, firm copy. Penguin 1131
VG hbk reprint in orange cloth, with beige spine. With an introduction by Augustine Birrell, and illustrations by Charles E. Brock. 12293. eng
