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192512040043William Blackwood & Sons UK 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. PUBLISHING DETAILS: William Blackwood & Sons UK 1925. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. Wear to spine ends and corners of boards. Tanned pages with foxing on end pages. No inscriptions. Page edges foxed and browned. A little rubbing to gilt titles on front cover and spine. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 195 pages of text plus 68 pages of photographic illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Animals & Birds; Inventory No: 12040043. William Blackwood & Sons hardcover
192022499London & Cape Town: H. F. & G. Witherby / T. Maskew Miller. Very Good. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. With 141 illustrations a very good copy. ; 220 x 145mm; xx 248 pages . H. F. & G. Witherby / T. Maskew Miller hardcover
1933004627New York: The Macmillan Company 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 92pp. Blue cloth black lettering to cover and spine. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed very slight fading to spine contents are slightly age-toned binding is tight. Six attractive color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
1936014043Macmillan 1936. Blue hardcover binding is clean square and tight with just minimal shelfwear top and bottom of spine. Previous owner name and date 1936 in pencil ffep 3/4" closed tear bottom of title page else clean and bright interior. Some odd barely visible pock-marks on contents page. Scarce DJ not price-clipped - $2.00 on front flap. Lots of tears chips and wrinkles rubbed spots. In two pieces but now protected from further damage in clean Brodart. 1933 on title page; Copyright page shows originally published 1933 and then reprinted 4 times to this one in July 1936. Color frontispiece 2-page color spread in center same as wraparound dustjacket and full color last illustration plus many beautiful black and white throughout. Story begins when Spunky the Shetland Pony is born in the Shetland Islands. He is sold to work in a coal mine then sent to America as a circus pony. His owners along the way include a traveling peddler devoted children and finally a park pony. 90 pages. Size: 8vo - Oblong 5th printing Language: ENG. Illus. by Hader Berta and Elmer. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Macmillan Hardcover
19890109741989. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher: Howell Book House Inc. 1989 V.Good HB ISBN: 0-87605-517-X hardcover
1932046183Great Britain: A. & C. Black Ltd. 1932. Book. Good. Hardcover. First free endpaper has been removed. Title page has a faint smudge the rest of the interior is clean endpaper brown with age. Green boards have a discolored spot to lower corner of front edges have light wear corners are lightly bent. No dust jacket. First edition. A. & C. Black Ltd. Hardcover
1907171311907-1930's. Hardcover. Very good end paper name stamps some pages lightly toned. The title on the spine is descriptive only and was added by the binder. A unique book in dark green boards with gilt spine lettering containing articles bulletins etc. 700 pages total. The contents are from the 1907 to the early 1930s. The list of contents handwritten on the front end papers shows 23 items. Contents cover strength testing telephone poles box barrel and crate construction structural timbers treated timber creosote cross ties etc. A heavy book additional postage may be required. ; Photographs graphs charts drawings. . hardcover
2222252<p>ca. 1910. First edition 5 1/4" x 3 1/2". Full color pictorial sewn cloth wrappers. Fine. 10 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Cope page 76 No. 118.</p> Dean's Rag Book Co., Ltd. unknown
1950012826Collins 1950. Red hardcover cloth binding sllightly warped cocked spine bumped corners. Light soiling. Interior clean and tight with yellowing pages. DJ not price-clipped shelfwear with some chips along edges. Protected from further damage in clean Brodart. 254 pages. Written by a 16 year old girl. About a wild chestnut pony turned to grass because no one can control it becomes the conern for a few weeks one summer of three very different girls. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing. Illus. by Christie Marjorie. Jacket design by Marcia Lane Foster. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Collins Hardcover
17118Hardcover. Very good spine edge wear a small white spine end spot a scratch on the cover end paper name stamps some pages toned. The title on the spine is descriptive only and was added by the binder. A unique book in dark green boards containing circulars articles bulletins etc. About 700 pages total. The contents are generally from the 1920s. The list of contents handwritten on the front end papers shows 19 items. Articles include Beautifying the Farm Home Grounds; Tree Planting for Ornamental Purposes; Beautifying the Farmstead Garden Roses; Arrangement and Planning of Home Grounds; Hardy Shrubs for Michigan; Herbaceous Perennials; The Rock Garden; Ornamental Vines others on hedges propagation transplanting rhododendrons etc. Most are from the 1920s and 1930s one from 1915. A heavy book additional postage may be required. ; Photographs drawings. . hardcover
1986BOOKS064988IUK: published by the author 1986. HC. very good blue cloth hardcover no dustjacket as published. B&W illustrations. A delightful collection of sketches of Westies and their fun and antics. published by the author unknown
17-4H1558584633<p>BRAND NEW. Excellent condition. Never read or opened. 17-4H1558584633</p> North-South Books hardcover
2000032771Munich: Knesebeck 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Very good copy with minor shelfwear. Dust jacket with minor shelfwear. Text in German. Knesebeck hardcover
1968013655London England: Frank Cass and Co Limited 1968. First published 1898 Harold Bindloss's IN THE NIGER COUNTRY is exactly what it says a tour of the Niger country at this time. This new impression of 1968 is in excellent condition and forms part of number 48 of Travels and Narratives in the Cass Library of African Studies. James Pinnock's BENIN which forms the other half of this book is a lecture delivered before the geographical societies of Liverpool Newcastle On Tyne Etc by Mr. James Pinnock sometime around 1897 and contains many photographs and a map. This of course is the new impression of 1968. Two books in one. IN THE NIGER COUNTRY is 338 pp. inclusive of index and map. BENIN the surrounding country inhabitants customs and Trade takes us to a total of 396 pp. for the two volumes in one inclusive of it's 41 photograph's and 1 map. A LOVELY COPY. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details. Not Signed or Inscribed. First Cass Facsimile Edition 1968. Red Cloth. Near Fine NEAR NEW/No Jacket. Illus. by Maps and Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK. Frank Cass and Co Limited Hardcover
1968005564London England: Frank Cass and Co Limited 1968. First published 1898 Harold Bindloss's IN THE NIGER COUNTRY is exactly what it says a tour of the Niger country at this time. This new impression of 1968 is in excellent condition and forms part of number 48 of Travels and Narratives in the Cass Library of African Studies. James Pinnock's BENIN which forms the other half of this book is a lecture delivered before the geographical societies of Liverpool Newcastle On Tyne Etc by Mr. James Pinnock sometime around 1897 and contains many photographs and a map. This of course is the new impression of 1968. Two books in one. IN THE NIGER COUNTRY is 338 pp. inclusive of index and map. BENIN the surrounding country inhabitants customs and Trade takes us to a total of 396 pp. for the two volumes in one inclusive of it's 41 photograph's and 1 map. A LOVELY COPY. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED UK ONLY . Please email for further details. Not Signed or Inscribed. First Cass Facsimile Edition 1968. Red Cloth. FINE AS BRAND NEW/No Jacket. Illus. by Maps and Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK. Frank Cass and Co Limited Hardcover
1908biblio626<p>This is a passable copy of an extremely rare turn-of-the-century children's book for all ages. It consists of Richardson's doggerel about fanciful animals and people from dragons to grandfathers and noted Dickens illustrator G. H. Thompson's wonderful colored carricatures. Unpaginated and cerrtainly not markete it stands a plucky and legitimate woulld be classic full of tongue-in-cheek fun. Especially for collectors.</p><p>Photos on request.</p> E.P. Dutton&Company hardcover
1958326z1958. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1958/Gd. conditionex-lib/356 pages - Methods used in studying any phase of the action of chemicals on insects. KN6326z hardcover
19900032901990. Hardcover. Good. Publisher: Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc. 1990 Good HB ISBN: 0-9626144-0-8 First Edition prev. owner's name fep hardcover
21369<p>Boston: D. Lothrop 1882. unpaginated 63pp a.e.g. frontis. salmon cloth 8vo w/gilt titles & decorations: about Good/no dj hinges are cracked but holding; spine strip is age darkened with wear @ ends; endpp. show some foxing; else a clean & complete copy A charming woodland jaunt written for juvenile readers by the New Hampshire writer Amanda Bartlett Harris 1824-1917 with 14 illustrations including 12 full page sketches.</p> Boston: D. Lothrop hardcover
1986047334Cape Town: Sable Publishers 1986. VERY HEAVY. 175pp bw text ills full page col plates. Or gray cloth with gilt vignette of antelope head in jacket. Slightest of edge wear to jacket brown mark at lower right of rear jacket panel. Several signatures and expressions of thanks on front free endpaper frontis plate has a crease which was a very minor fault from the publisher. An excellent facsimile of the 1840 original which remains one of the most beautiful and sought after 19th century illustrated works on Africa and its wildlife. Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Elephant Folio. Sable Publishers Hardcover
2009102269International Crane Foundation. Good. 2009. Paperback. Color Photographs; 99 pages . International Crane Foundation paperback
176<p>Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1898 1897. 270pp. illus. decorated cloth 8vo: about Good gilt cover titles are bright; spine strip is darkened; light shelf wear; hinges are cracked but firm; small oval personal library stamp on several pp.; couple of edge tears on pages; spot of foxing here and there; else a complete & tight copy According to Bruce Bickley writing in the New Georgia Encyclopedia Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1845 not 1848 as noted in most biographic sources. His mentor literary plantation owner Joseph Addison Turner who published the newspaper The Countryman from his Turnwold Plantation near Eatonton Georgia managed to get Harris a deferment from service in the Confederate army something of an historical question mark/sore point in Harris life. He is most famous for his Uncle Remus stories which made him second only to his friend Mark Twain in popularity as an American writer at the turn of the 20th century. Harris died in 1908 a couple of years before Twain. This book of children s stories features 24 marvelous llustrations by the Anglo-American artist Oliver Herford 1863-1935.</p> Boston: Houghton Mifflin hardcover
1856035042London: Simpkin and Marshall 1856. Book. Illus. by C.W. Harrison. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 13 X 21cm. Two volumes handsomely bound by Sotheran Sackville Street London years 1855 and 1856. pp332 Volume 1855 with 12 highly attractive hand-coloured plates all with tissue guards very clean slight toning to just a few pages no inscriptions or annotation. pp 372 and bound to the back the pp33 Gardener's and Naturalist's Almanack 1856. Half leather bindings by Sotheran gilt decoration and lettering to spine title label to each volume some loss of colour to the spines but with lustre and strong no cracking. A very good pair with fine bright plates and some in text diagrams. Simpkin and Marshall Hardcover
19990384811999. Painting. Illus. by Christina Hart-Davies . Very Good. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. An original watercolour painting of Common Ash Fraxinus excelsior by Christina Hart-Davies signed in pencil lower middle. Image 320 x 290 mm frame 560 x 510 mm. Mounted and framed using the "Alphamat Artcare Archival System." Double acid-free mount the upper of which slightly marked to bottom left corner. Tastefully understated frame with partially gilt inner section. The painting in very good condition bright and unmarked. Provenance; with label to the reverse stating "Society of Botanical Artists Westminster Central Hall 16 April - 24 April 1999 and the price of £280. Biography - Christina Hart-Davies Botanical artist for over forty years with Four Gold Medals awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in London for paintings of mosses and lichens: 1984 1986 1988 1992. One RHS Gold Medal 1993 and a World Orchid Conference Bronze 1993 for paintings of European and Australian Terrestrial orchids. RHS Gold Medal for paintings of British lichens 2018Many successful exhibitions in Britain and abroad notably at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and in galleries in Brisbane. Her work is held in collections worldwide the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh The Shirley Sherwood Collection of Contemporary Botanical Art The RHS and RBG Kew. Hart Davies is a Founder Member and Honorary Secretary during the first ten years of the Society of Botanical Artists Christina travels widely to study and paint native flora in Britain and abroad. Please contact us if you would like to view any of our artwork in person. The shipping cost on this painting within the UK is likely to be in the region of £20. unknown
19090006911Brooklyn NY: Charles Meeker Kozlay` 1909. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 16mo 53 pages t.e.g. partially unopened deckle-edged the fragile binding recently rebound in new brown cloth with the original leather label on the top cover. <br/><br/>Copy no. 83 of only 100 of the limited edition. Includes the first book appearance of Mark Twain's "Letter to John Camden Hotten" pp. 48-51 in which Clemens complains that adding injury to insult Hotten not only pirated some of Twain's work but added his own chapters to Twain's writings. Hotten also pirated Bret Harte. Harte's editor Kozlay has collected Harte's lectures on "The Argonauts of '498" and "American Humor" his "Reply to 'Toast to Literature'" three Fables followed by Kozlay's essay on their piracy. Three of the 7 illustrations here were done by Merle Johnson artist and Twain's bibliographer. BAL 3510 7407. Eight plates inserted. Charles Meeker Kozlay` hardcover
