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According to Tsimshian legend, when an old man' sight was restored by Loon, he gave the bird his precious shell nechlace as a reward. A Canadian Indian tale. Winner of the IODE Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon medal for illustration. Illustrated boards. Undated. Unpaginated. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice working copy. Book
Hardcover with jacket in very good condition. HCW Used
Hardcover in jacket, both slightly bumped at spine head. Pages are clean and sound; text is clear throughout. TS Used
As-new with straight spine, text unmarked in any way, sharp corners to the clean, bright covers. 656 pages, maps, color photos. Buy from a book seller that actually inspects and grades their stock!
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 55pp. Australian language and birds and animals.
grey cloth with embossed floral decoration on spine and front cover, all edges gilt, frontispiece picture, darkening to spine and cover edges, wear along spine and cover edges, rubbed head and tail of spine and corners of boards, front inner paper hinge torn, previous owner's stamp on FEP, text clean and tight. 278 pages with 8 engravings by Charles Green. Comprises essays on :- William Smith, The Father of English Geology; Thomas Waghorn, The Pioneer of the Overland Route; Robert Raikes, The Founder of Sunday Schools; David Nasmith, The Founder of the City Mission; Captain Coram and the Foundling Hospital; Henry Martyn, The Church Missionary; William Scoresby, The Sailor Clergyman; The Two Brunels, A Study for Young Engineers; Marshall Hall, The Physical Enthusiast; Thomas Dick, The Christian Philosopher; Henry Cort, The Story of an Inventor; George Wilson, The Chemist, The Power of the Soul Over the Body. Used
Hardcover (no jacket). vi, 213pp, with 23 plates (all present; one beginning to detach but intact; slight tear on another). Boards are marked; corners and spine ends are slightly bumped. Page block is rough; endpapers are tanned. Small bookseller's stamp on FEP. Occasional age-related mark within. Some pages are uncut. All content is clear. TS Used
Straight spine, text unmarked in any way, sharp corners to the clean, bright covers. 148 pages, many color photos.
Excellent copy with straight spine, text unmarked in any way, sharp corners to the covers, lightly shelfworn dust jacket with no tears. 240 pages with large, vibrant color photos throughout, very colorful.
89p. + Plus color frontis and eleven lovely full page color plates of dogs. Folio. 9.25 x 12.25" Original full cloth backed color pictorial binding, extremities slightly worn. These plates are often broken out of this book and sold individually - a practice which we deplore. PETS/2
Staplebound paperback in very good condition, 104pp. Minor edgewear to covers, sticker remnant to front, page edges lightly tanned. Illustrated throughout, pages clean and unmarked. AD Used
272p. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Tall 8vo. Original full pictorial cloth binding, slightly worn. Ninth printing. PETS/1
Staple-bound paperback. Spine is slightly sunned; lower corners are a little bent. Content is clear on clean pages. Correction slip at rear. TS Used
Profusamente ilustrado con dibujos en color.
Pages 401-498, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: "Hoodlum" - the plucky deed of fireman Roger Berry aboard the tug-boat "Elmer" on Lake Erie one stormy night - article with photos; Some New British Climbs - George Abraham describes a new route up the famous Pillar Rock and more, illustrated with remarkable photos; Like a Rat in a Trap - a nerve-trying adventure from 1888 near Southall, Middlesex finding leaks in a sewer pipe; Hurri Singh's Cobra - an adventure from the lake district of Kumaon; A Remarkable Open-Air Theatre at Interlaken, Switzerland; The Ship of Death - a strange story of the awful experience which befell a party of Royal Navy officers and men who boarded a mysterious barque on the high seas in 1908; East Africa As I Saw it (part IV) - photo-illustrated adventures illustrate life in Portuguese East Africa; The Swift Saskatchewan - what happened to a man who fell asleep in a canoe in the mighty Saskatchewan River in 1907; "Back to the Land" - a man in South Africa discovers he is not likely to become a successful farmer; The Poacher-Catchers - adventures of the five-man teams which guard the fur-bearing animals of Yellowstone Park; Pedro the Ladrone - an exciting story from the Philippines told by an officer of the U.S. Army who was in charge of a company of native scouts, with photo of the surrender of General Ramon Santos at Liago; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part I) - the first and only attempt ever made to cross canada from Ocean to Ocean - this marvelously photo-illustrated article deals with Thomas Wilby's experiences on the way to Winnipeg, where his worst troubles began; The Fight in the Moonlight - H. Randolph Spencer and his adventure with two bears in the Olympic Mountains in 1905; Photo of huge floating (?) Burmese pagoda in the form of a hen; Photo of large metallic anklets riveted to young women of Southern Nigeria; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Hardcover (no jacket as issued; attractive decorated boards). A few minor marks on exterior; edges and corners slightly shelfworn; spine ends bumped, with half-inch nick to side of head. Small binder's label on rear pastedown. Interior foxed, with occasionally weakened binding - all pages remain fully intact, and content is clear throughout. TS Used
Paperboards and dust jacket are sound. Slight smell of smoke. Head of page block has minor grubby marks. Name of previous owner, address and date penned on FEP. Text remains clear, and binding is tight throughout. Thirteenth Printing Used
Softcover. Small format. Covers are of purple suede. Text on front cover and head of page block are in gilt. Suede covers are rather dusty and a little faded, with several small marks and scratches. Spine is worn and rubbed. Spine head is nicked on each side. Small abrasion near spine foot. Minor wear to leading corners. Light age-spotting to foot of page block. Pastedowns and endpapers are quite grubby. Binding remains sound and text is clear. AF Used
VG (no dj, pale grey cloth faded to brown on spine and around edges, few spots front board, faint spotting front fixed endpaper else contents vry clean and bright throughout) large octavo 46pp. Illustrated with b/w plates.
2 Banden, Leinen, 160 x 260mm., 1154S. zusammen, Band I : 783 Abbildungen im Text, Band II : 114 Abbildungen im Text. Neudruck der Ausgabe 1931, mit Erlaubnis des Verlages Gutav Fischer. Loricata - Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Pulmonata - Scaphopoda - Bivalvia - Cephalopoda. Guter Zustand.
Paris, Puf 1948. In-12 broché de 126 pages. Collection que sais je. Très bon état
Hardcover in acceptable condition. This book does not have a publication date. It was not published in 1900. Dust jacket and boards are grubby and edgeworn. Sticker on front of jacket. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are creased and nicked with a few larger tears. Foxing on page block and in the volume. Contents are clear. AM Used
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 247 pages. Previous owner's name inside. This book provides the classification names (Latin, English and Maori), a brief statement on status and distribution, and references to relevant literature for nearly 400 living and extinct species of New Zealand birds.
