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1979303774Norwalk Connecticut The Easton Press 1979. 1979. First edition thus. 4to. 6 page preface by Ashley Montagu. Illustrated with drawings by Fritz Kredel. Index. Original black morocco elaborately stamped in gilt a.e.g.; brown silk endpapers; brown silk bookmark. Fine. 362 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Hardcover. Fine. Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press [1979]. hardcover books
1902176538New York: D. Appleton & Company 1902. Hardcover. Good title page and first few front and end pages unnattached hinges loose internallly but all other pages intact and clean. Rust colored cloth boards with black design on front cover gilt lettering on spine 2 volumes in one xxvi 365 1 p. 1 leaf of plates folded; vii 1 338 4 p. Two volumes in one. Includes glossary and index. "With additions and corrections from sixth and last English edition" -title page. D. Appleton & Company hardcover books
19301549.4New York: The Macmillan Company 1930. 1st edition NCBEL III 840. Blue printed cloth boards. Dust jacket. VG slight lean/Abt VG edgewear & chipping. 208 pp. Illustrations from the original adverts. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
191053443St. Paul: McGill-Warner Co 1910. 8vo pp. 405 1 xxiii 1; portrait frontispiece and text illustrations throughout; burgundy cloth gilt; covers soiled closed tear on last page textblock cocked but sound ex-Minnesota State library with their stamps on endpapers and title page. A history of the early years of the second largest state fair in the US with a number of pictures of old fairgrounds and buildings. <br/><br/> McGill-Warner Co hardcover books
1952W171BDLondon: Cassell & Co. 1952. Dark green cloth with gilt spine titling. Brown spine label is chipped with some loss of material. Gift inscription on ffep. Joints splitting end papers and edges soiled. Fine detailed history with many color and monchrome plates. Contributing authors are among the best British commentators on golf. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Cassell & Co. Hardcover books
197118348Adelaide: Limited Editions Club 1971. leather_bound. Half morocco and wood veneer sides. Fine in tattered glassine overwrapper in very good lightly soiled slipcase. Kredel Fritz. 362 pages. Illustrated with black and white and color drawings by Fritz Kredel. With a Preface by Ashley Montague. Extensive index. Limited edition copy 685 of 1500 signed by Fritz Kredel. NEWMAN & WICHE 435. Limited Editions Club unknown books
19569006Cambridge: Limited EditionsClub 1956. Hardcover. Full sailcloth stamped in brown with native tapa design. Near fine in worn slipcase. Gibbings Robert. 490 pages. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. Designed by John Dreyfus. Introduction by Gavin de Beer. Limited edition copy 149 of 1500 signed by Gibbings. NEWMAN & WICHE 266. Limited EditionsClub hardcover books
1893144862New York: D. Appleton and Company 1893. Second Edition Revised. Hardcover. VG- Only slight wear to outer spine; interior is clean. Rust colored cloth with stamped plant motif gilt letters on spine 208 pp. plus ads BW illus. Work that Darwin originally released five years after his "Origin of Species." "The Essay first appeared in the ninth volume of the 'Journal of the Linnean Society' published in 1865. It is here reproduced in a corrected and I hope clearer form with some additional facts. The illustrations were drawn by my son George Darwin." preface. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
189687298NY:: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good. 1896. Hardcover. B00CNVFFHW . Complete in one volume. With illustrations. Second edition revised and augmented authorized edition. Octavo half bound in burgundy leather with gilt lettering on the spine marbled boards top edge gilt. Light edge wear and some moderate rubbing to the marbled boards previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else very good. Binding is solid.; 688 pages . D. Appleton and Company, hardcover books
18836384London: John Murray 1883. The eighth thousand corrected. Very Good. Octavo 20 cm viii 328 2 32 pages. In orginal green cloth. Covers about fine. Gathering F sprung. Brief foxing to blank facing title page. John Murray hardcover books
189687301NY:: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good. 1896. Hardcover. B00CNVFD6A . Complete in two volumes. With illustrations. Second edition revised authorized edition. Octavos half bound in burgundy leather with gilt lettering on the spines marbled boards top edges gilt. Age darkened along the spines moderate edge wear else both volumes are very good. Some unopened pages. Bindings are solid. . D. Appleton and Company, hardcover books
1981RDARDAR00EFRare Publishing 1981. Very Good. Darwin. Darwin's Thumb Tip Miracles. Oliver cartoonist Richard; Grenewetzki illustrator Dave; Siegfried & Roy foreword. Las Vegas: Rare Publishing 1981. 129pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback with embossed illustration. Signed by author. Book condition: Very good gently rubbed edges and a few faint scratches in front cover. Gift inscription to former owner by the author Darwin on first page. Rare Publishing paperback books
18886779New York: D. Appleton & Co 1888. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A handsome example of the 1888 2nd American edition complete in 2 volumes and edited by Darwin's son Francis. Both volumes solid and VG in their russet cloth with very light wear at the spine crowns. Gilt-lettering along the spines and decorative rule to the front panels still crisp and bright. 12mos 1120 pgs. all told. Armorial bookplates at each front pastedown. <br/><br/> D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
1910004142St. Paul MN: McGill-Warner Company 1910. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 405 pages of text followed by xxiii of index. Hardcover binding with gilt spine and front cover lettering and decoration; slightly rubbed at the extremities with fading to the spine and to the top edge of the front cover. Illustrated with numerous black & white historic photographs. McGill-Warner Company Hardcover books
1985BL1509New York and London:: Garland 1985. 1985. Series: Garland Reference Library of the Humanities Vol. 369. 4to. 690 pp. Port. of Darwin index; small tick-mark in one margin otherwise clean. Red cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Burndy bookplate. Near fine. ISBN: 0824092244 First edition noting that a 46-page supplement with a reprinting the original was issued in 1994. Frederick Burkhardt was for many years the President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. His decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constituted a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall Cambridge. Garland, 1985. hardcover books
1912RDARJOU00BCD. Appleton and Company 1912. Very Good. Darwin Charles. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle Round the World. Naturalist's Voyage Round the World . New York: D. Appleton and Company 1912. 512pp. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt stamped titles. Book condition: Very good with light soiling on rear cover. A very clean and tight copy of an early Twentieth Century edition of a great work of natural history. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1910141248New York: D. Appleton and Company 1910. Author's Edition Authorized Edition. Hardcover. G- All binding edges are worn; two corners are down to the boards; spine appears to be a replacement first page is loose; interior surfaces are clean though one corner is slightly bumped throughout the last half of book; inscription and label in front of book. Three-quarters marbled boards with red leather-like spine & corners gilt letters on spine gilt top edges 372 pp. 21 BW illus. 7 BW plates. Re-release of a Darwin book which was first published in 1872 as one of the first books to contain photographic plates. This is #14 of 1000 copies of an "Authoriized Edition" that appears to have come out circa 1910. Darwin's signature appears on the opening flyleaf; but alas! The man left us in 1882. It must therefore be a stamped replica instead. Still a nifty tome. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1978108819The Franklin Library Pennsylvania 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of "The Great Books of the Western World". Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker. Previous owner's bookplate on the front free end page. The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania hardcover books
1978S8255Folkestone:: Dawson 1978. 1978. First edition. 8vo. 309 pp. Alphabetical dictionary of Darwin related information. Green cloth dust-jacket. FINE. Dawson, (1978). hardcover books
188942682Boston: The New Ideal Publishing Company 1889. 1st printing. Modern marbled paper wrappers with printed paper title label to front wrapper. A bit of age-toning to text block. Overall VG. 3 26 - 51 3 pp. Adverts last 2 pages. 7-3/8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>"The publication of the series of essays on Evolution delivered under the auspices of the Brooklyn Ethical Association is undertaken in response to a general and increasing demand for a correct statement in popular form of the leading ideas inferences and tendencies involved in the acceptance of the Evolution Philosophy together with a clear statement of the main lines of evidence or proof by which the conception of Evolution is sustained. . The different phases of the subject are treated in this series in a certain natural order of succession which the student and reader will do well to follow in the perusal of the lectures." Preface. OCLC shows a bound volume of the entire series held in one copy Am Phil Soc Lib and the NUC lists this separate title as held in just one location: NYPL. The New Ideal Publishing Company unknown books
1905019212London: Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd. 1905. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Early edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xxiv 278 pages of text followed by numerous pages of publisher's advertisement. Hardcover cloth binding with printed paper spine label is sunned on the spine with minor staining and discoloration. Contains a fold-out map and four plates all with color highlights. No date of publication listed; circa 1905. Previous owner's name and date of 1911 on the front endpaper. The text is clean and unmarked. Early edition. Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd. Hardcover books
192153016London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1921. First edition. Octavo original green cloth gilt titles to the spine. Frontispiece of George Duncan. Illustrated by photographs by G.W. Beldam. In near fine condition. George Duncan was a Scottish professional golfer. He was also a golf course designer. His much sought-after professional teaching and swing analysis skills lead to him being referred to as "the pro's pro." He won the 1920 Open Championship. Hodder & Stoughton Limited hardcover books
1956WRCLIT49413Cambridge: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press 1956. Quarto. Decorated cloth leather spine label. Introduction by Gavin de Beer. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist. Front inner hinge cracking else about fine; the slipcase however is battered. KIRKUS 67. Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press hardcover books
192728010924London: The Nonesuch Press 1927. Second impression. Unpaginated. Illustrated paper litho on board. Twenty 20 full page color illustration. Rhyming text verso facing illustration. The adventures of Mr. Tootleoo and Mrs Cockyollybird on land sea and in the air. Measures 7 3/4"" x 10 1/2"". The Nonesuch Press books
1932007904London: Nonesuch Press 1932. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First thus edition. Octavo 8vo. 46 pages of text. Original hardcover binding is rubbed at the extremities with overall minor soiling and shelfwear; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Combined and redesigned edition with plates in black & white. If issued with a slipcase it is no longer present. Nonesuch Press Hardcover books