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1899RDARDIE00LRE. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung 1899. Very Good. Darwin Charles. Die Dildung der Ackererde durch die Thatigkeit der Wurmer mit Beobachtung uber deren Lebensweise. Translated by J. Victor Carus. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung 1899. 2nd edition. 184pp. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good ex-library copy with a few faint scratches on front cover rubbed edges and library notations on spine. Front pastedown bears a library label rear pastedown bears a small abrasion and rear free endsheet bears the remnants of an old label. Previous owner's name stamped on title page. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung hardcover books
1936293669Garden City: The Sun Dial Press 1936. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in the publisher's green cloth binding in a dustjacket with fantastic art; x 1 2-302 pages; there is a previous owner name pencilled on the front endpaper; there is also some surface loss to the very top edge of the boards.~~The second of the Inspector Koz mysties and one of the first by Darwin Teilhet with his wife Hildegarde.~ Reprint Edition. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. The Sun Dial Press unknown books
1936762.9London: Chapman & Hall Ltd 1936. 1st edition. Orange cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Dust jacket. VG bookplate/period poi to ffep/VG spine panel a bit darkened/some edgewear. 243 1 pp. Last page blank. Publisher announcement leaflet laid-in. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/>A collection of essays by divers Pickwickians including Alfred Noyes J. W. T. Ley Bransby Williams Alec Waugh Walter Dexter Bernard Darwin Arthur Waugh & Hugh Kingsmill on the many characters in Dickens' first novel. Chapman & Hall, Ltd hardcover books
1989221412San Mateo: ELLIPSE-Penninsula AIDS Services 1989. Five issues various pagination 8.5x11 inches news reports services and resources very good newsletters and a 12p. 8.5x11 inch Annual Report including financial information donor lists and a President's message. The report may well be the first unnumbered issue as it appeared before the first numbered issue. Included are The Report 1:2-4 and 2:1-2 June 1988 through Summer 1989. ELLIPSE-Penninsula AIDS Services unknown books
1903205843New York: Longmans 1903. hardcover. very good. 114 pages. Slim 8vo gilt-lettered maroon cloth; ex-library copy with several small plates lower front corner bumped. London: Longmans 1903. Overall a very good copy.<br/><br/> Longmans unknown books
1945289766New York. : D. Appleton-Century. 1945 . 1st Edition. Blue cloth blue titles on black backgrounds. . Very good upper corner bumped in a good plus dust jacket with some edgewear. . 20x14 cm. . Basis for the 1958 film noir crime film directed by Jacques Tourneur starring Dana Andrews. D. Appleton-Century. hardcover books
1960BL2035Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1960. 1960. 8vo. 72 pp. Indexes. Printed wrappers; covers lightly browned. Sewn. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Scarce. Cambridge University Press, 1960. unknown books
198141490Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press 1981. Hardcover. Very good/Very good-. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press 1981. Signed and inscribed by the author. Copious b/w illustrations and photographs. 294 pp. Hardcover. Small 4to size. Navy blue cloth. Silver lettering and contrasting panel to spine. Cover slightly shelf worn corners & head/heel of spine bumped; d.j. scuffed & edge worn slightly age darkened to rear wrap small chips to head & heel; else clean & sound. Very good/Very good-. Southern Illinois University Press hardcover books
1934GG818-097London: Chapman & Hall Ltd 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xii 247 pp. Half-title prefatory note by Bernard Darwin; text clean unmarked. Black-stamped green cloth; binding square and tight light rubbing at spine hinges light shelf wear and soiling. Previous owner's inscriptions on front free end paper. GG818-097. Very Good. This book is a important artifact by the inventor of golf journalism Bernard Darwin. Darwin was the grandson of the great naturalist Charles Darwin. For forty-five years Bernard Darwin wrote reports on golf for The Times of London and the weekly Country Life. According to Herbert Warren Wind "We are simply very lucky that a man of his high talent was so smitten by golf that he wrote endlessly about it." This volume contains Darwin's ruminations on golf heroes tales from the links and first-person recollections from a storied career. REFERENCE: Golf World Hall of Fame online resource. Chapman & Hall, Ltd hardcover books
19841042688vo. London and Canada: Souvenir Press 1984. 8vo 223pp. Original black buckram lettered in gilt to backstrip lime green dust pictorial dust jacket lettered in black white and red with black & white decoration. One small red smudge to edge some slight shelf wear to dust jacket. Near fine. § First edition. A pleasing anthology of Bernard Darwin’s work on the sport of golf. D&J H26230 under Hughes. Souvenir Press hardcover books
196116676London: British Museum 1961. In vol.2 nunber 6 Bull. of the British Museum Natural History. British Museum unknown books
200989913n.p.: Black Oyster Publishing Company Inc 2009. Paperback. Near Fine. frontis 45p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26cm. Edited by Tom Thomas statement on title-page. <br/><br/> Black Oyster Publishing Company, Inc paperback books
189937867Boston:: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. A later printing. Ex-library copy with a few typical markings else very good in green cloth. Binding is solid and tight. ; 378 pages . Houghton, Mifflin and Company, hardcover books
194414631Boston: Brown and Company 1944. Hardcover. Very good /very good. 8vo. Full brown cloth red lettering to front spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped. Moderately edgeworn chipped at spine. Dampstain to rear upper corner. Upper cloth corners bumped dust spotting to top page edge private library stamp to first endpaper. Sound unmarked clean. <br/><br/>Clean first of the Dick Whittington mystery set in WWII era London. Bearing a stamp from the private library of the Old Capital Club Monterey CA. 300pp. Brown and Company hardcover books
198532009Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Library 1985. Softcover. VG. White ill. wraps. 48 pp. No ills. American Philosophical Society Library unknown books
306028<p>ca. 1910. Reprint of the second edition revised and augmented. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait with facsimile autograph; illustrations. Original green cloth stamped in gilt spine sunned; light soiling on endpapers. Very good. 688 pages. No dust jacket. International Science Library.</p> The Werner Company hardcover books
1890290006New York. : H.M. Caldwell. No date circa 1890 . Publisher’s red cloth gilt spine title. . Good plus some fading to covers spine lightly sunned contents very good. . 19.4x12.8 cm. . Portrait frontis numerous illustrations in text. H.M. Caldwell. hardcover books
199936992n.p.: Ailsa Inc. Near Fine. 1999. Hardcover. 0940889498 . Foreword by Sidney Kahn. A reprint of the 1926 Sidgwick and Jackson edition. Near fine in blue cloth. No dust jacket as issued thus. . Ailsa, Inc. hardcover books
1988038368Pownal VT: Storey Publishing 1988. Illustrations by Harry Rountree. Foreword by Herbert Warren Wind; afterword by Ben Crenshaw. xii 253 1 14p. colored illus. dj small dj slit nicely closed on the front fore-edge. Reprint of the 1910 London edition. The classics of golf. Storey Publishing unknown books
198027875Stanfordville: Earl M. Coleman 1980. Hardcover. Very good. Very good hardback in a lightly rubbed jacket that is foxed on the spine. <br/><br/> Earl M. Coleman hardcover books
1960S8254Norwalk:: Burndy Library 1960. 1960. 4to. 72 pp. Illus. folding facs. Printed wrappers; a bit soiled and rubbed but a very good copy. Burndy Library, 1960. unknown books
1982BL3214London:: Linnean Society 1982. 1982. 26 cm.135 pp. One musical score index; very few ink underlined sections. Original printed wrappers; bit soiled and crinkled. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Various articles that tell the story of DARWIN. Contents: R.J. Berry Happy is the man that findeth wisdom; R.B. Freeman The Darwin Family; Keith Stewart Thomson & Stan P. Rachootin Turning points in Darwin's life; Frederick Burkhardt Darwin and the biological establishment; Frederick B. Churchill Darwin and the Historian; John Austin Baker Humanity and nature; R.H. Brady Dogma and doubt; James R. Moore Charles Darwin lies in Westminster Abbey; Ernst Mayer. Epilogue. Linnean Society, 1982.] unknown books
1972Embry 185552Heritage Press 1972. Fine in publisher's slipcase with one tiny ding. Black leatherette-backed rust cloth. Includes the "Sandglass". Heritage Press, 1972. hardcover books
2009WRCLIT70746New York: Knopf 2009. Printed wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition: "The life of Charles Darwin rendered in verse b his great-great-granddaughter." Knopf unknown books
1927WRCLIT53795Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1927. 12472pp. Gilt cloth. Portrait plates and maps. Appendices. Index etc. First edition. Cloth faintly marked and slightly bubbled at lower edge bookplate else a good bright copy without dust jacket. The Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover books