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8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 15 fine coloured plates (all captioned tissue guards present), full-page map in the text and folding map; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Combines plant collecting and climbing in the Garwhal Himalaya and the Bhyundar Valley. An elegant copy. Neate 734.
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to lower corner of rear cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. How to grow successful sweet peas.
Features: Surprising island of the Northern Sea - Iceland; The Flowers Known as Birds - the Bird of Paradise from South Africa; What Maestros Look like to me - Sol Nemkov tells his adventures in the concert world while playing for such temperamental geniuses as Toscanini and Stokowski; You can't live in New York - untold miseries plague those who set up housekeeping in Manhattan, says long-time resident Horace Sutton; My Next 60 Movies - James Stewart (conclusion); Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - Satchel Paige, the American League's first Negro pitcher; The Coyote - World's Champion People Taunter - some claim he is one of man's best friends. Above-average wear. Covers almost detached. Small clipping from ad on page 55 - text unaffected. 1/6 page photo of coyote clipped from page 42. Top 2/3 of page 81 clipped out - this seems to have removed part of a novel. Nice color Coke ad on back cover. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty slightly foxed page edges and minor bump to upper front corner. 290pp.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 258pp.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, trace of removed label to front and no bumping to corners. 220pp. International Conference Edition.
Previous owner's small label inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 220pp. For the rose lover.
253p. Hardcover Very good condition good
128 pages. Reprinted. Slightly soiled covers, mark down side of spine
Fine Fine English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 23 cm). In English, Turkmen, and Russian. 277 p., 109 maps, 109 color ills., data sources. The red data book of Turkmenistan. Vol. 2: Plants.= Türkmenistanin gizil kitabi. Tom. 2: Ösümlikler. It is an official reference book about up-to-date state of Turkmenistan flora species being in need of protection. Infermation about extent of occurrence, area of occupancy, the population number, limiting factors, biological features, introduction and cultivation, the adopted and needed protection measures of 109 plants: three species of Fungi (Eumycota), five - of Lichens, two- of Bryophyta, six- of Polypodiophyta (True ferns), one - of Pinophyta (Gymnosperms), 92 - of Magniophyta (Angiosperms) is stated. For each species there is a sketch, a map of its distribution in Turkmenistan and coloured drawing. The red data book is intended for workers of nature protection services, specialists in the field of botany, zoology and ecology, students and instructors of higher educational establishments, for a wide audience interested in nature and ecological problems as well.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full green cloth boards with gilt decoration on front and title on spine. 7 3/8"w x 10"h. 36 pages. Tipped-in portrait frontispiece; two tipped-in color illustrations, one folding plan and other illustrations. Gift book presented to attendees of the library's dedication.
Oversize 61p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
276p. + Very pretty hand colored engraved half title and full page plates of flowers. Text ruled in black. All edges gold. Early penciled ownership of Caroline M. Adams (of Romney, Hampshire County, Virginia, now West Virginia - ?). 12mo. Original pictorial paper cover boards. Early crude spine repair in silk cloth. Boards stained and worn. Hardbound. A nice example of a scarce edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W130 Rt/F
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Shiny pictorial cover. Small format: 6 1/2"w x 4 1/8"h. Approx. 50 pages. #1 in The Odyssey Library Series. Colorful illustrations by Walter Linsenmaier.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 100 plates in colour and 100 illustrations in monochrome in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soile and with with small label scar on front wrapper. Observer 25. Code 532.856. Marren & Carter, p.160.
Sm. 8vo., Third Impression, with 100 illustrations in colour and 120 in monochrome, neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down repeated on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in dark blue, boards very faintly age-soiled, case with very slight forward lean else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter faintly age-soiled but with most white areas clean and bright. Observer 2, first published in 1937. The illustrations are taken from Sowerby's 'English Botany'. Scarce in anything like this condition. Marren & Carter, p.147-8.
Very Good English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 8, [2] p., b/w ills. The North Cyprus herbarium.
80 pages. Features: Cover photo of diplomatic reception at the White House; Beautiful color fashion ads; Deep Analysis of the American Mind by a British psychiatrist; The Rise and Fall of the Watusi (Tutsi) - Photos and article on an earlier iteration of bloodshed between the Hutu and Tutsi people of Rwanda; More Americans own shares in U.S. Corporations than ever before; Photos of a ball at the White House - with dancing photos of LBJ, Mrs. Anatoly Dobrynin, Dr. Janet Travell, Datin Ong of Malaysia, Mrs. Antonio Carrillo Flores of Mexico, G. Mennen Williams, Ullina Koroma, Lynda Bird, Dave Lefeve, Lady Bird Johnson and USSR Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin; In Defense of Charles de Gaulle; Why the Girls Scream, Weep, Flip - photo-illustrated article; Hollywood Laughs it Up - funny photos from movies; But Where are the Chaperons?; The Call Him the Greatest on Ice - Photo-illustrated article on Gordie Howe of the Detroit Redwings; Nice color-photo centerfold for Stevens Fabrics features 19 models, including someone who looks a lot like Johnny Carson; Photos of fashionable bookshelves; United States Lines color-photo ad includes Hildegarde, Mr. Leon Cherksey and Mrs. Reed Albee; Kids and Cops - some New York kids eye New York's finest with mixed reactions. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
52 pages. Features: Charming cover illustration of calf kicking up its legs in the spring flowers; One-page Chipso photo ad features the Williams family - Thomas Vance, Calvin Edward, Mrs. Calvin C., Stephen, Charles Judson and Henry Kerr; One-page yeast ad features large photo of Dr. Gudzent of the University of Berlin; Nice one-page Pontiac ad features yellow Economy Straight 8; Order to View (short story); Green Mantle (short story); Restoration Work in France - photo-illustrated article on work done to preserve Versailles and Fontainbleau for posterity; Small Talk (short story); Beating the Star (short story); At the Edge of the Great Unsurveyed (short story); Wedding Bells Around the World - photo-illustrated article on world wedding traditions; The Man Who Taught London to Dance - photo-illustrated article on Santos Casani; A Gabled House; Pond's cold cream one-page ad features photos of Lady Diana Manners; The British Way; Nicely illustrated one-page Maxwell House coffee ad; Laboratory in the Snow - Dr. H.R. Wolf of General Motors tests cars in the winter conditions of Saskatchewan; Lovely one-page colour ad for Swift's Premium Hams; Great one-page Chevrolet truck ad includes diagrams of 10 interesting vehicles; Three pages of photos of movie stars; Radioland - article on radio stars; Movie reviews; Little Rambles in Hollywood; Champion spark plug ad includes photo of Mr. S.G. Baits, Chief Engineer of Hudson-Essex of Canada, Ltd.; Easter cookery ad; One-page illustrated ad for the Northern Electric Model 800 Gurney Range with automatic oven; Fashion article with illustrations; Lovely colour Palmolive soap ad inside back cover features elegant lady in long maroon gown; Crisco colour ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
pp. x, 289. Illustrated. A few leaves torn without loss. 8vo. Original full tan cloth binding decorated with portrait of St. Francis. Slightly soiled. Hardbound. Very good. RELIGION BOX 10
pp. xviii, 262. Text illustrated with over one hundred woodcuts by the Italian artist, Paolo Molnar. Includes an insert of the Heritage Club Sandglass, Number VI:30. 4to. Original full floral cloth binding. Original slip case. Hardbound. Very nice copy. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W85 x2r
Index. 32 illustrations. Light shelfwear.
First edition, 4to, xii, 215, [1]pp., with half-title, 42 hand-coloured lithographed plates, marbled endpapers, green half crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spine tooled with floral decorations within raised bands, corners lightly rubbed otherwise a fine copy. An exceptionally clean copy of this work by one of the most popular and successful female botanical illustrators. Provenance: Bookplate of Mrs. L. Bartlett to front paste-down. Nissen BBI 1236.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 184 pages. Black and white illustrations.
28 pages. Features: Cover photos of sappers searching for mines amongst the flowers in southern Tunisia; Air photos of Mosquitoes Bombing Locomotive Factory at Nantes as workers leave; The Opening Stages of the Battle of the Mareth Line - Now in British Hands - Eleven photos; Interesting road sings on entering Tunisia; With the Americans in Tunisia; Demolishing a derelict enemy tank - the sapper's hazardous task; Battle for the Mareth Line - article by Cyril Falls; With a Gurkha Battalion in Tunisia - Indians of the Eighth Army - eight photos; Photos of people in the news - Brig.-General N.F. Twining; Group Captain H.I. Edwards; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands with Monty; Captain D.R. MacFarlane and his wife; Photos of General Alexander with General Giraud; General De Gaulle takes the salute; Photo of the famous Brown House at Munich, H.Q. of the Nazi Party; The King is piped aboard the H.M.S. "Cumberland"; Centerfold illustrations show new types of flak over Berlin at night; Background to a Raid on Berlin - many illustrations of the ground crews who keep our heavy bombers in the air; Dismantling the R.101 mooring mast at Cardington - to salvage teh steel; Two photos of damaged aircraft which made it safely back to base; Soap from cocoa beans for the men of the Gold Coast Army units - five photos; Large illustration of Field-Marshal Smuts; and more. Unmarked. Chips/tears to lower corner of all pages, otherwise average wear. Please note: last 4 pages missing - they likely contained part some photos of aeroplanes from 25 years ago, and ads. . Magazine
