gepp sir herbert (11 risultati)

xiv+316pp. 8vo. Original boards, backstrip faded, lower board water damaged, also affecting rear endpapers. Scattered foxing to edges and endpapers. A very good copy. First edition. Signed by the author.

xiv+316pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, backstrip yellowed. Foxing to edges. A very good copy. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author.

`8vo; pp. 248; portrait frontispiece, chipped dustjacket. A very good copy. Second edition. In this volume Sir Herbert Gepp prescribes for the urgent problems of the post-war future and speaks of Australia at war.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Sir Herbert William Gepp (1877-1954): Australian mining metallurgist & manager, public servant, industrialist and publicist. Awarded Gold Medal of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (UK) with Gilbert Rigg (1924). --- Original red cloth boards, lettered gilt on spine (18.7 cm height). Scattered age spotting to edges and preliminary leaves. Pp. xiii, 316 (last colophon) including A Biographical Note (by G. C. Remington), Contents [addresses take place between 1923 and 1938]: - The Defence of Australia and the Part of Her Primary and Secondary Industries In That Defence - Dynamics of Development - Hard Times and Hard Thinking - The Responsibility of the Individual - The Mining Industry - The World's Present Economic Position and the Relation of the Primary Industries of Australia Thereto - The Future of Gold - The Work of the Royal Commission on the Industries of Wheat, Flour, and Bread - The School of Agriculture, University of Melbourne, and Its Director - The Place of an Economic Research and Advisory Council in the Modern State - Gold and the National Economy - Youth Employment - Forest Problems - Gold and the Cost of Living - The Scientist in Industrial Administration - Soil Erosion - Problems of National Development - The Real Purpose of Life - One Democracy to Another - Duties and Responsibilities of Youth - First Principles - Some Recent Impressions of the Economic Position in the United States of America - At What Age Does Youth End?

HB RED CLOTH VERY GOOD PP247 DW GOOD 8V0 Predictions of the post-war future and Australia at war.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition. Red binding. 247 pages. Cover edge stained. Internally clean. A firm, straight book. Scan available.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Texts of twenty-three speeches and articles, titles include: 'The Mining Industry', 'One Democracy to Another', 'Forest Problems' and 'The Real Purpose of Life'; 315pp. Gift inscription 1940, owner signature, prelims foxed. Good in dustwrapper. book.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very Good small octavo x + 315pp., Chipped dj o/w nice copy.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 315 pages; Description: xiii p. , 1 l. , 315, [1] p. Diagrs. 19 cm. Subjects: Economic history --1918-1945. Australia --Economic conditions --1918-1939. Signed and inscribed by author. 1 Kg.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good small octavo xiii + 315pp., Some underlining, browning to preliminaries o/w VG.

GEPP, Sir Herbert. DEMOCRACY'S DANGER: ADDRESSES ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS. London: Angus and Robertson Limited, 1939. 12mo., cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Gepp on the front endpaper: "Mr. Dudley Schoals with best wishes Herbert Gepp. Nov. 1946." Very Good (bright); some edgewear & tanning (few tears) d/j. $85.00.