north wind (4 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Jule Gotlieb (Robin Hood interior); Rudyard Kipling (Just So interior); Roy Krenkel (Wizrard of Oz cover and interior) (illustratore). All nine classics are about Near Fine, unread condition! (Note: The Wizard of Oz is only Very Good condition). The Airmont paperback Classic Series have interesting and generally very well done new cover art for each title usually with an insightful introduction. Nine books for one shipping price!

[0-9697-804-1-] 1993. (4to) Near fine. Issued without dust jacket. 238pp. Illustrated cover, photographs, black and white and color illustrations, maps, glossary, chronology, bibliography, index. The first book of the 3 volume series. Book about Louis Riel. Contributors include Ingeborg Boyens (Setting the Historical Stage), Christopher Dafoe (Companies of Adventure), Larry Krotz (Fork of the Rivers), Jake MacDonald (Land of the North Wind), Lindor Reynolds (The Perilous Settlement), Gregg Shilliday (From Colony to Province). Vol. 1 Rupert's Land to Riel. Locale: ; Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Hudson's Bay Company, Indians of N.A., Journals, Letters, Red River Settlement).

Condizione: New.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. The Special Edition, limited issue of Polar Dance: Born of the North Wind by Thomas D. Mangelsen, with text by Fred Bruemmer and edited by Cara Blessley. (illustratore). Special Edition. Oblong folio, 264pp. Full black cloth, title stamped in blind, with large color photographic onlay affixed to front cover, illustrated map endpapers. Fully illustrated with color photographs by Mangelsen. One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by Mangelsen, this being number 614. Housed in the publisher's matching black cloth clamshell case, with color photographic onlay affixed to front panel. Includes the original ilfocrome print by Mangelsen, with tissue cover. Housed in the publisher's original cardboard shipping box. A fine example. Polar Dance documents the polar bear and Arctic wildlife through Mangelsen's photography and Bruemmer's accompanying natural history text. The title takes its name from Mangelsen's celebrated photograph of two polar bears appearing to dance in a Hudson Bay snowstorm, later named one of the "40 Most Important Nature Photographs of All Time" by the International League of Conservation Photographers. Signed.