Rev j g white (9 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 376 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.85 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. This copy is in fine condition bound in brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a neat dated inscription to the f.e.p. The price clipped dust wrapper has some spotting and some mild edge wear so best described as near fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This edition is a facsimile of the 1860 illustrated edition which in addition to the engraved illustrations also includes some of White's poems, a biography, and a naturalist's calendar. This edition has a new introduction by Hockley Clarke, editor of 'Birds and Country' magazine. Ref DDD 6.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Third edition. 224p octavo, very foxed uniformly to every page. fraying at the spine heads. Stilla good copy in the original brown cloth. An Anti-Catholic text.

Condizione: Poor. Hardcover. Previous owner was a smoker, smoke smell to book. Green cover with illustrations & gilt titles on front/spine. Marks/scuffs to cover. Binding heavily cracked in places. Inscription at front dated 1885. Tanning/foxing to pages. Page 307 to 318 loose, held in place with a paperclip.…

Full-Leather. Condizione: Very Good +. A near fine leather binding with fine gilt decoration to front & spine 5 raised bands see scan. bookplate to inside front board. Fine coloured & black/white illustrations. Posting from Cornwall St163. Fine coloured & black/white illustrations (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Third Edition. 224p. A brown cloth hardcover book in good condition. Edges and corners worn. Hinges just starting to crack, but book remains securely bound. Text clean. INSCRIBED, "Presented to J.W. McCauley by the Author April 21st 1893." The author claims that Catholics are trying to assasinate him for exposing the dangers of the confessional. He believes that Confession is Rome's most powerful tool for exerting priestly influence upon the masses.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Robinson, T.H.; Gillett, F.; Horne, A.E.; Cleaver, Ralph; Brightwell, L.R.; Prater, Ernest; Tennant, Dudley; Webb, Arch.; Black, A. & M.; Soper, G.; Coller, Hy. (illustratore).…

Vellum. Condizione: VG+. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. 1st Edition. Large paper edition. Complete in two (2) volumes, uniformly bound in full bevelled vellum, hand-painted armorial device on each front cover, spine panels lettered in orange, deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. Vellum shows typical rubbing/soiling, moderate on Vol. I (which is more of a dull gray, thus VG), relatively minor on Vol. II (which remains off-white, Near Fine). Classic natural history of the East Hampshire district. xxiii,427 + xv,443 pp., illus. w/ 47 engraved plates (one double-page), folding facsimile letter (one being double page), folding facsimile letter (at Vol. I, p. 45). No. 138 of an edition limited to 160 copies (150 for sale), hand-numbered and signed the editor (Sharpe) and illustrators (Sullivan, Keulemans, and Railton) on colophon opposite Vol. I half-title. Illus. ornithological book plate of former owner Thomas Perry mounted inside front cover of each volume. The plate guards are typically toned to varying degrees, with offsetting, mild darkening, and/or foxing to some plates and adjacent text pages, mild foxing to deckled edges and minor to endpapers, interior otherwise generally clean and unmarked. A respectably preserved set. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. J. G. Keulemans, Herbert Railton, and Edmund J. Sullivan (illustratore). Signed by Author and Artist. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. "England, thanks to the Huguenots, Mr. Cobden, the Slave Trade, the Jews, and an inherent capacity for taking large views of grave national questions, has been the last country in all the world to question, or even to examine, the doctrine that uninterrupted ingress for men, women, and merchandise of other nations, is essential to and advantageous to her national life. There are, however, no longer wanting signs that the reign of this dogma is not to continue without challenge." - Introduction. "In 1881 and 1882 a violent if somewhat intermittent persecution had been directed against the Jews in Russia. Realizing, as best they could, such poor possessions as they owned, and departing with all possible haste, the expatriated wretches made every attempt to reach a more hospitable land: those who could muster the passage-money were bound for America; the rest, the more destitute and the elderly ones (the great majority of the exodus), were hoping to settle in the great English towns." - p 168-169. [8],191 pages. Former library copy with usual markings, sturdily rebound in green buckram. No dust jacket.; Social Science Series; Sm 8vo.…