Sinclair l et al (12 risultati)

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:9780004723686.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. original wraps show minor wear and chipping, pages tanned and clean.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,3100grams, ISBN:9780007183746.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Here is a single issue of "The American Neptune, a Quarterly Journal of Maritime History", specifically Volume XIX, No. 4, October 1959. After many decades of publication, the journal has ceased production; but during its many years of issuance, it proved to be a veritable cornucopia of lost and forgotten information. CONTENTS : * US Navy at Work on the Brazil Station, 1827 - 1860 - by Donald W. Gifford * You Can't Beat the Filipino Banca - by T. L. Sinclair, Jr. * Notes on the First Fleet Engagement of the U. S. Civil War - by Robert S. Burpo * The Origin of Fore-and-Aft Rigs, Part II - by Richard LeBaron Bowen, Jr. * Pictorial Supplement : Paintings (8 Ship Portraits) * Index to Volume XIX TITLE : The American Neptune - a Quarterly Journal of Maritime History ISSUE : Vol. XIX, No. 4 DATE : October 1959 EDITOR : Ernest S. Dodge, et al IMPRINT : The American Neptune Inc. & Peabody Museum of Salem PLACE : Salem, Massachusetts STATUS : OP . The Journal ceased publication in 2002. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : Quarterly periodical; Illustrations are black-and-white reproductions of old paintings; volume pages 237 - [318] (82 pp) + 4 pages of back material, + Vol. XIX Index; approximately 7" x 10", printed wraps, glued . CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned periodical which remains clean and attractive, with the following noted : EXTERIOR : Slight darkening of spine with attendant shallow creasing; slight weathering about edges, else clean and attractive. BINDING : Solid with no detached or loose leaves INTERIOR : Clean and unmarked throughout.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Here is a single issue of "The American Neptune, a Quarterly Journal of Maritime History", specifically Volume XX, No. 3, July 1960. After many decades of publication, the journal has ceased production; but during its many decades of issuance, proved to be a veritable cornucopia of lost and forgotten information. CONTENTS : * The Revenue Steamer 'E. A. Stevens' in the Civil War - by R. A. Redmond * Clinton Roosevelt's 'Invulnerable Steam Battery', 1835 - by Marshall Smelser * Before the 'Nautilus' - by Robert C. Fox * The Steamer Vesta : Neglected Partner in a Fatal Collision - by Alexander Crosby Brown * William Mountaine, F.R. S. , Mathematician - by Captain W. R. Chaplin * The 'St. Paul-Gladiator' Collision, A Personal Narrative - by Francis E. Cross * The Voyage of the "Kanrin Maru', 1860: an Episode in American Naval Diplomacy - by George M. Brooke, Jr. * Pictorial Supplement : Antoine Roux Sketch Books, Part III * John E. Ward and the Complexities of Chinese Trade - by M. F. Farley TITLE : The American Neptune - a Quarterly Journal of Maritime History ISSUE : Vol. XX, No. 3 DATE : July 1960 EDITOR : Ernest S. Dodge, et al IMPRINT : The American Neptune Inc. & Peabody Museum of Salem PLACE : Salem, Massachusetts STATUS : OP . The Journal ceased publication in 2002. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : Quarterly periodical; Illustrations are black-and-white reproductions of old paintings photographs and drawings; volume pages 153 - 230 (78 pp) ; approximately 7" x 10", printed wraps, glued CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned periodical which remains clean and attractive, with the following noted : EXTERIOR : Slight darkening of spine with attendant shallow creasing; slight weathering about edges, with accompanying chipping and nicking, else clean and attractive. BINDING : Solid with no detached or loose leaves INTERIOR : Clean and unmarked throughout.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Book good. Jacket. Third impression. 426 pp. Index to scientific names, index to Afrikaans names. Coloured illustrations. Ill.: Peter hayman and Norman Arlott (illustratore).

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Original wraps show minor wear, pages tanned.

Colour photographic plates, 288pp, index, prior owner's inscription title page, dustjacket trifle shelf worn, otherwise a very good hardback copy. 36.4 x 26cm.

FIRST EDITION, A FIELD GUIDE, FINE COPY, HARDBACK IN PROTECTED DUSTWRAPPER, 426 PAGES, ILLUSTRATED BY PETER HAYMAN AND NORMAN ARLOTT. Hayman, Peter; Arlott, Norman (illustratore).

Soft cover. Condizione: G-. 64pp. Saddle-stapled. No date, circa 1920s. Toning to pages and wraps w/ small tear to front cover at top staple and small tears to few pages not affecting text. Minor wear and light chipping at head and tail of spine and top corner of rear wrap.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Colour Studebaker ad inside front cover shows their Weasel tracked vehicle in action on a Pacific shore (it appears this vehicle or its engine was made in Windsor, ON); Not Enough To Eat - food shortages loom in the wake of WWII; My Author Husband - by Dorothy Duncan, wife of Hugh MacLennan; Hearts to Let (fiction); Test in Berlin - can Russian and Anglo-Saxons reach a common basis for the peace; What Canadians Don't Know (testing our general knowledge); Whopper! - New York Mayor La Guardia's 550 acre $42 million municipal airport; A Guest for Mary Ellen (fiction); The Liar Hunter, by W.O. Mitchell; Shoplifting in Canada; Snakes Alive!, by Gordon Sinclair on Ryerson Island in Lake Erie; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of Mary Elizabeth Graham of "Greenacres", Aylmer to Gustave Eduardo Leguizamon, Chancellor of the Legation of Argentina; Several lovely colour ads; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Dawson, Isobel (illustratore).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Devil-Stones - A strange story of West African "fetish" and its uncanny powers among the superstition-ridden natives; Too Many Bears - Experiences of a camp cook in Yosemite National Park, where bears are as plentiful as berries, and astonishingly bold - with great photos; Through the Guadalupe Wilderness - Photo-illustrated account by Carl B. Livingston of his exploratory trip into the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico, perhaps the most inaccessible and least-known region in the United States; The Last Voyage of the "Joan" - W.E. Sinclair and a partner attempt to cross the Atlantic from England to Newfoundland - until disaster strikes in mid-ocean; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part I - After two years of preparation living in a Himalayan cave, Alexandra David-Neel sets out to become the first white woman to enter Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet - with photos; The Mare's Nest - an amusing photo-illustrated story from an Australian back-blocks medical practice; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part II - Two city-bred sisters continue their homesteading adventures in South Dakota; Eskimo Magic - E.W. Hawkes, who has spent considerable time among the Eskimos of the Bering Strait, recounts several uncanny instances of "native magic"; His Highness The White Elephant - Photo-illustrated article on this animal which is held in the utmost veneration in Siam; In Quest of Gold - Part III - Final part of the adventure faced by two young Americans seeking buried gold who were forced to turn back by the Savage Yaqui Indians; The Robbery At the Mine - Sundry exciting happenings at a gold mine in West Australia where the author worked; His Last Break - An unsuccessful prison escape attempt in South Africa; The Worm That Turned - A tale from Calcutta where a European official did not recognize one of his staff. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Tresilian, S.; Wigfull, W.E.; Holloway, Cyril; Illingworth, L.G.; Brock, R.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Brock, R.H.; Inns, Kenneth; Cattermole, Lance (illustratore).…