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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (illustratore). 1st Edition. 1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1972. Previous owner's name on Dust Jacket else a bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original gray cloth. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. Illustrations. References. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "Eighteen chapters cover a broad range of topics in industrial chemistry and chemical engineering from heat and mass transfer through applied mathematics and process control to plastics and crystallization." With contributions by William L. Bolles, James R. Fair, L. T. Fan, S. J. Chen, C. A. Watson, J. Y. Oldshue, Thomas M. Regan, Albert Gomezplata, Richard J. Nunge, Fadel F. Erian, E. James Davis, C. S. Hung, Leon Lapidus, Lowell B. Koppel, E. P. Stahel, J. K. Ferrell, K. H. Lin, John H. Sinfelt, Morton M. Denn, M. M. Grover, R. Maska, R. B. Seymour, F. C. Weissert, G. D. Botsaris, E. G. Denk, Robert Kunin. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo. vii, 370pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback copy bound in half green leather, marbled boards with raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 420pp. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard, full page b/w plates, b/w illustrations within text. Gold gilt top page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, bookplate to front pastedown, few marks to half title page. (8/1).

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 104-142pp. Stapled wrappers. Lightly rubbed with corner crease, near fine. This literary magazine include Philip Larkin's essay, "Not the Place's Fault," which he came to dislike because he felt it revealed a bit too much about himself and so was not reprinted during his lifetime. Additional contributions from Watson, Paul Jennings, R. Bryan Tyson, Ian Lovelock, John Hewitt, Alan Oliver, Taner Baybars, A.E. Burrows, Stephen Joseph, Owen Leeming, and Gerald Morrish.