Taplinger 1973 new york (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. SIEGE OF LUCKNOW.

Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn at spine tips and corners, is bumped at top front edge, and is lightly rubbed at some edges. 203 pages with 26 illustrations.

Very good in lightly worn, edgetorn dust jacket 3rd Ptg Hardcover Pages lightly browned.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good+++. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+++. Probable First. Hard Cover. Very Good+++/Very Good+++. Probable First. Ex-Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This introduction into the art of making finger puppets offers numerous illustrations and thorough instructions for knitting a puppet's head, creating either straight or curly hair, constructing puppets that fit both extra large and very tiny fingers in a family and stiffening a puppet's arms with pipe cleaners. Loads of illustrations and diagrams. 96 pages. The only evidences that this is a library copy are the usual pocket on back back end paper and library stamp on upper page edges. Dust jacket is also glued to inside of covers as librarians like to do; has minimal shelf wear. Clean, nice and bright inside. Ex-Library.…

Hard Cover/Boards. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Book has 330 pages with illustrations. Book has some foxing in front and rear endpapers and on outer edge of pages. Light wear to edge of dj and cover. Previous owner name penned very small inside front cover. The British defense of their Indian Lucknow Residency was one of the heroic military struggles of the nineteenth century. Popular imagination in both Endland and America was inspired by tales of this small garrison that held out for five months, in 1857, against a superior force of Indian mutineers. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. 316 pp. Maps. Glossary. Bibliography. A clean, attractive copy. Nancy Lou Gahan (illustratore).

Illustrated by Paul McMaster and Lou Vermeer b/w photos. Stated First edition. Quarter boards. 8vo. pp. 128. Index. Near Fine/Very Good/Unclipped price in clear archival cover. (clipped ep to remove address label), several short tears to dj. Classic kid's crafts using simple everyday findings.

8vo; 224 pp, illustrations from drawings. original cloth, spine lightly faded, dj, fine. The author, when hearing of the animal rescue mission in Surinam, South America, not only joined and wrote about animal life there but started her own effort to save threatened wildlife. Much of the book is on the rare Saki monkeys of Guyana. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Condizione: good. Book Club? Edition. 216, illus., maps, bibliography, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. The Crimean War has been presented to the public as the classic model of military and medical blundering. In fact, however, the Allies won a war against extremely tough opponents, and at the end of that war the British Army had reached high efficiency.…

1st edition stiff wrappers Near Fine octavo 322pp., index, Concise & interesting acccount of mainly 19th & 20th Century Revolutionary movements and Personalities.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Indeed. First edition. An varied collection of works on the literary giant Samuel Johnson, including illustrated titles and first editions. An engaging and varied selection of works contemplating the literary legacy of poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, consider the 'most distinguished man of letters in English history', Samuel Johnson.All in original dust wrappers. Predominantly unclipped, with the exception of volumes 4 and 7.Volumes 1, 2, 4, 11 feature a monochrome frontispiece, and volumes 7, 11 and 12 feature illustrated endpapers.Includes several first editions: volumes 1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 11 and 12, which is the first American edition.Volume 7 features 4 double sided monochrome plates, and a double page vignette map. Volume 10 features 8 double side plates. Volume 12 features8 double-sided, vibrantly colour plates and frequent vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.Volume 9 features 8 unlisted double-sided monochrome plates. Collated from a copy held by University of Oxford Libraries, complete.Volume 11 features a charming gilt motif illustration to front board, and frequent vignette illustrations. All in original pictorial boards, with original dust wrappers. Externally, in lovely condition. Small marks to vol4 and 9 text block fore edge. Occasional sunning to dust wrapper spines. Occasional mild chipping to dust wrapper extremities. Chipping to vol4 and 7 dust wrappers. The occasional closed tear to dust wrappers. Owner's ink inscriptions to vol6 front paste down and to vol7 front blank. Small closed tear to vol6 dust wrapper head. Small scuff to vol10 dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Very slight strain to vol10. Pages generally bright and clean. Vol4 fine except pp.xv-2 loose and slotted inside. Bookplate of an Arthur G. Rippey to vol11 front blank. Occasional light spotting to text block edges. Near Fine 8.5" by 6"; 9" by 6"; 8.5" by 5.5"; 8" by 6"; 10" by 7"; 9.5" by 6.5"; 10" by 8". Various (illustratore). book. …