William sloane edition first edition (10 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good + burgundy & black cloth with top pagination edge a bit dust spotted in a Very Good dust jacket with light to moderate edgewear & rubbing. Nice sound copy yet.

Octavo, hardcover (brown cloth-backed green marbled boards), silver letters, map illus. endpapers, xiii + 273 pp. Fine (As New) in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The wildest, loveliest and least-traveled region in Alberta was the author's home place from the early 30s until after the second World War. At his ranch, the Bufflo Head, the grazing grounds ran into the outer edge of the Rockies and there was no other man's chimney smoke this side of British Columbia and the Continental Divide. This land of untouched glory comes magnificently to life in these pages. No less extraordingary than his vivid descriptive writing is the story of how the author, an Oxonian and probationer in the Bank of England, decided to go there in the first place.Then in the summer of '36 came the great holocaust known as the Phillips fire. Raging from British Columbia to Alberta, it destroyed 32 square miles of spruce and pine and changed forever the picture painted so brilliantly by R. M. Patterson. But the majesty of the country lives on in these pages, colored with a stirring account of human courage and resourcefulness. Crisp and sharp as the mountain air itself, this book will provide a satisfying pleasure for the adventurer and his armchair brother alike. Canadian History, Canada, North America, Alberta.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+ original blue boards, in VG DW.

8vo [21.5 x 14.5 cm]; [xii], 542 pp, numerous illus, map endpapers, bibliog, index. original two-part cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj (not price clipped, bit rubbed at edges), small light stain on part of outer edge of text block, but clean very good or better copy. The author provides a fascinating work on the influence on the Pacific Islanders and their influence on us, based on his thousands of miles of travels in the area over the years and on the literature, legends and history. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Introduction by Archibald Macleish. Another figure from Paris during the 1920s and 1930s is brought into the spotlight Edgewear. Bookplate. Very good in dustwrapper chipped at the crown of the spine. book.

Condizione: Very Good. First US edition hard back binding in publisher's original cherry paper covered boards with black cloth spine, white title and author lettering to the spine and pink to the upper panel. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 246 printed pages of text. Rub to the lover front corner only, ink name to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with 10 mm piece of paper missing to the upper front panel, nicks and chips to the spine ends, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. OCCULT (Spirituality). …

HB WHITE AND BLUE CLOTH PRELIMS LIGHLTY FOXED ELSE FINE PP257 DW FINE 8V0 Sub-titled The Story of Antarctica.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. A feline protagonist; illustrations by Charles L. Ripper; Carl Van Vechten's copy with his bookplate featuring a cat on the double bass. Fine in very good dustwrapper with author photograph by Margaret Michaelis on the rear panel. book.…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. 'Call Me When the Cross Turns Over' for American publication. Fine in dustwrapper designed by Charles Walker. book.