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Published by Xulon Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 162419236XISBN 13: 9781624192364
Seller: -OnTimeBooks-, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
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Published by Xulon Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 1624192378ISBN 13: 9781624192371
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Published by Independently published, 2023
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
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Published by Journal of Science and the Arts, London, 1816
Seller: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., United Kingdom
First Edition
Disbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 9 pages. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often the Royal Institution, abbreviated Ri or RI) is an organisation for scientific education and research. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch. Its foundational principles were diffusing the knowledge of, and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, as well as enhancing the application of science to the common purposes of life [Wikipedia]. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Royal Institution; Inventory No: 366962.
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1932
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
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Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 282 Pp. Near Fine Book With Light Wear And Bumping To Ends Of Spine, No Fraying, No Names Or Marks Or Stains. Dj Also Lightly Used, Light Browning To Spine With Wear And Bumping At Ends, No Chipping Or Tears, Not Price-Clipped.
Published by Xulon Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 1624196020ISBN 13: 9781624196027
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by University Press, Cambridge:, 1932
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very Good condition, medium octavo, grey cloth with hints of sunning on upper edges of covers, in good sunned dust wrapper, off setting to end papers, unopened/cut, x plus 282 pages including index. Essays: SIR HENRY TAYLOR by Lacelles Abercrombie; ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH by Humbert Wolfe; THE EARLY NOVELS OF WILKIE COLLINS by Walter de la Mare; EXIT PLANCHÉ - ENTER GILBERT by Harley Granville-Barker; PUNCH IN THE SIXTIES by C. L. Graves; HISTORIANS IN THE SIXTIES by F. S. Boas; ENEAS SWEETLAND DALLAS by John Drinkwater; GEORGE WHYTE-MELVILLE by Sir John Fortescue; SCIENCE IN THE SIXTIES by Sir Oliver Lodge. [QP].
Published by Heath Cranton Limited, London, 1934
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. B. Granville Baker (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1934 First Edition. Size Quarto, 9.75" X 6", 226 Pages Including Index. Green Buckram Cloth With Black Titles To The Spine, No Dust Jacket. Condition Very Good Plus, Corners And Spine Ends Rubbed, 2 Tiny White Dots To Front Cover, End-Papers Toned, Spots To Page Edges Else Contents Clean. Illustrated With Forty Six Pen And Ink Sketches By The Author. Colour Frontispiece Ipswich Barracks 1808. The British Army's Cavalry Stations In The Uk Through The Centuries, Catalogued Geographically By Station. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Published by Cambridge University, 1932
Seller: Brothertown Books, Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Here is a volume of essays edited by John Drinkwater, by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. The essays are on obscure and not-so-obscure literary subjects, but one of them ventures into science, and another into historians. "The Eighteen-'Sixties - Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature", was edited by John Drinkwater, the Poet Laureate of England, and himself a Fellow member, who also contributed an essay and the book's Introduction. The book was published in 1932 by Cambridge University Press. This is the First Edition, hardcover format. The book has a very interesting provenance and gift inscription (See Below). The Book is now OP. ********************************************************** The following is the Table of Contents :: Sir Henry Taylor - by Lascelles Abercrombie ( Dramatist, and critic - part of a community of poets called the Dymock Poets, which included Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, and Rupert Brooks) (Sir Henry Taylor was an esteemed English poet and dramatist. he is also known for the remarkable photographs that Julia Margaret Cameron took of him.) / Arthur Hugh Clough - by Humbert Wolfe (Italian born English poet, man of letters, and civil servant. Quite prolific he was extremely popular in the 1920s - now, sadly, hardly read) / The Early Novels of Wilkie Collins - by Walter De La Mare (Celebrated poet, novelist and children's author. his novel, "Memoirs of a Midget" won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) (Wilkie collins is, of course, the author of "The Moonstone", and "The Woman in White. Mr. De La Mare presents a study of earlier, lesser known works by Collins.) / Exit Planché . Enter Gilbert - by Harley Granville-Barker (Successful English actor, director and playwright) (Gilbert of course was none other than W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan) / Punch in the 'Sixties ("Punch Magazine") - by C. L. Graves (English historian and social critic) ("Punch" was an extremely popular and influential satiric magazine of the Victorian Age - and later.) / Historians in the 'Sixties - by F. S. Boas (Prolific English scholar of Early Drama) / Eneas Sweetland Dallas - by John Drinkwater (English poet, Poet Laureate, novelist, and author of books for children.) (Eneas Sweetland Dallas was a Jamaican born Scottish author and journalist, known for the wide range of his interests) / George Whyte-Melville - by Hon, Sir John Fortescue (Military historian, Royal Librarian and Archivist at Windsor Castle) (George Whyte-Melville was a very popular novelist of the Victorian Era whose stories centered around hunting and riding to the hounds) / Science in the 'Sixties - by Sir Oliver Lodge (Was a knighted English physicist who was involved with the investigation of electromagnetic waves. He was awarded a patent for a radio tuner - which was later purchased by Marconi - Later in life he was intricately involved in spiritualism and psychical research, being the President of the Society for Psychical Research. He was friends with Arthur Conan Doyle, who had similar interests. Lodge was the author of many books and papers.) ******************************************************* TITLE : The Eighteen-Sixties - Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature / EDITOR : John Drinkwater (1882 - 1937) / INTRODUCTION : John Drinkwater / AUTHORS - CONTRIBUTORS : John Drinkwater; Lascelles Ambercrombie; Humbert Wolfe; Walter De La Mare; Harley Granville-Barker; C.L. Graves; F. S. Boas; Sir John Fortescue, Sir Oliver Lodge / IMPRINT : Cambridge University Press / PLACE : Cambridge, England / DATE : 1932 / EDITION : First Edition / PROVENANCE : From the personal library of a famous Doctor, deceased / SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Has interesting gift inscription. / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade Hardcover; Contains an Introduction, nine essays, and an Index; has three line illustrations (reproduced from "Punch Magazine") ; x + 282 pages; 5 1/2" x 8 3/4"; smooth brown cloth-covered boards and spine; gilt lettering and decorativ.
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London, 1945
Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. xxxii, 404 pp. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small losses and chips, sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Tight and bright blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean within.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1925
Book First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Hiley, F.E. Vedder, S.H.; Brock, R.H.; Eyles, D.C.; De Walton, John; Brock, H.M.; Holmes, Fred; Brightwell, L.R.; Nicholson, W.C.; Goss, G.W.; Crozier, Frank (illustrator). First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Antonio the Counsellor - Antonio Conselheiro cast himself into the wilderness, only to become leader of a tribe of Indians which he then led in battle against the cream of the Brazilian army; Our Seaplane Fishing Trip - Summary of a novel seaplane trip recently carried out by a party of Pacific Coast anglers with the assistance of Ellard A. Bacon, manager of the Pacific Marine Airways, a passenger seaplane line operating between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island - article with excellent photos; Crops of Gold - An amusing story from the vicinity of Ten Mile House, British Columbia; The Mystery of the Pool; - Sequel to a story published here about three years ago about a South African prospector's account of a monstrous snake which is supposed to live in a pool in the Orange River; Three Incidents - J.R. Henderson led an uneventful life, aside from a three-month span; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part II - C.W. Domville-Fife and a couple of Indians ventured far into the interior of Amazonia, meeting with many strange and exciting adventures - with photos; "Number Twenty-Three" - A bobcat adventure of Harry E. Webb, a federal hunter employed by the U.S. Government Bureau of Biological Survey to trap and destroy predatory animals that infest the state of Nevada - with photos; The Ivory Raiders - Part IV - Continued adventures from Turkanaland, Africa, where unscrupulous Swahili elephant poachers and bloodthirsty Turkana warriors make things interesting for the white officers responsible for maintaining order - with photos; The Knock-Out - Judkins and Bunney, the bullies of the battalion, were manipulated into boxing each other; A South African Bushranger - A policeman named Mahon turns highwayman in Filabusi, Rhodesia; A Sailor Out Back - The amusing first day experiences of a sailor who tries farming in Willanga Township, Australia; When the Fire Came - A bush fire swept the Matawai district of New Zealand last year - with two photos; From the Great Craters to the Congo Game-Lands - Part II - Elephant hunting in the teeming game country of the Congo - with great photos; Diamond Cut Diamond - R. Granville Barrow and friends need to outwit rapacious South American officials to successfully salvage the passenger steamer Whitney in the Orinoco River; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Covers detached as one but present, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.
Published by Porter & Coates, Publishers, Philadelphia, 1881
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Full-Leather. Condition: Good. R. Riordan, Charles P. King, F. O. C. Darby, S. G. McCutcheon, A. Fredericks, Granville Perkins, Miss C. A. Northam. (illustrator). First Edition. First edition thus. Copyright 1881, by Porter & Coates. Large 6 1/2" x 8" design. Rare. Gold full-cloth beveled boards, pictorial cover design and titles in gilt, moderate shelf wear, discoloration. Dramatic embossed collage cover desing in gold, silver, and black features a golden bell, angelic figure among clouds, townscape and floral imagery among stylish titles and Poe's name appearing from scroll. Features twenty-two classic illustrations in varying motifs, many full-page, engraved by Jas. W. Lauderbach. Illustrators include R. Riordan, Charles P. King, F. O. C. Darby, S. G. McCutcheon, A. Fredericks, Granville Perkins, and Miss C. A. Northam. Pages generally very good, few w/moderate crease, rub; no writing. Pale green endpapers. Bright green ribbon marker. Gilded page edges at all sides. String-bind good. Illustrated throughout by several intriguing illustrators. Each page features intriguing design, drawings. Rare near very good example of fine book craftsmanship. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" is a heavily onomatopoeic poem not published until after Poe's death in 1849. Perhaps best known for the diacopic use of the word "bells." The poem has four parts to it, each growing darker and darker as the poem moves from "the jingling and the tinkling" to the "moaning and the groaning" of the haunted bells. Apprx. 50 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
Published by Porter & Coates, Publishers, Philadelphia, 1881
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. R. Riordan, Charles P. King, F. O. C. Darby, S. G. McCutcheon, A. Fredericks, Granville Perkins, Miss C. A. Northam. (illustrator). First Edition. First edition thus. Copyright 1881, by Porter & Coates. Large 6 1/2" x 8" design. Rare. Sierra colored full leather deeply tooled boards, bright gilt impressed cover titles, light shelf wear. Highly detailed front and back boards feature titles in scrolled borders with wandering ribbons to back cover, surrounded by images of oak branches, leaves, acorns, among rows of floral fount pattern. Features twenty-two classic illustrations in varying motifs, many full-page, engraved by Jas. W. Lauderbach. Illustrators include R. Riordan, Charles P. King, F. O. C. Darby, S. G. McCutcheon, A. Fredericks, Granville Perkins, and Miss C. A. Northam. Thick heavy stock leaves w/round corners, near fine. Vintage inscription at front endpaper: "1881 - For Grace - Love from Marnal - 1961, Riverside, Cal." Light brown patterned endpapers of oak leaves and acorns as bells, sharp. Bright gilded page edges at all sides. String-bind, fine. Illustrated throughout by several intriguing illustrators. Each page features intriguing design, drawings. Rare near fine example of intriguing book craftsmanship. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" is a heavily onomatopoeic poem not published until after Poe's death in 1849. Perhaps best known for the diacopic use of the word "bells." The poem has four parts to it, each growing darker and darker as the poem moves from "the jingling and the tinkling" to the "moaning and the groaning" of the haunted bells. Apprx. 60 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.