James B Meek (43 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. A VGF or better 5" X 8" four-page local theater herald. Also includes ads for "Four Daughters", "Five of a KInd" and "Always in Trouble". Scarce. Book.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A VGF or better 5 1/8" x 8 1/8" card that contains scenes from the film on the front along with film credits, synopsis and a behind the scenes story on the reverse side. These cards were part of a subscription series from Images et Loisirs. They were never available as a retail set; the only way to acquire the cards was through subscription with the company. Printed in France, the English version of these cards are extremely scarce. The French version (know as Mr. Cinema) are also highly collectible. Book.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover rubbed. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 77pp. B/w illustrations. Illustrated hardback laminated board cover.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 16-281. A VG or better original 8 X 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

Illustrated card cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover rubbed. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 77pp. B/w illustrations.

Illustrated card cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover soiled. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 75pp. B/w illustrations.

Illustrated card cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 72pp. B/w illustrations.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book details the discovery of many new fossil species from the cretaceous formation in Nebraska. The author, a paleontologist, details how these fossils demonstrate the progression of life from lower to higher forms. This progression is beautifully illustrated in the development of a single individual in its progress from the young state to maturity. The book provides readers with a broad understanding of the region's geological history and the significance of these fossils in understanding life's progression. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Large hardback in near fine to fine condition.

Gebunden. Condition: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NO DUST JACKET, CLEAN TEXT, signed print # 108/250, signed by robert swartly.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book chronicles the University of Illinois' remarkable 75-year journey from its humble beginnings as an industrial university to its present standing as a respected and influential institution of higher learning. The author provides a detailed account of the university's evolution, from its initial focus on agriculture and mechanics to its expansion into a comprehensive research and teaching institution. The author explores the challenges faced by the university in its early years, including a lack of funding and a shortage of qualified faculty, and highlights the key figures who played a pivotal role in shaping its destiny. The book also examines the university's contributions to the broader field of education, including its groundbreaking work in agricultural and engineering research. Of particular interest is the book's exploration of the university's role during times of national crisis, including its involvement in both World Wars. Through archival research and personal anecdotes, the book presents a vivid and engaging narrative that captures the essence of the university's history and enduring legacy. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition with minor wear to dust jacket. No markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; xv, 343 p., incl. front., illus., plates, ports. 20 cm. LCCN 20011644 OCLC 3247460 LC F327 .M44 ; blue cloth with lettering in black ; no dustjacket ; tear at top of spinAfter searching for more than a year for stories of heroes, deeds of daring, of interesting adventuresand worth-while happenings in the history of our state, I came to feel that Alabama's history is so filled with glorious deeds, magnificent sacrifices, thrills and heart-throbs, that the children of the state should be told what truly great men and women their forebears were." ; Contents : Jean Ortis / De Soto's Arrival in Alabama -- A Very Impolite Guest, The Battle of Mauvilla Bienville -- The First White Settlement -- The Expedition That Failed, French Massacred at Natchez Settlement -- The Girls Who Came to an Unknown Land, The First Wives for the Colonists , Twelve Ugly Ducklings, Girls of the Chest -- The Emperor of Coweta, How the French Made Friends with the Indians -- Game Losers, Conditions During Early Settlement -- A Russian Princess, An Early Romance at Wetumpka -- His Mother, An Indian's Courage -- Princess Mary, James Oglethorpe Comes to Alabama -- Stung Arm, An Indian Princess Befriends the French -- Lachlan McGillivray, English Traders Come Among the Indians -- Alexander McGillivray, A Man Whose Power Affected the Nation -- The Heroine of Little River, How the Tensaw Settlers were Saved -- The Camp Angel, British Refugees Wander Through Ahibama, Courage Wins Reward, Paro Saves the Wanderers -- A Real Hero, A Negro Saves the Lives of the Immigrants -- Little Tempey Ellis, Tiny White Girl Rescued by "Old Milly" -- Isaac Heaton's Dogs, Fort Sinquefield in the Greek War -- A Brave Indian, Talladega Fort Saved by General Jackson -- The Canoe Fight, Sam Dale, Jere Austill and James Smith Stage a Great Fight -- Kindness That Came Back, The Fort Mims Massacre -- The Red Eagle, A Reproduction of Alexander Meek's Poem of the Creek War -- Nannawyah, Indians are Warned of Their Removal to the West -- The Stranger Within Our Gates, Aaron Burr's Capture --The Yazoo Fraud, Early Settlers Come into Alabama --The One-Man Senate, Alabama Becomes a Territory, then a State -- The Vine and Olive Company, French Refugees Settle Dcmopolis -- The Man Who Could Make Cow-Bells, St. Stephen's Prosperous Days -- John Hunt's Town, The Founding of Huntsville -- Andrew Dexter's Tract, The Beginning of Montgomery -- Cedar Creek Furnace, The Beginning of Iron-Making in Alabama -- A Vice-President of the United States, Wm. Rufus King, the Founder of Selma -- A Captain of Industry, Daniel Pratt, the Founder of Prattville -- La Fayette's Visit, A French General, the Friend of Amerioa -- Francis Scott Key's Mission to Alabama, Trouble with the Indians -- The First Railroad in Alabama, Experiences of Early Railroad Builders Osceola, The Leader of the Creeks and the Seminoles -- William C. Travis, Leader in the War for Texas Independence -- Billy Goold, The Man Who Found Fortunes for Others -- Jefferson Davis, Memories Recalled by Mrs. Mary Phelan Watt -- Supplies for Southern Soldiers, The Ordnance Department of the Confederacy -- The Boy Artilleryman, John Pelham -- Emma Sansom, The Girl Who Showed General Forrest "The Lost Ford"-- A Story of Real Strategem, General Streight Surrenders to General Forrest -- Fighting Joe Wheeler, Hero of Two Wars -- The Flagship Tennessee, A Naval Battle in Mobile Bay -- A King -of the High Seas, Raphael Semmes, Commander of the "Alabama" -- The David and Goliath of the Sea, The First Torpedo Boat -- A Boy Hero, Thomas Jones Shows His Courage -- Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction Days in Alabama -- What One Boy Made of Himself, How James Pugh Became "The Patrick Henry of Alabama" -- The Birth of Birmingham, How John T. Milner Laid the Foundation for the Great Town , Difficulties of the Young Engineer, The Trick that Didn't Work, The Greatness of the Resources of "The Pittsburg of the South" etc ; scarce ; G. Book.

First Printing. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by James B. Meek (illustrator). Limited Edition. Rust cloth binding rubbed at extremities; backstrip sunned; some pale spotting to backstrip & rear board; insect predation to free endpapers; leaf edges browned. No dust jacket. ; Many black & white photos and two-color illustrations by author; edition plate on front paste-down is numbered 322 and signed by author.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 196 pages; Signed by Author.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 54.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Designs, Drawings and Photographs by the Author (illustrator). :: Complete authoritative introduction to and training in the art of gun engraving. :: Includes hundreds of examples of master engravers' work and over 1378 photos, drawings, designs, illustrations, and layouts. :: Cross-referenced index makes locating a specific tool, design, or technique easy. :: Bound in publisher's russet cloth, title, author, and publisher are lettered down spine in gold. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 286 x 217 millimeters). 196 pages. Condition: Very Good, in a Very Good dust jacket. Book has light wear, small stains. Dust jacket has wear along the edges, shelf-wear abrasions, and a moisture stain along the hinge of the front inner panel.

Hardcover. 518pp. Quarto [30.5 cm] Lacking the large folding map ("Profile of wagon-routes in the Territory of Utah"). Rebound in plain brown cloth with the title lettered in gilt on the backstrip. New endpapers and flyleaves. Errata slip bound in at front. Thin 4" mark on front board. Handful of small stains on the fore-edge of the text block. Pages moderately age-toned. Contains 4 diagrams, 2 maps, plates I-V, plates I-IX, and plates I-III. Subjects include: "Report on the Palĉontological Collections of the Expedition" (with descriptions of new species); "Ornithology: A List of Birds"; "Report on Ichthyology"; "Report on the Botany of the Expedition"; "Population and Resources of the Territory of Utah"; "Indians of Utah"; "Report on the Languages of the Different Tribes of Indians Inhabiting the Territory of Utah"; "Journal of Mr. Edward M. Kern"; "Journeyings of Father Escalante, from Santa Fe to Utah Lake and the Moqui Villages in 1776." According to Howes "This route, explored in 1859, shortened the distance to California by 250 miles; it was adopted by the overland mail, pony express and telegraph. The report was submitted in 1861, but publication had to be deferred because of the Civil War. Portions however appeared in the author's The Shortest Route to California." Howes S508. Moffat 57 & 59. Wagner/Camp 345 note.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 101-150 plus XIV pages of nostalgic ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Solitudes of the Arctic - Great photos; A Visit to Satan - in his sanctuary at Sheikh Adi, the leading shrine of the Yazidis or Devil-worshippers, that strange mysterious folk set amid the turbulent Kurds of northwestern Mesopotamia; The Prairie Orchestra - interesting article on grasshoppers; Winnipeg - the Prairie Capital; The Handicraft Renaissance in Quebec. Nice two-color Canadian Pacific ad on back cover features image of female dancer in Bali. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1870 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 368 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 368 Volume r7 Language: English.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1870 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 352 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 352 Volume r6 Language: English.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1870 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 400 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 400 Volume 4; p3 Language: English.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1870 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 422 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 422 Volume 4, p 1-2 (1877) Language: English.