By M Grieve (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition first printing. octavo paperback 30 pages illustrated Near Fine condition in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket No inscriptions. Janet Fennell (Lorgan (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 286 pages, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket [0900362642]. (Published for The David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies).

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Missing. 207 pp. An excellent copy. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear. Clean text. Some pages previously dog-eared. Dust jacket missing.

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. 32 pages (including covers). Clean but bit creased. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR TO GOOD. THE MEDICINAL , CULINARY, COSMETIC AND ECONOMIC PROPERTIES, CULTIVATION AND FOLKLORE OF HERBS, GRASSES, FUNGI, SHRUBS AND TREES WITH ALL THEIR MODERN SCIENTIFIC USES. REVISED EDITION 1973. A NEAR FINE BOOK IN A FAIR TO GOOD DUSTWRAPPER. THE BOOK HAS LAMINATED ILLUSTRATED BOARDS. INTERNALLY FINE. THE DUSTWRAPPER IS FAIR TO GOOD. COMPLETE, BUT HAS SOME EDGEWEAR, FRONT OF D/W IS SLIGHTLY TANNED AND SOME GRUBBY MARKS ON REAR. THE SPINE OF D/W IS A BIT FADED. HEAVY BOOK. MIGHT NEED EXTRA POSTAGE OVERSEAS.…

Hardback. Condition: Near fine. No jacket. First edition. First edition. Medium 8vo. Pp. xiv, 191, [1]. Quarter-bound cream cloth over patterned tan orange and white boards, printed paper title label to upper cover. Tissue-guarded colour frontis, plus 11 full-page illustrations (some in colour) by Katherine Cameron, Jessie M. King, Phoebe Traquair, Cecile Walton et al., including a photographic portrait of Virginia Woolf. Comprising a print run of 2000 copies, 950 of which were bound in November 1926 in a white cloth spine (in five binding variants), and 50 in vellum, with this copy being the primary tan binding. A further 250 copies were bound in 1927, with the remaining 750 copies being pulped in June 1956. Sans the scarce Otto Schlapp-designed dustwrapper. Spine tanned, top edge dust soiled, signature to flyleaf, endpapers lightly foxed, else Near Fine. Edinburgh University Women's Union 21st anniversary issue. With the first appearance of Virginia Woolf's short sketch, 'A Woman's College from the Outside' (being a dropped episode from Jacob's Room), 'Two Unpublished Sketches' by Katherine Mansfield; additional contributions by Hilaire Belloc, W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Muir, T. Sturge Moore et al. [Kirkpatrick & Clarke B6].…

Leather bound. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 4to. Pp. (4), vii, 280, (8). English Translation by James Grieve. With all five plates accounted for, with four of them folding, and the two folding maps. Index. Bound in three-quarter brown morocco over contemporary calf boards with new endpapers. Spine with red morocco label with gilt lettering, gilt flourishes in compartments. The preliminaries with dampstaining to bottom edge, and lower fore-edge, picking up sporadically through text block, but not affecting plates or maps. Binders tag and armorial bookplate of Edward Davenport on the front pastedown. Boards with marks and staining commensurate with age. Krascheninnikov was assistant to George Steller on the second Bering expedition to the North Pacific. Referring to the French edition (1767), Hill credits this work's "primary importance" as one of the "earliest accounts of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands." EBERSTADT (Northwest Coast), 17 ("[this] examination of the Russian exploits in the history of the furthest outpost is essential"); HILL (Vol. I), p. 166 ("the first scientific account of those regions"); HOWES K265 ("contains one of the earliest descriptions of Russian America"); WICKERSHAM 5942. Noted in LADA-MOCARSKI 12. . …

First Edition. Collected early writings on Buchan, Scottish literature, Neil Gunn etc A little soiled throughout but generally VG. Ownership inscription to front pastedown and later signature of Alexander Scott (the poet?) to front free endpaper.