Douglas Rigby (38 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). First Trade Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Blue pictorial DJ, spine chipped, cover and text solid. Nature; ugsehi1267.

Paperback. era. 692 good, chipping, creases, some cover numbers, A history of collectors and collecting. paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. # 692.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rpt. #692. Paperback. G-VG. Light-mod. chipped spine edges; mod. leaf edge browning; small open spine splits at back. Nonfiction about the history of collecting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. solid hardcover edition with jacket light wear to cover.

paperback. Condition: Good. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Douglas Rigby (illustrator). 313 pages; 25 chapters with index. Pages tight; clean; no page wear; no markings; slight foxing on end pages; Section in middle of book contains photographs of desert life. Bright orange hard linen-like covers with illustration of catcus on front; orange lettering on spine. Minor shelf wear. Dust jacket has whtie letterins and desert illustration. Minor tears on dj edges; some rubbing and fading. Author shares his discovery of the wealth of unexpected pleasure to be found in the deserts of the American southwest. He studied, observed, and kept records of subjects of inexhastilbe interest-the hows and whys of the desert's flora; fauna and physical structure; its sometimes hidden beauties; its astonishing strenghs; and the people. VINTAGE COPY.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 48, No 1, pp. 47-56, Map, Photos, 4to, Extracted from orig Vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, else VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with photographs. Tales of the flora and fauna, the history and legend of the southwest Arizona desert. Dust-jacket quite rubbed and chipped along top edge and spine ends. Very good in fair dust-jacket.

Paperback. era. 692 very good +, some spine fading, reading crease A history of collectors and collecting. paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. No Jacket. General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. Corners have been bumped a bit. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. Previous owner's name(s) inside blacked out. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 692 in this important series, "the story of collecting," condensed for wartime reading, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.

Hardcover. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957, stated first. Orange cloth, black pictorial, no DJ, edges lightly rubbed, ex-lib, tape on corners, very solid. Arizona ; ugsehi1267.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback Good Single issue of Arizona Highways for January 1959 Cactus Cover shows moderate wear Pages clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). Second Impression. Second impression. Missing front-free endpaper, elso very good. Dust jacket missing one inch piece from bottom of spine. Reading and reference copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good Used Condition. Roger Duvoisin (illustrator). Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. dj: fair. fairly beat-up. book: near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., x+313 pp., photos, index, dj, vg+. Nice Az. item, reads well.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Armed Services edition. Oblong 12mo, 511 pages, stapled wrappers ASE no. 692. An odd choice of content for most soldiers -but it would have been of interest to The Monument Men. Abridged, but "zestful reading".

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited. Antiques. Limited edition, #359 of 550 copies. Black leather spine scuffed, ends chipped, tan cloth covers good, corners lightly bumped. Interior clean and tight, shelf scuff on the bottom edge. Covers all types of collecting, including books.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. These scarce books were produced from 1943 to 1947 for distribution to US Armed Services serving during and after World War II. These books were never designed to outlive the war effort, much less over 80 years! These books written by the novelists, educators, journalists, and scientists, are a rare glimpse into the decade of the Greatest Generation. THESE books were printed on lower-quality, thin paper, but they have held up against the test of time. Some have scratches, others have creases or dog-eared pages, some have rusty staples, some are yellowed or have foxing, others have tears or creases, but they are all true survivors! Part of the 'Armed Services Edition (#692)' series. Softcover edition. 512 pages. Dimensions: 6.5" by 4.5". 1st printing, 1945. 0.5 Pound Media Shipping Rate with Multiple Product Orders. (Min Shipping Rate 1 Pound per Order). Order More and SAVE! Genre(s): Armed Services Editions / Miltary / Collecting / English. (B93).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second edition. Very good, 2nd Printing of the Trade Edition with dustwrapper. The book has light rub of spine ends. The dustwrapper has wear and tear of all panel edges and light fading of panels. The text is clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in slipcase. Beige cloth over boards with gold lettering on black leather spine. Title page and copyright page dated 1944. Stated first edition, and limited edition no. 232/550. 570 pages. Book is in good condition. Minimal wear to cover, most evident at head, foot, and hinges of spine. Gold stamping is bright. Binding remains strong and square. Top edge of pages gilt. Small personal library plate in upper left corner of front attached endpaper. Pages are free of marks, tears, or creases. Cardboard slipcase, covered in navy paper, is torn along one hinge, but otherwise intact. Overall a good, clean copy. Frontispiece features color reproduction of a self-portrait by American collector Charles Wilson Peale. Several black and white photographs of art and artifacts featured throughout.

Condition: Very Good Condition. #692.

paperback #692 CONDITION: reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Meets the good condition guidelines. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Philadelphia 1944 Lippincott. First edition. 9 1/2 half leather HB. 570 p. Limited and numbered edition of 500 boxed. With 300 B&W photos. owner's inscription inside front cover, leather split on front spine edge, box has cornerwear, otherwise clean, bright and tight. G+ in VG- slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Very Good/Good Condition. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Edges of text block soiled, dust jacket lightly chipped and soiled.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited Edition, no. 171 of 500 copies. Original publisher's beige cloth-covered boards backed with dark blue leather in a blue paper-covered slipcase. Gilt lettering on book spine. Top edge gilt. Book measures 6 1/4" x 9 1/4." Slipcase measures 6 1/2" x 9 3/4." 570 pages, complete. Index in back. Front colophon: "This edition is limited to five hundred fifty numbered copies, five hundred of which are for sale, this is copy no. 171." Pages and covers virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Slipcase has slight rubbing. A Fine book in a Very Good slipcase. Monograph about collecting and collectors. The following are some of the chapter titles: "The Collection as a Means to Physical Security," "The Collection as a Means to Distinction," "The Collection as a Means to Immortality," "The Collection as a Means to Knowledge and Esthetic," "How the Collection Is Born," "The Old Men: Collectors in the Ancient World," "Light from the East" [about Eastern collecting], "The Italian Renaissance: Rebirth of Western Collection," "French Collectors Take Up the Torch," "England Contributes the Scientific Ideal," "How to Tell a Collector from Other People," "What Makes a Collection?," "Determining Values in the Collection," "Buyer, Beware!," "The Dark Borderlands of Collecting," and "The Threshold of Tomorrow.".