E Cambridge Phillips (8 results)

Condition: Very Good. xxi, 158, [10]-List of Subscribers, 2 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt title to spine and front board. A few pages torn at margin where untidily opened and another torn, all without loss to text. Good. Second edition. First published as a series of five papers in the Zoologist (1881-82) and in book form, for private circulation, in 1882. This edition was re-written and consderably enlarged, with the addition of the Welsh names of the birds.Mullens & Swann p. 471.

Condition: Very Good. xxi, [3], 158, [10]-List of Subscribers, 2 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt title to spine and front board, a few light marks to boards. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges. Vg. Second edition. First published as a series of five papers in the Zoologist (1881-82) and in book form, for private circulation, in 1882. This edition was re-written and consderably enlarged, with the addition of the Welsh names of the birds.Mullens & Swann p. 471.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 152 pages. Illustrated. William Phillips "The Problem Defined - Portrait Of The Artist As An American" / Clement Greenberg "The Present Prospects Of American Painting And Sculpture" /William Barrett "Notes On Being An American" / W H Auden "Intimations Of Yes - Music Is International (poem)" /James Thrall Soby "Ben Shahn And Morris Graves" / Philip C Johnson And Edgar Kaufmann,Jr "American Architecture: Four New Buildings" / e e cummings "poem" (poem)" / Joe Alsop "Circles And Stresses - American Foreign Policy" / William Abrahams "The disappearing Centre: Notes On Boston And Cambridge" / Donald Windham "Single Harvest" / Jacques Barzun "The Higher Learning In America" / Raplh Ellison "The Invisible Man" / Philip Lamantia "Letter From San Francisco" / John Berryman "The Imaginary Jew" / Herbert Marshall McLuhan "American Advertising" / Christopher Isherwood "Los Angeles".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by the author to ffe paper "The Zoological Society with the compliments of the author". Slim 8vo, viii + pp45 plus b/w engraved frontis of Kite nest with tissue guard. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers olive green cloth binding with gilt titles to front board and gilt titles and gilt titles and gilt Zoological Society stamp to spine with blind stamped decorative borders to both boards. Binding in very good condition with a little rubbing to top & tail and sides of spine and a little bumping to tips. Inside Zoological Society stamps to front free end papers and title page with all other pages in excellent clean and bright condition. For added interest pp7 pamphlet on "Llangorse Lake and it's Bird Life" also by E. Cambridge Phillips reprinted from the transactions of the woolhope Naturalists Field club of which he was a member. A nice inscribed copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. The Birds of Breconshire by E. Cambridge Phillips, 1899.Publisher: Edwin Davies, Brecon.Binding: hardback cloth.Illustrated: yes.Description / Condition: Light shelf wear to boards. Inner front hinge a little worn. Ownership mark to first page. Bookshop blindstamp mark along with gift inscription to half-title page. Light foxing to pages with creases in places. A nice copy for its age.Please see pictures for further information.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first trade edition of this detailed account of the birds of the Brecons by naturalist Edward Cambridge Phillips. The first trade edition of the work, originally published in 1882 for private circulation.In publisher's original blue cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and a plate. Collated, complete.A work by solicitor and naturalist Edward Cambridge Phillips, who spent most of his life in the Brecon area.The volume provides a detailed account of the species of birds that can be found in Breconshire, a border county of South Wales. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine. Small mark to front and rear board. Offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting to the front of the work. Booksellers slip tipped in to half title page. Ink inscription to half title page. Various ink inscriptions throughout leaves. Very Good Indeed. book.

Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and a plate, some minor foxing to endpapers preliminaries and title only; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. The first publicly available avifauna of the county, representing a substantially revised and enlarged edition of the author's first, privately printed, list of 1882. Not recorded by Tate.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The very scarce privately printed edition of an important County bird book, later published in a larger trade edition in 1899. Almost certainly the personal copy of E Cambridge Phillips himself. Evidence includes two cards addressed to him, one with his mailing address; An embossed coat of arms related to the Phillips family with a Phillips motto Ducit amor patriae"The love of my country leads me on.". Below this is an inscription prop (? indecipherablt) Private Copy./E.C.P. Published with many blank page most of which have extensive notes with many bird related clippings. Long clipping regarding breeding Choughs affixed to rear pastedown. Light wear, later owner's stamp on Front free endpaper, thick tape repair on spine 45 pp.