E Wilson Lyon (24 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book is clean and tight. Former price inside. Spine has some bumps. The man who actually sold Louisiana was that amazing French diplomat, Francois Barbre-Marbois, a man who enjoyed one of the longest public careers in all French history.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition soft cover book. Shelf wear, toning, and light smudging. Light toning and smudging to page edges. Each book individually inspected and described. Never X-Library unless specifically stated as such.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. EMAIL for Pictures.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very good. 1st Edition. Pages. 251 - 276. Extracted from The Mississippi Valley Historical Review Vol. 22, No. 2 (Sep., 1935). Very good, stapled. (139).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No jacket. Cover is shelf worn, especially along edges. Top half of back cover has been cut off. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good copy in brown cloth hardcover. Burgundy and gilt title band on spine. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good+ condition in worn dust wrapper in protective cover, octavo, mid brown cloth spine with tan cloth boards, Lonsdale initial and crown in gilt on front, titles and gilt across spine, neat gift inscription dated 1962 on front free end paper, Foyles booksellers label on front end paper, one instance of marginalia - the list of winners of the Grand National stop at 1954, a previous owner has completed from 1963 to 1967. otherwise text is clean and bright and the binding firm, illustrated with a colour plate frontis piece and 69 other illustrations on plates and 5 other illustrations in text (there is a discrpancy between the dust wrapper and the number of plates called for; 334 pages including index. [QP]. Various (illustrator). …

Original Cloth. Condition: NVG. NVG. First Edition. Book has modest covere wear, cover edge fading. Dj has edgewear, soiling. Spine is a tad discolored. Book.

Hardcover. 23 x 15 cm. Hardcover. Former library possession with stamps and signatures. With tables and some illustrations in black and white in text. Good condition. --- Brauner neuerer Halbleinenband. Aus dem Bestand der Landwirtschaftlichen Fakultät Berlin mit den üblichen Stempeln und Signaturen. Mit einigen s/w Abbildungen, Fotos, Tabellen und Grafiken im Text. Guter Zustand. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Leuchtender Herbstbeginn! Wie wäre es mit einem guten Buch? Bei uns werden Sie fündig, stöbern Sie in unserem Ladengeschäft oder online. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K08801Ueb-300906.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover in dustjacket. Teal boards, clean and bright. SIGNED by the author, who was president of Pomona College from 1941 through 1969. Book is firm in binding, crisp interior, 614 pages include Index, b&w photos throughout. Protected dustjacket is bright, general shelf wear. Illustrated endpapers. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 614 pages; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Pomona College, 1977. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and tears.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine DJ. First Edition. 262 pp. As new, with the errata slip laid in loosely.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some Chipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine DJ. First Edition. 262 Pp. As New, With The Prospectus And A Letter From The College.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Softcover; 8vo; 268 pages. Paper wraps, with blue wall-paper pattern. Covers yellowing overall. Bright and clean pages. VG+. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Second Printing. Softcover; small 8vo; 240 pp. Second p. White wraps with burgundy text/illustration. Bright and clean interior. NF. Book.

Condition: Very good. 1954, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp334, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, tan cloth spine over beige boards in dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 5 1/8 x 7 7/8", 240 pp. Jacket is worn, has small tears, scuff at back and front flap is price-clipped. The Louisiana Purchase and Francois Barbe-Marbois.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small 8vo in cloth, gilt spine title. Binding tight and square, corners and spine ends very lightly rubbed, spine modestly sunned. p.o. bookplate on the ffep.

GOOD CONDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Scarce 1st printing, stated first edition. Square and unmarked, rubbed at spine ends. Full cloth binding. xix, 240pp. Jacket is good only, price-clipped, with small chips, darkly toned spine. Now in a new mylar cover. Instructed to demand fifty million francs, Barbe-Marbois, with tight-fisted French thrift, asked one hundred million francs. The transaction was a horse trade, and the United States paid eighty million. The first full-length biography of this Frenchman who served various sovereigns and governments of France, and corresponded with many of the founding fathers of the new American republic, he married the daughter of a governor of Pennsylvania and eventually became minister of the public treasury under Napoleon. He considered the Louisiana transaction to be the greatest event of his long career. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 526 pp. ; ill. ; 24 cm ; LCCN: sf 83-3063 ; LC: SB21; Dewey: 630.62774 ; OCLC: 8464264 ; Pages 1-83 have been used as a period scrapbook [!], into which are pasted various poems from the 1870's-90's clipped from newspapers such as The Detroit Commercial, The Detroit Post & Ledger, and The Berrien County Journal (April 10, 1880) ; Included are A pasted illustration, "St. Louis High School", poems include Eventide / Julia C. R. Dore -- Always mine -- Fatherly Advice -- If I Could Know -- In the Old Church Tower / T. B. Aldrich -- At Last / J G Whittier -- Woman Gossip -- Making the Best of It -- Bob of the Golden City / Will S. Hayes -- Beautiful Things / Ella P Allerton -- Growing Old -- The Kaiser and the Little Maid -- Reward of Endeavor / Julia Ward Howe -- We Must All Scratch / Frank S Bondy -- The Countersign / Margaret Eytinge -- Which one? -- The Honest Farmer -- Our Frank / M. S. A. -- The Love of Long Ago / Ella Wheeler -- Fathers Growing Old, John -- Somebody's Mother -- Comparison / Annie E Fisher -- To My Mother -- Falsely Accused -- Dear John -- Taking the End of the Seat -- It May Be Your Turn Next -- Pomp's Defense -- Cliff Roses / F. W. B. -- Little Mabel / Alice Van Orden -- The Printer's Toil / Scott -- A Pintin' To-day? -- Heartless / Medora Clark -- The Dead Child and the Mocking-Bird / Paul H Hayne -- Mother's Way -- Buddha and the Hindoo Mother / Edwin Arnold -- I Have Drunk My Last Glass / Louisa S Upham -- Brevities and Oddities A Temperance Curiosity -- Of All -- Dr. Holland's Last Poem -- The Two Gates, Only! -- The Country Schoolmaster -- Leap Year -- A Nibble -- A Swarm of Bees -- Do Your Best / M. Ella Cornell -- Annie and Willie's Prayer, A Christmas Story / Sophia P. Snow -- How the Conductor Took the Fare -- Laugh and Grow Fat -- I am So Tired of Being Me -- A Laugh is Worth a Hundred Groans / Josephine Pollard -- A happy New Year / Spirit May -- Just Here -- Coming Home / M. T. Shelhamer -- He Loveth When He Chasteneth / Lizzie Fenner Baker -- They Shall Revive As the Corn / Annie Mills -- True Courage -- Better than Gold / Father Ryan -- Lift Up the Temperance Banner / Rev. Charles Garrett -- Little By Little / J. Albert Wilson -- No Time Like the Present / Phoebe Cary ; articles in the report include: Discussions of the Peninsula Farmers' Club--Fungus not the Cause of Disease, the advantages of top grafting -- Insects injurious to strawberries / A J Cook -- Garden and Wild FLowers / Mrs. Jeremiah Brown -- New Varieties of Fruit (Peaches: Hill's Chill, The Barnard, Honest John, Keyport White, Foster; Paw Paw Apple, Romanite Apple) / T T Lyon -- Fruit Growing at South Haven / J E Bidwell -- Fruit Culture at Grand Traverse / Stanford Howard -- Birds / L H Bailey -- The Necessity of a State Entomologist / H A Shaw -- Orchard Drainage / A T Linderman -- Of One Hundred, How Many? / T T Lyon, James D Husted, A J Cook, Edward Bradfield, R F Hathaway, H E Bidwell -- Pear Blight / P J Berckman, Josiah Hoopes -- The State Fair 1873 -- Orchards and Vineyards of Michigan / S Q Lent -- A Grand Traverse Fruit Farm / T T Lyon -- A Kent County Peach Orchard and Grapery / Albert Baxter -- Flowers at the Michigan State Fair / James Vick -- Old Mission Orchards / WHC Lyon -- Early History of Horticulture in Michigan / JC Holmes -- The Importance to the Fruit Culturist of Shelter or Protection / TT Lyon -- Western New York Horticultural Society / PC Reynolds -- Lecture on Entomology / CV Riley -- The Bird Question / Wm. LeBaron -- Agressive Parasitism of Fungi / TJ Burrill -- Peaches of the Michigan Peach Belt / AS Dyckman -- Horticulture for the People / JJ Thomas -- Insects Injurious to House Plants and Shubbery / AJ Cook -- The Apple Tree / WJ Beal -- Grape Culture / Artimus Sigler -- The Honey Locust as a Hedge Plant / JW Helme ; 14 black and white illustrations ; page 203/204 creased ; because of the scrapbooking, condition is FAIR. Book.…

Condition: Good. 8vo. [4 pp.]. Very Good. Black and White Plates. In English. Scarce. Memorial program for Rico Lebrun. Opening Address by Dr. E. Wilson Lyon, memorial address by William Brice and Leonard Baskin. Printed by Noel Young. From the collection of the late art historian Peter Selz. Autograph note card from Wilson Lyon to Peter Selz., dated 5/25/64.Elijah Wilson Lyon (1904 -1989) was an American diplomatic historian who was the sixth president of Pomona College from 1941 to 1969. …