Edited Frank Forester (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Lightly foxed. Spine has slight wear to the ends and a slight split to the rear edge. ; Volume two out of two only. With two folded plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. history hunting. . . . . 8vo, hardcover. Near fine condition in vg+ dj. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, under dj flap. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 276 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This 8"tall X 6" green cloth, beveled board HC w/o DJ is in good+ cond. Corners bumped and lightly worn. Lower spine end worn and starting to fray; upper more worn w/1/4" +1/2"tears. Minimal other edgewear. Gilt spine letering VG. Previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown and FFEP. Front hinge starting, rear VG. Otherwise and interior near fine. Not ex-lib.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1859, New York. Fair. 8vo., 425 pp., bound in red cloth with 6 hand colored illustrations. Ex-library with all faults; covers, tips, edges and spine rubbed thru in spots. Hinges starting, library blind stamps on all illustrations. Signed by Forster Alexander Sondley. A good reading copy. Forster Alexander Sondley, attorney and scholar, was born at Montrealla, his maternal grandfather's home in Alexander, a community ten miles north of Asheville. As an adult he most often referred to himself as F. A. Sondley. A lawyer. Historian, collector of art, he is chiefly remembered for his personal library of approximately 30,000 volumes containing hundreds of rare works on southern and state history and on natural history. The city of Asheville acquired the library by bequest at his death, and parts of it still form the nucleus of the Sondley Reference Library in Asheville. John Leech (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Green cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. Title and copyright pages dated 1856. 425 pages with an additional 6 pages advertising titles from the same publisher. Boards are very lightly faded with minor shelf wear along edges. Gold illustration of a fox on front board. Gold lettering on spine is dulled but still legible. Spine toned. Fore edges also toned. Shelf cocked. Yellow front and rear endpapers. Color illustration by John Leech as frontispiece. Small spots of toning throughout pages. Text remains clean and legible. Binding secure with no missing pages. Good Condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Volume Two out of Two, only, but "each volume complete in itself." BAL 8178. A planned third volume was never issued, see BAL listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Two brief gift inscriptions on front free end paper. Red gilt stamped and illustrated cloth over boards, a "complete and revised edition," divided into three parts (one each by "Dinks", "Mayhew" and "Hutchinson"), frontispiece and 34 illustrations, some in the text, others full-page, Index, 663 pages, 7 page catalogue for other books by the same publisher, one-page illustrated ad for pistols and rifles. Covers soiled and worn, corners and spine ends bumped with wear, cloth torn at head of spine, both hinges cracked, back cover pulling loose from text block, several spots of foxing in the blank margin of one illustration. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 0 oz. Category: Animals & Birds; Dogs; Books; Fishing & Hunting. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 008594.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Top and bottom page ends are discolored. Frontispiece has a marginal stain; name erased from endpapers. ; BAL 8178. A planned third volume was never issued, see BAL listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes. Hardcovers, bound in green cloth. The bindings rubbed but sold. Bookplates; light scattered foxing and marginal toning.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First American edition. Handsomely bound in three-quarter bright red morocco over marbled boards. Slightly raised spine bands, extra gilt decorated compartments, date in gilt at base. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with six wonderful hand-coloured engravings on steel. All plates are present and bright. A firmly bound nice copy. John Leech (illustrator).…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 20cm, first American edition, engraved frontis plate& engraved vignette half-title and 4 engraved plates with tissueguards, elaborately blind and gilt decorated and illustration darkblue cloth, t.e.g., very good to fine copy A Scottish officer(pseud. "The Old Forest Ranger") in the service of the East IndiaCompany, writes of hunting tigers, boars, sambur, bison and bearsin central India. First published in London in 1842. With anIntroduction for this edition, by English sportswriter, HenryHerbert (pseud. Frank Forester).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Complete in two volumes. Octavos. 241, 231pp. Illustrated with four engravings, three fold-out. Vertically ribbed purple cloth elaborately stamped in blind with spines titled in gilt. Modern hunting-themed bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. Bindings worn and a bit cocked with shallow loss at the corners and spine ends and a bit of soil, small stain on the spine of Volume 2, Volume 1 with modest occasional foxing throughout, sound and near very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. II ed. della raccolta (I ed.: 1965 (?). A Theory of Pictorial Perception by James J. Gibson is reprinted from Audio-visual Communication Review, I:1, Winter, 1954 - The Painter's Handwriting by J. P. Hodin is reprinted from The Journal of Aesthetiscs and Art Criticism, VII:3, March, 1949). Vision + Value Series. Testo in inglese. VIII grande/ (6)+282/ crat./ sovraccoperta in carta liscia con grafica in b/malva/salvia/n e con titoli in nero. Illustrazioni in b/n nel testo e f.t. Stato buono (usura della sovraccoperta, in particolare ai margini - sovraccoperta, fogli di guardia e pagine brunite e con qualche piccola fioritura). Contents: Lawrence K. Frank: The World as a Communication Network-Signs, Images and Symbols - Heinz Von Foerster; From Stimulus to Symbol: The Economy of Biological Computation - Rudolf Arnheim; Image and Thought - S. Giedion; Symbolic Expression in Prehistory and in the First High Civilizations - James J. Gibson; A Theory of Pictorial Perception - Rudolf Modley; Graphic Symbols for World-Wide Communication - Henry Dreyfuss; Case Study: Symbols for Industrial Use - Abraham H. Maslow; Isomorphic Interrelationships between Knower and Known - Charles Morris and Frank Sciadini; Paintings, Ways to Live, and Values - J. P. Hodin; The Painter's Handwriting - Werner Schmalenbach; The Problem of Reality in Mid-Century Painting - Ad Reinhardt; Art in Art is Art as Art - Robert Osborn; The Hangover - Saul Bass; Movement, Film, Communication - Edmund Carpenter; Image Making in Arctic Art - Paul Riesman; The Eskimo Discovery of Man's Place in the Universe - John E. Burchard; The City as Symbol - Ernesto N. Rogers; The Image: The Architect's Inalienable Vision - P. A. Michelis; Form in Architecture: Imitation and Abstraction - Ludwig von Bertalanffy; The Tree of Knowledge - Biographical Notes on the Autors.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 Volumes; Green cloth, gold spine titles, blind covers border, beveled edges, floral endpapers/pastedown, & tissued frontis in each volume; A very good ex library set with small wave to cover cloth & mild tide mark to frontis corner volume II; 300 & 300 pages. Size: 5.25"x7.75". …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 254 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.57 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 254 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.57 inches. This item is printed on demand.