Greg Needham (3 results)

- Softcover
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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Condition: As New. Like New condition. Paperback edition. Leonie O'Moore; Natasha Alterici; Michelle Sciuto; Rachael Anderson; AmEdeo (illustrator).
Socialist Review: Identity, Animates, Activism - Volume 26, Nos. 3 + 4, 1996
Greg Smith (Editor); Anuradha Dingwaney, Lawrence Needham, Carrie Tirado Bramen, et al. (Contributors)
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, Durham, NC 1996
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- Periodical
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.gearbooks
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Volumes 26, Nos. 3 + 4, 1996. 236 pp. Volumes 26, Nos. 3 + 4, 1996 only! Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.
Published by T. Nelson and Sons, Pternoster Row,, London: 1870
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- First Edition
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star seller12mo. viii, [9]-160 pp. Woodcut-engraved vignette on title, woodcut engraved frontisp., woodcut engraved illustrations throughout, some as borders, plates, text illustrations. Publisher's decorated red cloth over beveled boards, gilt & black ornamental borders & lettering, blue-tinted plate mounted front cover, brown clay-sized…endpapers, a.e.g. (very minor edgewear to lower corners, slight bumping to rear corner), still VG bright copy, w/ former ownership markings on 2nd flyleaf. First edition of this second title in the "Walter" series by the author of the "Walter at the Sea-side" a popular work on marine zoology for young people. This volume explores the arboreal residents of Southern England's New Forest, first proclaimed a Royal Forest in 1079, at the time 150 acres of protected hunting lands. Inter-weaved are poetry and anecdotes of oaks, chestnuts, elms, birches, conifers, cypress ("Graveyard Trees"), and even describes the California Sequoia and its attributes. Mary Greg (1809-1895) worked with her husband in establishing "The Mount," where she assisted her husband Samuel Greg II (1804-1876) British industrialist, and Unitarian philanthropist, and lecturer on scientfic subjects to the workers of Macclesfield. She was a close friend of the poet and author Elizabeth Gaskell who often stayed with the family, and was a frequent correspondent, while Mary Greg wrote on natural history and religious topics. See: Marie Moss, Travelling the Literary Trail, The Gaskell Society Newsletter (Aug. 2000), pp. 8-10.