Irwin Guy (43 results)

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Condition: good. Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers and labels. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Fleming, Guy (illustrator). light board wear, usual library markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fleming, Guy (illustrator). 1st Edition. THE 365 DAYS: THE STORY OF OUR CALENDAR, Keith G. Irwin, illustrated by Guy Fleming, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, first edition, stated first printing, 1963. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block is in near fine condition with no tears, dog-ears, or marks. There is a bookplate affixed inside the front cover. The blue cloth boards are in good condition (lightly bumped spine and one corner, slightly faded areas along the edges). The dust jacket is in good condition (crinkled along top and bottom edges, age-toned inside and out). 8 ½ x 5 ¾, 182 pages, 15 ounces XX [From the inner flaps] "MAKING A CALENDAR is probably the oldest scientific research project in history. A good calendar is a first essential of civilization. Yet a perfect calendar, as Professor Irwin explains in this authoritative and human history, seems unattainable. Fishermen must know when the tides rise and fall, hunters when their quarry migrates, herdsmen when their flocks breed, farmers when to plant seed. There are three obvious ways to keep this essential running record: by days (the rotation of the earth on its axis), by months (the revolution of the moon around the earth), and by years (the revolution of the earth around the sun). All three have to be used together to take care of the many cycles of nature. The trouble is that they will not fit when combined. The day varies in length itself, and will not divide evenly into either the lunar month or the solar year. And the lunar month misses by far an easy connection with the year. This vital need to reconcile the irreconcilable is the story of the calendar. It is a tale rich in human drama, for the problem has challenged great men through the ages. Here is recounted the romantic story behind the first good calendar, created 5000 years ago in Egypt by Thoth, an early scientist and physician who, centuries later, would be honored as a hero-god. He had the year beginning at the time in fall when night and day are equal. At that time in Egypt the Nile floods are subsiding and planting can begin. From that beginning for the year he created a practical calendar of remarkable precision. Thousands of years afterwards, Julius Caesar ? who was painfully aware of the inadequacies of the old Roman lunar calendar ? adapted the calendar of Egypt. Later the Emperor Constantine fitted into it Moses' scheme of seven-day weeks, and Pope Gregory made a final adjustment of leap year to set our present calendar almost exactly accurate. Almost. In 3000 years it would be off by about one day. Modern scientists have found nature's own calendars and have turned our calendar backward, to tell how long ago the glaciers melted, when extinct animals and ancient princes lived, even what the weather was like centuries ago.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. NEAR FINE in near fine dust jacket. FIRST edition, first printing. Jacket color bright and clean. Interior bright and clean. Binding tight and square, no loose pages. Appears unread. Interior unmarked on inspection.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. (Charlottesville: Howell Press, University of Virginia Library, 2002). First Edition. Oblong, 8.75" x 11". 88pp, Index. Cloth. Fine condition in fine dj. Foreword by John Logan Allen. Although the maps lack reliable accuracy, the reader follows their active imagination, speculation, and misinformation in journey across what became America. Numerous maps in color and b&w. ISBN 1574271385; Oblong, 8.75 x 11 inches; 88 pages.

Oversized Paperback. Condition: Fine. Fine, internally clean, solid 81 page oblong paperback , heavily illustrated in black and white. 2000 copies printed.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. University of Virginia Library, 2002. Hardback, d/j, ob4to, 88pp, illust. A little surface damage to some maps, d/j slightly bumped. A fair copy. 1574271385/0.7us.

Oversized Paperback. Condition: Fine. Fine, internally clean, solid 81 page oblong paperback , heavily illustrated in black and white. 2000 copies printed. Loosely inserted in this copy is the stapled 5 page supplement by Robert N. Bergantino with diagrams showing the use of navigational instruments to be used with the final section of the catalog. This supplement is a bit bigger than the catalog and so the protruding inch or so is somewhat wrinkled and bent.

Paperback. Condition: Fine copy. 1st. First Edition. One of an edition limited to 2,000 copies. Oblong quarto; xi, 81 pages.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. This Edition first published by Cassell Illustrated, 2018. (First published in 1989 in Great Britain by Octopus Publishing Group). As New Condition. No Jacket. Flexibound in lime-green cover with orange title; various authors names on front in dark green. Very handsome. Sewn binding. Endpapers in front and back with Dated Events Invasion Map of Fortress Europe. in color. Authentic and impassioned stories of heroism and brutality, starvation and survival, defeats and triumphs from World War II's most poignant hours. Highlights from the greatest war novels include James Jone's "From Here To Eternity". Evelyn Waugh's "Officers and Gentlemen", Joseph Heller's "Catch-22." True-life accounts include the Battle of Britain from Guy Gibson, VC, the exploits of the French Resistance from Australian Nancy Wake, and a report of Hiroshima by John Hersey. 254 pp. 8 x 5.5 inches. 2018, Cassell Illustrated/Octopus Publishing Group, Ltd. ISBN10: 0753732807, ISBN13: 9780753732809.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Paperback reprint of 1957 Pyramid Edition. Firmly bound and clean with some handling wear and marks to covers, mostly scuffing to edges and small creases on base corners of pages 81-84. Tanning to closed page edges.

Condition: Very Good. The books dust jacket is in very good condition with small scuffs and scratches. The content is in very good condition.

Alderman Library, University of Virginia, 10 July to 26 September 1995. Charlottesville: Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, 1995. Copyright 1995. 2000 copies, Wayside Press, Charlottesville. 81 pages. Illustrations of maps & navigational instruments. 8.5x10.5", paperback. VG.

Hardback. Condition: New. Williams, J. H. III; Daniel, Tony S. (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: New. Williams, J. H. III; Daniel, Tony S. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: G+. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good+. A copy of the author's first book. Set in the rubber plantations of the Malay States, the story of Sitia. A beautiful daughter of one of the locals who is addicted to magic. Good book, with heavy fading to spne. Both hinges cracked. Cover of original dust jacket glued to the front endpaper. Owner name on the ffep in pen. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. 311pp. No dw. 7inches. Olivegreen boards, black titles and illustration on front, black titles on spine, black publisher's logo on back. Rubbed folds, split starting at back fold, tiny splits at top of spine. Front endpaper excised. Internally no owner's marks, browned pages. No date stated, c.1920. "Popular Edition" on colophon. An early adventure romance set in the rubber plantations of the Malay States in colonial times. Exotic and magical atmosphere. Scarce. 240g. (Literature, Malaya, Adventure) Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Guy Flemming (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is abook about the history of the Calendar .It is an ex library book in V/G condition but it dose have the usual library stamps inside back and front . The D/W is V/G but does have slight wear to top and bottom and faint scratch mark on the front.

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 316 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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