King Major (50 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BH2 - A reprint paperback book in very good condition that is lightly curled, some light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x7.5", 160 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Presumed 1st edition (no other printings listed). 67pp, 8vo, frontis portrait, illustrations, bibliography. VG+/no DJ. Hard cover, red cloth, A little rubbing to edges and corners, two little water spots on front cover. Contents near fine, tight, crisp and clean. Designed for people without an extensive knowledge of horses. Discusses teeth, sore backs, galls and feet.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Facsimile. xv, 334pp., index, appendix, tables, ill. Coles facsimile edition of 1866 original. Book is vg, in slightly frayed and spine-faded jacket. Previous owner's name inside front. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Good. 1877. No edition remarks. 634 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Heavy tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Notable scratching and marking to boards. Mild water droplets to boards. Books has a backward lean.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Toronto: Coles Notes, 1974. 334 pp includes index. Facsimile edition. The natural history of the game, game birds, and fish of that country. Illustrated with plates and woodcuts. Dust jacke has some fading to spine edges, a tear and crease to back bottom edge. Looks good in new plastic cover. Lovely burgandy cloth on boards cover with gold gilt lettering. No former owner's name. Text is clean and unmarked. HC and DJ. Very Good/Good. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Good. 52 pages. Illustrated, some color, double-page E.W. Fenton pictorial birdseye map, drawings: John Piper, Horner, Goetz, advertisements. 10 x 7.5", color pictorial wrapper. Wrap taped along fold, else VG.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Notes on the natural history of the game, game birds, and fish of Canada. 334pp. Illustrated with plates and woodcuts. Previous owner's name in blue biro to head of fep. Jacket worn to edges and spine slightly faded. Facsimile of the first edition published in 1866.

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. Richard Tilling, Printer, [London], no date, ca 1936 (text). xxii. 8 halftone plates: chairmen, exterior, measuring cheese, dining, smoking rooms. 6.75 x 4", printed wrapper. Signed by G.H. Bailey. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Columbia University Press, 2010; later printing of this edition; xi, 988pp. Translated and edited by John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, and Harold D. Roth. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket. Shelfwear is very minor. From a private collection. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges will apply for international and/or expedited shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Condition: New. Columbia University Presss widely anticipated, complete translation of the Huainanzi, published in 2010, opened exciting new pathways in the study of classical Chinese philosophy and literature. Compiled in the second century B.C.E., the Huainanzi is a crit.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing ; ] ; 96 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 30 cm ; ISBN 9789197567183, 9197567183 ; OCLC 1004424184 ; color pictorial boards, no dustjacket ; Coryne Hall is a historian, broadcaster and consultant specialising in royal history. The author of nine books, she is a regular contributor to Majesty magazine and was consultant on the Danish documentaries A Royal Family and The Royal Jewels. ; Senta Driver was a dancer, choreographer, and writer; she began studying dance in graduate school, and received her masters in dance from the Ohio State University in 1966. Following graduation, Driver joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company of New York City in 1967, which she danced with until 1973. In 1974, she founded her own dance company, HARRY, also based in New York City. Driver choreographed and danced with the company until 1991. At this time, she closed the company due to lack of funds, and trained as a neonatal ICU nurse. As of 2019, Driver is working on a book about her family's genealogical history. ; "In 1906 Queen Alexandra and her sister the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia purchased Hvidore, a villa on the Danish coast, a private home. Until 1914 the sisters visited the property every autumn, entertaining friends and many royal relatives in an informal atmosphere. It was indeed a royal retreat. The first world war put an end to those happy times but in 1919, no exiled from Russia, the Dowager Empress made the vila her home and Hvidore became a court in exile. In 1920 she was joined by her younger daughter Olga and her family, who all lived at Hvidore, not always happily, until the Empress's death in 1928. A Royal Retreat tells the story of the purchase, renovation, the many royal visitors and finally the sale of this forgotten royal home. Magnificent original illustrations [are] from a private collection." ; FINE. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket. 8vo pp. xv 334. "Or Notes on the Natural History of the Game, Game Birds, and Fish of that Country". Facsimile edition. book.

Gebunden. Condition: New. The Essential Huainanzi is highly multifaceted, dealing with an astonishing variety of topics ranging from the mundane to the cosmic. John S. Major and his collaborators have produced an English version that is both readable and reliable. -- Vict.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A very good copy of the apparent first hard cover edition (no explicit edition or printing statement), lacking a dust-jacket. Previous owner's modest stamp to front endpaper, with "v. 54" written on the base of the spine (see scan), as to indicate placement in a private library. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine is bright and fresh in appearance. A bit of spotting to the page edge, margin side, of the volume: unobtrusive, and not visible as the pages are read. The paper of the rear endpaper at the gutter is minorly cracked, but the webbing below is intact, and the binding is in no way loose, nor is the rear board wobbly. All in all a lovely copy of this increasingly hard-to-find report.

Decorated Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Original green cloth to boards and spine with hinges, outer corners, and head and tail of spine restored; contemporary endpages. Gilt decoration to front board and to spine. Full colour frontispiece and plates throughout [all present]. Some spotting and browning to outer page edges. Some modest staining or foxing occasionally to margins; verso of frontispiece foxed.

By Major T. King - Late Royal Berkshire Regiment. 72 pp. Contents include: Hints as to How to Use the Official Books in Military Law, Manual of Law, The Soldier's Conduct Sheet, Confirmation of the Proceedings of Courts-Martial, Witnesses at Court Martial etc. Browning on free eps only. Text clean. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and black lettering and rule on front board. Overall condition VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. London, 1866; poor condition; green cloth covered boards; edge and corner wear with board exposed at edges; back strip half missing including crown and foot; boards and end papers detached along with pages 323 to rear end paper; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; binding held together by its string; Ex-Library with typical stamps and markings; end papers foxed; interior clean and unmarked; 334 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Fold-Out Chart (illustrator). binding tight, owners name, soiling, some shelf wear. Page chipping on 2 "Courts Martial" pages, one that affect a small amount of print. S1 4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ."Edited from the lectures and writings of the late Major C. Adams Professor of Military History at the Royal Military and Staff College by Captain C. Cooper King, R.M. Artillery; Director of Tactics Royal Military College". x, 634pp, 5 folding maps to the rear. Small library stamp to the foot of 2 pages, handwritten name of a previous owner, dated "Nov 24/77" in pencil on the free front endpaper; otherwise a very nice copy of the scarce first edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Half Leather- Worn. Condition: Fair. First. or, notes on natural history of the game, game birds and fish of that country. Illustrated with colored plates and woodcuts. 334 pp, ill. Natural history of Canadian game. A cornerstone title but this should be rebound. It is bound in worn half leather, marbled boards and marbled page edges but there is wear at all corners. A few of the colored plates show small water stains and these are only one the edges and not into the images. Printed on nice paper so this is a heavy book.Front hinge almost separated. Priced as a binding candidate or for framing some of the lovely colored plates.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[6]; 174; v-xxxii. Publisher's paper wraps. Some spotting and occasional soiling to pages. Lean to the binding. Neat ownership to upper. Textblock and covers well thumbed to corners, some soiling and wear to the covers with splits along the edges of the spine. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. Front flap Priceclipped & ENDPAPERS EDGE CLIPPED ,HBDJ, 1937, 4TH REVISED EDITION, VG/VG, Tall 8vo, Purple Illustrated clothcover with Gold gilt, 154 PGS, Top edge of YELLOW ILLUSTRATED DJ has a little damage. 10 1/2 BY 7 1/2 IN APPROX, IN YELLOW ILLUSTRATED DUSTJACKET ,STAR-BOOK , ASTRONOMY, With charts of the Moon, Tables of the planets, and star maps on a new plan, 1937, 4TH REVISED EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Rare original volume on Drill, Skirmishing, advanced and rear guards and patrols. 132pp., 13 plates, mainly folding. Contemporary Nameing to.Sutton Captain 69 Regiment. Minor blemishes in marron cloth with ink titling, again contemporary, cloth showing some "bubling" and modest wear to head and side of spine top, overall good+ 0.0.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Nicolson, W.C. (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. xxiv, 65-126 pages. Features: Return from the Dead - three fishermen face hell adrift for months in the Atlantic - with map and photo; Awakening to Nightmare (on Elephant Island); The Train Jumpers - Francis Dickie recalls a nightmare journey jumping a train from Portland to San Francisco - with photos of the author; The White Rhino Hated Cars - article with photos; 50 Tons of Gold - the ongoing search for "Valverde's" Inca gold - article with photos and map; Terrorists On My Tail - A reporter under attack in Morocco - article with photos; Ringing Gannets off the coast of Scotland; Men of Site "X" - the ice and blizzard-ridden existence of men on the DEW line across northern Canada and Alaska; The Terrible Carpet of Bones - the terrible slaughter of the buffalo herds; The Curse of Pulo Jehat - the evil of a witch doctor survives his death; The End of the Hoodoo 'Bambo'; Pirates Aboard! - China Sea pirates board the s.s. Hong Bee - article with map and photo of the ship; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.