Moore Robert Percy (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of mystery and supernatural short stories by Canadian authors. INSCRIBED by Colombo on the half title page - "Columbo - To Elway - who is to be taken at night -Saturday Night!" Light edgewear. Light bump to the bottom edge of the book. In near fine / near fine condition. Signed by Author.

First Edition. SONGS OF SENTIMENT A CHRISTY GIFT BOOK, Moffat, Yard & Company, 1910, first edition, some soiling to the spine and covers, else a tight good to very good copy. Illustrated with full page, full color plates by Howard Chandler Christy. Essentially an anthology of poetry with contributions by William Shakespeare, Thomas Moore, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Robert Burns, C. G. Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Browning, Robert Bridges, William Wordsworth, Algernon Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, W. E. Henley, James Whitcomb Riley, et.al.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. KARLIN, Eugene (illustrator). 1st thus. Fine condition, octavo, quarter brown leather, brown cloth boards, gilt decorated front and rear, four raised bands and gilt title and decoration to spine, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker, decorated end paper, xxv plus 461 pages including index of first lines. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. viii, 281 pp. ; metallic gold and mauve cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; dustjacket has some fading, nicks on edges ; Contents: What We Are And What We Can Do / George A. Sweetser John Horace Mcfarland, L.H.D. R. C. Allen, Robert Pyle, Louis M. Massey, Arthur F. Truex -- Living With Roses / Mrs. P. D. Fulwood -- Pros, Cons and Nature / A. B. Albera -- Malmaison: Birthplace Of Modern Roses / Josephine Craven Chandler -- Vernal, Utah, Shows The Way / Paul Dougherly -- The Roses In Colonial Virginia / Charles A. Dawson -- Outline For Rose Culture / Mrs. R. M. Allred -- Rose Interest In Florida / Nixon Smiley -- Rose Growing In South Carolina / C. R. Raysor -- Roses In Mississippi / Thomas B. Kennedy -- 'And The Desert Shall Bloom Like A Rose" / Mrs. George Doolittle -- Roses In Adobe / Mrs. A. B. Gowens -- Cultural Practices For The Central Southwest / Lem H. Tithe -- Roses In Cold Climes / A. L. Truax -- Poor Rose Plants / Mrs. Webster Wagner -- 2,4-D Injury On Roses / Dr. P. W. Zimmerman -- Fables and Fancies In Rose Growing / Professor A. H. MacAndrews -- Abnormalities-Variety Traits Or Disease / Dr. B. W. Lyle -- Insects and Insecticides / Dr. O. S. Hensill -- The Diagnosis and Treatment Of A Rosarian / Dr. E. C. Hamblen -- Soil Nitrate Levels and The Growth Of Roses / Dr. John O. Seeley -- My Garden (A Poem) / Mabel O. Hatton -- Ground Corncobs: A Labor Saver / Morgan D. Reinbold -- Horticultural Vermiculite In Rose Culture / Arthur E. Navlet -- Long And Short Pruning / Dixon Vallance -- Prepackaging Of Roses / Professor Alex Laurie -- Row To Make Cut Roses Last / Edwin F. Steffek -- May Is The Month Of Roses / Jessie Brice -- Nicholson Bowl Award -- Plant Hunters / Dr. Wilber Stout -- Alister Clark / Harry H. Hazlewood -- My Favorite Roses / Roy Shepherd -- Jesse A. Currey-A Great American Rosarian / Quimby L. Matthews -- The Advance Guard / Margaret Snyder -- A New Basis Of Variety Classification / Ralph Moore -- The Forgotten Roses / Oliver Linton Lilley -- A New Use For An Old Plant / Stanley A. Matzke -- Understocks For Roses / George M. Taylor -- The Rose Named Liberty / Dr. James A. Gamble -- New Varieties For The Extreme North / Percy H. Wright -- Mistakes In Growing Roses / George A. Sweetser -- On Pruning Roses / Alfred Stettler -- Cold Hardiness / Griffith J. Buck -- Modern Hardy Climbers In New England / Karl P. Jones -- Roses Are Flourishing In South Africa / John E. Crewe Brown -- Hybridizing: Fascinating Year-Round Hobby / Mrs. K. Melvin Covington -- Meaning In The Rose / Morgan T. Riley -- Bibliography Of The Language Of Flowers -- Proof Of The Pudding -- New Roses Of The World -- Index -- Illustrations -- Facing -- Jesse A. Currey, First Curator O The International Rose Test Garden -- Hedge Plantings Of Rosa Multiflora -- Main (In Color) -- Tallyho (In Color) -- A New Rose In The Making -- Golden Anniversary (In Color) -- Lavender Pinocchio (In Color) -- Rose Of Freedom (In Color) -- Holiday (In Color) -- California Centennial (In Color) -- Facing Page -- Dr. J. Horace Mcfarland, President Emeritus, American Rose -- Society -- Grace Moore (In Color) -- Gardens At Malmaison -- Valiant (In Color) -- Gay Gypsy (In Color) -- Effect Of 2,4-D On Plants -- Anna Marie (In Color) -- Forty-Niner (In Color) -- Applause (In Color) ; G/G. Book.

Condition: Fine. One 19 x 94 cm panoramic photograph in 32 x 102 cm mat, wrapped in mylar. Photograph hand coloured. Reverse has original labels for Joseph Abernethy of Dunedin, NZ and Toronto exhibition. Robert Percy Moore (1881-1948) is considered to be New Zealand's greatest panorama photographer. Moore travelled extensively throughout the country, photographing homesteads, public events, royal visits, urban streetscapes, and the magnificent New Zealand's scenery seen here. Pelorus Sound or "Te Hoiere" is the largest of the sounds which make up the Marlborough Sounds at the north of the South Island.

Condition: Fine. One 22 x 94 cm panoramic photograph in 32 x 102 cm mat, wrapped in mylar. Photograph hand coloured. Reverse has original label for Joseph Abernethy of Dunedin, NZ. Robert Percy Moore (1881-1948) is considered to be New Zealand's greatest panorama photographer. Moore travelled extensively throughout the country, photographing homesteads, public events, royal visits, urban streetscapes, and New Zealand's magnificent scenery. He was also commissioned by the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Departmenet for projects such as photographing the Maori at Rotorua for officers of the American fleet which visited in 1925. This is probably one of those photos.