Owers W (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Map in rear pocket present. Soils from wind-blown sand cover an area of over 200,000 acres in the Manawatu, Horowhenua, and Rangitikei counties, and so form an important agricultural unit in the Manawatu district. Of the five soil-forming factors; parent material, climate, vegetation, relief and time; parent material and climate are relatively constant in this district, vegetation is largely dependent on the other factors, while relief and time vary and it is the variation in these two factors that causes the major differences between the soils. …

Condition: Fair. 153 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

8vo. 317, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo illust., maps on endpapers. Brown publisher's cloth, black lettering front cover & spine (slight rippling to first couple leaves), w/ d.j. cover art photos of Flying Tigers and Greenlaw (minor chipping head of spine, slight sunning to spine), still VG/VG copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition, stated, Ms. Greenlaw's account of her husband Harvey Greenlaw's experiences as pilot of Chenault and the Flying Tigers in Burma and China during World War II, while she served as War Diary Statistician and Editor of the American Volunteer Group News. Following the War the pair divorced, and Harvey Greenlaw became.…

Handbill. 9x19 inch broadside, fold-creased with several closed tears, as well as a corner torn away at lower right (not affecting the printed portion). Owers, running for Justice of the Supreme Court, states that his Democratic opponent is no friend of labor, citing employers' liability bills he backed in 1889. The Herald Democrat of August 11, 1906 described Owers as "a plain out-and-out Socialist of the Debs-Haywood type." He is remembered for having issued an injunction against the Citizens? Protective League, a vigilante group that was attacking the Idaho Springs Miners? Union.…