Phillips E Cambridge (9 results)

Condition: Very Good. xxi, 158, [10]-List of Subscribers, 2 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt title to spine and front board. A few pages torn at margin where untidily opened and another torn, all without loss to text. Good. Second edition. First published as a series of five papers in the Zoologist (1881-82) and in book…

Condition: Very Good. xxi, [3], 158, [10]-List of Subscribers, 2 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt title to spine and front board, a few light marks to boards. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges. Vg. Second edition. First published as a series of five papers in the Zoologist (1881-82) and in book form, for private c…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 152 pages. Illustrated. William Phillips "The Problem Defined - Portrait Of The Artist As An American" / Clement Greenberg "The Present Prospects Of American Painting And Sculpture" /William Barrett "Notes On Being An American" / W H Auden "Intimations Of Yes - Music Is International (poem)" /Ja…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by the author to ffe paper "The Zoological Society with the compliments of the author". Slim 8vo, viii + pp45 plus b/w engraved frontis of Kite nest with tissue guard. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers olive green cloth binding with gilt titles to front board and gilt ti…

Condition: Good. The Birds of Breconshire by E. Cambridge Phillips, 1899.Publisher: Edwin Davies, Brecon.Binding: hardback cloth.Illustrated: yes.Description / Condition: Light shelf wear to boards. Inner front hinge a little worn. Ownership mark to first page. Bookshop blindstamp mark along with gift inscription to half-title p…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first trade edition of this detailed account of the birds of the Brecons by naturalist Edward Cambridge Phillips. The first trade edition of the work, originally published in 1882 for private circulation.In publisher's original blue cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispi…

Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and a plate, some minor foxing to endpapers preliminaries and title only; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. The first publicly available avifauna of the county, representing a substantially rev…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The very scarce privately printed edition of an important County bird book, later published in a larger trade edition in 1899. Almost certainly the personal copy of E Cambridge Phillips himself. Evidence includes two cards addressed to him, one with his mailing address; An embossed…