Pike G C (39 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Orono: The National Poetry Foundation / University of Maine at Orono. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 091503297X . First edition. "A collection of twenty-six reflective essays written by sixth- through twelfth-grade teachers of art, history, and literature from school districts surrounding the University of Maine at Orono". Pictorial [Winslow Homer] wrappers, 170 pages. Near Fine copy with a horizontal crack near the heel of the spine.CEL. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 116 pages. Illustrated. J E Morpurgo !Give 'em the Axe" / R J Martin "Pocket-Money" / Llewellyn Pridham "The 'Big Uns'" / George Maracco "Merry Widows" / A G Street "April Pike" / R C Robertson-Glasgow "Esses (cricket)" / Sir Seymour Hicks "Eros" / Hylton Cleaver "Professor" / R P Odell "Rich Reward" / George MacLeod "Cutting Walking-Sticks" / R C Newton "Toujours La Politesse"Kai Lowry "Manolo and the Bull-fight" / Roderic Graeme "Sixty Seconds of Run" / John Witney "Up in Orkney" / Laurence Wild "Off the Peg" (SL#19).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light scuffing on jacket panels. Light tanning on page edge.: 349 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; HARDCOVER; in very good condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; HARDCOVER; includes folded map in rear pocket (complete); ex-library; hole in original rear wrap where rear pocket removed; o/w in very good condition. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "Property of [former owner's name]" and "CF 146" written at top of cover; binding has wear and soil; spine, back cover, final page and foldout map at back have small stains at bottom; tight, body of text clean. 162 p., with in-text illustrations and two foldout maps. Size: 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches [dn rm t a].…

Soft cover. 26.5cm, xi,183p., figures, tables, stiff printed wraps, a very good copy (ads).

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Illus., pp.14.

4to, 27.5cm. Pp. iv,15, several photos on 13 plates, 4 maps. Plain new wrappers.

Condition: Very Good. 5 Pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Illustrator: C. Whymper & A Barraud. Category: Harmsworth London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). C. Whymper & A Barraud (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Clean, crisp DJ. Clean, straight, sharp (red cloth) boards with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean and crisp with similarly clean long and short edges. No inscriptions. Tight binding. Comes with Corrigenda for Vols 1 & 2. Other volumes available - discount available for multiple purchases - please email.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Clean, crisp DJ. Clean, straight, sharp (red cloth) boards with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean and crisp with similarly clean long and short edges. No inscriptions. Tight binding. Comes with Corrigenda of Vols 1 - 3. Other volumes available - discount available for multiple purchases - please email.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. (SL#253).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. UK journal back number, shows light general wear, faded area to front cover | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Arrow Paperback Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 575pp. B/w photographs between p.288-289. Not library copy, no inscriptions, creasing and few marks to spine, tanning to pages. (67/2).

4to (25.5x16cm), hardback, xx + 634pp. Good condition in goodish dustwrapper (general wear, grubby, insect damage, splash mark to upper left rear, edges bumped and chipped, several small tears). Light wear, age-toned, some foxing to upper edges and fore edge. 5cm marks (glue?) to mid front endpapers along hinge. Pictures available on request.…

Hardback, 16.5x25.5cm, 634pp. Very good condition, in good dustwrapper (light wear and scuff marks; sunned spine; several small 1cm patches of silverfish damage). Corrigenda loosely enclosed. ISBN: 0522841945. Pictures available on request.

4to (25.5x16cm), hardback, xx + 634pp. Good condition in goodish dustwrapper (general wear, some flecking, a bit grubby, bumped). Light wear, bumped, page edges grubby, spine cocked. Contents very good. Pictures available on request.

Hardback, 16.5x25.5cm, 634pp. Good condition (light wear; age-toned pages; a little spotting at edges) in good dustwrapper (general wear and scuff marks; sun-tanned at spine and edges; chipped at edges, with several 1cm tears at upper edge). Pictures available on request.

4to (25.5x16cm), hardback, xx + 578pp + index. Good+ condition in like dustwrapper (light wear, corners and foot of spine a little chipped). Lightly bumped, lower rear hinge has a 1cm chip to free back endpaper and rear pastedown, owner's label at front pastedown. Pictures available on request.

Reprint of the first 1966 edition, with corrigenda. Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, o/w fine in like dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardcover. 1995. The Provincial Museum of Alberta. 349 pages. Book and Dust Jacket are in FINE condition. ; 11.26 X 8.50 X 1.18 inches; 349 pages.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original ribbed navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains frontispiece, (vi), 286 pp with 7 other full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Spine rubbed and faded, chips across the spine ends, corners rubbed, ink name inside. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH HISTORY.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. ex-library hardback with illustrated boards, minor shelf wear, usual library stamps/markings, otherwise good/v.good, clear text, binding fine, 72pp, published 1992 by CPL Press, Newbury. Ready for immediate despatch from the UK. 42C*.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2005 John Donald paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Fifteenth Century'; Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards, 'Bodleian MS Arch. Selden. B. 24: The Genesis and Evolution of a Scottish Poetical Anthology'; Alessandra Petrina, 'Donne Gentili and Courtly Ladies: A Comparison Between Dante's Beatrice and the Lady of the Kingis Quair'; Jonathan A. Glenn, 'The Manuscript History of Sir Gilbert Hay's Buke of the Law of Armys: A Study'; Rosemary Greentree, 'Literate in Love: Makyne's Lesson for Robene'; Klaus Bitterling, 'Insular and Continental Traditions Behind Robert Henryson's Fables'; R.J. Lyall, 'Henryson, the Hens and the Pelagian Fox: a Poet and the Intellectual Currents of his Age'; John McNamara, 'Folkloric Patterns in Henryson's Fables: A Sociolinguistic Approach'; John MacQueen, 'Lent and Henryson's 'The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger''; R.W. Smith, 'The Meaning of the 'Nekhering' in Henryson's Fable of 'The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger''; Edward W. Bradburn, ''Prolog' and 'Moralitie': Authorial Apostrophe in Robert Henryson's Fables'; Anne M. McKim, 'Henryson's Use of the Conjunctive Phrase 'with that' in the Moral Fables'; J. Derrick McClure, 'Blind Hary's Metrics'; Marace Dareau, Lorna Pike, and Harry D. Watson, 'DOST and Older Scots Scholarship'; Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Sixteenth Century'; Priscilla Bawcutt, 'Manuscript Miscellanies in Scotland from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century'; Ma. Nieves Rodriguez Ledesma, 'Linguistic Anglicisation in The Complaynt of Scotland: A Study of Further Diagnostic Variables'; A.A. MacDonald, 'On First Looking into the Gude and Godlie Ballatis (1565)'; Joanne Norman, 'William Dunbar and the Bakhtinian Construction of the Self'; Robert Drexler, 'Dunbar, Douglas, and the Art of Memory'; C. Marie Harker, 'Skirting the Issue: Misogyny and Gender in Lyndsay's Ane Supplication Directit - to the Kingis Grace, in Contemptioun of Syde Taillis'; Evelyn S. Newlyn, 'The Female Voice in Sixteenth-Century Scots Poetry'; Keely Fisher, 'Eldritch Comic Verse in Older Scots'; Theo van Heijnsbergen, 'Modes of Self-Representation in Older Scots Texts'; Janet Hadley Williams, ''We had the ky and thai gat bot the glaikis': Catching the Echoes in Duncan Laideus' Testament'; William Gillies, 'Gun ann ach an ceo 'Nothing Left but their Mist': Farewell and Elegy in Gaelic Poetry'; Michael Chesnutt, 'Otterburn Revisited: A Late Medieval Border Ballad and its Transmission'; Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'; Anneli Meurman-Solin, 'Women's Scots: Gender-Based Variation in Renaissance Letters'; Sarah M. Dunnigan, 'Feminising the Early Modern Erotic: Female-voiced Love Lyrics and Mary Queen of Scots'; Jamie Reid-Baxter, ''Judge and revenge my cause': the Earl of Morton, Andro Blackhall, Robert Sempill and the Fall of the House of Hamilton in 1579'; David J. Parkinson, 'Alexander Montgomerie: Scottish Author'; Regina Scheibe, 'The Function of the Animal Massacre in John Burel's Passage of the Pilgremer'; Daniel Fischlin, 'Like a Mercenary Poet': the Politics and Poetics of James VI's Lepanto'; Morna R. Fleming, ''The End of an Auld Sang'? Scottish Poetry of the English Reign of James VI and I'; Louise Yeoman, 'James Melville and the Covenant of Grace'; David W. Atkinson, 'More than One Voice: the Poetic Accomplishment of William Alexander'; David Reid, 'Hume of Godscroft on Kings and Subjects'; Margery Palmer McCulloch, 'Liz Lochhead, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Suppression of the Female Principle'.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.