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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Large folded sheet, including a geologic map, two cross-sections, a discussion of geology, paleontology and economic geology, and references cited; ex-corporate library; Several tears/chips along top of sheet, o/w in good condition. Map.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. First Edition. Very good condition, just a little shelf wear to edges, some light rubbing to covers and a few scratch indents on the front cover, and the edge along the binding is slighlty creased.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Editions / First Prints. 1922-1926. 11 Hardback copies in red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering and decoration to spines, gold gilt lettering and pattern to front boards, no dustjackets. B/w frontispieces, b/w plates throughout. Untrimmed page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, fading to some boards, foxing to page blocks. (29/1). …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A limited edition ten-volume set of the prose and poetry of the Scottish novelist George Whyte-Melville. A ten-volume collection of works in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Ink inscription to the title page of each volume, dated 1899. G. H. Jalland illustrated Volumes II and XIII with fourteen plates. E. Caldwell and H. M. Brock illustrated Volume III with fourteen plates. Pinch Mason and Hugh Thomson illustrated Volume IV with fourteen plates. E. Caldwell illustrated Volume VII with fourteen plates. H. M. Brock illustrated Volume VIII with thirteen illustrations and Volume IX with ten plates. Fred Roe illustrated Volume X with twelve plates. Harrington Bird illustrated Volume XI with ten plates. Cecil Alden illustrated Volume XII with twelve plates. All frontispieces are depicted in colour. Collated, complete.One of 1050 copies printed of this edition of Whyte-Melville's works. George John Whyte-Melville (1821-1878) was a Scottish poet and novelist whose work mainly concerned field sports. This ten volume set of his prose and poetry includes: Volume II: Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor (1898) Volume III: Uncle John: A Novel (1898) Volume IV: Market Harborough or How Mr. Sawyer Went to the Shires/Inside the Bar or Sketches at Soakington (1899) Volume VII: Tilbury Nogo or Passages in the Life of an Unsuccessful Man/Scotland and the Moors (1899) Volume VIII: Songs and Verses/Bones and I or the Skeleton at Home (1899) Volume IX: Black but Comely (1899) Volume X: The Brookes of Bridlemere (1899) Volume XI: The White Rose (1899) Volume XII: Roy's Wife (1899) Volume XIII: Satanella: A Story of Punchestown (1899) In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally sound, though faded to the spines, with shelf wear to the boards. Small marks to the spines of Volume IX, X and XII. Front hinge to Volume XI is slightly strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally clean, with the odd spot and offsetting to the first and last couple of pages. Some age toning to the pages of Volume VII, XI, XII and XIII. Very Good. G. H. Jalland; Hugh Thomson; E. Caldwell; Fred Roe; et al. (illustrator). book.…