Wade Major (19 results)

Condition: Good. illustrated edition. 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.

Condition: Very Good. illustrated edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: good. Fast Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Metro Books/Friedman-Fairfax Publishers, 1999. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: light shelfwear to lower front tip; linear superficial scratch on rear board. DJ: Near Fine; light bumping to top edges of DJ; light rubbing to panels. Heavy pictorial laminate boards and spine. DJ and boards are mirror images. Black endpages. 96 pp 4to. Withe more than fifty films to his credit, Jackie Chan is among the most innovative and versatile talents in movies today, Filled with action packed photographs, this book is a captivating tribute to and international superstar and a must-have for Jackie fans and film buffs alike. A clean very presentable copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Light reading creases and shelf wear, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing of omnibus edition, March 2017. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover photo uncredited. ; By Request; 608 pages; Omnibus edition of three romances. Mass Market PB.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, 2 illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 17 x 25 cms. Category: Antiquaries Journal; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (edges a little worn; staining on cloth from dustwrapper), dustwrapper (extrems worn and rubbed - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 288, illus with b&w plates (endpapers lightly tanned; no inscriptions).

Condition: very good. Photo non contractuelle. Envoi rapide et soigné.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover. 96 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: MetroBooks, UK, 1999. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition except for gift inscription in ink. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Actor, writer, producer, director. Jackie Chan, star of the kung fu movie industry, has been captivating audiences the world over for more than a decade. This pictorial biography of Jackie Chan is a celebration of the extraordinary life and career of this cinema talent. Packed with full-color photographs including movie stills and behind the scenes shots, Jackie Chan is a must-have for Jackie fans and film buffs alike. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Film, Radio & Television. ISBN: 1567998631. ISBN/EAN: 9781567998634. Inventory No: 19120104.

Paperback. Condition: Very good overall. An article read November 21, 1941 by the Senior Scientist for the U. S. Antarctic Service, Major F. Alton Wade, U. S. Army. Tall 8vo, pp 160 - 173, b&w ills. Paper wraps with title in black at front cover. Staple bound. Slightly dusty at edges of front cover, o/w very good.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Second printing, December 1939 after the first Penguin in June the same year. With the ownership stamp of David Niven to the half-title. Penguin's distinctive green soft card wraps, price unclipped, over a bright and clean page block with no losses. Wear to all edges, some small tearing, with tearing and minor losses to spine ends. Advertising for Latest Additions September through December 1939 on rear panel. With the ownership stamp of David Niven in pink to the half-title. Henry Wade's classic debut into the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 288 pages, hardcover. Espionage secrets and history; with 8 half-tone illustrations throughout. Moderate bumping to board edges and spine. Light soiling and heavy rubbing, with fair edgewear, to boards as well. Markings in pencil to front endpapers. Heavy age toning to text block. Scarce. A tight copy. Record # 951435.

Condition: Very good. Jacket artwork by Major John Board. (illustrator). Equestrian murder mystery. First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6. Equestrian murder mystery. A very good copy, in very good jacket. Book.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 287 [16 publisher's catalogue] printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Shallow rubs to the softened spine ends and corners, ink marking across the front paste down and free end paper dated 1941, foxing to the closed page edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ESPIONAGE (Clandestine).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publisher's original scarlet cloth covers with bright gilt titles to spine. No Foxing. No Marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [moderate wear to extremities, binding intact, some soiling and light foxing to the edges of the text block, and a large round dampstain covering most of the upper half of the front cover and causing some wrinkling in the cloth; multiple stamps and inscription on front endpaper, attesting to the book's provenance (see Notes)]. (B&W photographs, diagrams) A landmark volume, by an author who's considered the father of modern plastic surgery. Sir Harold Gillies (1882-1960; knighted in 1930) received his medical education at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Originally trained as an Otolaryngologist (basically a head and neck specialist), at the outbreak of World War I he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, and during service in France he found the opportunity to visit the renowned oral surgeon Hippolyte Morestin in Paris and to observe some of his experimental work with skin grafts, which filled him with enthusiasm for the potential of restorative surgical techniques. Upon his return to England, he persuaded the army's chief surgeon to establish a facial injury ward at a hospital in Aldershot, to be devoted to the treatment of the increasing number of soldiers who had suffered grievous injuries in the war; the demand for such services proved overwhelming, and soon led to the establishment in 1917 of a new facility with over 1,000 convalescent beds, later known as Queen Mary's Hospital, at Sidcup. It was there that "Gillies and his colleagues developed many innovative plastic surgery techniques [and where] more than 11,000 operations were performed on over 5,000 men." (Wikipedia) This book is a compendium of the knowledge gained from this early surgical work, and also stands as a sobering testament to the horrific facial disfigurements suffered by men in the war. (Be warned, the book is not for the squeamish: there are hundreds of photographs, primarily head shots, of the men both before and after their surgeries.) The chapter headings are: (I) Principles: Historical; (II) Repair of the Cheek; (III) Injuries of the Upper Lip; (IV) Injuries of the Lower Lip and Chin; (V) Prosthetic Appliances in Relation to Plastic Surgery; (VI) Injuries of the Nose; (VII) Injuries in the Region of the Eyes, including Burns of the Face [and] Injuries to the Pinna; (VIII) Plastic Surgery in Civil Cases. In addition to its landmark status in the medical literature, what makes this copy of exceptional interest is the provenance: for starters, it bears a handwritten inscription by H. (Howard) L. Updegraff, who presented the book to Michael Gurdin, M.D., on September 15, 1938. Dr. Updegraff was a prominent surgeon in Hollywood, California; he had been the first plastic surgeon to be filmed in action using color film, in 1931, and a few years later served on a committee commissioned by J. Edgar Hoover to consider the likelihood of a person being able to obliterate their fingerprints. At the time of his unexpected death in August 1940, he was only 43 years old; Dr. Michael Gurdin, who was about fourteen years his junior, was either his partner or his protege: his property stamp appears twice in the front of the book, with the same business address as Dr. Updegraff. Dr. Gurdin himself (d. 1993) became quite prominent in the field, establishing his own practice in Beverly Hills after World War II. (And he earned a little posthumous notoriety in 2013, when some of his medical files were sold at auction, revealing that Marilyn Monroe had been among his clients.) The book had one more interesting owner after it passed through the hands of Dr. Gurdin: the renowned M-G-M makeup wizard William Tuttle, from whose estate this copy was acquired. (Tuttle's rubber-stamped signature also adorns the front endpaper.) It's not hard to discern what Tuttle's interest would have been in the intricacies of facial reconstruction, although his particular focus would rather have been on concocting convincing facial fakery for the Hollywood movie cameras.

First Edition. The first novel by this fine Golden Age detective fiction writer Corners of the light blue covers bumped and a few light marks to the boards but generally a VG condition copy of this scarce work. Supplied in a high quality facsimile copy of the first edition dustjacket, with its evocative cover showing a plan of the murder scene.