Walker Robert Craighead (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Nice!

0 CONTENTS: THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SCOTTISH TOURIST, EPIGRAMS, SPAIN, TESTS IN THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES, TOPOGRAPHY OF THE CHAIN OF MONT BLANC, THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, JOHN LEECH. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Moderate shelfwear,

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 83 pages; Description: xxvii, 83 p. : ill. , map ; 23 cm. Subjects: Walker, Robert C. (Robert Craighead) , 1894-1966 --Diaries. Walker, Robert C. (Robert Craighead) , 1894-1966 --Childhood and youth. Walker family. Ocean City (Md. ) --History --20th century --Pictorial works. Ocean City (Md. ) --Biography 3 Kg.

Magazine. Pp.157-312p. (i.e., about 150 pages), printed doublecolumn throughout on reasonably alkaline paperstock, sewn textblock in paste-fastened green printed wraps. Untrimmed, very edgeworn with dirt and a stain to foredge and foxing to top edge, short splits and small chips to head and tail, some pencillings and here & there a little mouse-gnaw. A somewhat repulsive copy nonetheless quite securely bound and handleable. Topics include twenty pages on Welsh education, twenty again of French/English vocabulary for travelers, twenty on the geologic distribution of gold in Siberia and California (Sierras "more lofty than the Appenines"), histories of Spanish literature, ditto ancient Greek lit, twenty pages on urban water-supply and sanitation especially of London, and. more.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 83 pages; Description: xxvii, 83 p. : ill. , map ; 23 cm. Subjects: Walker, Robert C. (Robert Craighead) , 1894-1966 --Diaries. Walker, Robert C. (Robert Craighead) , 1894-1966 --Childhood and youth. Walker family. Ocean City (Md. ) --History --20th century --Pictorial works. Ocean City (Md. ) --Biography 1 Kg.

Condition: Fair. pp. 152-294; clean but nibbled on edges of wrapper and first few pages by rodents with teeth sharper than their minds; paper strong, somewhat foxed; firm binding with sewn signatures but front panel of wrapper detached. Among articles are "The Social Science: its History and Prospects;" "The Literature of Apologetics;" "Mr. Babbage on the Exposition of 1851;" "Recent Works of Fiction," and others. No markings other than name of former owner on upper edge of front panel of wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: New.