Weiss Grace M (74 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. Cloth lightly scuffed. Owner's name stamp. Overall very clean and tight. 260 pages. 27 illustrations. The "most eminent of the early American taxonomic zoologists.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. FAIR/WITH NO JACKET, 145 pp. Text clean with usual library treatments. Floral boards with gold text on spine. Binding stitched and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Spine is cracked at front endpaper. Pages have some light yellowing. Corners are beginning to chip.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, 8 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches, 155 pages, index, bibliography. Ex library. I have removed the clear plastic jacket and spine label. Slight abrasion where label was removed. Apart from typical library marks including Discard stamp, and two small penned marginal bracket marks on two pages, the pages are clean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, xiv, 1 leaf, 260 pp; 27 illus. Original cloth. Very Good, in torn dust jacket. First Edition.

Condition: Very Good. 1931 first edition. VG/G. Dust jacket edge worn with loss along top edge and at corners, now in a brand new Brodart clear protective sleeve. Minimal wear to book. Interior is pristine. No writing or markings of any kind. Photo is of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover. B&W illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 260 pages, illustrated in b&w. "No apology is needed for writing a book on the life of Thomas Say, Father of American Zoology. " FINE HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1931 Charles C. Thomas Publisher hardcover, no dj, Spine damage, reading copy only; damaged/worn/marked, ACCEPTABLE Standard-sized.

Stiff pr. wraps. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed 163pp, signed, stiff pr. wraps vg+ Animal exploration, remigration, Sioux, military, pioneer, ranching, trails.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. This is an ex-library copy with usual marks. Brown cloth covers are soiled and scuffed. The contents are bright and complete in 260 pages. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book has minor bumping and pencil marks to boards. Binding is sound, with gutter crack along front hinge. Some interior pages have light smudging but text and images are overall clean and unmarked. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. This book is from a library and may include stamps, tape, and markings. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. First. 260pp.Illus with full page platest.Interesting natural history biographical reference/interest. First ed. A nice copy. PARROTT BOOKS - established for over 20 years offering a prompt friendly and efficient service Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Study of hat manufacturing in New Jersey in the 18th-19th centuries. Light gray wraps with black title and pictorial. Moderately edgeworn and rubbed with fading and some discoloration along edges of wraps. Binding firm. Contents clean and bright with black and white illustrations.…

Cloth Green. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Cloth Green. First Edition. With a Foreword by L.O. Howard. Hardcover; green cloth; no jacket; 260 pp.; with 27 illustrations, including a Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Say, considered to be the father of American Zoology, by Joseph Wood. Page XIII has a one inch closed tear, else this is a near fine copy of a very handsomely made book.…

HARD COVER. FIRST EDITION (LIMITED, NUMBERED). 50 PAGES. THIS IS NUMBER 168 OF 250 COPIES. EX-LIBRARY WITH POCKET, CARD, DISCARD STAMP ON INSIDE FRONT COVER. OTHERWISE VERY CLEAN, UNMARKED AND IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. Size: OCTAVO.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/G. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher. G/G. 1931. . Cloth w/DJ. Sm 4to., 260 pp., Dj rubbed, chipped, torn, frayed, deckled edges, yellowing . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).

HC. 148pp Varied types of sports and diversions that occupied people's attention from colonial times until about 1860. Chapters include: Frolics, Bees and Other Rural Recreations; Fairs and Balloon Ascensions; Mechanical Shows and Museums; Waxworks, Acrobats, and Magicians; Wild Beasts, Animal Baiting, and Cockfighting; Equestrian Shows, Menageries, and Circuses; Sea Bathing, Public Gardens, and Steamboat Trips; Celebrations, Dancing, Theatres, Lectures and Concerts; Horse Racing; and Miscellaneous Sports and Divisions. good+, black spine (hardcover) faint edgewear. B&W illustrations (illustrator).…

PAPERBACK GREY. Condition: Good. black and white illustrations, pages clean, shelf worn, some sun fading to spine, previous sellers price sticker on front cover DATE PUBLISHED: 1969 EDITION: 63.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: VG. Trenton 1957 1st Past Times Press. Copy No. 8/250. Octavo, 50pp., hardcover. Library cancel stamp inside front cover and on verso of title page-no other library marks at all. VG.

First Edition. Sodftcover, 63 pp., good with slight wearm light foxing to endpapers and preliminaries. a few illustrations and diagrams.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 260, title page printed in red and black, pages a little age-toned but otherwise clean and sound, with the bookplate of Mark Robinson, green cloth showing only very slight signs of wear, the spine head very slightly pulled. A lengthy original obituary cutting pasted to free front endpaper - this has led to the verso being a little stained. loosely tipped in is a disbound offprint from Entomological News, March 1953 - "Thomas Say's Home at New Harmony, Indiana". [Thomas Say (June 27, 1787 - October 10, 1834) was an American entomologist, conchologist, and herpetologist. His definitive studies of insects and shells, numerous contributions to scientific journals, and scientific expeditions to Florida, Georgia, the Rocky Mountains, Mexico, and elsewhere made him an internationally known naturalist. Say has been called the father of American descriptive entomology and American conchology. He served as librarian for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, curator at the American Philosophical Society, and professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Say described more than 1,000 new species of beetles, more than 400 species of insects of other orders, and seven well-known species of snakes.].…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 100pp. Printed wrappers with soil and a tanned spine, very good. The text is fine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 82pp. Spine tanned, page edges modestly foxed, very good.

Illust, 9 x 6, wraps, 63 w/index, covers soiled and yellowed.

WEISS, HARRY B., and GRACE M. WEISS. Rafting on the Delaware River. Trenton, 1967 [i.e., 1975]. [2], v, [1], 72 p. Illus. Wrappers. Reprint of the 1967 edition. A fine study of rafts and of raft transportation on the Delaware, and of the early industries that used this important mode of transportation.…