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Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, New ZealandPhoenix Books NZ
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This listing is for 2 books by Glen Wood. Cop Out! The end of my brilliant career in the NZ police. SIGNED by author, with gift inscription to owner. (plus) The Laughing Policeman. Publisher: Shoal Bay Press, 1998/99. Very good softbacks, minor shelf/edge-wear, light creasing. ALL P…HOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOKS. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, U.S.A.Joseph Valles - Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. 2nd revision ; 325 pages ; 23 cm ; SIGNED presentation by the author on the title page ; ISBN 9780615833248, 0615833241 ; OCLC 906581166 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; an incredible true story about a man who wields his visceral passion for birds and flight that ultimately l…eads to giving a one-winged Bald Eagle a second chance to fly.; John Stokes has been a hang glider pilot since 1975 and has worked professionally with birds since 1977. Employed by Wings To Soar since 2013 and conducts programs at Rock City above Chattanooga,Tennessee. ; Contents: Early Lessons -- My First Birds -- Nashville -- The City of the King -- The Boy Scouts -- Hawks, other raptors and "Pigman" -- I discover hang gliding -- 1975 -- 1975-Part Two -- A New Direction -- Spreading My Wings -- Euthanasia and eating dirt -- The Zoo calls -- A New Career -- 1978 -- The Memphis Zoo Raptor Rehab Program1979 -- Falconry -- Charger -- The Tapp House Ghost -- 1980-The Year Indecision -- 1980 Part 2-Osprey Hacking -- "Return Home or suffer the consequences!" -- Satch -- Hitchhiking up Walden Ridge -- Kalopin -- Osceola -- Let's have a party Zoo-style (By the way, make sure no one gets killed!) -- Eagle Hacking and Restoration -- The idea and the Beginning of the End, Part 1 -- The Beginning of the End, Part 2 -- Osceola's New Home and Heading for the Exit -- Good-Bye Memphis, Hello Mount Juliet! -- My New Home -- My "New" Digs -- Building the Cumberland Wildlife Foundation -- 1987-Cumberland Comes of Age -- Some Changes are afoot -- The Loon and Iron Eyes and 1989 -- Merger Time and I have something in common with Osceola -- Screw Disneyworld! We're going to Dollywood! -- Osceola flies again -- Epilogue ; FINE. Book.
Published by The Alexander- Ouseley Company,, London, 1926
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Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United KingdomBurwood Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp vii, 109 and 5pp publishers' catalogue at rear. 2 illustrations. Bookplate of the poet C. H. O. Scaife (Christopher Scaife). Novel partly set in the future. Peter Jenkins is born in 1890 and lives into his 80's and makes a huge fortune. Presentation… copy:' Hilda Scaife/ from the author.' Scarce. Very good indeed. Signedes.
Published by Duckworth, London, 1905
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Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United KingdomBurwood Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Substantial 8vo.pp. 340. Signed presentation copy from the book's owner Dowager Countess of Dudley, her Pembroke Lodge visiting card tipped onto the front endpaper:"With her love and very good wish for Christmas and New Year." Blind stamp of Holdenby House. BOOK: children…'s fiction. Original publisherÕs handsome full grained leather binding in dark brown, lettered gilt at spine, with gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers in pale pastel swirls. Frontispiece full colour plate "Red Fox, meanwhile, had been watching the whole scene from that safe little ledge of rock." Full Page plates of black and white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. /Georgina Elizabeth Ward, Countess of Dudley (1846Ð 1929) was a British noblewoman and noted beauty. In 1865 the 18-year-old Georgina married 48-year-old William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, a wealthy land and mine owner. She was a close friend of Queen Alexandra (her bookplate is at the front of the book - an A surmounted by a crown) and as Dowager Countess, Lady Dudley lived at Pembroke Lodge in London, granted to her by "grace and favour" of King Edward./Charles Livingston Bull (1874Ð1932)was an American illustrator. Bull studied taxidermy in Rochester, New York and is known for his illustration of wildlife Very good. Slight rubbing to covers. Signedes.
Published by Sherratt & Hughes, London 1903
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Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, U.S.A.The Old Mill Bookshop
Contact seller3-star sellerSome facsimiles. 1 vols. 4to. First edition. First edition. Some facsimiles. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed by Hughes to A. E. F. Horniman in 1911. Jaggard p. 223. Jaggard p. 223 Original parchment-backed boards. Darkened, rubbed, some wear to corners, some marginal browning of text. Signed.
More imagesPublished by Printed for Charles Knight. 1824 1824
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Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United KingdomJarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers
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Add to basketFIRST EDITION. Half title, 4pp ads (Nov. 1824); lacking facsim. front. Uncut in orig. drab boards, paper label sl. chipped; spine carefully repaired, boards marked. Initial blank & titlepage signed 'No. 32. John Dixon, 1837'. Although lacking front., still a nice clean copy as issued. Chew pp209-211. Dallas, an early friend of B…yron, compiled a biography in 1819 using Byron's letters written to Dallas, but was prevented from publishing the book after Byron's death by an injunction. Dallas died soon after Byron, and his son revised the text.
More imagesPublished by England / Ireland, c.1950 - 1990. 1990
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Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, IrelandInanna Rare Books Ltd.
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Add to basketOctavo / Quarto. Hardcover Box / Bespoke made Box, labelled "General Gill" , for the private library of Prof.David (Dave) Naylor. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Gill, William Daniel (191692), geologist, was born 29 June 1916 at Hillam, Yorks., second child among three sons and three daughters of Richard Wells… Gill, farmer, and Eva Gill (née Hesselgrave). He was educated at Castleford Grammar School and Leeds University, where he had a successful undergraduate career and received a degree in geology (1938). Robert George Spencer Hudson was his professor, and the two men remained close friends for the next thirty years. On leaving Leeds he joined the Attock Oil Company (1938) as a field geologist and palaeontologist. During the second world war he worked as a development geologist and petroleum engineer in India (including the Punjab, later part of Pakistan) and Burma, and became a leading expert on Himalayan geology. In 1948 he left the oil industry for academia and a lectureship in geology at Nottingham University. Two years later he was awarded a D.Sc. (1950) by Leeds University for his publications on Himalayan geology, and in 1953 he was appointed professor of geology and mineralogy at TCD, the first non-Irish holder of the position since 1883. Under his direction and with the aid of funds from the earl of Iveagh (qv) and oil industry contacts, the geology department experienced a period of expansion. A vibrant postgraduate school of research was initiated, which led eventually to an increase in staff numbers. The museum building, which housed the department, was internally reconstructed to include new research and teaching facilities. Unfortunately many of the original museum's historic rock collections were discarded in the move. In Ireland his research interests focused on the Upper Carboniferous rocks of Co. Clare, and particularly on the deformation features of soft sedimentary structures so clearly exposed there. He published a significant paper on sand volcanoes with P. H. Keunen (1958) and brought his Clare work together in a later publication of the Geological Survey of Ireland (1979). He was in his element in the field, where his enthusiasm for his subject was said to be more eloquent than in the lecture theatre. As oil and mineral exploration was initiated in Ireland in the 1950s, he took on the role of consultant, and, with his students, was involved in regional geological mapping. He expanded his consultancy role to oil companies in Libya and Greece and in 1961 resigned from Trinity to accept the chair of oil technology at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London, later becoming professor of petroleum geology (1976). Hudson, his original professor, replaced him at TCD (19616) in the chair of geology. In London Gill introduced the M.Sc. course in petroleum geology and established the first UK-based organic geochemistry laboratory for the study of petroleum-source rocks (1969). He continued to consult with oil companies and governments in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and Canada. His extraordinary memory and ability to assimilate and synthesise information and data led to successful oil finds in newly explored areas. As a geologist he was most interested in the concepts of large-scale tectonic processes in such places as the Alps, the Himalayas, and the east African rift. However, his impatience with detail meant his publication record never quite kept pace with his achievements. During his career he was elected FTCD (1958), fellow of the Geological Society of London and of the Institute of Petroleum (London), MRIA (1955), and member of the RDS (vice-president 1959, 1961). A self-confident and flamboyant man with a large physical presence, he is said to have had grandiose plans which did not always come to pass. Known as 'Dan', he was popular with both students and staff and was viewed as warm-hearted and straightforward. University politics, however, were not his strong point. On the death of Hudson (1966), Gill professed an interest in returning to Trinity, provided he did not have to submit a formal application form. However, TCD did not respond. He married (1946) in India Margaret 'Betty' Torrance, whom he had met in the Yorkshire dales when he was mapping as a student; they had two daughters. Their houses (16 Garville Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin, and 85 Platt's Lane, Hampstead, London) were the frequent hub of late-night parties, where Dan would sing and play the piano. An active sportsman, he loved cricket and was president of the Trinity boat and rugby clubs. In 1978 he retired to Glusburn Green, Glusburn, Yorks., but continued consultancy work in the Middle East for some time afterwards. His wife died in 1987; five years later, he died (29 October 1992) in Yorkshire. [This Biography was authored by Patricia M. Byrne for the Dictionary of Irish Biography - Source: dib.ie] The collection includes the following essays, papers, offprints: 1. [Himalaya] - William Daniel Gill - "The Orogenesis of the North-West Himalaya" - Summary with several Maps regarding the "Analysis of the Himalayan-Kun Lun Mountain Systems and the Kashmir Basin etc. (Original Galley Proofs) (c. 1953 ?) 2. [Geology] - William Daniel Gill - "Construction of Geological Sections of Folds with Steep-Limb Attenuation" 3. [Iveagh Geological Laboratory] - W.D.Gill - "The Iveagh Geological Laboratory, Trinity College, Dublin" (1956) 4. [Clare, County] - W.D.Gill and P.H.Kuehnen: "Sand Volcanoes on Slumps in the Carboniferous of County Clare, Ireland" (1957) Including original typescript with an abstract on "Sand Volcanoes on Slumps" from W.D.Gill's library (stapled) 5. [Geology, General] - W.D.Gill - "Geology on the Search for Oil" [Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Oil Technology on March 13th, 1962] - Includes seven [7] pages of manuscript notes by Dave Naylor on the subject of this work. 5. [Geology] - W.D.Gill - "Geology - I: "Basement Rock" / II - "The Upper P.
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Seller: The Raab Collection, Ardmore, U.S.A.The Raab Collection
Contact seller4-star sellerRalph Waldo Emerson is remembered today as an essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendental movement of the mid-19th century. His ideology is disseminated to us through his voluminous writings.But to his contemporaries, he was best known as a lecturer, and he delivered some 1,500 addresses In… the United States and Great Britain over the course of his career. Over the period 1833-1871, Emerson often spent four to six months a year on the lecture circuit. In April 1871, just three months after this letter, Emerson?s lectures are commonly considered to have come to an end. This is so because any later lectures cannot be reconstructed. Because his most important ideas were worked out in his lectures, these lectures provide the best record we have of his evolving thought-and thus are a key to understanding of his essays and other printed works.Emerson was invited to speak at Andover, Massachusetts on January 13, 1871. Emerson?s Journal records that in September 1870, Emerson has written, ?Andover 13 January proposed,? as it had been by a Roderic Terry of that town. At another location, Emerson wrote in the name of Terry and the year 1871. His account books indeed show that Terry paid Emerson on January 13, 1871. Based on other charges Emerson specified for lectures for this period, he likely received $70 for the lecture. The content of the lecture does not appear to be published.Autograph letter signed, Concord, November 11, 1870, to Roderic Terry. "I do not foresee that any engagement will prevent me from coming to Andover on the evening of the 13th January next, as proposed in your note which should have been answered much earlier." This letter is cited in The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which notes that it was sold at City Book Auction in 1949.By the spring of 1871, Emerson?s mind was on travel. He took a trip on the transcontinental railroad, barely two years after its completion.
