Microscope by Hawks Ellison (8 results)

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 154 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 156pp, 40 plates, some in-text black and white illustrations. Green cloth-covered boards; colour illustration pasted on front, green titles on front and spine; fore and bottom text block edges untrimmed. 16mo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends, large stain on rear. Top text block edge dust damaged, remaining edges tanning. Free endpapers tanning; pages tanning with some occasional foxing. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very good copy, digital photos available.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 154 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Slight forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 154pp. + 40 plates. 6.5 x 4.5 inch. Still tightly bound, interior in very nice clean condition. Gilt titling to spine. No names nor inscriptions. Top edge gilt. Some light staining to edges (ie only visible when book is closed). preface dated 1919, no other dates shown.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Scarce book from the children's series, "SHOWN TO THE CHILDREN" series (series edited by Louey Chisholm) . Even more scarce in dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with clean unworn color paste-on illustration on cover with gold line border and lettering; gold lettering and line decoration on spine. No fraying, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. No date of publication - circa 1920. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Color frontispiece illustration with 32 black and white illustrations, eight color plates. All pages, edges are clean. Sewn-in ribbon page marker. 152 pages. Clean dust jacket with color paste-on illustration (unworn), black lettering; shallow chipping at spine ends, 1" closed tear at top front flap fold; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Wonderful detailed book covering microscopic plants and animals, fungi and molds, marine life, insects.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Cover. Early Edition. Good Hardcover, illustrated with pictorial cover, "The Shown to Children series" edited by Louey Chisholm, previous owner's inscription, some wear and discoloration.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A scarce copy of this comprehensive guide to the microscope by Ellison Hawks, with coloured plates. From the "Shown" Series, edited by Louey Chisholm. In the publisher's original decorative green cloth binding. With a coloured frontispiece, and thirty-nine further plates. Collated, complete. A comprehensive volume on the microscope, with sections on its history, the key principles, how to work with the microscope, as well as details for viewing different subjects. Written by British writer Ellison Hawks, who wrote on popular science and technology topics, explaining the working of gadgets and the manufacture of industrial products. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Externally, light fading to spine, with bumping to the head and tail. Light rubbing to joints with the odd faint mark to boards. Light offsetting to free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting to the front and rear. Light spotting to fore edge. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…