H G and H B Adams (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. xiv, 455 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0897664949 (alk. paper); 9780897664943 (alk. paper) ; LCCN: 89-9363 ; OCLC: 19623688 ; stiff paper wrappers ; authors include P W Basham, Robert V Witman, Leonardo Seeber, John G Armbruster, John Adams, Mark & Ma ry Lou Zoback, Edward Woodhouse, Davied Boore, Paul Somerville, Gail Atkinson, Robin McGuire, Gabriel Toro, Daniele Venezano, Luc Chouinard, Ricardo Dobry, R E Weems, S F Obermeier, R B Jacobson, G S Gohn, Martitia P Tuttle, Leonardo Seeber, Steven G Wesnousky, Eugene S Schweig, Silvio K Pezzopane, W j Hall, S L McCabe, M Shinozuka, K Moriyama, Frank E McClure, Guy J P Nordenson, Jack P Moehle, V C Fenton, Glenn R Hill, Thomas A Schwartz, James H Gates, T D O'Rourke, Christopher Rojahn, Chris D Poland, M Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, Rene W Luft, Warner Howe, Charles Scawthorn, and Stephen K Harris ; FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles and gilt swifts to front board; gilt top edge. Lightly edgeworn, lightly soiled, some [soot?] tanning to spine. Front hinge cracked but the book remains firmly bound. Internally generally crisp, clean and bright, though with the very occasional very light thumb mark. Spotting mostly confined to endpapers, closed edges of the textblock and the first and final few leaves. Frontispiece detached but present. Beautiful colour plates of birds and eggs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint edition. xxviii, [2], 456 pages. Frontis illustrations. Illustrations. Maps. Charts. Index. Introduction by Thomas M. Cooley (Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission). This work was first published in 1888 and this reprint is from the 1897 edition. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. The American Railway provides an exciting look at the railroad industry in the 1880s and how it developed as the business boomed. Originally published in 1888, it contains a thorough history of how railroads were built, the types of railways, the lives of railway workers, the various ways the railway affected political and business economics, as well as the safety precautions of people who rode or worked with the railway system. You'll also find more than two hundred hand-drawn illustrations-visual representations of great steam engines, graceful bridges, life in a Pullman car, railway accidents, views of track construction, and portraits of railroad pioneers and magnates of the times-and stories from real rail workers. Learn how far we've come from such humble beginnings and grow to have a newfound appreciation for the railways that paved our country's future.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 32 colored plates that are extra colorful decorated boards gold edges around book is very solid and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 32 colored plates that are extra colorful decorated boards gold edges around book is very solid and tight.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. P.167-239. Printed cream wrappers. Wrappers age-toned, bottom corners bumped, very good. "A Visit with E.M. Forster" by William Van O'Connor. *Voice as Vision* by W.D. Snodgrass. "Jean Stafford: The Expense of Style and the Scope of Sensibility" by Ihab H. Hassan. Poetry by William Belvin, Edgar Bowers, Charles Aufderheide, James Wright, Brewster Ghiselin, Henry Ayling, Howard Levant. Stories by Richard G. Stern, James B. Hall. Books by Ralph Freedman and Hazard Adams. Scarce.…

Condition: Fine. No Jacket. iv, pp. 252 + 8 pp George Bell and Sons Adverts dated 1883. 32 colour lithographic plates of birds (16) and (16) eggs. Plates in good condition apart from plate 1 (eggs) is somewhat foxed. Publisher's decorated green cloth. All edges guilt. Recased with new front and end papers. Nice copy.…

Hardcover. 21st edition. 642 p.; 16.5 cm. 1008 hymns (words only) with indexes: first lines, subjects. [First printed 1847: Eddy, Universalism 1241] Near fine lt. edgeworn red morocco, gilt dentelles, a.e.g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Adams, H. G and H. B. The smaller British birds. With descriptions of their nests, eggs, habits etc., etc., etc. Illustrated with coloured plates of birds and eggs. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874. Hardback, VG. Rebound in green half-leather, bumped and rubbed to corners with patches of colour loss along spine. Spine in 6 panels with 5 raised bands, gilt banding, slight remains of red text boxes, the author and title now blind-embossed. Stain to lowest panel. Green boards to front and back, a little marked in places. Binding strong. Neatly pasted ex-libris label to front pastedown of T. Horsman Coles and Geoffrey Horsman Coles, the latter killed in action at Festubert in November 1915, having previously won a bronze medal for shooting at the 1908 Olympics. Green endpapers. Frontispiece colour illustration. Title page in red and black. iv, 250pp., colour plates. Edges of page block stained red. Contents clean and bright. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. a more delux binding full polished red leather with gold border and raised ribs on spine Marbleized page edges.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, with occasional light spotting, light foxing on endpapers and title pages, cracked gutter at pages 96-97 but no detachment, binding firm, light shelf wear to edges of boards but overall neat. Size: 4to.

Pp. iv, 252, 16 fine color plates of birds after A. F. Lydon + 16 color fine plates of bird eggs. Publisher's gilt-decorated and pictorial blue ribbed cloth, top edge gilt, royal 8vo. From the library of Major O.C.C. Nichols with his bookplate. Inscription dated 1895 on the front blank endpaper. Some edge-wear to cloth, a tight, very good copy. …

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1900 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 36 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 36 Volume 1900.…

London: Gibbings & Co., 1894. Roy. 8vo. Orig. dec. cloth. Gilt. (spine faded). T.e.g. (IV, 252pp.). With 32 full-page coloured plates being 16 plates of birds and 16 plates of their eggs. Title-page printed in red/black ink. Fine and complete.