Language: English
Published by Punch, 1847
Seller: Avenue Victor Hugo Books, Newmarket, NH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine: Volume V (5); 1847; January to June (incl. February, March, April, May); The Dreamer and the Worker-1 to 12 (Horn); History of St. Giles and St. James; Heads and Tails of Families (Bell); etc6 issues bound in one volume, issues editorially complete but without original wraps and ads. Duodecimo, 7 1/4" tall, 568 pages, 3/4 black leather over dark cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, sturdy hard cover with moderate shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges cracked but secure, fore-edges darkened, binding solid, paper moderately yellowed.
Published by The American Philosophical Society, 1945
Seller: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 398 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography.tears at top & bottom of spine, tape residue along spine, cover is age-toned, bookplate inside front cover, pencil notes on table of contents, small chip on back cover edge, binding is loose but all pages are bound, includes 5 page reprint of "Exploratory flights of Admiral Byrd (1940)" by Roger Hawthorne. Expedition on auroral phenomena, bacteriology, botany, cosmic rays, glaciology, magnetism, medicine, meteorology, micropaleontology, ornithology, petrography and petrology, physiography, physiology, seismology, structural geology, and zoology.