Barclay H V (24 results)

Paperback. First Edition As Such. Copyright Date: 1993 Sm Quarto, 1999, PP.48, As New, Both Covers Are French Folded But Miss Matched To Size Of Text Block By A Quarter Inch. Illustrated By Philip Rickman (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good / Very Good. PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. 96 pages. CONTENTS:: Danger at the Summit by H. R. Teter; Secret of Mystery Mountain by Paul F. Long; Medicine Horse by Paul F. Long; Marshmallow is Her Name by Kitty Miller; Wild Horse! by Lilyan Kucera; Nellybelle and Red by Kitty Miller; Colt on the Loose! by P. G. Cox; Danny's First Rodeo by Ivy MacDonald; Decision for Fury by Leila M. Thomas; Fear Rides in the Saddle by Mildred Sallee; Brush by V. T. Johnson; Secret of Bluerock Canyon by Gail Barclay; Poor Patches by Kitty Miller. >> Cover scuffing; small apaper pull to front cover; name in pen to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Facsimile Reprint. Bound in red buckram, gilt on front and spine. Facsimile reprint of the 1914 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. This flawless copy is bound in dark blue leather with bright gold decoration surrounding a mounted color illustration, and titles and all edges gilt, the binding is tight as if unread, it is Number 627 in a Limited Edition of 2500 copies, illustrated with color plates by Philip Rickman, a great gift copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No DJ. Limited Edition, Derrydale Press. Leather covers are clean. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is clean, all edges gilt. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine Condition. One of 2500 copies printed by Douglas C. Mauldin.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Lyon, MS: The Derrydale Press, 1993. Limited edition, one of 2500 copies printed. Rich midnight blue bonded leather/leatherette printed in gilt with color illustration mounted on the front cover, all edges gilt, attached ribbon bookmark.Fne condition, looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Believed First Edition. 48pp, no inscriptions, colour plates by Philip Rickman are all present. with tissue guards in place. Wrapper is price clipped and slightly rubbed especially to spine however there are no tears or chipping. Wrapper is now in a removable clear protective sleeve. Boards are undamaged. Hinges are tight, no turned over page corners. Some spotting to front and rear prelims and last page of text also edges of text block, but none to rest of text or plates. Happy to supply photos on request. Heavy book, please inquire for postage outside the UK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. CHIPPED AROUND THE EDGES, ESPECIALLY THE SPINE. 128 PAGES PLUS PLATES AT BACK.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. An introduction is provided to the present state of knowledge of beetle families and their larvae in the British Isles and relevant larval identification literature. Summaries are given of general larval morphology; specialised biological aspects such as hypermetamorphosis and parasitism; habitats and behaviour as aids to identification, especially of those species in which adults and larvae occupy totally different habitats and in which one or other stage is much more commonly encountered; pest species and biological control; and collecting, preservation and rearing. Illustrated keys are provided to distinguish beetle larvae from those belonging to other insect orders, and to families of Coleoptera larvae. Colour photographs of beetle larvae representing many of the families discussed, and using specimens from the van Emden collection, are provided.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. 280, 68 col photos, 311 text figs (line drawings). . PB. NEW. . Key to the larvae of the families and major subfamilies of beetles present in the British Isles, short summaries of the morphological and ecological characteristics of each taxon, guidance on collecting. [9781800628298].

Paperback. Condition: New. An introduction is provided to the present state of knowledge of beetle families and their larvae in the British Isles and relevant larval identification literature. Summaries are given of general larval morphology; specialised biological aspects such as hypermetamorphosis and parasitism; habitats and behaviour as aids to identification, especially of those species in which adults and larvae occupy totally different habitats and in which one or other stage is much more commonly encountered; pest species and biological control; and collecting, preservation and rearing. Illustrated keys are provided to distinguish beetle larvae from those belonging to other insect orders, and to families of Coleoptera larvae. Colour photographs of beetle larvae representing many of the families discussed, and using specimens from the van Emden collection, are provided.…

1947, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp367, four colour plates, black and white illustrations, tan cloth spine over beige boards in dustwrapper. Small damp mark on front cover, top of spine of dustwrapper slightly pulled, otherwise good.

Paperback. Condition: New. An introduction is provided to the present state of knowledge of beetle families and their larvae in the British Isles and relevant larval identification literature. Summaries are given of general larval morphology; specialised biological aspects such as hypermetamorphosis and parasitism; habitats and behaviour as aids to identification, especially of those species in which adults and larvae occupy totally different habitats and in which one or other stage is much more commonly encountered; pest species and biological control; and collecting, preservation and rearing. Illustrated keys are provided to distinguish beetle larvae from those belonging to other insect orders, and to families of Coleoptera larvae. Colour photographs of beetle larvae representing many of the families discussed, and using specimens from the van Emden collection, are provided.…

Paperback. Condition: New. An introduction is provided to the present state of knowledge of beetle families and their larvae in the British Isles and relevant larval identification literature. Summaries are given of general larval morphology; specialised biological aspects such as hypermetamorphosis and parasitism; habitats and behaviour as aids to identification, especially of those species in which adults and larvae occupy totally different habitats and in which one or other stage is much more commonly encountered; pest species and biological control; and collecting, preservation and rearing. Illustrated keys are provided to distinguish beetle larvae from those belonging to other insect orders, and to families of Coleoptera larvae. Colour photographs of beetle larvae representing many of the families discussed, and using specimens from the van Emden collection, are provided.…

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Quarter pigskin over buckram, G+. x+46pp, 20 tissue guarded plates, printed on handmade paper with deckle edges, LIMITED to 125 copies this being copy 49, original pencil illustration by the artist on the limitation page, leather rather rubbed & worn to the spine, corners bumped, undertermined stain to the contents page. Ex libris Michael Holdway, with his memorial bookplate ( Lt Michael HH Holdway, Royal Engineers, killed in mine explosion, Qiryat Moskin, Palestine 1947 ), Ex Natural History Society with their ink stamp, a fair copy. Attractively produced guide to the game birds of Britain & North America with brief ornithological details on 6 groups of brids & an essay on shooting in the respective countries. 700 grams. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Staniland,k C.J.; Pearse, A.; Symons, W. Christian (illustrator).…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. 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. Reprinted from 1913 edition. 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 and contains approximately 10 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Language: English.…

1st Edn. xix 433 pages, TEG, 4to., illus with colour plates, photogravure, monochrome and half tone plates, the colour plates from drawings by E Caldwell the photogravures, Frank H Wallace. Bound in the publishers full brown morroco, gilt title to upper board some foxing to the blank end papers. Limited to 600 numbered copies, this being numbered 517, issued in a 4-volume set with volume number to the spine or singerly as this volume with no number to spine. A sumptuous production. The authors write from personal experience and knowledge, Lt Col Kennion on the Big Game Of Persia, H.F.Wallace on China, P.B. Van Der Byl on India, Douglas Carruthers on Syria, Arabia, Asia Minor Russia etc. J.G.Millais describes the big game of America, + Barclay adding a chapter on Mancurian Tiger, a vg copy. Czech 45. …