Barker C a V (22 results)

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Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Tenth Edition. Sound cover has creases at the spine. Contents in very good clean condition. Previous owner's label on FEP. Small mark on half-title page. Clean Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. this copy has a tight binding and clean unmarked pages.light edge wear to the dust cover edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. George Barker "Epitaph (poem)" / Tom Hopkinson "You Really Are a Pet" / C Day Lewis "Ariadne on Naxos (poem)" / David Conde "Harvest Home" / Thom Gunn "Thoughts on Unpacking (poem)" / Edith Sitwell "Coming to London - XIV" / 3 poems by Bernard Spencer / Elizabeth Bowen "Persuasion" / Louis MacNiece "Lost Generations?" / A Letter from Geoffrey Moore.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD. Dust jacket has several short edge tears, and some wear to top edge and tips. New archival mylar dj cover. 24 cm. (8vo) 516 pages. -- Please feel free to request additional information, or detailed photos. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging, with tracking and insurance.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 151 pages. William Landram Williamson "A Quest For Copies Of The Articles Collector's Piece VII" / John M Pinkerton "Richard Bull Of Ongar, Essex" / Virginia Leigh Smyers "Dorothy M Richardson Some Uncollected Aurhors L" / Arthur Freeman "The New STC" / Felix B de Marez Oyens "A Syrian Monastery Binding, 1759".

Cloth in dust jacket. Condition: Vg. xiii, Pp. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 24cm, xi,516p., appendix, index, illustrations, original blue cloth with gi lt spine titles, white dust-jacket, a fine copy in very good jacket (S3.10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. Illustrated. Hoggar Mountains, Sahara Desert; Norfleet's Quest (part 1 of 2) - the adventures of a Texas cattleman who tracked down the swindler gang which conned him; The Broken Pick - a prospector's account of an eventful search for a lost Australian gold mine; The Ambush-a gripping story from the vast cattle country of the South American interior; Photo of man standing on one of the devil's marbles in Australia; "People of The Veil" - a most interesting photo illustrated account of a visit to the Tuaregs, the strange masked nomads of the Sahara; Two of a Kind; The Tuskless Elephant -a tragic incident in the Tanganyika Highlands in 1946; The "Killer" Wolves of British Columbia -these shaggy covered brutes have become a terrible menace and the provincial government and ranchers are hard put to keep them in check; When the Fire Came - big brush fire in the Matawai district of New Zealand in 1925; "Mariposa" -as ship is visited by many butterflies in South America; Photo of kangaroo caught in snare; (SL#253).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The book is fine in a near fine dust jacket with very slight edge wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 104 pages. Paul Bowles "Letter from Tangier" / V S Pritchett "Portrait of a Clerk" / George Barker "Stanzas on a Visit to Longleat House" / Hugo Charteris "The White Dancer" / Sheila Wingfield "Lines for the Margin of an Old Gospel (poem)" / C H B Kitchin "A Cottage in Cornwall" / Katerina Wilczynski "Authors of Today: Paul Claudel" / Dorothea Krook "The Later Works of Henry James".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, good copy in dustjacket, pp. 576.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Harrow, Kenneth; H. M. Brock; Peter Fraser; Chas. Howarth; Dorothy Wheeler; Laurie Taylor; Margaret oO. McNeal; Frank Hart; Harry Rountree; Cicely M. Barker; Geo. W. Leech; B. Butler; Joan Passmore; Philip Plimlott; Diana Rourke; Dudley Tennant (illustrator). Good+ condition, quarto, quarter tan cloth, pictorial front and press comments on rear, tile in black with pictorial spine, moderate wear, faint cup stain on front, neat gift inscription on front free end paper, illustrated end papers, illustrated throughout with colour plates and tinted drawings in text, not paginated. Long and short stories and verse. A good example. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 260 pp. Index. Bibliography. Photos. Jacket has light edgewear. Spine ends, corners gently bumped. Biographical notes. Traces the history of the CVMA from its founding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Full blue cloth. Patterned endpapers in the style of antique ads. xi, 516 pp. Minor rubbing to spine ends. Dust jacket is bumped to extremities, 1.5" inch tear to head, 1" tear and creasing to foot of front cover. Tape repair to foot of front. Slight toning to spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Creasing and staining to front wrap, back wrap has a stain and marking on it. Binding solid.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. xxiv, 193-254 pages. Features: Cover illustration in the Hoggar Mountains, Sahara Desert; Norfleet's Quest (part 1 of 2) - the adventures of a Texas cattleman who tracked down the swindler gang which conned him; The Broken Pick - a prospector's account of an eventful search for a lost Australian gold mine; The Ambush-a gripping story from the vast cattle country of the South American interior; Photo of man standing on one of the devil's marbles in Australia; "People of The Veil" - a most interesting photo illustrated account of a visit to the Tuaregs, the strange masked nomads of the Sahara; Two of a Kind; The Tuskless Elephant -a tragic incident in the Tanganyika Highlands in 1946; The "Killer" Wolves of British Columbia -these shaggy covered brutes have become a terrible menace and the provincial government and ranchers are hard put to keep them in check; When the Fire Came - big brush fire in the Matawai district of New Zealand in 1925; "Mariposa" -as ship is visited by many butterflies in South America; Photo of kangaroo caught in snare; Small pencilled name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Wood, Stanley, L.; Nicolson, W.C.; Tresilian, S.; De Walton, John; Eyles, D.C.; Kane, Thornton; Peddie, Tom; Sutcliffe, Norman (illustrator). First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Cowboy in Trouble - A tale from Indian Territory which is now part of Oklahoma; The Seminoles of Florida - An interesting photo-illustrated account of these hermits of the Florida wilds; The Longest Voyage on Record - An authoritative account of the "Maria Madre", presently moored at Paysandu, Uruguay - with photos; The Way of the Wild - Photo-illustrated article by cinematographer F. Ratcliffe Holmes about his adventures filming wildlife; Filed - Until Found - The daring escape of John Kelly from the Worcester, MA jail; My First Rhino - After V.G. Bell bagged his first, he was nearly bagged by a nearby rhino; The Wild Tribes of Malaya - Edward E. Long visits unknown stone-age tribes - article with wonderful photos; "Stope Number Five East" - Grim story from the Golden Gleam Mine in Nevada; Among the "White Arabs" - Photo illustrated article on the Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; The Ju-Ju Man's Vengeance - The death of a German by hypnotism in West Africa; Painting Pictures Beneath the Sea - Well-known landscapte artist Tilden Dakin paints submarine 'seascapes' from a diving-bell of his own design; "Ginger" To the Rescue! - A story of the old 'blackbirding' days in the South Seas, when the recruiters were not always over-scrupulous as to how they obtained native labour for the plantations; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part II - Jack McLaren spent eight years with savages on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula in Australia - with photos. 88 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian, S.; Abbey, S.; Peddie, Tom; Inns, Kenneth; Wigfull; Faulks, Jack M.; De Walton, John (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue.

11 x 13 1/2" x 1 1/2," bound in brown heavy pebble-surface cloth, leather corners & spine, with gilt line-and-scroll rules. With the 'title' in three paper strips affixed to the top cover: "Book IIII - Tour of 1899 - From the Atlantic to the Pacific." Houses 84 photographs, mostly via studios including 11 by Parker & Co., 1 by Waite, 21 by Taber, 5 by C.R. Savage, 14 by F.P. Stevens as well as several Cyanotype prints. The album consists of photographs and supporting ephemeral paper related to the journey. All photographs and ephemeral items are pasted directly to pages and each has hand-written description of location and most with brief information. Through research, we have determined that the album most likely belonged to Charles Bell Barker and his wife. C.B. Barker Manufacturing Co./Barker Silver Co. specialized in silverware and was located in New York, New York, from around 1895-1900 and then in Milford, Connecticut, from around 1900-1901. Photographs in this album include: Parker & Co. Photo, (11), with their studio name & title of image in the print; photos are approx. 5" x 8" size, including: # 710 Palmettos, Magnolia Ave. Riverside Cal.; # 299.A. Palm Drive Avenue; Palmetto Palm (faded); # 744 Date Palm Los Angeles Cal.; # 906 Canyon Crest Park (faded); # 912 The Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel; #1621 Arcadia Hotel Beach Santa Monica; # 650 Mount Lowe view (railway, observatory, hotel in distance); # 605 Alpine Tavern Mount Lowe Railway; # 991 The Oaks at (head) of the (burro) Trail Sou. Cal.; # 995 The Half Way House Wilson?s Peak Trail Sou. Cal. Waite (1861-1927) Photo (1), with their studio name & title of image in the print; photos are approx. 5" x 8" size, including: # 943 At Baldwin's Ranch So. Cal. Charles Betts Waite (1861-1927) "?Active in Escondido and San Diego area in 1891, working with H. E. Coonley before moving to Los Angeles and Mexico. Brother of San Diego Sun editor Frank D. Waite." Unknown (2): Cable car incline Echo Mountain; (and another) Ruffin Canyon cable car route. (May also be Waite studio) Taber Photo, San Francisco (21), with their studio name & title of image in the print; photos are approx. 71/2" x 9 1/2" size, including: # 8785 Seal Rocks, S.F. Cal.; # 7879 Japanese Garden, Golden Gate Park; # 7903 Huntington Falls, Golden Gate Park; # 2490 Study on Pescadero Creek ? Redwood Cal.; # 5116 Wawona Hotel A.D. 1890 (faded a little); # 2452 "Wawona" 26 feet diameter?Mariposa Grove; # 5897 Hotel Vendome, San Jose Cal.; # 5874 Lick Observatory road, Half way up Mt. Hamilton; # 4780 General View Lick Observatory, San Jose; # 4480 Hotel Del Monte ? front-Monterey Cal.; # 324 Arizona Garden, "Hotel del Monte" Monterey; # 4495 The grounds of the hotel; # B 292 Cypress Drive, near Midway Point; # B 271 Cypress Tree, near Cypress Drive; # 2516 Cal. . A Study (album notes this was seen "On the Road to Santa Cruz, on the side of the Rail Road;" # 5907 Big Trees Santa Cruz (3); # 6590 Stoneman House, J.J. Cook, Proprietor Yosemite Valley, 1894; # 6999 Yosemite Stage Coach, April 1895; # 6990 General View of the Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, April. Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) "?When Watkins lost his studio and negatives to creditor John J. Cook. Cook, along with photographer I. W. Taber, took over the Yosemite Art Gallery.?In the 1906 at the time of the S.F. Earthquake he was 76, lost his gallery and negative collection, that was the end of his photographic career." Unknown. Photograph of a drawing of the bathing pavilion on the Great Salt Lake UT, (the first 'Saltair' resort) approx. 6" x 8." C.R. Savage Photo (5), with their studio name & title of image in the print; photos are approx. 53/4" x 8" size, including: Mormon Temple, Salt Lake; Interior of Mormon Tabernacle; Eagle Gate erected by B. Young; Gardo House?erected by Brigham Young; (portrait) Brigham Young. C.R. (Charles Roscoe) Savage (1832-1909) "? one of the foremost 19th century landscape photographers of the western United States, as well as a renowned studio portrait photographer, with his studio in Salt Lake City, Utah?" F.P. Stevens (14), with their studio name & title of image in the print; photos are approx. 6" x 8" size, including: Rain in Manitou, Col; Railroad up Pike's Peak; View of Mountain rail road; view of the Valley of Manitou from RR; Half Way house "stop of ten minutes is made for water;" Nearing the top Pike's Peak; Top of Pike's (This page with a few paragraphs of historical touring information); Burro-portrait 'the only way up;' Scenery along the Denver & Rio Grande RR in the Rocky Mountains; Colorado & Midland RR scenery; # 601. Pike?s Peak Ave. Colorado Springs; North Cheyenne Canyon; Seven Falls; South Cheyenne Canyon. (Note: these images are very finely detailed silver prints; only slight silvering on some borders) Fred Park Stevens (1872 - 1915) Photographic reproduction process inventor and "The Man that Made Colorado Famous." The Stevens-identified section is followed by (6) additional photos, in the same size format and albumen process; we speculate that they may also by Stevens? studio images: Sentinel Rock Garden of the Gods Col. Springs; Balance Rock; Seven Falls; Giant Gate Way entrance; Seal & Turtle Rocks; and the Devil's Punch Bowl. Photographs followed by 24 detailed hotel-bill receipts for the travelers, from The Arlington, Washington DC; The Jefferson, Richmond VA; Charleston Hotel, Charleston SC; The De Soto, Savannah GA; The St. James, Jacksonville, FL; Hotel Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, FL; Battle House Co., Mobile AL; Hotel Grunewald, New Orleans LA; Tremont Hotel, Galveston TX; Capitol Hotel, Houston TX; The Driskill Hotel, Austin TX; Menger Hotel, San Antonio TX; Hotel Westminster, Los Angeles, CA; Echo Mountain House, CA; Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, CA; Hotel Florence, San Diego, CA; Place Hotel, San Francisco CA; Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, CA; Hotel Vendome, San Jose, CA; Golden Eagle Hotel, Sacramento CA; Hotel Knutsford, Sal.