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Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:9780194370837.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Good. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Medium 8vo. Original brown cloth binding with decorative black borders. Gilt motif and gilt library stamp on front board. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners and light fraying to corners and backstrip ends. Binding tight and pages clean. Minor foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. 8vo. 753 pages. Red cloth boards; gilt and blue decorations and gilt titles on spine. 16 colour plates including frontispiece; all present. Boards heavily rubbed and with extensive pale marks; corners bumped; ends of spine fraying; both joints cracked and fraying in places. Some spotting to edges of text block. Endpapers toned; otherwise pages almost entirely clean. Gutter cracked between frontispiece and title page; otherwise firm. Charles Crombie (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good+, sound copy. Pamphlet. 23pp. Lute, Lyre And Lotus Minithologies series.ÂEight full page black and white illustrations by D. W. Burley with vignettes to the title, half-title and colophon pages. Slightly tanned with some dustiness to very edges. Slightly rubbed. Previous owner's name in pencil to inside cover. Text is clean and binding is sound. Good+, sound copy. D. W. Burley (illustrator).…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

124pp. 4to. Original wrappers, minimal bumping to spine ends. Colour and b/w photographs. A very good copy. First Edition.

Hardback. Condition: Good to Very Good - See Descri. Presumed First Edition. No stated date c1905-1910. Presumed first edition. 95pp. including 7 of 8 colour illustrations by various artists (lacking the frontispiece). This is a collection of over sixty songs for children, with music. It includes many well-known songs such as Girls and Boys Come Out to Play, Jack and Jill, Little Bo-Peep, Rub-a-Dub Dub, and Three Blind Mice. There are also a large number of less well known songs. The book is bound in the original dark red-brown cloth covered boards with gold titling and a gold illustration on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling to the boards and some wear to the illustration on the front board. The corners are lightly bumped and there is heavier bumping to the spine ends. The book has fairly recently been re-backed and re-cased in the original boards with new grey endpapers, and as a result the book is now tight and secure. The contents are in good to very good condition with many of the pages, mostly near the start of the book and including the title-page, having stains and marks from grubby fingers, etc. The list of illustrations and several other pages, including some of the plates, have tears of about 1" to 2" on the edges that have been repaired with document repair tape. Page 18 has a larger tear of about 5 1/2" on the bottom edge that has also been repaired. Pages 9 to 12 have creases across the top corner. As mentioned above, the frontispiece is missing. There is no inscription. M. Bowley, Harry Rowntree, Charles Crombie, A.E. Jackson, Lawson Wood (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Binding loosening. 240mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). 63pp. 8 colour plates. Classic nursery rhymes included and additional less well known songs such as 'Sly Reynard's Excursion' and 'There was a Little Man'. Complete with musical notation and piano scoring. Black paper boards with pictorial front cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Numerous B/W Photos showing Canadian Women at work for Canada's war effort. Many vintage B/W Advertisment with some in color. Blue cloth binding with gilt title and small illustrations on front cover. Top and bottom of spine, edges and corners of binding lightly rubbed. Binding marked. and a little faded. 190pp. Content clean, bright and sound. This book is overweight for regular shipping rate and may require additional postage. Photos available on request. B/W Photo Illustrations and Advertisements. (illustrator).…

Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. [RELIGION]. Ed. Mary Wood-Allen (1841-1908). Contributors: Alice Cary, Martha Crombie Wood, Alice Lee Moque, P. W. Humphreys, T. D. Crothers, Lotta Miller, Mabel Ayres Leal, J. G. Holland, et al. "The New Crusade, Vol. XI, No. 1, March 1900." Ann Arbor, MI: Wood-Allen Publishing Co., 1898. First edition. English language. Stapled paper magazine with light green card pictorial wrappers printed black with an engraving on front wrapper. Articles, poems, ads, book reviews, most of which touch on Christian themes. 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. 3 oz. 28 pp. Chipping on front wrapper, toning, sun-leeching. Wear. Text clean. Good. No ISBN. No ASIN. "Mary Augusta Wood-Allen was an American doctor, social reformer, lecturer, and writer of books on health and self-improvement for women and children. Through her lectures and writings she was a voice for the social purity movement. In 1895, through her family's Wood-Allen Publishing Company in Ann Arbor, Wood-Allen started a series of monthly leaflets titled 'Mother's Friend,' which was co-edited by Estelle M. H. Merrill. It later became a monthly magazine titled 'The New Crusade' and was edited by Wood-Allen alone with her daughter as assistant editor. Later, this became 'The American Mother' and then 'American Motherhood' and continued publication until 1919. Wood-Allen published the magazine herself with the assistance of her son and daughter. She also published a number of books. Her poem 'Motherhood' was well known in its day.". …

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. Padded cloth-covered boards with illustrations and gilt lettering faded in places. Gift message dated 1926 to front free endpaper. Endpapers slightly browned but pages generally unmarked. Text block a little loose but essentially secure. Eight plates. Wood, Lawson; Crombie, Charles; Rountree, Harry; Jackson, A.E.; Bowrey, M (illustrator). …

Rústica. Condition: Nuevo. Ejemplar nuevo. New. idioma español. Una selección de artículos destacados sobre teodicea y filosofía de la religión. Dimensiones: 20x13 - 334 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Frontispiece and forty-eight hand coloured double page engravings by Benjamin W. Crombie. Limited edition. 4to. [287 x 225 x 45 mm]. [1]f, xvi, 183, [3] pp. Quarter bound in heavy grain dark green goat skin and matching dark green textured cloth, the spine blocked and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, edges uncut. (Spine rubbed, hinges a little worn but holding, corners and edges bumped). Internally very clean with brightly coloured illustrations, overall in very good condition. Limited to 1040 copies, signed by the publisher. A total of ninety-seven individuals are depicted by Crombie, dubbed 'modern Athenians' as a result of Edinburgh's sobriquet as 'The Athens of the North'. The nickname was coined during the period of Scottish enlightenment when Edinburgh rose to prominence as a centre of intellectual, philosophical and scientific learning. Benjamin W. Crombie (illustrator).…

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Thick annual-book style format.Undated c. 1925. Published for the Boy Scouts movement.with contributions by Rt Hon Ramsay MacDonald , Sir Robert Baden Powell , HG Ponting , Ian Hay etc. - Artist illus by W Heath Robinson , C Crombie , Tony Sarg, GE Studdy etc - & Poems by Sir Owen Seaman, John Oxenham etc [includes - The Rubaiyat of the Panel Doctor] 168pp. OLive green spine , plain green card board rear with light markings , green illus front cover shows head of a Boy Scout with contributors listed beneath. the front cover has speckled colour rub/loss , some ink marks over the listed names,edgewear rub/loss to the card , the spine is complete. No inscsp or annotation.sound copy.Dusty edges. Uncommon. PLS See our images. Crombie , c , & Others (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original blue illustrated quilted cloth covers with children playing cricket, hockey, football and rugby, gilt title to the upper panel. 8vo 9½'' x 7¼''. Contains 62 printed pages of musical scores with splendid red and black period art work illustrations throughout. Corners turned in with shallow rubs, ink marking to the front free end paper and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper, as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Condition: Good. Hand colored lithograph. 275 x 205 mm. (sheet). Good, some light foxing.Provenance: From the collection of the Late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. An unusual collection of the illustrated Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies, with poems and prose from Lord Tennyson, Ben Jonson and Charles Dickens, among others. A very scarce collection of twelve volumes in one work, in a full calf binding. Twelve volumes from the charming Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies, with poetry and prose from well-known writers, poets and playwrights such as: Shakespeare, Tennyson, Ben Jonson, Charles Dickens, Charles Lamb, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dibdin, and S. T. Coleridge, among others. Illustrated throughout. This collection contains: Volume I: Hymn to Venus, An Anthology in Miniature of Poems by Robert Herrick Volume III: And the Toast is. A Miniature Anthology of Drinking Songs seasoned with a little prose Volume IV: Peacock Pie, A Miniature Anthology of Good Living Volume V: Salt Sea Horses, An Anthology in Miniature of Nautical Verse Volume VI: The Proud of Heart, A Miniature Anthology in Praise of the English Character Volume VII: Nightingales' Tongues, An Anthology in Miniature of Love Songs Volume X: The Masque of Hymen, A Miniature Anthology Relating to Courtship and Marriage Volume XII: Lute Strings, An Anthology in Miniature of Love Lyrics etc Volume XIX: Words on the Wing, A Miniature Anthology of Bird Poetry Volume XXIV: Deep Sea Ditties, An Anthology in Miniature of Sea Songs and Shanties Volume XXVIII: Spotlight on Lucullus, A Miniature Anthology on the Pleasures of the Table Volume XXIX: The Yule Log, A Seasonable Anthology in Miniature In a full calf binding. Externally smart, with faint marks to the boards and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. William Littlewood; D. W. Burley; Gerald Gardiner (illustrator). book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 353-418. Features: On the Grand Bank; "By Water in the Desert"; The Man Who Rememered; "Old Man Crag"; Phases of Life; My Adventures in "German South-West"; Short Stories; Forbidden Frontier - adventure along the Russia-Finland border involving a scientist who escaped from a Soviet prison camp; Dr. Weston's Marlin (fishing adventures); The Cat; Advertising for a Wife; Man and His Needs; and more. Covers separated from textblock but present. Above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Cuneo, T.T.; Prater, Ernest; Crombie, Charles; Carruthers, G.P.; Soper, George; Tresilian, S.; Nicolson, W.C. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Limited Edition, one of 1040 copies. Full title: Modern Athenians: A Series of Original Portraits of Memorable Citizens of Edinburgh Drawn and Etched by Benjamin W. Crombie. Quarto, xvi, 183 pages plus 48 plates. In Good condition. Quarter bound in brown leather with red textured cloth boards and gilt titling to spine. Light plus rubbing and wear to joints and surfaces of boards; light rubbing to spine. Moderate plus bumping and fraying to corners; light plus staining to top fore edge corners. Text block shows light plus age toning and scattered foxing. Most, but not all, original tissue guard present. Profusely illustrated with 48 double-page plates in color. EH Consignment. Shelved Room A Oversized. 1381897. Special Collections.…

ONE OF 1,040 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, 4to, pp. xvi, 183, [1] + frontispiece and 48 hand-coloured double-page plates. Original quarter green morocco, green pebbled cloth boards, spine lettered direct in gilt, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Just a touch of toning. Binding worn a little to extremities, short tears to head and foot of spine. Reminiscent in scope and style of his near-contemporary John Kay?s ?Original Portraits?, Crombie?s engravings of the notables of Edinburgh society date from the last decade of his life and were collected by Kay?s publisher Hugh Paton in 1851. A. and C. Black added copious biographical information on the sitters for this edition, reusing the original plates, which were then destroyed following this printing.…

Condition: Good. Limited Edition (1040). G: in good condition. Some rubbing to outer joints.Illustrations VG. Teg. 290mm x 230mm (11" x 9"). xvi, 183pp + plates. 48 hand coloured tissue guarded double plates. Signed by publisher on limitation page. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. Purple hardback cloth cover with maroon leather spine. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Quarto. Publisher's quarter pebbled calf and green cloth with gilt titles on spine, upper edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Xvi, 183pp + plates. 48 hand coloured tissue guarded double plates. This edition limited to 1040 copies and signed by publisher on limitation page. With illustrative notes and biographical sketches by William Scott Douglas. Some shelf wear and small marks on front. Generally the plates are in very good clean condition, one tissue guard absent. Ex reference library with pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown, blind stamp on title page, last page and first plate, faint number on reverse of title page. No other obvious library markings. ***Over 1kg and may required extra overseas postage***. Crombie (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Whitaker, W.G.; Bates, Leo; Soper, G.; Gillett, F.; Robinson, T.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; Lane, Harry; Crombie, Chas; Tennant, Dudley (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Pearse, Alfred; Brock, R.H.; Crombie, Chas.; Whitaker, W.G.; Small, A.G.; Peddie, Tom; Elcock, Howard; Soper, G.; Wigfull, W.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Waddell, J. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Crowsnest Holdup - a spectacular hold-up on the Canadian Pacific Railway and the tragic manhunt that followed; The Fire-Walkers of Fiji - a mystery that has never been solved - great photo-illustrated article; Roaming the Wild South Seas (part I) - Jack McLaren relates some of his strange and exciting experiences there; Hunting Bighorn Sheep in Mexico - a most exciting shooting trip in the wild Cocopah Mountains of Mexico - fantastic photo-illustrated article; Alone Across the Atlantic - Mr. Alain J. Gerbault sailed alone from Gibraltar to New York in 142 days; The Road to Timbuctoo (part III) - readers who enjoyed 'Three Asses in the Pyrenees" will find this narrative even more amusing; How "Mac" Won His Wife - a New Zealander abducts and marries a beautiful girl - with revengeful natives in pursuit; In Search of Sea-Monsters (part V) - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out in 1921 on an expedition to the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and caught multiple world-record-sized fish - article with photos; Zulliver's Travels - an ill-fated auto trip to California; Snapshots in China - great photos; Unknown Peru (part IV) - travel and adventure in the Andes - article with photos; Anstruther Gets a Job - an unemployed engineer in South Africa meets the promoter of a mine; The Two Strangers - an interesting sequel to "A Bunch of Keys" which appeared in the December 1923 issue; Great one-page illustrated General Electric locomotive ad speaks of the Mexican Railway between Orizaba and Esperanza where 10 electric locomotives will replace 25 steam locomotives; and more. Covers loose as one but present. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Leigh, Conrad; Cameron, John; Robinson, T.H.; Davis, G.H.; Gillett, Frank; Soper, G.; York, W.G.; Crombie, Charles; Holloway, C.; Hiley, F.E.; Lloyd, Stanley (illustrator).…