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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Art and the Story of the World's Best-Loved Comic Strip by Schulz. Good+ to very good condition with mended dust jacket. 0.0.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 238 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear, slightly sunned. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** "Roger Kennedy is very much a historian for our time. Never content with a mere sequence of facts, figures, and events, he brings to his subject the voice of an interpreter and storyteller, ranging back and forth in time and space, blending the many and various aspects of human endeavor into the pattern we call history. This fascinating story of the missions of North America traces the long trail of 'the friars [who] went forth from Catholic Europe to gain converts among the American Indians . . . to colonize America for Spain and thereafter to deny its riches to any other power.' The missions themselves represent a unique example of building on a frontier, memorializing a 'grand endeavor': the westward extension of the great Crusades to the East. The book begins with a discussion of the religious context of the mission-building period and goes on to draw vivid historical portraits of the participants, both European and American. Kennedy describes the specific architectural features - domes, cloisters, ribats - that resulted from the merging of cultural forces. Finally, Kennedy serves as a witty and urbane tour guide through each of the most important mission buildings, from the traces of ruins in Florida to the glory of the restoration of La Purisima Concepcion in California." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Part I: the religious mission; Part II: the participants; Part III: the architectural mission; Part IV: along the mission frontier. Size: 4to.

HC. color illustrations (illustrator). 240pp ISBN 0395634164 very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover).

Fine and bright glossy stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs on location. With descriptive photographs and text on how to build high in the tree.

First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 190 pages; black and white and color illustrations; very good in an edgeworn dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 125 pages (approx, as not paginated), extremely well illus as befits a pictorial book. Size 282mm high X 227mm wide. This is the visual endeavour to endorse or be read alongside M M Kaye's famous novel. In poor (or poor+) condition: cover edges worn or creased; bottom outside edge of first 20 or so pages are creased or thumbed; a few marks throughout but generally perfectly readable, close to fair condition.

First edition; 4to.; embossed paper covered boards with illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 254 pages; black and white and color illustrations; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket with some light soiling to back of jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Garrett at ffep. Large, square quarto, 276pp, color photographic illustrations, publisher's red cloth lettered in blind and gilt (hint of marginal toning to white pages,minor edgewear, very good or better). Pictorial dust jacket (minor rubbing, tiny bumps to edges, very good). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. 2nd ed. ; 498 pp. : color illustrations ; 30 cm. ; ISBN: 0810913801 ; LCCN: 88-3383 ; OCLC: 17547185 ; LC: TL506.U6; Dewey: 629.1/074/0153 ; black cloth with silver lettering, in colorphotographic dustjacket ; water stains to back of dustjacket; slight staining on cloth cover, but visually not readily apparent ; slight dampstaining to bottom of first and last 5 or six pages ; photograph laid in from former Eastern Airlines steward donating uniform to the Museum, circa 1978 ; Museum book catalogue laid in ; FAIR/FAIR. Book.

First Australian edition (from the sheets of the US Abrams edition published the same year, in the same format). Hardcover. Quarto-size. Fine in fine dustjacket. Described and illustrated ( profusely, in colour and b/w) by Froud and Lee. This heavy book will cost considerably more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Brian Froud and Alan Lee (illustrator). Unsure, but likely Second?. Flecked Cream cloth boards with bright gilt illustration ( of leapfrogging elves/gnomes? ) to the front cover and gilt titling to the spine. In the original Glazed pictorial unclipped dust jacket (showing original price of £7. 50 ) but with a long horizontal laminate crease across the rear of the d/j cover, probably as published, and some sunning to the base colour of the spine and partially blending into the rear cover, but apart from this yellowing of the cream base colour, all lettering and titling are clear and sound. NO chips or tears. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Near Fine. Internally pictorial endpapers. A 'tipped in' bookplate from the former owner (easily removed as only tipped in) on the reverse of the front free end paper. Otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. Nice smooth uncreased spine. Page fore-edges VERY lightly discoloured with age, pretty negligible. Unpaginated. Wonderfully illustrated throughout in colour and b/w by Brian Froud and Alan Lee. A Technical Note at the end. Overall, this is a Very Clean, Tight and Bright, 'VG' copy. "This enchanting book explores the realm of elves, pixies, leprechauns, dryads and other mythical creatures. Nearly 200 extraordinary drawings and full-colour paintings combine to produce a book which, even now, has stood the test of time since it was first published a few decades ago! ." Very good clean tight copy. Large format. ISBN: 0 285 62359 1. I am assuming this might be the 1979 Second Edition, but difficult to tell as ALL Publishers across the globe are listed on the TITLE PAGE. See Images. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.