Eminent Writers (73 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is a nonfiction outdoor wildlife book called Outdoor Horizons, copyright 1957, possible first edition with no other date found, hard cover, no dust jacket, written by special eminent outdoor writers, edited by Lawrence M Brings, foreword by Stu Mann and twelve paintings and twenty four drawings by Roger E Preuss. The book has a private owners library stamp on title page and page ends, otherwise in good condition with tight binding, nice color and black and white illustrations, gilt lettering on the front cover and spine and 231 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Roger E Preuss (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair - Ex-Library. No Jacket. First Thus. Wear, soiling, wrinkling, soiling and staining to cloth; hinges fraying at gutter; corners rubbed and bumped; a good reading copy; ex-library with usual marks. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Decorated cloth, G+. 319pp+16pp publishers catalogue, b/w frontis, marks to fep where a bookplate has been removed, hinge cracked at title page, cloth rubbed & bumped. Short biographies of famous historical figures. The eminent writers are - Hallam, Macaulay, Gilfillan, Pope, Sisimondi, Johnson, Carlyle etc. 700 grams. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/a. Short bios under headings such as "Kings and Conquerors,Statesmen and Orators, Philosophers, Poets etc. Book is green decorated cloth. Some edgewear and a tear on lower spine. Edges gilt Corners a bit bumped. Some pages a bit loose but there. Fair to good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. Edinburgh, 1872; green cloth covered boards; beveled edges; corners and spine edges scuffed; 12 mo, 6 3/4"-7 3/4" tall; front hinge split; all edges gilt; interior in very good condition; Interior is clean and unmarked; 319 pages.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1906; Chicago; Volume 1 only; quarter black leather quarter blue cloth covered boards with black leather corners; gold titles; covers contain rubbing and wear; covers contain markings; Interior is clean and unmarked; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; unpaginated; Additional shipping charges may be required. …

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very crisp and clean used copy, gift quality! Wonderfull well-preserved! Binding is tight. Marbled endpapers and outer page edges. Blue cloth with a leatherbound spine and corner and gilt lettering on the spine. Beautifully crafted. Fully and prolificly illustrated with lithographs, engravings, and historical, political and physical maps in black and white and color. "This Library of Reference has been published to supply the demands of a progressive and busy age. The rapid advancement made in recent years in every department of knowledge is not shown in books published ten or even five years ago. During these years much has happened to make an entirely new treatment of many subjects necessary; this is particularly true of chemistry, medicine and nearly all other branches of natural science. New inventions and discoveries have sprung into being, such as the automobile, air ship and wireless telegraphy. The uttermost parts of the earth have been explored; the light of civilization has reached the interior of Africa and the most distant isles of the sea, and their history and geography, as well as the foreign relations of the United States, have been essentially modified." Volume II: Cauliflower to Incarnation. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very crisp and clean used copy, gift quality! Wonderfull well-preserved! Binding is tight. Marbled endpapers and outer page edges. Blue cloth with a leatherbound spine and corner and gilt lettering on the spine. Beautifully crafted. Fully and prolificly illustrated with lithographs, engravings, and historical, political and physical maps in black and white and color. "This Library of Reference has been published to supply the demands of a progressive and busy age. The rapid advancement made in recent years in every department of knowledge is not shown in books published ten or even five years ago. During these years much has happened to make an entirely new treatment of many subjects necessary; this is particularly true of chemistry, medicine and nearly all other branches of natural science. New inventions and discoveries have sprung into being, such as the automobile, air ship and wireless telegraphy. The uttermost parts of the earth have been explored; the light of civilization has reached the interior of Africa and the most distant isles of the sea, and their history and geography, as well as the foreign relations of the United States, have been essentially modified." Volume I: A to Caudine Forks. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Interesting topics. Cracked hinge at the title page. Ex-library. Badly soiled covers. Full refund if not satisfied.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pp. 350. Half calf with marbled boards. Fair +. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. brown cloth. Good but spine cracked and mended, corners bumped and worn. Missing ffep. Gilt edges. Gilt and black decorated cover. 304pp illustrated.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A good sound clean copy. Decorative cloth boards are bright and clean with a tiny bit of wear at the corner tips and some minor fading to the illustration of the spine. Black end papers with a browned prized bookplate on the ffep and a tiny bookseller's blind stamp on the same page in the top corner. In all a lovely copy.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: As New. 1880. hardcover. Bound in full publisher leather. Gilt to front cover and spine. Spine is ribbed. With frontispeice and tissue guard. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Also Mr. Beecher's life as sketched by himself shortly before his death. xii, [3], 670 p.; 20 il.; 22.5 cm. Good orig. sheep, joints cello-taped; hinges firm.

Half-Leather. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. Wear to spine. Bookplate of previous owner inside front cover.

Condition: As New. 1880. hardcover. Bound in full publisher leather. Gilt to front cover and spine. Spine is ribbed. With frontispeice and tissue guard. . . . .