Fh Shoosmith (25 results)

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 172 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning.…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 201 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First. 12mo. Fade to spine. Slight spots to eps. Name to ffep. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. n.d. presumed first. preface dated 1910. Bump and wear to spine ends and corners. Damp affect to front board, some of title etc missing. Tear in paper of fpdwn. Soiling to feps. Names to ffep. Cracking front hinge. Book.

Condition: Good. Boards are pretty clean and have little wear to edges. Prize sticker to pastedown. Contents are clean and free from markings.

Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Faded spine. Content is aged toned. Previous owner name to ffep. No DJ.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. Good DJ with some chips/tears and toning.

Condition: Good. Boards have lightly rubbed edges. Content lightly toned. Internal hinges worn. Clipped DJ with little chips to edges and some toning and light soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Near Very Good dust jacket. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1937. NOT a library discard. Near Fine condition in a Near Very Good dust jacket (intact, but with a few tiny edge chips). NOT price clipped ($2.50). NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. No year of publication is listed (but 1937?). 1st American edition? (no additional printings listed). With numerous line drawings and 19 half-tone plates. Includes chapters on: Food and its capture; Partners and parasites; Locomotion; Defense and offense; Colour and camouflage; The senses of animals; Reproduction; Courtship; The care of the young; How animals behave, The racial history of animals; etc. Glossary. Name index. General index. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Lavishly illustrated with photographs and original diagrams.". 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 278pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed).…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 2nd Edition. Undated but circa 1910. 32pp, with one colour plate illustration and further monochrome illustrations in text. In red light card wrappers, stapled. 12mo. Covers a little shelf worn, gently rubbed at corners and spine ends. Previous owner's name neatly inked on front cover. Internally a few signs of handling and a little bleed at corners of first leaf, else neat and clean. An unusal little booklet, part of the 'Magic Carpet' series designed to transport young readers to various different parts of the world. This volume covers India but it is not a travelogue, more a series of snapshot of typical features (as seen from a very period perspective). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. PUBLISHER: GEORGE HARRAP & Co. Ltd. * YEAR: 1937 * ISBN/SBN: N/A * No OF PAGES: 278 * CONDITION: USED - FAIR * OTHER: DUSTWRAPPER RUBBED AND TORN TO THE EDGES AND CORNERS, WITH A PIECE FROM THE SPINE MISSING. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE BUT THERE IS SLIGHT YELLOWING TO THE EDGES AND END-PAPERS, AND TWO OF THE PLATES ARE DETACHED. THE SPINE IS NOT COCKED, AND THE BINDING IS STILL GOOD. A VERY READABLE EXAMPLE OF THIS HARD TO FIND EDITION.…

1st Edition. Poor pamphlet copy. Back cover missing. Front cover detached. Internally bright and clean; text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 31 pages, illustrations. Subjects: Nature periodicals. 20th century nature. Great Britain flora and fauna. 1 Kg.

Condition: Fair. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN.…

1st Edition. Poor pamphlet copy. Back cover missing. Front cover detached. Internally bright and clean; text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 31 pages, illustrations. Subjects: Nature periodicals. 20th century nature. Great Britain flora and fauna. 1 Kg.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. XVIII, 268pp, Cloth binding, text in very good condition. Numerous line drawings & 19 half-tone plates. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges browned slightly. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Animals & Birds; Wildlife; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 666435. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Worn First edition without jacket on green cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

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. A good hardcover first edition without dustjacket. Tanned spine. Lightly foxed endpapers and prelims, otherwise contents are clean and unmarked. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. HARDBACK 1918. 1st edition. 19x12.5cm. 120 pages with many black & white illustrations. SPINE HAS WEAR AT THE TOP END. Clean. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref b83. SCIENCE AND MAGIC by F. H. Shoosmith.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Viii + 174 Pages, With Illustrations, Plus V Pages Of Index, Plus [5] Publisher's Ads. A Soundly Bound Book But Covers Bleached, Worn And Warped. Overall Only "Fair". Not Ex Library.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original avocado cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains 277 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Minimal wear to the spine ends and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NATURAL HISTORY.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rep., Hard cover green cloth bds, protected in film, Good, labels to spine, spine faded, ex-school lib. with stamps and numbers on title pge, ffep attached to front pastedown, lovely colour frontis., 3 further colour plates, many pge corners turned, front hinge cracked but holding, pp128, one or two small closed tears. With chapters including: Wind and Weather, The Buttercup's Cousins, The Story of Bomba, Catkins, The Mole, Swallow Birds, Honeysuckle, The Dragon-Fly, The Poppy, Snails And Slugs, The Rabbit, The Hare, Ice and Its Work etc.…

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. 1st edition, 1918. Free endpapers browned; text clean; binding tight. Tan cloth with black lettering on front board and spine with black decoration on front. Corners slightly bumped; spine lightly rubbed.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first two very scarce volumes from FH Shoosmith's 'The Nature Lover' magazine dedicated to the countryside. The first edition of this work. Two very scarce publications from John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., rarely seen in commerce. ONly vols. 4-7 are catalogued on Jisc at the University of Cambridge Libraries, Natural History Museum Library, and Trinity College Dublin Library. Vol. I from March 1922 to February 1923; Vol. II from March 1923 to February 1924. Edited by F H Shoosmith.Magazine dedicated to rural life and nature with articles concerned with studies of plants, animals, natural phenomenon, miscellaneous, and a section dedicated to 'A Nature Lover's Library' as well as poems, &c.Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece to each volume, as well as twenty-two full page plates in colour and numerous further black and white illustrations in text. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally very smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Boards lightly faded. Internally, firmly bound. Odd light spotting to odd margin, pages otherwise generally very clean and bright throughout. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

London: Charles & Dible circa 1912. Bound in contemp. half cloth with the orig. printed wrapper bound in. 32pp. With col. frontispiece and numerous illusts. Review copy. The bookplate of James Edge-Parkington inside front cover. Fine. The "Magic Carpet" Series of Geography Readers for Juniors.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. (ii), 384pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine titles and cover illustration in black. Slight wear to covers, a few spots to fore-edge, otherwise near very good indeed. Name and inscription to endpaper. No jacket. No date, c.1910s.