Fisher W E Et Al (9 results)

HC. 238pp First published in 1978. NEW COPY Contents include: Our Bridges; Under the Hill; Downtown; and, All Around the Town. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Tight binding, solid pictorial boards with gently rubbed corners and spine ends, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st ed thus; Hbk; 8vo; pp384; index; d/w - designed by Edward Ardizzone, just a little edgeworn; nevertheless very attractive; book Vg; ribbon bookmark; illus. Throughout; a book designed for children at the developmental stage when they are beginning to imagine themselves into a story and are learning to like stories; stories are from famous authors;; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by Ardizzone (Cover) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Light brown cloth hardcover, with red blocking and gold lettering on the spine and front board, from closed pharmaceutical company library. 1020 pages, illustrated with charts, and tables. Contents are very clean, tight and bright. A nice copy which appears to have benefited from minimal handling. Text in German. Book.…

Condition: Fair. . Owner's name on inside.Insecting along foredge of endpage. Spine cracked. Slightly dampstained. Reading copy only. (Architecture, Buidling your home, Plans).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 68 pp. NO number line or printing indicated, but ' 1947, 1949 ' cited on CP: presumed First Edition, First Printing; ' J195195 ' printed at lower left inside front cover [which also appears on later editions with later printing identifications] and ' 463: 195 [underlined]' at top right front cover corner; endpapers illustrated with multifarious animals. NO dust jacket. 1" piece of cellophane surface missing in gutter front cover at 3 3/8" down from top right spine edge, with 1/8" hole at middle of it (NO impact on binding (7 sites of sewn threads along inside front cover hinge); nugatory cellophane 1" tear on rear cover gutter at 3" down from top left spine corner (NOW reglued so as to be virtually undetectable; small rubbing wear at cover and spine corners; text lightly age-toned around perimeters and on text block edges: describes worse than it is, but there you have it: Strong binding (stretched only a bit at first few pages front and back, else tight); corners still sharp (NO bumps or curls); NO previous owner names; NOT ex-Library. Clean text. Solid copy. Arguably, Holiday or Birthday Gift-Giving Quality, especially, given that the book is more than 60 years-old or near 75 years-old. The way to read Classic Children's Poetry from many well-known Children's Poets. Gertrude Elliott (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 4 Volumes. In Near Fine condition with Near Fine condition dust jackets. Solid color spines with checkered designs and black and white lettering. Dust jackets are all wrapped in mylar coverings and Volumes 1 and 3 have numbered stickers on the front mylar covers. All Volumes are signed flat by editor Sonny Brewer and 94 other contributors. Shelves []. 1385085. Special Collections.…

4to. [20 pp (unpaginated).], printed on textured paper stock. Photo illustrations, and photo plates for the Alaska Line steamships, map on rear cover recto. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers, Art Deco cover art of steamship next to towering Alaska glaciers and mountains, w/ superimposed totem pole (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), still VG copy. First edition, thus, of this photo-illustrated brochure for the famed Alaska Steamship Co., which greatly benefited from a near monopoly of passenger and freight service to Alaska after the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. Included are photographic views of the steamships, scenic landscapes, Native American crafts, gold mining, Alaska airmail planes, and more. Worldcat locates 1 copy (U of AK, Rasmuson Lib.).…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. An interesting sammelband of eighteen pamphlets regarding politics, socialism and land ownership, bound in smart half morocco. A sammelband of eighteen pamphlets from various academics and writers, regarding politics, socialism, and the British and Irish land questions. Notable writers featuring in this collection include the American political economist and journalist, Henry George, whose writing sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era, the British historian and philosopher, Arnold J. Toynbee, and the English political activist and athiest, Charles Bradlaugh. Bound in full morocco with gilt detail to the spine. This sammelband comprises of: 'Our Land Laws of the Past', by W. E. Baxter. First edition. 'The Land Question: What it is, and how only it can be Settled. An Appeal to Nations; Shewing the Evils of Private Property in Land and the Need for the Nationalisation of the Land' by Henry George. Third edition. "Progress and Poverty" A Criticism of Mr. Henry George, Being Two Lectures Delivered in St. Andrews Hall, Newman Street, London, by Arnold Toynbee. Early edition. 'Mr Henry George's Unproved Assumption of The Pauperism of Capital', by F. J. Bruce. First edition. 'The English Land Question', by Havelock Fisher. The Fifth Thousand edition. With four pages of advertisements. 'The British Land Question', by James Caird. Second Edition. With the half title page included. 'Nationalisation of Land: A Review of Mr. Henry George's "Progress & Poverty", by Lord Bramwell. Second Edition. 'The Blasphemy Laws: Should They be Abolished?' by W. A. Hunter. An early edition. 'John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough', by Charles Bradlaugh. Third and enlarged edition, twenty-fifth thousand. With publisher's advertisements to the final page. 'The Constitutional Crisis in Norway', from 'The Standard' of 4th October, 1883. Early edition. 'The Shadow of the Sword', by G. W. Foote. Early edition. 'Remarks on the Report of the Committee of the House of Lords on Improvement of Land (1873),' by William Fowler. First Edition. With an ink inscription to the reverse of the title page reading 'Presented by the executive to the Darlington Branch of the National Secular Society'. 'The Western Farmer of America', by Augustus Mongredien. First Edition. 'State Socialism and the Nationalisation of the Land', by Henry Fawcett. Ninth Thousand Issue. 'Will Socialism Benefit the English People? Verbatim Report of a Debate Between H.M. Hyndman and Charles Bradlaugh'. Early edition. 'Some Objections to Socialism', by Charles Bradlaugh. 'England's Balance Sheet', by Charles Bradlaugh. First Edition. With a bookplate for 'County of Hereford and Worcester', to the front paste-down. In full morocco binding. Externally, very smart with some rubbing to the extremities. Some light marks to the boards. Light offsetting to the edges of the paste-downs and free endpapers. Bookplate to the front paste down. Rear hinge starting but firm. A few odd spots to the rear of the free endpapers. Internally, binding slightly strained but still very firm. Pages age-toned but text is bright and clear. A few scattered spots towards the front and rear, with just the odd spot throughout. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…