Foreword William Beebe (13 results)
- Softcover
Seller: Orion Tech, Kingwood, TX, U.S.A.Orion Tech
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Paperback. Condition: Fair.
More imagesPublished by Henry Holt & Company, New York, NY 1920
- Hardcover
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. New York, NY : Henry Holt & Company. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1920. . Hardcover. Book Condition . 16mo., 297pp., Shelf lean; shelf wear to corners and spine; stamp on title page; inner hinge cracked; pages clean and unmarked. . Not Illustrated (illustrator).
Published by Rand McNally 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Katsumi-san Co., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.Katsumi-san Co.
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Ex-library (Fair). No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-library; top edge and fore edge have foxing; binding has soil and edgewear; many pages have smudges and other soil; one page has short closed tear at bottom of gutter; reading copy. 127 p., well illustrated. [M2 :1:5]. Keith Ward (illustrator).
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Published by The Modern Library, New York 1933
- Hardcover
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.Cat's Curiosities
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Showing only the 1920 Henry Holt copyright, but most likely actually published 1932 or 1933, with 246 Modern Library titles listed to jacket verso. Good book in a good-plus original jacket, missing bottom quarter-inch of jacket spine and with said jacket showing some narro…w chips to top of front panel. 297 pp. including index, followed by a 6 pp. "Complete List of Titles in the Modern Library." Reduced from $225.
More imagesPublished by G. P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.Clausen Books, RMABA
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Quarter Cloth, Printed Sides. Condition: Very Good. Good+ (in mylar). Fourth Printing. Text block clean and tight in lightly edge worn binding; Jacket spine-sunned, rubbed, and lightly edge-worn, character-soiled, and scuffed; 185p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
Termite City
Emerson, Alfred E. & Eleanor Fish with a foreword by William Beebe, illustrated by Keith Ward
Published by Rand McNally NY nd (1937) 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg
Contact seller5-star seller127pp. Large sq 8vo Illustrated in black and white by Keith Ward Brown cloth 1st edition (no other printings) Spine ends lightly rubbed, else clean tight copy: VG/no dj.
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Published by G.P.Putnam's 'Knickerbocker Press', New York & London 1929
- Hardcover
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, , United KingdomDouglas Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st ed. f/piece+xl+295, 118 ills inc.19 further plates, uncut fore-edge, red-tinted top edge; prev.owner's small gilt label top front pastedown, occ., mostly marginal, brown flecking throughout otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked. Red cloth covers minimally worn - slight spine e…nd rubbing - but numerous small spots and patches of pigment loss to top and lower front, strip of same across top back and few spots to bottom, spine a little faded and dull with a couple of pigment loss spots. A fairly scarce tour de force of the topic by the Columbia-based palaeontologist. F/p shows ascending sequence of faces ending with modern Europeans, with African face preceding this. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
Published by Modern Library, New York 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Irving Book Company, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.Irving Book Company
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. First Modern Library Edition. 16mo. 4.375 x 6.625 in. xi, [iii], 297, [1] pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 4 in chocolate brown 'limpcroft leather' with Bernhard torchbearer device in gilt on upper cover; Brodzky endpapers. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Dedicated to Beebe's close friend Theodore Roosevelt ( 'to C…olonel and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt I offer this volume with deepest friendship'), with ROOSEVELT's foreword. A fresh, crisp copy. Andes 30.2.1F. Toledano 30.2. Near fine. A trace of edgewear. Previous owner's bookplate to verso of half-title.
Published by First edition, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1929. 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.Jerry Merkel
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Spine tips are bumped and lightly worn. Spine lettering is very dull. Cover corners are lightly rubbed. 295 pages with index and 119 illustrations.
Published by New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. 1925
- Hardcover
Seller: Joe Maynard, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.Joe Maynard
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Printed at the Knickerbocker Press. Octavo, 362pp, black and white photographic illustrations, publisher's blue cloth ruled in blind, lettered in gilt at front panel and spine (separation at gutter after first leaf, but all present and holding, not quite tight overall, bumps and rubbing mostly to extr…emities but also to boards, mild soiling, gilt slightly dull, a solid but only good to very good copy).
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Published by The Modern Library, New York 1929
- Hardcover
Seller: The Modern Library, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.The Modern Library
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. RARE EARLY TRANSITIONAL BINDING MODERN LIBRARY WITH DUST JACKET Jungle Peace by William Beebe with a Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. New York: The Modern Library. First printed by the Modern Library in 1925, this is an early 1929/1930 reprint. Titles listed in bo…ok include a few from 1930 and dust jacket indicates a 1929 printing - an beautiful example of an early modern library transitional binding. Bound in green balloon cloth with a type 5 binding style. The book is VERY GOOD - binding tight and solid, gilt on cover and spine nice and bright. Slightest of toning at spine extremities. Matching topstain nice. No writing, marks, or book plates in the book other than owners signature on ffe. Slight tear on title page. Contents are VERY clean and bright! APPEARS UNREAD! The dust jacket is in VERY GOOD condition with chipping at extremities and age toning on spine but still extremely bright and beautiful. 95 cent price present and bright on inside front flap. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. VERY HARD TO FIND! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS, FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.
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Published by The Modern Library, New York 1927
- Hardcover
Seller: The Modern Library, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.The Modern Library
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. VERY RARE EARLY LEATHERETTE MODERN LIBRARY WITH DUST JACKET IN NEAR FINE CONDITION Jungle Peace by William Beebe with a Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. New York: The Modern Library. First printed by the Modern Library in 1925, this is an early 1927 reprint. Title…s listed in book and dust jacket include those from 1927 and none from 1928 indicating a 1927 printing. According to Toledano this is a leatherette spine type 4 with Bernhard endpapers. The book is NEAR FINE and appears unread and unopened, gilt on cover and spine nice and bright, boards are extremely bright. Slightest of wear at spine extremities. Matching topstain perfect. No writing, marks, or book plates in the book. Contents are VERY clean and bright! APPEARS UNREAD! The rare dust jacket and back of book includes titles from 1927 but not 1928 indicating a 1927 printing. 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. Dust Jacket is NEAR FINE with small chipping on the spine extremities and slight age toning but still extremely bright and beautiful. A complete beautiful and rare dust jacket on this title. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. VERY HARD TO FIND! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS, FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.
More imagesPublished by The Modern Library [1926], New York 1926
- Softcover
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, , New ZealandRenaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Light creasing to lower corners of some leaves. 4mm loss along lower margin of dust-jacket. A couple of vertical creases to dust-jacket. ; No date [1926]. 1926 printing of a title first published in the Modern Library in 1925 (first published by Henry Holt in 1918).…xi, [3], 297, [1 (blank)], [6 (advertisements)] pages. Green leatherette limp boards with gilt on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 162 x 103mm. Bernhard style endpapers. Typographic dust-jacket design. Modern Library torchbearer logo on dust-jacket spine, no Modern Library torchbearer logo on front panel of dust-jacket. Reverse of dust-jacket lists titles up to #125. Natural history of the jungles of Guiana. Contents: Jungle Peace; Sea-wrack; Islands; The Pomeroon Trail; A Hunt for Hoatzins; Hoatzins at Home; A Wilderness Laboratory; The Convict Trail; With Army Ants 'Somewhere' in the Jungle; A Yard of Jungle; Jungle Night; Index. [Reference: Toledano, "The Modern Library Price Guide 1917-2000" 2nd revised edition, 1999.].
