Harper William Rainey Editor (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Unknown. Octavo, hardcover, beige and black boards with yellow and green decorations Light wear to boards else VG. 381 pp. Six color plates and 105 black and white pictures in text; The individual in history plus biographies on Moses, Alexander the Great, Pericles, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Mahomet, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, William the Silent, Washington, Nelson, Napoleon, Grant and others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Unknown. Octavo, hardcover, beige and black boards with yellow and orange decorations Light wear to boards, book slightly cocked, some foxing and a couple pencil marks on endpapers else VG. 394 pp. frontis color plate (6 other color plates) and black and white pictures in text; Stories such as the fox and the crow, the wolf and the lamb, the lion and the mouse, fox and goat, lark and her young ones, cock and the fox, monkey stories, pet starling, Reynard the fox and many more.…

Half Leather, Cloth Sides. Condition: Very Good+. Third Edition. Young Folks Library, Vol XIX only; Gently aged endpapers, else textblock very clean and tight; Top edge gilt; Half-leather, Cranberry Morocco binding with cloth sides; Decorative gilt spine titling, bright and unmarred. Lightly edge worn and scuffed at the spine extremities and board corners; In this twenty-volume series are "Selections from the choicest literature of all lands: Folk-Lore, Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Natural History, Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky, Animal Stories, Sea Tales, Brave Deeds, Explorations, Stories of School and College Life, Biography, History, Patriotic Eloquence, Poetry". This Book - Leaders of Men - is 398p., including notes. Size: 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Six Color Plates; 105 Black and White Drawings (illustrator). Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 428 pages. The 4 issues of this quarterly from 1941. Bound in one sturdy and unworn cloth bound book. Bound with issue covers on. Ex-library stamps are quite light, few signs of usage. Articles include: Pre-Islamic Arab Queens, Koran and Agada: The Events at Mount Sinai, Some Repercussions from Late Levitical Genealogical Accretions in P and the Chronicler, A Simplified System of Hebrew-English and Aramaic-English Transliterations, 'Al.' in the Superscriptions of the Psalms, Notice of a Second-century Text in Coptic Letters, Samuel and the Rise of the Monarchy, Graffiti of the Priesthood of the Eleventh Dynasty Temples at Thebes, the Old Hittite Kingdom: A Political History, The Egyptian Middle Kingdom at Megiddo, The Origin of the Name 'Hebrews', Women and the State on the Eve of Islam, Persian and Egyptian Chronology, The Origin of Monumental Architecture in Egypt, the Old Aramaic Alphabet at Tell Halaf: The Date of the 'Altar' Inscription, etc.…