Illustrations James Alexander (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Thom, James Alexander (illustrator). Fourth Printing. A few tiny dark specks across top edge. ; Illus. , maps, inscribed and signed by the author also signed by illustrator James Alexander Thom, jacket now in a clear protector; 293 pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator.

8vo.; illustrated stiff wraps, softcover; 70 pages; black and white and color illustrations; a Guidebook to Hawk Mountain Sanctuary; sunned wraps with a tear on spine else good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date, but presumed to be mid-to-late 1940's. Previous owner's name and a 1949 date inscribed. Orange cloth boards show general wear and soiling. Interior has a few minor signs of use. 16 plates: mostly illustrations by James Alder; maps for each chapter; end papers are illustrated with Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Norman maps of Northumberland. 242 pages. 8.25 x 6 inches. The author's descriptive travelogue through the region of Northumberland. Contents: Tyne and Derwent Dales; The Dales of Allen; Gilsland and South Tyne; North Tyne; In Heartbreak Valley; Along Dere Street; Roman Redesdale; The Cheviots; Around a Celtic City; Tiptoe through Till Valley; The Silvery Tweed; Berwick to Holy Island; The Smuggleries; The Vale of Aln; The Valley of the In Yore Folk; Upper Coquetdale; Lower Coquetdale; Vales of Wansbeck and Pont; Saxon Shore; Great North Road.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . . . . 4to, hardcover. No dj, grey cloth. Vg condition. Covers lightly soiled, contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 130 pp. Illustrated, Literature, Modern,

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 162 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Fine Book, Gilt Brilliant. Dj Priced $2.50, Light Wear, A Few Minute Losses At Corners. Per Wikipedia, Hinton Rowan Helper (1829 - 1909), From North Carolina, Was A Writer, Abolitionist, And White Supremacist Who Went To California In 1851 Hoping To Get Rich, But He Came Back In 1854, Disillusioned. In 1855 Helper Wrote The Book The Land Of Gold. Reality Versus Fiction, In Which He "Attempted To Tell, Incidentally, Of His Discovery In The Course Of His Travels That Slave Labor Was Less Profitable Than Free Labor And In Baltimore, Where The Book Was To Be Published, He Had Run Into A Maryland Statute, Dating From 1831, Which Made It A Felony With A Penalty Of Not Less Than Ten Years In Jail Knowingly To Write Or Print Anything 'Having A Tendency To Excite Discontent . Amongst The People Of Color'. Compelled To Excise These Comments, Hinton Helper ? An Irascible Man ? Resolved To Speak Out His Whole Mind In A Book Devoted Entirely To This Subject." The 1857 Book Was The Impending Crisis Of The South: How To Meet It. Expressing Helper's Deep Opposition To Slavery And The Condition Of Southern Culture And The South's Lack Of Economic Progress, It Was One Of The Most Effective Criticisms Of The South. Helper Argued That The South's Growth, Prosperity, And Cultural Development Were Being Held Back By Slavery. He Deployed Statistics From The Census To Show That Land Values, Literacy Levels, And Manufacturing Rates Were Considerably Lower In The South Than In The North. He Warned Of The Devastation Caused By Slavery Through Deforestation. He Proposed That Slaveholders Be Taxed To Colonize All Free Blacks In Africa Or Latin America.Lincoln Appointed Helper As United States Consul In Buenos Aires From 1861 To 1866. He Spent Most Of The Postwar Years Promoting A Scheme To Build An Intercontinental Railroad Connecting North And South America, Which Would Help Replace Black And Brown Peoples With Whites. The "Three Americas Railway" Was Supposed To Extend From The Bering Sea To The Strait Of Magellan. After The War, Helper Appeared As A Fire Eater, Urging The Wholesale Expulsion Of Former Slaves. He Believed The United States Should Be Exclusively White (Also Excluding Chinese, Native Americans, And Other Non-White Groups). "A. B. Burdick, The Publisher Of The Impending Crisis, Testified That Helper . Avoided All Contacts With Negroes, Refusing Even To Patronize Hotels Or Restaurants Which Employed Negroes In Menial Capacities. Another Man Who Knew Helper Before The War Recalled That 'He Has Always Been Inflexibly Opposed To All The Relations And Conditions Which Have Kept The Two Races Close Together; And This . Was One Of The Principal Grounds Of His Opposition To Slavery." Nevertheless, Southern Enemies Of Reconstruction Were Unwilling To Forgive His Previous Opposition To Slavery, And He Remained A Marginal And Increasingly Unstable Character In Postwar America. His Schemes Never Came To Anything, And He Died By Suicide By Turning On The Gas In His Washington, D.C. Apartment.

Genuine Bonded Leather. Condition: Near Fine. John Farleigh illustrations (illustrator). Collector's Edition. Textblock and binding immaculate and tight; All edges gilt, gently surface rubbed; Moire-silk end leaves with matching satin page marker sewn into the headband; Gilt embellished full leather binding with three raised bands; 1016p., including glossary. From The Easton Press "100 Greatest Books Ever Written" collection. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

First Trade Edition. 26 x 20 cm. xviii, 130 pages, (6). Illustrated throughout. Original pale cloth. Hard cover inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edges dust dulled. Internally a nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. xviii, 840 p. illus. (part col.) 24 cm. ISBN 9780153608001, 0153608005 OCLC 84872 LCCN 75005720 LC QH47 .C68 1968 Dewey 574 ; color photographic boards, no dusjacket ; [Student laboratory guide Lab.manual.and Teacher's manual. NOT present] ; The 1968 second edition of Biological Science: An Inquiry Into Life (BSCS Yellow Version), edited by John A. Moore and published by Harcourt, Brace & World, was a seminal high school textbook emphasizing inquiry-based learning, molecular biology, and evolution. It aimed to move beyond rote memorization, focusing on scientific investigation rather than just facts. Key details regarding this 1968 edition include: Focus on Inquiry: The text and accompanying laboratory guide emphasized investigation, challenging students to analyze data and formulate hypotheses rather than just observing. Content and Structure: It was designed for 10th or 11th-grade students, heavily incorporating modern biological findings from the 1950s and 60s, including molecular biology and genetics. Reception: While lauded for promoting scientific thinking, some contemporary reviews suggested that despite the title, the text still contained a "good deal of telling" rather than pure inquiry, and it was quite rigorous. Impact: This BSCS text was considered a landmark in reforming biology education in the United States, moving away from descriptive biology toward a process-oriented approach. The book was frequently revised and reapproved for use in classrooms throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. ; 5 Excellent presentation of evolution, integrating synthetic theory. "Marred by progressionist ideology and claims of link to cultural evolution." ; BSCS "Yellow Version" aka Biological Science: An Inquiry Into Life ; FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Alexander Henry, fur trader - his adventures first published in 1809. this is the New Edition of 1901. 347 pgs. signed by editor James Bain, Number 145 of edition limited to 700 copies. Green cloth cover. Some foxing.

Condition: Very good condition. B&W Illustrations (illustrator). Pamphlet: black and white wraps with white title. Rare selection of poems taken from a reading given at the University of Virginia in March of 1966. First book appearance by Alexander Theroux. Wraps lightly rubbed and soiled. Contents clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three-volume set. Gilt full leather hardcovers. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Ribbon markers smooth and unfrayed. Comedies volume has mild sunning to moire endpapers, light spotting to top edge, and Easton Press bookmark with ink name. Tragedies volume has light wear to gilt. Otherwise clean, tight, bright, and completely unmarked -- a sound and handsome set. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

With over 300 illustrations (illustrator). Bound in dark red cloth stamped brightly in gold on the front with a drawing of a bicycle and gilt lettering on the spine. Front hinge cracked; rear hinge reglued.Some tearing at the top left-hand corner of the spine; wrinkling and wear across the top. And wear to the bottom edge of the spine. Very clean and tight throughout. With over 60 pages of ads in the rear. Presumed First Edition with title page date of 1897 but preface dated 1896.