Lyn Irvine (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket condition good. Based on the author's many years of experience raising and observing geese, this is 'a charming, unusually perceptive book about geese - and the nature of man.' 152 pages, b/w photos. Some spotting, wear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Text clean and tight; 8.50 X 5.51 X 0.79 inches; 194 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First American Edition. VG/Good+ [light edgewear, nicks and tears to DJ] 8vo 152pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Slight darkening to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second impression. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, tears and fading.

Condition: Good. 1967. Second Impression. 147 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white plates. 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 light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor sunning to spine. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Condition: Good. 1960. First Edition. 152 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Condition: Good. 1967. First Edition. 147 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth. Includes letter signed by the author using her married name Lyn Newman. This book formerly belonged to Jock Burnet of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Red Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Not Illustrated (illustrator). 1962 Reprinted for Counrty Book Club. Some wear on Jacket cover and slight marking on cloth cover. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. 152pp. Offsetting to endpapers, else a very good hardback in a rubbed and edgeworn jacket.

Red Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. vi, 147pp, with 4 illustrations and Family Tree on end papers.By the same author,'Ten Letter-Writer' and 'Field with Geese'. Dust-jacket marked and frayed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book itself is very good. Dust jacket has edge loss in places most notably at top and bottom of spine, now in a clear protective mylar. Previous owners name inside.

ex-library Octavo hardcover (VG-) with d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 152p cloth, illustrated jacket, frontispiece, plates, fresh clean copy Language: English.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. centennial edition. 194 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very attractive green illustrated dust-jacket, some light discoloration to the back panel and a little wear at top of spine otherwise clean and bright, not price clipped. Red cloth binding with gilt titles, clean bright and square. Contents smooth clean and bright, with black and white photos and signed on the half-title page by Lyn Irvine. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Second impression (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), vii, 147pp. Frontispiece illustration. Original burgundy cloth, dustwrapper. Light mark to t he leading edge of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in fair to good condition (a little rubbed and dusty, some chafing of the edges). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

VG brick cloth, paper title-piece, yellow dj. Family tree on eps. vi, [1], 147 p.; 4 pl.; 22 cm. Self-styled pagan, daughter of David Smith Cairns (1862-1946), sister of David Cairns (1904-92). 2nd impression edition. Binding is Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A near fine book and very good dw. Some illustrations.

8vo. vi[ii], 147pp, frontis, 3 plates. Original red cloth, printed paper spine labels, ep pedigree, very slightly rubbed and faded d/w. Publisher's printed promotional leaflet loosely inserted.

vi[ii], 147[1] pp, frontis plate plus occasional other plates, map, The Cairns Family Tree to front & rear endpapers. Red cloth binding with printed paper spine labels, dustwrapper. 22.5 cm x 15 cm. Dustwrapper spine faded, contents lightly age browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hamish Hamilton, 1960. Hardback, d/j, 8vo,152pp, illust. Edges slightly spotted, d/j price-clipped and torn. A fair copy. /0.4uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Hardback First edition. Red cloth covers with paper title strip which is lifting slightly off the spine. No dustwrapper. Story of a Borders family. Owners details on front end paper. Illus with B & W plates. 147 pages. 8.5" x 5.5" Wt 0.6 Kg Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. With dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 224 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. ; LC: TR145; Dewey: 770/.28 ; ISBN: 0528810790; 9780528810794 LCCN: 78-50818 ; OCLC: 4202571 ; Contains professional advice and information for the creative photographer on such subjects as visualizing the picture, camera use, color sense, photographic themes and techniques, and a guide to choosing equipment ; grey cloth in color dustjacket ; sunning on edges ; Partial contents: The magic frame -- The world of the camera -- Thinking in color -- The great themes -- Home processing -- Equipment guide. ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper slightly faded at spine; book-label of Jane Garnett. Alison Cairns (1902-1959) was the daughter of the theologian David Smith Cairns, Principal of Christ s College, Aberdeen, 1929-37, a great-niece of John Cairns, Principal of the United Presbyterian Divinity Hall, Edinburgh, 1879-92, and through her great-grandmother Janet Smith (née Brown) a kinswoman of Dr John Brown, author of Rab and His Friends.

Condition: Very Good. 1957. 1st. Hardcover. First edition, some light staining on dustwrapper. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1957. 1st. Hardcover. First edition, some light staining on dustwrapper. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Mm. Dustwrap has been reinforced at head/tail of spine inside jacket with masking tape by previous owner. Pictorial e/p's. Boards bright, gilt title to spine. Excellent copy. No inscriptions, not price clipped. Some thumbing/marks. Illustrated with photographs by Edward Leigh. Jacket design by Margaret Thorpe. Overall tight and bright.; 001429; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher - Faber and Faber, London, 1957. 2nd impr, printed same year as 1st. Very good condition, light green boards with faded gilt lettering to spine, very mild shelf wear, no markings or inscriptions, solid binding.