Munn P W (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. An important early study by Qatar's national oil company. Original b/w illustrated wraps 23x30cm. Printed at the Qatar National Printing Press, Doha. Sections numbered individually as follows: (5), 10, 25, 4, 12, 12, 7, 32, 9, 14, 10, 28, 10, 9, 11, 13, 56, 4, 14, 12, 3, 8, (2)pp illustrated throughout with colour and b/w maps, photographic aerial and ground views, specimens etc. Wraps very good, spotted, with correction fluid to the top right corner. Interiors near fine. QGPC was formed in 1974 in the wake of the Oil Crisis to take full state control of the nation's oil and gas resources from foreign hands. Five years in the making, this preliminary atlas edited by Dutch geologist J.W. (Jaap Willem) Focke for QGPC (Offshore Operations) Petroleum Engineering Department, illustrates the geology of some of Qatar's major reservoirs and seals. It draws on in-house data, and from Shell and Robertson Research, noting that much further work needs to be done (Preface). Contents include: 1. Introduction; 2. Recent Environments of Deposition; 3. Tertiary (not present, with the Contents page indicating "Chapter to be added in future"); 4. Cretaceous; 5. Upper Jurassic; 6. Middle Jurassic; 7. Per-Triassic; and 8. Ordovician-Lower Permian (pre-Khuff); Index. This looks to be extremely rare, with Worldcat recording only 1 location (OCLC 605311251: University of Qatar). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile reproduction limited to 125 copies. Reprint of this important HPL "A" list item that includes the first publication of Lovecraft's SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE, later expanded for the 1945 book publication. Also includes: fiction by Donald Wandrei & H. Warner Munn; verse by Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long & Donald Wandrei; articles by Samuel Loveman & Walter J Coates. A crude production Xerox copied on single side page only, which is dim in spots along the left margin. Bound in orange card wraps with typed cover title label. An accessible version of this rare Lovecraft fan publication produced by W Paul Cook originally in 1927. …

Condition: Very Good. xliv, 371, b/w frontis, 15 b/w plates, folding col map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, teg, joints lighlty rubbed; gilt title to spine and front board. Some plates foxed. Previous owner's decorative bookplate. Vg. First edition. Five plates from drawings by G.E. Lodge, 10 with b/w photos by Mr Smith Whiting.…

Condition: Very Good. xliv, 371, b/w frontis, 15 b/w plates, folding col map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, teg, joints very lightly rubbed; gilt title to spine and front board. Very good, clean copy. Armorial bookplate of J[ohn] Lewis Bonhote (1875-1922), British ornithologist and zoologist, and author of Birds of Britain (A. & C. Black, 1907). Bonhote is included in the list of subscribers. First edition. Five plates from drawings by G.E. Lodge, 10 with b/w photos by Mr Smith Whiting.…