Oldfield W A (42 results)

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Greatly enhanced by 20 full page well printed colour plates showing the arms. Stock lightly toned, but otherwise all in VG internal order. No inscriptions. Pale blue boards showing light edgewear and small indentation to spine which has split the cloth. Poor unclipped d/j well worn to edges with significant loss to rear panel. 12mo. 48pp. W G Blackall; A Cousins (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. 1954. Second Impression. 160 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. 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. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 160pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Text block edges just starting to fox. Free endpapers tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 12mo.   One of Australia's greatest wicketkeepers recalls the people and matches he encountered during his long career, including the moment he received a fractured skull during the Bodyline series. With a foreword by Jack Hobbs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A DELIGHTFUL SERIES OF CRICKETING REMINISCENCES OF GREAT OCCASIONS AND PERSONALITIES. small stain at top of front cover.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A beautifully illustrated guide to the arms of Cambridge. Bound in blue with dark blue lettering to spine. Very light bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket has browned at edges and is foxed to the inside, with chipping at corners, but is still handsome. W. G. Blackall, A. Cousins (illustrator).…

160pp. 8vo. Original boards in chipped dustwrapper. Offsetting to endpapers; bookseller's stamp on ffe. Black and white photographic plates. A very good copy. First edition. Foreword by Sir Jack Hobbs.

Green Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 160pp, foreword by Sir Jack Hobbs, black & white photos (plates), free endpapers partly tanned, ink signature of previous owner to front free endpaper, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board, unclipped dust jacket, wear to edges includes some creasing and small closed tears. William Albert Stanley Oldfield MBE (9 September 1894 - 10 August 1976) was an Australian cricketer and businessman. He played for New South Wales and Australia as a wicket-keeper. Oldfield's 52 stumpings during his Test career remains a record several decades after his final Test. Size: 7.5 x 5 Inches. Cricket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 1st edition in the red cloth boards of Boots Library, the sticker for which is partially removed from the front cover, leaving an unpleasant mark. As such this should be regarded as a 'reading copy' only.There is wear to the head and foot of the spine and a small tear near the top. One page is loose, the rest being tight. It's a good read and all the photo plates are present.…

HARDCOVER. 1954. First edition. A very good copy with sunning of the spine, light age tanning of the edges and endpapers and a previous owners name on the front free endpaper. The d/w is fair only and s now in a protective cover.

Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. Very Good in good jacket with frayed ends. PP 160, illustrations. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 160 pages.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 287pp. B/w photographic frontispiece, b/w photographs throughout. Not library copy, name/date in ink to ffep. (53/4).

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Green Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and front, 190 x 125 mm approx. 160 pp. 20 pp of b/w photo illustrations. 2nd Impression 1954 inscribed and signed by the author in black ink to the front free end paper. H/b+ Jacket VG+/Good. 1st ed.1954. Bert Oldfield the Famous Test Match Commentator 1953 - Australia's greatest wicket keeper at the time , here is a delightful series of reminiscences, with an extensive Appendix which might almost be described as a book within a book. Foreword by Sir Jack Hobbs. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/ Good (Book- a little shelf fading to extremities of boards, off set browning bands to free end papers with author insc. and signature as above to front same. Light tide mark from liquid spillage to bottom margin of plates 13 to 20, a few mild foxing spots to last couple of leaves and rear end papers. Dust Jacket- rubbed with significant chips to bottom of both panels - largest being that to front - 20 x 35 mm approx. light shelf soiling. Price clipped. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 382 pages. 10.00x7.99x0.91 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The fifth International Symposium on Palaeolimnology was held at Ambleside in the English Lake District from August 31 to September 6, 1989. During the 65 papers were presented at seven sessions and 52 posters symposium displayed. Three late afternoon/evening special lectures were given, one of which was a memorial to the late Ed. Deevey, to whom this volume is dedicated. Associated with the symposium were five excursions to various parts of the UK and Ireland, and a visit to the laboratories of the Freshwater Biological Association and Institute of Freshwater Ecology. Conference participants were also invited to a buffet party and visit to the Lake District National Park Centre at Brockhole as the guests of the Park Authority. The local organising committee for the symposium also formed the editorial panel for this volume. They included: Peter Appleby, Rick Battarbee, John Dearing, Roger Flower, Elizabeth Haworth, Frank Oldfield, Paddy O'Sullivan and John Smith. Support for the conference is gratefully acknowledged from the following organisations; The Royal Society Department of the Environment US Army European Research Office Barclays Bank Central Electricity Generating Board Lake District Special Planning Board South Lakeland District Council Charlotte Mason College Molspin Limited The conference is also indebted to the many individuals who provided such effective help in the preparation and smooth running of the programme. J. P. SMITH May 1991 Hydrobiologia 214: 1-7, 1991.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.88 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Obituary: Edward Smith Deevey (1914-1988).- Palaeolimnology in the English Lakes - some questions and answers over fifty years.- Accuracy and precision in sediment chronology.- 241Am dating of lake sediments.- Accuracies in Po-210 determination for lead-210 dating.- How long was the Younger Dryas Preliminary evidence from annually laminated sediments of Soppensee (Switzerland).- Absolute dating of late Quaternary Lacustrine sediments by high resolution varve chronology.- The record of deposition of radionuclides in the sediments of Ponsonby Tarn, Cumbria.- Deposition and transport of radionuclides within an upland drainage basin in mid-Wales.- Progress in understanding the chemical stratigraphy of metals in lake sediments in relation to acidic precipitation.- Spheroidal carbonaceous particles as a marker for recent sediment distribution.- Magnetic spherules in recent lake sediments.- Lake sediment records of erosional processes.- A multidisciplinary study of the lake Bjäresjösjön (S Sweden): land-use history, soil erosion, lake trophy and lake-level fluctuations during the last 3000 years.- Paleolimnology of Slapton Ley, Devon, UK.- Sequential inorganic chemical analysis of a core from Slapton Ley, Devon, UK.- Sediment characteristics in relation to cultivation history in two varved lake sediments from East Finland.- The influence of land use on the sedimentation of the river delta in the Kyrönjoki drainage basin.- Heavy metals (Cu and Zn) in recent sediments of Llangorse Lake, Wales: non-ferrous smelting, Napoleon and the price of wheat - a palaeoecological study.- A comparative study of heavy metal contamination and pollution in four Reservoirs in the English Midlands, UK.- Sedimentary diatom concentrations and accumulation rates as predictors of lake trophic state.- The sediment column as a record of trophic status: examples from Bosherston Lakes, SW Wales.- Recent changes to upland tarns in the English Lake District.- Palaeolimnological study of an environmental monitoring area, or, Are there pristine lakes in Finland .- The eutrophication history of Lake Särkinen, Finland and the effects of lake aeration.- Are we building enough bridges between paleolimnology and aquatic ecology .- Weichselian chironomid and cladoceran assemblages from maar lakes.- Stratigraphy of the fossil Chironomidae (Diptera) from Lake Grasmere, South Island, New Zealand, during the last 6000 years.- Modern assemblages of arctic and alpine Chironomidae as analogues for late-glacial communities.- Paleolimnology of Neusiedlersee, Austria: the succession of ostracods.- Palaeolimnology of Neusiedlersee - II: the distribution of nutrients and trace metals.- Paleolimnological investigation of three manipulated lakes from Sudbury, Canada.- Dominant diatoms in the interglacial lake sediments of the Middle Pleistocene in Central and Eastern Poland.- Fossil diatom inferred reconstruction of the pH history of two acidic, clear water lakes from insular Newfoundland, Canada.- Taphonomy and diagenesis in diatom assemblages; a Late Pleistocene palaeoecological study from Lake Magadi, Kenya.- Palaeolimnological aspects of a Late-Glacial shallow lake in Sandy Flanders, Belgium.- Palaeolimnological studies of laminated sediments from the Shropshire-Cheshire meres.- Paleolimnological studies using sequential lipid extraction from recent lacustrine sediment: recognition of source organisms from biomarkers.- Vegetation change and pollen recruitment in a lowland lake catchment: Groby Pool, Leics (England).- Seasonal changes in sedimenting material collected by high aspect ratio sediment traps operated in a holomictic eutrophic lake.- Paleolimnology of a Polar Oasis, Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada.- An environmental history of two freshwater lakes in the Larsemann Hills, Antarctica.- Paleolimnology of Qilu Hu, Yunnan Province, China.- Sedimentary features and the evolution of lake Honghu, central China.- Palaeolakes of the south central Sahara - p. …

40 pp, oblong format 195 x 300mm, index, b&w photographic and line illustrations, has been folded in half, spine and wrappers rubbed, minor tears to centre of front wrapper and pages 1/2 & 3/4, pages browned and some with light foxing, else good copy in illustrated, limp card wrappers. Index to "The Globe" Cricket Hints, printed on inside of front cover. Results of English Tour printed on inside of back cover with advertisement for 'Gradidge Bats' on the back.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardback. Condition: New. The most comprehensive hazmat emergency response training manual following NFPA and OSHA competency criteria The choice of firefighters and other rapid response personnel for years, this user friendly manual helps first responders build their skills step-by-step to professionally handle any hazmat emergency. Organized to enhance understanding and retention-and reinforced with copious illustrations, photographs, learning exercises, and case studies-this book takes the reader from preplanning to dispatch to the stabilization of an incident, and on to post-incident critique and follow-up. New material addresses advances in protective clothing, new products for confinement and containment, and changes in the OSHA Respiratory Protection Standard, plus much more. Additional chapters cover WMDs, with sections specific to WMD response including site control, personal protective equipment, and decontamination.…