Pike Charles A (16 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Second Edition. 171 pages. "Winter 1940 - and a lone U-boat glides silently up a Norwegian fjord, its cargo more deadly than the torpedoes in its hull. Its mission: to land a civilian on the deserted coast of Norway. Its orders: from the Fuhrer himself. And for Balddur Wolz - the man they call Sea Wolf - it is a mission that will test his courage, daring and ruthlessness to the utmost. His vicious battles with the enemy above he expects. But they are nothing to the silent horrors of the enemy within." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Painted Cover Art! (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Second Edition. 171 pages. "Winter 1940 - and a lone U-boat glides silently up a Norwegian fjord, its cargo more deadly than the torpedoes in its hull. Its mission: to land a civilian on the deserted coast of Norway. Its orders: from the Fuhrer himself. And for Balddur Wolz - the man they call Sea Wolf - it is a mission that will test his courage, daring and ruthlessness to the utmost. His vicious battles with the enemy above he expects. But they are nothing to the silent horrors of the enemy within." >> Store stamp on front endpage. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Painted Cover Art! (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. **Has lots of underlining** Meets the good condition guidelines. Has loose spine/binding. Pages still intact. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Paperback. Condition: UsedGood. Paperback; second printing of a 1967 copyright; fading and edge wear to ext erior; former owner's name inside front cover; otherwise in good condition with clean text and tight binding.

Softcover. Condition: Good. 208 pages, index. General agewear but text unmarked.

Hardback. Condition: Good. DJ; Owner's Name inside.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. CAVALCADE July 1961 MacArthur Poderjay Dunkirk Harem Pike Ted Mark Jeb Stuart CAVALCADE Men Adventure Magazine (July /1961; Skye Publications;) Painted Front Cover: George Gross 99 pages including covers; Writers: Murray T. Pringle; Charles V. Nemo; Harrison Forman; Walter Williams; Betsy Compton; Joel Charles; Amory P. Bennett; Ralph T. Watchell; C. A. Larson; John Thornton; Charles V. Nemo; Ted Mark; Caswell Stuart; David Divine; Interior Artists: Howell Dodd; Jay Scottt Pike; *** Book Order # ADV224; Condition= VG+ = (4.5) VERY GOOD PLUS; (Average Used Condition) Price=US$17.00); Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall TRUE FIRST Edition MAGAZINE Format Thus. Painted Front Cover: George Gross ; Interior Artists: Howell Dodd; Jay Scottt Pike; (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (illustrator).…

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Condition: Very Good. 202 pp., spiral bound paperback, minor library markings, else text clean and binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Five charming volumes on British ornithology, including colour plates, photographs and numerous illustrations of different species and their eggs. Five illustrated volumes on Birds in Britain, including works from ornithologists Charles Dixon and W.H. Hudson. An attractive group, with colour plates and numerous photographs.In the publisher's original cloth.Birdwatching remains a popular pastime in Britain and this group of works is a useful illustrated guide to better know our local feathered friends.- British Birds, by W.H. Hudson, with a Chapter on Structure and Classification by Frank E. Beddard. Contains eight colour plates by A. Thorburn, including a colour frontispiece, as well as eight monochrome plates by G.E. Lodge, and numerous in-text illustrations by R.B. Lodge. Collated complete. (Longmans, Green & Co., 1897).- Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology, by Charles Dixon, with illustrations by A.T. Elwes. Contains a frontispiece, and all fifteen other illustrated plates. Collated complete. (Grant Richards, 1902).- In Bird-Land with Field-Glass and Camera, by Oliver Pike, Illustrated with 83 Photographs Taken Direct from Nature by Pike. Second Popular Edition. Contains a frontispiece of the Garden-Warbler and in-text illustrations throughout. Contains publisher's original advertisements to the rear. (T. Fisher Unwin, c.1902).- A Handbook of British Inland Birds, by Anthony Collett, with Coloured and Outline Plates of Eggs by Eric Parker. Contains a frontispiece, and ten plates of different collections of eggs to the front of the book. Collated complete. (Macmillan and Co. 1906).- Bird and Other Nature Problems, written by T.A. Coward. Contains a frontispiece and all twenty-three other photographic plates by M. V. Wenner, A. and H. Britten, Ad. Burdet, T. Baddeley and Coward. Collated complete. (Frederick Warne, 1931). In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, smart, with minor fading and the odd faint mark to boards, a little heavier to Hudson. Slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities, a little heavier to Collett and Hudson. Rubbing to joints and edges, a little heavier to Hudson, lighter to Pike and Dixon. Slight fading to spine of Pike. End papers of Hudson and Coward are clean, with previous owner's ink inscription to front free end paper of Coward, and bookplates to pastedowns and front free end paper of Hudson. The odd small spot to front end papers of Pike, and slight wear to hinge of rear end papers. Offsetting and the odd spot to end papers of Collett and heavier to Dixon. Internally, firmly bound, with slight wear to hinge between leaves pp. 144-145 and 224-225 of Pike and to hinge between plate and p.177 of Dixon. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to half-title and last leaf of Coward, the odd spot to the extremities of Hudson and Dixon, heavier to Dixon, most to p.177, and age toning with signs of browning to Pike. Very Good. Various (illustrator). book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 78 pages. Articles: Between the bear and the dragon - Chiang Kai-shek's power in China has faded - article with great photos; Collier's Sports - the low-down on baseball salaries; Hollywood Goes to Rome - shooting the Cagliostro movie in Rome; Toward Peace in Labor - how the Labor-Management relations Act has worked so far; John N. Garner's Story (part 3) - reveals the former Vice-Presidents's attitude toward the Roosevelt lend-spend policy and the third term; Whether Man - New York's Blizzard of '47 put the forecasters on a spot; Hard Times Come To Wall Street - why the nation's money center is in the red in this boom era. Fiction: Jeff Coongate and the Stolen Crony; The Day Before Sunday; The Mysterious Way (part 5 of 6); Blessed are the Merciful; Dark Red for Love; Meet My Family. Nice ads include: The 1948 Studebaker (inside front cover); RKO movies of the month; nice diamond ad featuring portrait of Mrs. Lewis McCracken, the former Miss Francine Whitten, of Washington, D.C.; Philco radio-phonographs; Ford Cars (nice color photo one-page ad in Europe; Lucky Strike cigarettes; Rummy soft drink; Ballantine Ale - nice color one-page ad with cowboy theme; Great two-page color-phot ad for Heinz soups (they offered turtle soup back then!); Hamm's Beer; Stewart-Warner radio-phonographs; Brewer's Best beer; Bicycle playing cards; Emerson radios; National Guard recruiting ad; Miller High Life beer; Trav-ler radios; Clark's Tendermint chewing gun; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features Charles Coburn, Ann Todd, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, VAlli and Gregory Peck. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine, March 6 1948 Chiang Kai-shek's power in China has faded - article with great photos; Collier's Sports - the low-down on baseball salaries; Hollywood Goes to Rome - shooting the Cagliostro movie in Rome; Toward Peace in Labor - how the. Illustrated by Peskin, David; Brockhurst, Gerald; Hamlin, Paul; Wiggins;Pike, John; Shook Euclid; Burns, Paul C.; (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Features: The Two Mr. Vandenbergs - a study of Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg's political personality; Calico Swing - what gals and gents are wearin' at square dances this summer; Homemade Boom in Dixie - two of its poorest states acquire the New Look of prosperity; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 4) - Stalin Spoke of Morals - the record of his visit to Stalin to discuss plans for defeating Hitler; Hunting of the Swede - screen writer Eddie Blum discovers Marta Toren for Hollywood; Designs for Touring (part 8) - Northern Michigan travel. Fiction: Along Came Mary; Marabou for Mama; The Bramble Bush; Even Up; The Makings; Hannigan. Ads include: True Temper golf club shafts; Zenith radios; Hickok belts; Monarch canned produce; American Optical; RCA Victor portable radios; 1949 Studebaker trucks; Pabst beer - with colour image of Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Peck; Good Year; Plymouth; American Airlines; Freeman Shoes; Mercury cars; Ballantine's Ale; Hiram Walker nice two-page color-photo ad; Skol; Esterbrook pens; Holeproof socks; Tawn toiletries; National Guard; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring rodeo champion Ken Roberts. 86 pages. Address label on front cover. Tight, clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A pleasing vintage example.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine, June 19, 1948 The Two Mr. Vandenbergs - a study of Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg's political personality; Calico Swing - what gals and gents are wearin' at square dances this summer; Homemade Boom in Dixie - two of its poorest st. Illustrated by Ackroyd, Hugh; Varady, Frederic; Huston, Claude W.; Peskin,Hy; Baumgartner, Warren; Chiriaka, Ernest; Peskin, David; Pike, John; LaSalle, Charles; Kaufman, Joe; Vickery, John (illustrator).…