Pike G C (32 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Orono: The National Poetry Foundation / University of Maine at Orono. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 091503297X . First edition. "A collection of twenty-six reflective essays written by sixth- through twelfth-grade teachers of art, history, and literature from school districts surrounding the University of Maine at Orono". Pictorial [Winslow Homer] wrappers, 170 pages. Near Fine copy with a horizontal crack near the heel of the spine.CEL.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 116 pages. Illustrated. J E Morpurgo !Give 'em the Axe" / R J Martin "Pocket-Money" / Llewellyn Pridham "The 'Big Uns'" / George Maracco "Merry Widows" / A G Street "April Pike" / R C Robertson-Glasgow "Esses (cricket)" / Sir Seymour Hicks "Eros" / Hylton Cleaver "Professor" / R P Odell "Rich Reward" / George MacLeod "Cutting Walking-Sticks" / R C Newton "Toujours La Politesse"Kai Lowry "Manolo and the Bull-fight" / Roderic Graeme "Sixty Seconds of Run" / John Witney "Up in Orkney" / Laurence Wild "Off the Peg" (SL#19).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Some creasing and wear on jacket edge. Light scuffing on jacket poanels. Large portion top corner clipped off of front endpaper. Bumping on board corners and spine ends.; 349 pages.

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

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Illus., pp.14.

Soft cover. 26.5cm, xi,183p., figures, tables, stiff printed wraps, a very good copy (ads).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Clean, crisp DJ. Clean, straight, sharp (red cloth) boards with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean and crisp with similarly clean long and short edges. No inscriptions. Tight binding. Comes with Corrigenda of Vols 1 - 3. Other volumes available - discount available for multiple purchases - please email.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Clean, crisp DJ. Clean, straight, sharp (red cloth) boards with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean and crisp with similarly clean long and short edges. No inscriptions. Tight binding. Comes with Corrigenda for Vols 1 & 2. Other volumes available - discount available for multiple purchases - please email.

4to, 27.5cm. Pp. iv,15, several photos on 13 plates, 4 maps. Plain new wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. From publisher's library. Marking on the spine. Bookplate on inside cover and library stamp, otherwise book is new, never read, pages clean and crisp, spine unbroken. Oversized book, may incur additional shipping charges. 0224F.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. (SL#253).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. UK journal back number, shows light general wear, faded area to front cover | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Arrow Paperback Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 575pp. B/w photographs between p.288-289. Not library copy, no inscriptions, creasing and few marks to spine, tanning to pages. ().

4to (25.5x16cm), hardback, xx + 634pp. Good condition in goodish dustwrapper (general wear, grubby, insect damage, splash mark to upper left rear, edges bumped and chipped, several small tears). Light wear, age-toned, some foxing to upper edges and fore edge. 5cm marks (glue?) to mid front endpapers along hinge. Pictures available on request.

Hardback, 16.5x25.5cm, 634pp. Very good condition, in good dustwrapper (light wear and scuff marks; sunned spine; several small 1cm patches of silverfish damage). Corrigenda loosely enclosed. ISBN: 0522841945. Pictures available on request.

4to (25.5x16cm), hardback, xx + 634pp. Good condition in goodish dustwrapper (general wear, some flecking, a bit grubby, bumped). Light wear, bumped, page edges grubby, spine cocked. Contents very good. Pictures available on request.

Hardback, 16.5x25.5cm, 634pp. Good condition (light wear; age-toned pages; a little spotting at edges) in good dustwrapper (general wear and scuff marks; sun-tanned at spine and edges; chipped at edges, with several 1cm tears at upper edge). Pictures available on request.

4to (25.5x16cm), hardback, xx + 578pp + index. Good+ condition in like dustwrapper (light wear, corners and foot of spine a little chipped). Lightly bumped, lower rear hinge has a 1cm chip to free back endpaper and rear pastedown, owner's label at front pastedown. Pictures available on request.

Reprint of the first 1966 edition, with corrigenda. Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, o/w fine in like dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (illustrator). 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.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original ribbed navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 8vo. 7½'' x 5ĵ''. Contains frontispiece, (vi), 286 pp with 7 other full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Spine rubbed and faded, chips across the spine ends, corners rubbed, ink name inside. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH HISTORY.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardcover. 1995. The Provincial Museum of Alberta. 349 pages. Book and Dust Jacket are in FINE condition. ; 11.26 X 8.50 X 1.18 inches; 349 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. ex-library hardback with illustrated boards, minor shelf wear, usual library stamps/markings, otherwise good/v.good, clear text, binding fine, 72pp, published 1992 by CPL Press, Newbury. Ready for immediate despatch from the UK. 42C*.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 349 pages. Index. Extensive bibliography. Glossary. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with life-size colour photographs. "The first comprehensive guide and reference to the butterflies of the province." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A pristine copy of this wonderful reference. Gift quality.

Hardcover. Condition: G+. 1st thus. Ex-library with neat labels on front eps and a few stamps throughout. Library bound into 1 volume - 11 lectures on history and the teaching of history by authors listed above. Dated between 1905 and 1911 with various publishers. Final item appears to have been removed from another book, and edges of 2 pages are rough and torn. Also 2 stapled leaflets included in pocket on rear paste down - on the desirability of diminishing the work set for the modern history school . (nd) and Memorandum on the present state of the study of modern history and on university reform in general (1907) Immediate despatch from the UK. 8vo. Book.

Two. vols. xvi, 453, [1]; x, 443, [1] pp., plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. Frontisp. both vols., illustrated title pages, plates, text illustrations, photo illustrations throughout both vols. Pictorial brown publisher's cloth, white & black lettering front covers & spines, gilt illust. on spines of lion & moose (some minor soiling, rubbing, minor bumping to a few corners, slight fraying head & foot of spines), still VG- set from the library of Joseph Anderton, w/ armorial bookplate on front pastedowns, Non Flectimus. First editions of these volumes in The Badminton Library, featuring extensive hunts in South Africa and East Africa in vol. I with chapters on elephant, buffalo, lion, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, ostriches, giraffes, lion and musk ox; while vol. II details hunting in the Arctic, the Caucasus, Alps, and substantial portion for hunting in India.