Pike H W (28 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Semi-circular impression to the front cover is visible for several pages. ; 44 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET.CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT COPY.; GOLD SPINE TITLES TO GREEN TEXTURED HARD COVERS. GREEN ENDPAPERS SHOW ANIMAL MAP OF WORLD LAND MASS. .(THIS IS A COMPANION BOOK TO "AMERICAN WILD LIFE ILLUSTRATED) .YELLOW GLOBE ON DARK GREEN DUST JACKET. ; MANY B&W PHOTO PLATES.; 624pg pages; DESCRIBES Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fishes. Indexed .…

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: V.g. Reprint. 256pp, with 23 attractive illustrations, colour plates of nesting places at the British Museum. Light foxing throughout. A couple of small marks to front binding. O.G.Pike, W.Bickerton, J.T.Newman, H.Lazenby. (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G+. 317pp dustjacket yellowed to the spine & with a little loss along the edges. A series of essays by Roman Catholic, Jewish, Nonconformist, Hindu & atheist writers who have converted to Anglicanism. 475 grams.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Spine tips are lightly worn. Corners are mildly bumped with two creases at bottom corner of front cover. Cover shows woman using test equipment. Articles about Designing for Reliabiility and Radar Tracking Losses.

Comb Bound. Condition: Fine. Compiled from excerpts from various volumes of the Kansas State Historical Society. Book.

Hardcover. dj. 158 pp. Dustjacket. LCC: 6713924 good condition; moderately faded; color loss on edges of cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. NOTE FOR OVERSEAS BUYERS: HEAVY BOOK WHICH WILL REQUIRE A SLIGHTLY INCREASED POSTAGE FEE FOR OVERSEAS SHIPPING FROM THE UK, PLEASE EMAIL FOR PRICE-DETAILS IF RELEVANT. Excellent fine condition book throughout, contains a section of photos, no inscriptions and d/j not price-clipped./.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Reprint of the First Edition. First reprint of the true first edition, published January, 1924. (First published April, 1917). Twenty-three photo colour and sepia illustrations of birds by Oliver G. Pike. W. Bickerton, J.T. Newman, Herbert Lazenby. Also colour plates of nesting places at the British Museum, South Kensington including full-plate frontispiece showing: 'Kingfishers and nest in river bank from case in British Museum, South Kensington'. ***Good in blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt titles and blind border to front board. Light stain affecting the gilt titles on the spine. Boards slightly rubbed, faded and marked. Edges of boards rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed and bumped. Small splits to cloth of tail of spine. Head and tail of spine frayed and rubbed. Contemporaneous owner's name in blue fountain pen ink: 'H.C. Oldfield ' to top of front pastedown. Light unobtrusive scattered foxing to end-pages and outer margins of pages and fore-edge of text-block. Most pages clean. 220mm x 148mm. 256 pages including index to rear. ***Contents; Preface; Bird Life in January: Hard Times, Calendar; Bird Life in February: Mere and Fen, Calendar; Bird Life in March: The Month of Awakening, Calendar; Bird Life in April: The Summer Migrants, Calendar; Bird Life in May: May on the Moors, Calendar; Bird Life in June: The Leafy Month, Calender; Bird Life in July: Sea-Fowl Haunts, Calendar; Bird Life in August: Mountain and Moor, Calendar; Bird Life in September: The Sacrifice in Game, Calendar; Bird Life in October: Seed-time and Harvest, Calendar; Bird Life in November: The Home of a Naturalist, Calender; Bird Life in December: Wild Fowl on the Coast, Calendar; Index. List of illustrations: Kingfishers and their nest in river bank (from case in British Museum, South Kensington; Birds attracted by Coco-nuts; Little Grebe on Nest; Robin's Nest in Kettle; Peewit and her Nest; Kentish Plovers and their Nesting-place (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Long-tailed Tits and Nests (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Bullfinch on Nest; Nest of Chaffinch; Peregrine Falcon and Young (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Nest of Grasshopper Warbler; Linnet's nest in Rose Bush; Red Warbler Feeding Young Cuckoo; The Young Barn Owls; Young Nightjars; Stock Doves and Nest (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Puffins Feeding their Young (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Pied Wagtails (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Black-Throated Diver; A Brood of Young Kestrels; Group of Black-headed Gulls; A Sitting Woodcock; Herons and Wild Ducks. ***A nicely illustrated and informative book of the period. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Oliver G. Pike. W. Bickerton, J.T. Newman, Herbert Lazenby (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Usual brown decorative cloth. Mild bumping to extremities. Hinges cracking at front and rear, but secure. Otherwise clean and tidy throughout, and firm. Volume I only of the Badminton Library 2 volume set on shooting. Charles Whymper and H Willink (illustrator).…

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).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Undated circa 1920. Assumed first edition. In very good condition without dust jacket. Pictorial boards lightly rubbed to top and tail of spine and to corners. School Prize plate to front end paper dated 1924, and name erased from half title page otherwise clean. With eight full page colour illustrations by the author and further line drawings to the text. Containing two sections, 'Friendship' and secondly 'Treachery', these stories are taken from the old Indian classic called Hitopadesha. The original stories are embedded in a mass of moral maxims and here the author has taken considerable liberty with one or two of the stories to make an attractive and readable book for children, and not an English version of an India classic. Pike H W (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 515 pages. German language. 9.25x6.10x1.17 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 226pp. Stated: "First Printing, 1990", with no other printings or number line cited. Glossy teal wrappers with title and subtitle lettering in white across top right front cover above teal-tinted photo portrait at center front cover, above editor and Series name lettering in white across lower right third front cover. Flawless copy. Gift-giving quality.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. A charming study into the lives of birds through the year, with colour and monochrome plates throughout. A reprint of the first edition in the original cloth binding.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and twenty-two plates. Collated complete.An immersive overview of the habits and lives of various birds throughout a year, divided into the twelve months. Written by English naturalist and ornithologist, John Henry Salter.Salter explores the impact of the changing seasons on birds, and delves into particular species associated with each month.The colour plates of nesting places derive from the British Museum, South Kensington. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart with slight rubbing to the extremities. Head and tail of spine is bumped and there are a few marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with scattered spotting to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Good. Oliver G. Pike; W. Bickerton; J. T. Newman; Herbert Lazenby (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: gut. Fortschritte der Chemie organischer NaturstoffeProgress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products. Beitr. v. Zechmeister, L. Hrsg. v. Herz, W.Grisebach, H.Kirby, G. W.Tamm, Ch. In deutscher Sprache. pages.

paperback. Condition: New. Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Jun Pages: 329 Language: Chinese. English in Publisher: Electronic Industry Press The Practice of Programming for the style of the program design process. algorithms and data structures. design and implementation of the interface. debugging. testing . performance. portability. notation and other aspects. and discuss some common problems and practical skills. By ian W. Kernighan. Rob Pike book programming practice (Commentary Edition) learning. readers can quickly mas. …

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.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. [xvi], 392pp [ex-library - only indications are H-T-C Discard stamp on front and rear free endpapers; 1910 ownership on front free endpaper; front joint exposed inside front free endpaper - front cover a bit loose; soiling and general wear to covers] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B&w plates (illustrator).…

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. 98 pages. Fiction: Roman Mosaic; Old Sorority Sister; Stranger Than Truth; Tiger Swamp Campaign; The Spur; Faster Than a Mule. Articles: A Republican suggests solutions for our major problems; Peace Street / Rue de la Paix - The Wall Street of Fashion in Paris - article with photos of Rambaud, Schiaparelli; Billions in the Mud - article and photos of our pacific bases - wrestled from the Japs - which are now monuments of neglect (photos of acres of equipment); Brains in the Ballet; Ted Williams - The World Series and Me; Curare may be a cure for Polio; Pictures in Stones. Ads include: Sheaffer's pens; B.F. Goodrich tires; Seiberling tires; Rensie Watches; Knox men's fashions; Borden's Instant Coffee; Hudson Cars - a very attractive color ad; Firestone tires; Columbia Records - featuring Frank Sinatra; Ford cars; General Motors - featuring image of boy at wooden school desk; Miller beer; Jeep station wagons; Remington shavers; "No Leave No Love" movie ad featuring Van Johnson; Fantastic color photo ad for Caterpillar bulldozers; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring kindly old doctor. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Greene-Bauman; Pike, John; Geiger-Rapho-Guillumette; Gregori, Leon; Zaltsman, Joseph; Cooper, Mario; Prince, Meade; Peskin-Pix, David; Brown, Elmore (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good Minu. First Edition. First Edition, this being the standard trade octavo version. 8vo. 19 by 14 cm. xvi, 453, [3], x, 443 pp. Profusely illustrated, with black and white illustrations both mixed in with the text and as full page illustrations in plate format (the flip sides blank). These volumes represent the 20th and 21st volume in the larger Badminton Library series, but they work perfectly well as a small standalone set. The Root & Son binding is quite attractive, with a simple geometric gilt scheme on the spine. The leather is a touch dry, with hints of cracking, and the joints have light rubbing. Scattered foxing, sometimes heavy, but also pages where there is none. Half Morocco. Marbled Paper Pastedown on boards. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, and H. Willink (illustrator).…

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, pp. 626; original green cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt; minor shelf wear, Baptist Mission House Library bookplate on front pastedown, else very good and sound.

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 559 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1897. This modern reproduction of Pioneer history of Camden, Oneida County, New York. by Pike, Elizabeth T.; Frisbie, W. J., Mrs.; Edic, E., Mrs.; Conant, E. H., Mrs. makes an old or rare text available for consultation, bibliographic research, and specialized collections. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. …

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 559 pages. Printed on premium paper. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1897. Historical account of Camden, Oneida County, New York, with particular attention to pioneer families, early settlement, local institutions, and community development. A valuable source for researchers interested in regional history, genealogy, and the social memory of upstate New York. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…