Pycraft Ed W P (12 results)

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 942 pages. Dust jacket over orange cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable scuffing to front panel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, age tone, a few tears and creasing.

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 942 pages. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over orange cloth. Contains colour illustrated plates throughout. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, toning and creasing.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Undated Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1750grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN. …

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age, with a small tear to the rear joint. Binding cracked at pp.940-941, with rear hinge tender (all pages secure), and a similar situation between the flyleaf and half-title. Preliminary and final leaves somewhat foxed. Core text is strong; remains a well-preserved copy overall. Physical description; xiv, 942 pages : illustrations, 12 colour plates (including frontispiece) ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Zoology. Animals. Evolution. Natural history. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age, with a small tear to the rear joint. Binding cracked at pp.940-941, with rear hinge tender (all pages secure), and a similar situation between the flyleaf and half-title. Preliminary and final leaves somewhat foxed. Core text is strong; remains a well-preserved copy overall. Physical description; xiv, 942 pages : illustrations, 12 colour plates (including frontispiece) ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Zoology. Animals. Evolution. Natural history. 1 Kg.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A detailed overview of natural history edited by W. P. Pycraft, in the original cloth and illustrated with colour plates. An early edition. First published in 1931 by the same publisher.In the publisher's original cloth.Illustrated with twelve full colour plates including a frontispiece and over 900 monochrome vignette illustrations. Collated complete.This history of the natural world was edited by William P. Pycraft, with a large number of contributors including M. Burton, G. C. Robson and Pycraft. The work provides a detailed history of the natural world from the smallest amoeba to mammals. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally excellent with only slight bumping to the extremities. Rear hinge starting, very slight offsetting to the front free endpaper and a bookseller's label to the rear with minor marks to the endpapers and light spotting to the rear. Internally firmly bound with generally clean pages, light age toning to the extremities and the odd spot, heavier to the odd page and to the half title. Offsetting to the title page. Very Good Indeed. None stated (illustrator). book.…

8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; original green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in black, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Interesting cloth collection on a variety of agricultural subjects, three volumes being illustrated editions. A collection of eight individual works on the topics of nature, agriculture and farming. Includes one first edition.Comprised of:(1854) Chemistry Applied to Agriculture by John Anthony Chaptal;(1868) Hand-Book of Farm Labour by John Chalmers Morton*;(1870) Successful Farming by the Rev. W. Holt Beever;(1912) The Soil by A. D. Hall;(1912) Fertilisers and Manures by A. D. Hall;(1919) Elements of Agriculture by W. Fream, ed. by J. R. Ainsworth-Davis;(1928) Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields by W. P. Pycraft - first edition.*Two volumes bound in one, with (1868) The Chemistry of Food by Charles A. Cameron.All bound in publisher's original cloth. Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields includes the gilt stamp of King Edward's School, Birmingham, as well as the prize bookplate, dated 1927-28. Hand-Book of Farm Labour features the inscription of agricultural author, J. P. Sheldon.The Soil is illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve plates. Fertilisers and Manures features seven plates. Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields features forty plates, including the frontispiece. Collated, complete. In publisher's original cloth bindings. Inscription of Professor J. P. Sheldon to front free endpaper of Hand-Book of Farm Labour. Inscriptions to both endpapers, stretching across title page, to Successful Farming. Stamp of The White House Country Life Museum to front paste down of Elements of Agriculture. King Edward's School, Birmingham, prize bookplate to front paste down of Random Gleanings from Nature's Fields, dated 1927-28. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing and a few marks to each volume. Chemistry Applied to Agriculture and Fertilisers and Manures feature more distinctive marks to the front boards. Internally, firmly bound, with the exception of Chemistry Applied to Agriculture, which is marginally more delicate. Chemistry Applied to Agriculture and Elements of Agriculture include scattered pencil annotations. All volumes generally bright and clean with spotting heavier to first and last few pages. Chemistry Applied to Agriculture suffering from a noticeable tide mark throughout. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…