Roche W L (21 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. William Geldart; (illustrator). Later Printing. Dark orange boards lettered in black on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by William Geldart. This collection contains: Foreword by Nerys Hughes; The Cat that Could Fly by Stella Whitelaw; Cats of My Childhood by May Eustace; A Vet's Life by John Bower; Gershwin by Judy Gardiner; The Cherry Tree by Derek Tangye; Cat's Cruise by Mazo de la Roche; Amours by Colette; The Cheshire Cat by Lewis Carroll; The Yellow Terror by W. L. Alden; C Stands for Cuisine by Beverley Nichols; The Coat by Mary Williams; The Achievement of the Cat by Saki; Incident on East Ninth by Jill Drower; Ye Marvelous Legend of Tom Connor's Cat by Samuel Lover; Rufus the Survivor by Doris Lessing; The Home Life of a Holy Cat by Arthur Wiegall; Solomon and Sheba by Doreen Tovey; Pangur Ban - Irish Monk; Calvin the Cat by Charles Dudley Warner; Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault; The Totem of Amarillo by Emma-Lindsay Squier; My Boss the Cat by Paul Gallico; La Menagerie in Time by Theophile Gautier; Minna Minna Mowbray by Michael Joseph; The Slum Cat by Ernest Thompson Seton; and Come Lovely Cat by Charles Beaudelaire. Size: 8vo. Book.

Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Complete DJ with some edge wear and creasing - faded titles to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hb, oramge cloth covers, no dj, 76pp. Good, slight edgewear to spine, approx. 5 pages have very brief inked corrections to the text. Contents: Notation, simple mates, Pawn promotion; Tactics in the end game; On Pawns and pieces; On the centre, space, time and other matters; Combinations; Selected correspondence games; Championship games (featuring the annotated games of D.V. Hooper who won the BCCC); Some of the openings. Descriptive notation. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 76 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Moderate loss and tears to spine and edges. Minor sunning to spine. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Imperial octavo, in stapled wrapper (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Imperial octavo, in stapled wrapper (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Condition: New. pp. 1408.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. NO CHIPPING & NO SPLITTING to CLEAN boards. Internally VERY CLEAN with NO INSCRIPTIONS. Some light fox spots to endpapers only - text CLEAN. TIGHT textblock. NO LOOSE & NO MISSING leaves.

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original slate paper covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 86 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Front free end paper missing. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped 18s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 356034364 SHIPPING (Liners, Merchant).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 5th edition. 240 pages. 9.00x5.90x0.50 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: New. Paperback Pages Number: 79 Language: Chinese. The characteristics of the small German grammar is concise. in addition to an overview of German grammar. but also through learning prompts guided the learners how to master the German as soon as possible. a common syntax The main points of focus interpretation. and a large number of examples to help learners to deepen their understanding of German grammar.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Kirby, Rollin; Markow, Jack; (illustrator). First Edition. 48 Pages. Features: Cover photo of bombing crew mission debriefing session; Nice one-page color ad for Woodbury film-finish powder features Sonja Henie; Temple radio ad; We must not delay rebuilding the world; Photo of B-17s over the Reich; Photo of Allied infantry and armor fighting along the German Westwall; Dramatic photo of B-29s thundering over Mount Fuji on way to Tokyo; Photo of American troops in landing barges on way to a Pacific Island; Last Fortress of the Nazis - article and photos explain how in the Alps east of Switzerland Hitler's henchmen are expected to make a final stand - includes caricatures of Hitler, Himmler, Goebels and Goering; The Soviet Soldier Does Not Forget - he remembers the long ordeal of his people and says it must not happen again; The Censor Defends the Censorship - Director of Censorship Byron Price replies to those who complain that too much news is kept from the public; General Lewis A. Pick of 'Pick's Pike' - photo-illustrated article of the builder of Stilwell Road, the 620-mile land route to China from Burma; One-page color ad for the Parker '51' pen; Poem - "Lincoln's Last Birthday"; One-page color ad for Benson & Hedges Virginia Rounds cigarettes; The Horace Mann-Lincoln School of teachers College; Photo and article on Shirley Temple - who tells how she evolved from gurgling to glamor; ad for Philharmonic radio-phonographs; William Gallacher - the only Communist M.P. in Britain, and one of the most persistent Churchill-baiters in Parliament - article with photo; Nice color ad for Valliant Vineyards; Great letter about jobs for men and women by Ann Maulsby; Lieut. Gen. Kurt Dittmar is 'The Voice of the Wehrmacht" - article with photo; Color ad for Nestle's evaporated milk; Nice color photo ad for Thomas' Protein Bread; Meals with Little or No Meat; Color Crisco ad; The Bare Arm Look (fashion); Decorating Ingenuity; Kingergarten Enterprises; Cocomalt ad features boy on stilts; Lovely two-page fashion section features attractive photos of formal fashions; Nice half-page color ad for Marlboro cigarettes features lady in red polka-dot summerwear; Postman's Daily Rounds - article on letter carriers of the New York area distribute 80 tons of mail daily; Color one-page ad for Fabrics by Stafford, sold by Goodman & Theise; Fantastic color-photo back page ad for Rheingold Beer features Miss Rheingold 1945, Pat Boyd, bowling. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Wood, Stanley, L.; Elcock, Howard; Abbey, S.; Woodville, R. Caton; De Walton, John; Prater, Ernest; Reynolds, Warwick; Woodville, R. Caton; York, W.G.; Somerfield, T. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hunting of Gonzales - An adventure of Senor Ramon Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Adrift on an Ice-Floe - Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green provides a photo-illustrated account of the amazing fashion in which a primitive Eskimo extricated himself from a predicament which would assuredly spelt death for a white man; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part II - Winifred S. Blackman's photo-illustrated account of the three winters she spent with the local people of Upper Egypt; Fraser's Price - The tale of an angered railroad engineer; The Three Angleteers - Part V (conclusion) of the trouble and adventures of three English wanderers in Constantinople and Athens; "Remember the Mortons" - A stirring story of an episode in the Matabele rebellion of 1895; Salvage Extraordinary - An Indian planter's account of an odd affair on the Brahmaputra River in Assam, including photo of five elephants pushing a stranded steamer; The Head-Hunters of Sepik - Part III - Beatrice Grimshaw explored the Sepik River of New Guinea and dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Where Everyone is Wealthy - The Osage Indians of Oklahoma come up with the strangest ways to divest themselves of their wealth earned from local oil - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part III - Count Nils Cronstedt spares a condemned bull-terrier which rewards him by saving him multiple times while he served in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; "Old White Face" - Allen Borders of Montana relates a terrifying cougar experience; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part III - The story of a British officer's remarkable journey - disguised as an Oriental - across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; "Captain Jed" - a tale of the whalers of New Bedford, MA, involving the "Cap'n Jed" and the "Wanderer" - very few men have ever fought a 'right' whale single-handed and lived to tell the tale; Python and Lion in Nyassaland - after visiting a witch-doctor for poisoning the author is attacked first by a great python, then a lion!; Photo of a Manchurian man 7 feet and 3 inches tall; Photo of a veritable forest of masts at Lowestoft, the Suffolk fishing port, during the height of herring season; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Lowell, Orson (cover); Justis, Lyle; Billmyer, James; Sykes, C.H.; Skidmore, T.D.; Wood, Lawson; Williams, C.D.; Gustavson, L.R. (illustrator). First Edition. 54 pages. Features: Nice Hockey illustration on cover; Colour Texaco ad inside front cover; Oakland 8 / Pontiac 6 full-page ad; Classy color full-page ad for Maxwell House Coffee; Mr. Tuggy Drives his Buggy (short story); Kansas Kid (short story); Against the Grain - Ire at Grain Traders - article; No Questions Asked (short story); The Polecat's Pal - the story of a dog who fell from grace but was redeemed in a most curious fashion; Fairweather Quinn - Captain Thomas P. Quinn of Seattle pilots vessels in and out of Puget Sound - article with photo; The Road Back (short story); A Lady of Resource (short story); Power and Glory - Boies Penrose - articles with photo; Sensational full-page color photo ad for Life Saver candies; Smoke in the Bank (short story); Oldsmobile ad; Captain of Industry - Barry Wood is Captain of the Harvard football team; Wonderful two-color centerfold ad for Willys cars; Nice full-page two-color ad for Coke 'behind the scenes' in Hollywood; Studebaker Truck ad; Wonderful color full-page ad for Chesterfield cigarettes; Nostalgic Nice color Camel cigarette ad on back cover shows couple in front of fireplace; General Electric Sun Lamp ad inside back cover. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good condition. First Editions. San Francisco and Sacramento: California State Mining Bureau, 1900. 3 volumes bound as one. All three are First Editions, published 1902/1901/1902 respectively -- not cheaply-made modern reprints. Bound together in black cloth with black leather spine and corners, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. The leather joints have a hairline crack. SEE PHOTOS. The original colored wraps for all three books are bound-in. The binding is in Near Very Good condition. Internal condition is Very Good+. The ink stamp of Harry M. Roche is on the front endpaper. All three books are profusely illustrated with photos and maps. Many of the maps are fold-out and printed in color. COPPER RESOURCES has 69 illustrations (mostly photos) and 8 maps of which 3 are folding. The largest: Map of California Copper Deposits, unfolds to 29.5" wide by 36" tall. Another fold-out is: Geological Map of the Western Portion of the Shasta County Copper Belt. OIL AND GAS YIELDING FORMATIONS has 35 photos and 13 fold-out maps, including Geological Map of Territory between Los Angeles and Santa Ana River; Los Angeles Oil Fields 1898-1900; Geological Sketch Map of the Peninsula of San Pedro; Geological Sketch Map of SE Portion of Orange Co.; Devils Gate Oil District; Sketch Map of Summerland Oil Wells; Coalinga Oil District, Fresno Co. 1900; etc. SALINE DEPOSITS has 98 photos and 5 maps. Three of the maps are folding. Two of them are quite large and in color: Map of California Saline Deposits 1902 [unfolds to 29" wide by 36" tall]; Saline Deposits of the Southern Portion of California [unfolds to 30.5" wide by 30.5" tall]. First Editions. Hardcover. Near Very Good condition. 8vo. 282pp. + 236pp. + 215pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

First edition of this eyewitness account of clashes between French and Chinese naval forces following the collapse of the Li-Fournier Agreement. Two tables show detail each side's ships and their specifications, as well as the damage they sustained. The Tonkin War developed out of a tussle between France and China for influence in Vietnam. Following a number of engagements, diplomatic exchanges between Li Hongzhang and CaptainErnest François Fournier produced a tentative agreement that China would withdraw from Tonkin and legally recognize a French protectorate. Negotiations, however, eventually broke down and the French launched an attack on Fuzhou on 23 August 1884. Foreign military observers, including the two American authors of this report, saw the engagement as a chance to evaluate the success of recent Chinese attempts to modernize the imperial navy. For the Qing empire, the Battle of Fuzhou was a disaster, the French fleet eight ships outgunning its eleven vessels, all of which were eventually sunk. The defeat "paved the way for the dynasty's downfall" (Po, p. 206). The eight plates are after sketches made during the battle and show several Chinese ships before and after they were sunk. The final sketch is of a dog which drowned while trying to escape from the Yangwoo, the Chinese flagship. Cordier 2500. Ronald C. Po, The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire, 2018. Octavo. With 8 plates, tables in text. Original light orange wrappers, front cover lettered in black within ornamental black frame. Wrappers only lightly creased and marked, contents sometime neatly consolidated into covers with adhesive, text and plates clean: a near-fine copy.