Schmidt Walter Karl (94 results)

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

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 221pp. "1. Auflage (1.-8. Tausend)". Anmerkungen, pp. 215-216; Mitarbeiterverzeichnis, pp. 217-221. Glossy black wrappers with multicolor title lettering across nearly all front cover; strong binding; tiny tips of wear at corners (still essentially sharp); no previous owner names. Clean text. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presumed first edition 1938 printing. Hardcover, no dj. Moderate soiling to covers, including fingerprints to rear cover. Owner.

Hard Cover. Condition: good-. Dust Jacket Condition: --. 11-7/8" tall; 64pp + several color plates & frontis; reinforced binding; il'd paper over boards; red linen backstrip; monochrome ils on endpages; b/w ils with text; some warping to whole book; heavy wear to extrems of cover; prev. owner's name & address on free front endpage. Walter Alois Weber (illustrator). Hardcover.…

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 64pp. Beautiful color plates and b/w illustrations. Color frontispiece. Decorated endpapers. Bottom corner of front free endpaper is creased with a small edge tear. Small black mark on top corner of front endpaper. Front cover has some small chafed spots. Cover edges are rubbed. Selling online since 1999. Quick shipping; Secure packing. Weber, Walter Alois (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: New. *NEW* Paperback fresh from the distributor with no remainder marks and no price tags. ISBN matches, but cover may not match photo.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

hardcover. Condition: Good. wear and tear on dust cover and hardcover of book.

Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The December 1933 issue of The American Magazine. Stories and articles it contains include Until Spring, a story by Robert Carse, The Family Jewels, a story by Clarence Budington Kelland, part III of a novel by Three Men and Diana, Kathleen Norris, If God Can Be Amused, a story by Lloyd C Douglas, Death Rides the Mesa, part IV of a novel by Tom Gill, Wall Street and Your Money, an article about the average investor and the stock market, How Wise a Crook?, an article by J Edgar Hoover, and numerous other vintage Depression Era articles and ads. Condition issues include soiling along the top edge of the front cover, light pencil notes on the top corner of the back cover, and a 4" closed tear at the bottom left spine hinge. The interior is clean and tight. A good to very good copy of a vintage magazine. Martha Sawyers (cover), Until Spring (Donald Teague), The Family Jewels (Robert C Gellert), Three Men and Diana (Walter Biggs), If God Can Be Amused (Karl Goodwin), Death Rides the Mesa (Harold Von Schmidt), How Wise a Crook (Winold Reiss) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Here is a Lovely Vintage Children's Picture Book from 1938 about domesticated animals. It is a clearly-written, engaging book written for upper levels of elementary schools. The author, who worked in the Field Museum of Natural History, talks about domesticated animals, their uses, their interaction with humans, their personalities, etc. For each animal discussed, Mr. Schmidt gives a historical account of the animal's zoological ancestry. It's a bit of science, but easy, comfortable science. Animals and their various breeds discussed are dogs, cats, horses, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, donkeys. It's a fine text with wonderful pictures. The color plates are lovely. TITLE : Our Friendly Animals and Whence they Came (ON COVER: "Friendly Animals") AUTHOR : Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890 - 1957) Schmidt was one of the foremost herpetologists in the world. INTERIOR COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS : by Percy Reeves COVER PICTURE, END-PAPERS & TEXTUAL BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS : Walter Alois Weber IMPRINT : Donohue & Company PLACE : Chicago - New York COPYRIGHT : (1938) ISSUE DATE : [1947 - as per OCLC - World Catalog] EDITION : Reprint PHYSICAL DETAILS : Oversize hardcover; Approximately 10" x 12" (quarto) hard cover in color pictorial boards with cloth spine; 64 pages; 12 full-page color plates, numerous line vignette drawings; line-pictorial end-papers printed in brown against a buff background. With Full-Page Color illustrations by Percy Reeves, and Cover Picture, End-papers, and Textual Line Drawings by Walter Alois Weber CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following details noted :: EXTERIOR : Two or three small, transparent water drop spots display on the front cover; mild surface creasing to rear board -- else pictorial boards are bright and clean; moderate edge wear and bumped corners, with attendant splitting to corner tips; spine displays slight fraying at extremities, else clean. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : Clean with bright colors throughout. no writing or marking. Percy Reeves (Color picture) / Walter Alois Weber (Cover Art & Interior Line Drawings) (illustrator).…

Condition: New. Weber, Walter Alois (illustrator).

Illustrated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (1934) 64 pgs. Cloth backed boards with pictorial pastedown, corners heavily worn, edges and surface rubbed, hole in lower board that caused a dent in last few pages. A large and wonderful book all about different mammals found in North America. 12 stunning and detailed color plates by famed wildlife artist Weber. Size: Large 4to. Walter Alois Weber (illustrator).…

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Walter Alois Weber (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. G/none, used hc, 64pp. Illustrated paper over boards with black colored text on upper; edge wear; frayed tips; shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Pictorial end papers. Interior pages clean, unmarked; both color and b&w illustrations. Binding is tight. Walter Alois Weber (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. pp. 609.

Condition: New. pp. 609.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. boards are rubbed at edges and corners. light scuffing on front and back covers. name written on upper edge of free facing end page. text is unmarked. binding tight. Walter Alois Weber (illustrator).

Condition: New. Weber, Walter Alois (illustrator).

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Our Friendly Animals and Whence They Came. Weber, Walter Alois (illustrator). Book.

Condition: New. Weber, Walter Alois (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN . Oversized Hardback. Very Good condition book with owner's inscription on second front free endpaper, with dust soiling to top edge, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with browning to spine and edges of covers, chips, tears, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 64 pp. Original pictorial paper covered boards w/ blue cloth spine. Spine faintly sunned. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. DJ has wear and tear to edges w/ light chipping to corners and spine ends. Lightly soiled. Illust. w/ color and b/w drawings. Contents very nice. Walter Alois Weber (illustrator). …

Condition: New. pp. 609.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Weber, Walter Alois (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W and Color Illustrations; This is an oversized hardback book (small folio). The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The front cover has a full page illustrated cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The book includes 12 full page, full color illustrations by Walter A. Weber. "From 1916 to 1922, he worked as scientific assistant in herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, under the well-known American herpetologists Mary Cynthia Dickerson and Gladwyn K. Noble. He made his first collecting expedition to Puerto Rico in 1919, then became the assistant curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1922. From 1923 to 1934, he made several collecting expeditions for that museum to Central and South America, which took him to Honduras (1923) , Brazil (1926) and Guatemala (19331934). In 1937, he became the editor of the herpetology and ichthyology journal Copeia, a post he occupied until 1949." (from Wikipedia). Illustrated by Walter A. Weber (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown 1/4 cloth, color illus. paper-covered boards. Slightly rubbed corners and edges, otherwise nearly as issued. 64 pp., (12) color plates, additional illus. in text. Color illus. dust jacket shows mild rubbing to corners, with edges showing several short closed tears with associated creasing and several chips along top edge, the largest 1/2" deep at top rear corner, now in mylar. 1st ed. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Percy Reeves; Walter A. Weber (cover illus.) (illustrator). Book.…