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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. S. Fleishman (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. S. Fleishman (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Black and White Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Large book, pictorial hard cover. Full of great black and white photographs of mountains around the world. Interesting collection of mountain stories. The covers have light wear and the spine is frayed at top and bottom. Email us for a picture, we ship fast. Size: Over Sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. NO DUST JACKET. Previous owner's name written on front endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY!; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. A good reading copy. The Book of the Mountains carries us all over the earth, through the Himalayan ranges, and mountains of Wild Wales; across the Andes, and the Pyrenees; to the High Sierras, the glacier of the Alps, to reveal the mountain world. The lure of great heights; the peaceful solitude and majesty of towering ranges; the blinding fury of mountain storms - all are reflected in these selections which have been culled from the earliest written records down to the present. The sections are: 1, Men Climb the Mountains; 2, Men Live & Work on the Moutains; 3, Men Against the Mountains; 4, Men Study the Mountains; 5, Men Fight on the Mountains; and, 6, Men Wonder at the Mystery of the Mountains.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 251 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Discoloration of pages. Pages slightly brittle. Damage to top and bottom of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. From the Frontispiece: "Being a collection of writings about the Sea in all its aspects with 64 pages of illustrations in halftone and fravure, and many line drawings." Great writers contributed to this volume including Joseph Conrad, Philip Wylie, Adm. Mahan and others. Book is in very nice shape inside with some foxing on the outside pages and inside the covers but no tears, foldings or marks. The outside of blue cloth cover is chewed up (insects?) and has some folding damage on the spine. A wonderful, reading example of classical sea stories. Shipped in a sturdy cardboard box.

Trade PAPERBACK. Condition: VG/No Dustjacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. VG/No Dustjacket. (1993). First Edition. Trade PAPERBACK. Inscribed by the translator . 8vo., 278 pp., inscription .

Paperback. first PB. G-108, very good - fine, crease (ILLUSTRATED BY OSBORN), paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY! Hardcover. NO DUST JACKET. Pages are clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned and foxed. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pictorial boards have discoloration on bottom near spine, dark colored pen circle near top. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

hardback VG.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. First Edition. Jacket is rubbed, scuffed and chipped. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover, Condition: Good, Lippincott, Phila., 1955, 6th.prtg., 8vo., cloth, 278pp., darkened cloth, G+ $.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Text is clear of markings. Binding is secure. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Fleishman, S. (illustrator). Large book, fine brown cloth lightly faded at edges, bright silver lettering on spine, silver embossed illustration of skier on front, ink notes inside front cover and first front end paper, 170 heavy photo paper pages plus brief biographical note.

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Small quarto, hardcover, near fine in green boards with black design and lettering. No dj. 488 pp. Stunning b & w photo endpapers giving a real feel for the sea, for its power and majesty. 64 pages of illustrations in halftone and gravure, and many line drawings. Authors include Steinbeck, Forester, Conrad, Couzzens, Rachel Carson, T.S. Eliot, Bullen, McFee, many others about voyage and discovery, sea creatures, shipwrecks, sailor life, sea battles. Book.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. JACK LAMBERT (illustrator). THIS IS A COMPLETE "BOOK WEEK" SECTION OF THE CHICAGO SUN NEWSPAPER OF APRIL 22, 1945. THE PAPER IS TONED WITH AGE. THE FEATURE FRONT PAGE BOOK REVIEW IS BY A. C. SPECTORSKY OF A BOOK THAT IS TITLED "AMERICAN GUERRILLA IN THE PHILLIPINES" BY IRA WOLFERT. THERE IS A DRAWING OF LT. ILIFF DAVIS RICHARDSON, U. S. N. R. BY JACK LAMBERT. THE BOOK WEEK SECTION CONTAINS BOOK REVIEWS BY STERLING NORTH, LEONARD DUBKIN, WARREN VROWN AND OTHERS . THERE ARE ADVERTISEMENTS FOR BOOKS SUCH AS " A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN," - 'FREEDOM IS MORE THAN A WORD" -"BRAVE MEN" BY ERNIE PYLE AND MANY OTHERS.

No Binding. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THIS IS A COMPLETE SECTION OF THE CHICAGO SUNDAY" 'BOOK SECTION" NEWSPAPER. THE PAPER IS TONED WITH AGE. THERE IS A DUSCREET LIBRARY STAMP ON THE FRONT PAGE, THERE ARE FOUR HOLES ALONG THE SPINE FROM A PREVIOUS LIBRARY BINDING. THE FEATURE FRONT PAGEB OOK REVIEW IS BY A. C. SPECTORSKY OF A BOOK THAT IS TITLDS "THE THURBER CARNIVAL" BY JAMES THURBER. THERE ARE ELEVEN CARTOONS AROUND THE ARTICLE FROM THURBER'S BOOK TITLED ' THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN." THERE ARE BOOK REVIEWS BY STERLING NORTH, THERE ARE ADVERTISEMENTS FOR SEVERAL BOOKS INCLUDING "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" AND "JANE EYRE" BY THE BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN 9780292776722. Trade Paperback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Very slight wear to corners and edges; slight dustsoiling to edges; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A monumental anthology of 509 pages collected under five topics related to college life. Volume itself has a bookstore stamp on the title page. Book is otherwise clean & binding is tight. Dust jacket has an approximate 1 1/2" piece torn off the bottom around the spine. Much smaller tear at top of spine and frays and tears at top and bottom of the dust jacket on both the front and back covers. Book itself is in very reasonable shape but the dust jacket leaves a lot to be desired. What can I say? It has a dj of sorts. A serviceable reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Ex-library with usual markings. RE-BOUND BY LIBRARY. Pages clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Smudging on page fore-edges.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to. Pictorial bds., gilt, blue, green, black, white lettering on black/white illus, white and blue lettering on black bkstr. Bookplate inside front cover. Prof. illus 64pp. in halftone and gravure, with many line drawings. ix, 488pp. In mylar. Contributors: Alan John Villiers, Captain James Cook, Captain Dampier, Hanno, Amasa Delano, Christopher Columbus, Captain Joshua Slocum, Erik the Red, Thor Heyerdahl, Homer, Antonio Pigafetta, Alain Germault, Richard Hakluyt, Samuel Purchas, William McFee, Frederick Pease Harlow, John Masefield, Richard Henry Dana, Henry Taprell Dowling, John Bartlett, James Boswell, Rudyard Kipling, Philip Wylie, Kenneth Roberts, Joseph Conrad, James Gould Cozzens, Owen Chase, George Millar, Henry de Monfreid, Nicholas Monsarrat, Michael Scott, Captain J. Y. Cousteau and Frederic Dumas, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, William Albert Robinson, Carleton Mitchell, Philippe Diol, Henry Piddington, William Beebe, Charles Darwin, Baron Alexander von Humboldt, F. D. Ommaney, Gilbert C. Klingel, Henry N. Moseley, D. W. Johnson, John Purdy, Frank T. Bullen, Rachel Carson, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Hans Hass, Eugenie Clark, Benjamin Franklin, I. Valerio Borghese, Snorri Sturleson, Henry Major Tomlinson, Frederick Marryat, Thucydides, John Wetherell, Hilaire Belloc, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Commander Edward L. Beach, Herodotus, John Paul Jones, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Beston, John Harris, John M. Synge, Sydney Smith, Pierre Loti, Marcel Proust, Jack London, Henry David Thoreau, John Steinbeck, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, T. S. Eliot.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 207 pp.+ Photo Plt at Frontis & Many Photos in Text, White & Blue Hardback, 4to, owner name else VG in DJ with single small edge nip, 1st ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 492 pp., Many Photos, White & Brn Illus Hardback, VG, no DJ, 1st ed.