Sumner P H (35 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Provincetown, MA: The Fine Arts work Center in Provincetown 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Literary magazine. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. clph.

Condition: Good. 1945. No edition remarks. 83 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a faint bump at the head of the spine and at the very tip of the front corner of the tail of the spine. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages aer all clean, white, and crisp. 342 pages. Illustrations and maps throughout. Dust Jacket - has no discernable flaws - jacket is clean, bright, and sharp. A lovely copy!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Edge wear and rubbing, fraying on corners and spine ends, nick in cloth on spine end, couple small spots on boards. Previous owner's name on first page, pages beginning to yellow, otherwise interior is clean.

Condition: Good. 1939. 3rd Edition. 279 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed.

Reprint (first published 1966); landscape format, with illustrations by Alan Osbahr. Pages clean; binding tight. Dust jacket a little worn at edges, with short tear Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. An excellent description of the 1939 state of the art. pp.xv.281.index[iv].ads[2]. Frontis. Illus.

Hardback. No Jacket. This is the first of a two volume set that covers the science of flight with this volume focussing specifically on airships and kite balloons the lighterthanair craft This lovely edition is bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine It is richly illustrated all throughout in black and white with photographs diagrams and drawings which compliment the already informative nature of the text Overall this edition is in very good condition The pages throughout are clean crisp and white leaving the text clear and readable pp 168 iv pages of advertisementsnbsp. book.

Approx 9 x 6 inches. In blue cloth with gilt letering and banding to spine, blind embossed lettering to front. In very good condition. Spine faded with a couple of minor marks. Small nick to cloth along top leading edge. Endpapers darkened else pages clean and tight throughout. Inscribed. 196pp. + 15pp cat. Many b&w photos and diagrams.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Minus. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blindstamped lettering to front. Boards are marked and generally grubby. Corners are bumped, edges are worn. Spine is faded with bumping to ends. Mild foxing to the page edges. Age discolouration and a couple of spots of fox to endpages. Both inner hinges are cracked, but holding. The binding is loose; the bundles are separating. B/w frontispiece. Textblock is generally clean. 168 pp + adverts. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 708g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 030370:5f) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 708 G. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. ISBN . Hardback. No Dustjacket, bound in blue cloth. No Statement of later printing on the copyright page. Tight sound copy with average wear but pretty much a tight sound reading copy only due to spine fading, heavy browning to the endpapers, and a heavy spine cock. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. shelf wear on boards. light foxing and marks. ex-library copy with stamps. sound binding. fairly good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine. Pictorial dustjacket. Illustrated with black and whirte photographs, drawings and diagrams. 295pp. Review copy with publisher's complimens slip. Not price-clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Rebound with library cloth spine. Tape reinforcement to gutters. A rough working or reading copy.; xiv, 295, [1] pages. Frontispiece illustration of the De Haviland Comet + 242 other illustrations, including several of airships. Contents: Introduction; The Elementary Aircraft and Conditions of Flight; Types of Aircraft and Constructional Features; The Power Unit; Commercial Aeroplanes; Military Aeroplanes; World's Air Records and Long Distance Flights. ; 8vo.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: As New. Leigh Ortenburger, George L. Collins, Lowell Sumner, Olaus J. Murie, Robert L. Swift (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1953. October, 1953 issue [Vol 38, No.8] of the Sierra Club Bulletin. Octavo, perfect-bound printed wrappers. Photographically illustrated, with artful drawings, a map, and even a song as well. As New and flawless - which is scarce for any vintage SC bulleting issue. See scans. Very high grade example. 92 pp. + 32 unnumbered pages of photographic plates. The outstanding photo work is contributed by Leigh Ortenburger, Lowell Sumner, and Robert L. Swift, while the mood-inducing drawings are the work of George L. Collins and Olaus J. Murie. The articles - see scan of contents page - are by William Siri, Sumner, Murie, B.H. Lehman, George Bloom, Francis P. Farquhar, A. Starker Leopold, and Don Levy. Also, a variety of regular departments. Please see all scans. l-sc2.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: As New. Leigh Ortenburger, George L. Collins, Lowell Sumner, Olaus J. Murie, Robert L. Swift (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1953. October, 1953 issue [Vol 38, No.8] of the Sierra Club Bulletin. Octavo, perfect-bound printed wrappers. Photographically illustrated, with artful drawings, a map, and even a song as well. As New and flawless - which is scarce for any vintage SC bulleting issue. See scans. Very high grade example. 92 pp. + 32 unnumbered pages of photographic plates. The outstanding photo work is contributed by Leigh Ortenburger, Lowell Sumner, and Robert L. Swift, while the mood-inducing drawings are the work of George L. Collins and Olaus J. Murie. The articles - see scan of contents page - are by William Siri, Sumner, Murie, B.H. Lehman, George Bloom, Francis P. Farquhar, A. Starker Leopold, and Don Levy. Also, a variety of regular departments. Please see all scans. l-sc2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 281pp. HARDCOVER Some marks to endpapers at both ends. Very clean internally. No inscriptions. Strong binding. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 64pp + 32 plates. The organ builder and his successors. From Barrie Clark collection with signature. Board is clean and tight, wrapper is light wear with very light soiling. 500g. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New.

First edition 8vo 196 pages illustrated with 145 black & white photographs and line drawings. Good and sound faded light blue cloth hard back, spine darkened. No inscriptions, clean internally. "Chapter 1 of the book forms an introductory to the world's flying boats. Before passing to the subjects of displacement, buoyancy and usual stability problems it is as well to firstly examine the conditions required for the airborne condition of the boat seaplane, Chapter 2 may therefore serve a useful purpose. ".

Binding loose but holding. Some thin staining in some gutters. Light foxing. "P. 105" written on front pastedown with "105" on said page as well. Blue cloth with blind lettering on front board, gilt lettering almost entirely worn away on spine; some spotty colour loss on and around spine. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xv, 196pp, photos, tables, stats, glossary. 'Elementary naval architecture.' Cloth is rubbed and marked with light soiling, contents clean and tight. 850g.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Just. A copy for reading being generally shabby but text complete and acceptable. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the rather soiled boards with the upper board beginning to fray at the join. Personal stamp to the pastedown. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned with a very occasional, neat, addition to the tabular data by a researcher it seems; Hardback. Pale Blue boards with gilt & embossed titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 8¾" x 5¾" (1.2 kg); pp (xv) 292 (3); Index; In the Science of Flight series; Number II in the series. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Graphs; Diagrams; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #176464 ||.

first edition [Volume II in the Science of Flight Series] textblock near fine condition; light blue cloth binding with gold spine imprinting in very good condition, clean and tight, slight shelf wear, slight spine fading; 292 pages, plus; nicely illustrated with photos of period planes, engines, etc. diagrams; index; a perfect collector's item;

Hard back binding in publisher's original black pebble cloth covers, gilt title and volume number lettering to the spine with five raised bands and gilt knurling. Quarto 10'' x 7¼''. Contains [vi] 498 printed pages of text with full-page and part-page sepia and monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Owner's name plate inside, a little rubbing to the spine edges and in Very Good clean and sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. NAUTICAL (Shipbuilding).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Clymer, John (cover); Hughes, George; Ard, Kurt; Conner, Mac; (illustrator). First Edition. 112 pages. Features: He Works in God's Back Pastures - Young Minister Sam Varnell chose to work in the "knob country" of eastern Tennessee; The Horse That Was Hard to Believe; The Story Behind Quemoy - How this small island on the coast of China has led America to the brink of War; They Can't Wait to Grow Old - tricks used to illegally receive Social Security payments; Adventures of the Mind, 16 - The Power Holders of the American economy; Battle Against the Lake - great photo-illustrated article on how the Southern Pacific Railroad is laying a roadbed across the Great Salt Lake. Fiction: The Swindler's LIfe; Hopeless Case; Marriageable Age; Ambitious Cop; The Midtown Bomber (part 2 of 5); The case of the Greedy Grandpa (conclusion). Ads: Nice color-photo Ronson lighter ad inside front cover; Fantastic one-page photo-ad for the Philco Predicta TV (which looks like something out of the Jetson's); Nice one-page color-photo ad for the 1959 Studebaker Lark station wagon (blue); Nostalgic one-page color-photo ad for Gulf shows snow white Cadillac with back seat loaded with Christmas gifts in service station; Nice color one-page ad for the Ford Edsel (yellow); Whitman's Chocolates color-photo ad features Santa; One-page black and white photo ad for Motorola TVs; One-page color ad for the 1959 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Holiday Sportsedan and Dynamic 88 Holiday Scenicoupe; AC Oil Filter ad features color photo of Dale Robertson of the "Wells Fargo" TV show; Wonderful two-page color-photo ad for 1959 Lincoln cars (white) and Helen Hayes; Idyllic three-color-page wedding-themed ad for the new for Ford Galaxie; Color-photo ad inside back cover for the 1959 De Soto station wagon (yellow) filled with dalmatians has some discolorations. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this great issue.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [Bloody Kansas: The Expansion of Slavery to the Territories, Prelude to the Civil War] Rebound in fine modern cloth. Fine binding and cover. Leather spine and cover labels with gilt. Generally clean, unmarked pages. Old Dartmouth College Stamps. Contents: 1. Speech of the Hon. M. Norris, of New Hampshire, in the United States Senate, March 3, 1854 on Nebraska and Kansas; 2. The wrongs of Kansas : speech of Hon. John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, in the United States Senate, February 1856; 3. The admission of Kansas : speech of William H. Seward of New York; 4. Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin of Louisiana on the Kansas question : delivered in the Senate, May 2, 1856; 5. Nebraska and Kansas. Speech of Hon. James Knox, of Illinois, in the House of representatives, May 19, 1854; 6. The border ruffian code in Kansas (with map); 7. Speech of the Hon. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, on the President's Kansas message : Delivered in the Senate February 28, 1856; 8. Speeches of Senator Toucey, upon Kansas affairs : delivered in the Senate, February 18 and March 5, 1856; 9. Front cover image for The compromise bill : speech of Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, July 3 and 5, 1850, on the bill for admission of California into the Union, the establishment of territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico, and making proposals to Texas for the settlement of her northern and western boundaries The compromise bill : speech of Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, July 3 and 5, 1850, on the bill for admission of California into the Union, the establishment of territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico, and making proposals to Texas for the settlement of her northern and western boundaries; 10. The crime against Kansas : Speech of Hon. Chas. Sumner, of Massachusetts, in the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856; 11. The crime against Kansas : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts ; in the Senate of the United States ; May 19, 1856; 12. Speech of Hon. John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, on the admission of the state of Kansas.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1864 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 70 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 70 Language: English.