Syd House (27 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: VG/VG/ND. y 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1991* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps, minor rubs. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine, very slight to hinge. Seems lightly used. VG * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no other visible faults. Some colouration to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 210 pp. text. iv pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The Environmental and social impact of the mass tourist industry is becoming increasingly apparent: the declining concrete Costas: the eroding Alps: crumbling Sphinx: sinking Venice, and cordoned off Lake District are all testament to the toll that the world's largest industry takes. The "build today, hang tomorrow" policies are coming home to roost. Sustainable tourism is the only positive way forward. This book breaks new ground and explores the issues surrounding the impact of tourism. It describes how to become a "Good Tourist" and offers worldwide ideas and details on environmentally sensitive holidays, from tree-planting in Costa Rica to exploring the hidden Mediterranean, and much in between. This work is aimed at everyone who will ever travel, anywhere in any way.* This is a VG copy of the 1st./1st. with slight age & shelf wear.* 1991-04-04.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Bargain book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 241pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper ISBN: 1854105914.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 241 pp., index, bibliography, appendices, ill, with b&w photos and reproductions of documents. an excellent new study of this plant hunter's work in the Pacific Northwest and Hudson's Bay. v.g. copy in d.j.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition First Printing. Fine book in clean fresh blue cloth covers with bright gilt titles to spine. Internally mint and free of inscriptions; very well illustrated. The dust jacket is near fine; neatly price clipped; one tiny light crease. A most attractive copy.…

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. London: Aurum Press, 1999. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Paper covers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. A rather pedestrian biography of a great botanical pedestrian and canoeist, whose travels in North America brought a major haul of new plant introductions to British gardens and whose discoveries of new trees were legendary. Douglas perished under dubious circumstances in Hawaii, gaining him semi-mythical status as the archetypal backwoodsman. Though this is a good paperback read, William Morwood's "Traveler in a vanished landscape" (1973) provides a more insightful treatment. x, 246 pp., 8 pp. of monochrome photographs. Weight: 1.0 Language: English Paperback edition with new appendix, first published in 1999 as "David Douglas, explorer and botanist".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. As photographed; in near-new condition, possibly unopened; private ownership; unmarked and clean throughout showing no signs of use; binding tight; pages gently tanned; x + 246 incl. index + 8 pls. "Recounted with botanical understanding and human sympathy in this admirable biography . a highly readable story" (Times Literary supplement, quoted on rear cover).…

First edition, hardback in near fine condition, in very good unclipped dustjacket. (Book ref 3966).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; 116 clean, unmarked pages; includes items by/about: Phyllis McGinley (poem); John McNulty ("The Healthiest Grl in Town"); John Hersey (:Profiles: Mr. President, Harry S. Truman: Pt I, Quite a Head of Steam); Burton Lehrenbaum (poem); John Ardner (Theatre:The King and I); A.J. Lieblig (Wayard Press: The Rubber-type army Chiang Kai-shek); Genet (Letter from Paris); Joseph Francis Murphy (poem); Emily Kahn ("Bhang"); Robert Shaplen (Letter from Manila); Richard H. Rovere (Books: Eric Hoffer, the True Believer); Talk of the Town; Books, Art, Theater, Cinema, Food Reviews, Etc. Leonard Dove house Band cover Art; robert Day, george Price, Syd Hoff, Sam Cobean, Alan Dunn, Eldon Dedini, Etc (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated. Some minor marking to edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. London, Aurum Press, 1999. Octavo, xiv, 241 pages plus 8 pages of plates from photographs. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.

hardcover. Condition: new.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Full Printer's code 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Contains (xiii), 241 pp with monochrome photographs on coated art paper to the central pages. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £19.99. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOTANY (Phytology).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Royal 8vo, first edition, pp,xiii,241, maps and illustrations, gilt titled blue cloth, pictorial clipped dust-jacket, 1999 inscription to the leading free endpaper. Inscribed and signed by the authors to the title-page.