William Dakin (149 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo illus. 1st Ed. -[Cat. 66-205.] - Assisted by Isobel Bennett & Elizabeth Pope. Ex-Library; sl worn along spine; o/w Very Good no DJ.

Condition: Good. 1956. Reprint. 372 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. B&W photos (illustrator). This copy is withdrawn from the library of the Palaeontological Research Inst. -Text is tight and clean. Blue boards show a fair amount of wear and some overlay fade.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. 1968. Australiana pocketbook edition. 176 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white and colour photographs. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, second edition, octavo, a good tightly bound copy but with mild foxing to the close edges, The dust jacket complete but markedly foxed. xvi + 504pp.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

1970, second impression, Natural History, Fish, Walkabout Pocketbooks, 176 p, good paper.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Chicago / New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company 1952. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 7" x 10"], 162 pages, illustrated. Includes "The Golden Gods" by John Bloodstone AKA Stuart J. Byrne, "THe Man Who Bought Tomorrow" by William P. McGivern, "Battle of the Howling Hatchet" by Don Wilcox, "Murder on Mars" by Frances M. Deegan, "The Dog with the Weird Tale" by Paul W. Fairman, etc. Good only copy with spine torn with chipping near the center and shallow chipping to the ends, usual creasing and edgewear to the cover, text paper tanning. See photos 150E.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Series: Benn's Sixpenny Library 80p slim paperback, light library markings, well preserved, first printing Language: English.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Series: Benn's Sixpenny Library 80p slim paperback, light library markings, well preserved, first printing Language: English.

Single Issue magazine. Condition: Good. cover art by Joe Tillotson (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago / New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, Chicago / New York: 1951. First Edition. Vintage Pulp magazine in Pictorial wrappers [about 7" x 9.75"], 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "Medusa Was a Lady!" by William Tenn, "A Handful of Dust" by Ivar Jorgensen, "The Laughter of Shiru" by Gerald Vance, "You Take the High Road" by Stephen Marlowe, "Alias Adam" by John McGreevey, etc. Good with edge wear, creases, dust soiling to covers, text lightly toned. See Photos mag12.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company , Chicago ,1951. First edition Vintage Pulp magazine in Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "Excalibur and the Atom" by Theodore Sturgeon, "With This Ring" by Dallas Ross, "The Spoilers of Lern" by Clee Garson, "Everybody Loves Irving Bommer" by William Tenn, "The Man With the Clutching Hand" by Paul W. Fairman, "Very Cold for Conquest" by P. F. Costello, etc. A very good copy with small edge tears and light dust soiling , text lightly toned. See Photos pulp bx 6 .

Magazine. Condition: Good. Cover painting by Joe Tillotson (illustrator). y First Edition. Chicago / New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Chicago / New York: Fair. 1951. First Edition. First edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 7" x 9.75"], 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "Medusa Was a Lady!" by William Tenn, "A Handful of Dust" by Ivar Jorgensen, "The Laughter of Shiru" by Gerald Vance, "You Take the High Road" by Stephen Marlowe, "Alias Adam" by John McGreevey, etc. A good to very good copy with a larger chip to top outside corner of the rear cover, small edge tears, text lightly toned. see Photos pulp bx 6 . Good. Magazine. y First Edition. 1st Printing. 1951.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Free postage on this revised edition reflecting over 30 years of original study by Prof. WJ Dakin, by Isobel Bennett and Elizabeth Pope. Clean pages, fine hardcover, jacket showing reader wear. Ecoystems, illuminating descriptions and lively facts, it remains an authority. Sparkling illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth hardcover, no dust jacket. Light shelfwear to covers. Previous owner?s name and blind bookstamp inside. Some margin lines in pencil. 285 pages, index, notes, bibliography, b&w photos.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in paper covered boards. Published Melbourne: Australian National Publicity Association, 1950. 8vo., 135pp., illustrated with b/w photographs, map. Sun fade to the spine and top edge of cover, dust foxing along top edge of page block. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. Tall octavo. 133pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Gutter cracked, dampstain and wear on bottom of spine, boards and spine sunned, good only in a fair or better heavily chipped and scuffed dust jacket with internal tape repair.

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 133 pages; 133 pages illustrations, maps, plates; 25 cm. Subjects: Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- Natural history -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).

Reprint of the 1950 original. 133, (2 Index) PP with b/w photos & maps. Hard cover, title on front board and spine. Head of spine repaired. Note to previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 24.7 x 15.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book condition: very good, very scarce 1953 edition, a guide for beach lover, the naturalist, the shore fisherman and the student, the divided in two parts: the seashore and the haunts of seashore life and the living things of the seashore, filled with 99 b/w illustrations along with two color frontis photos, yellow cloth boards feature a starfish imprint on front and a gilt seahorse on spine, corners gently bumped, light scuffing to head and spine overall very nice, very light spotting to endpapers otherwise interior very clean, binding firm, 361 pages followed by index, 6.5 X 9.5 inches. Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. If actual shipping cost is less than the AbeBooks estimate, it is our practice to REFUND the difference to the buyer.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. xviii, 376pp., b/w illustrations, colour plates, figures, checklist, index. Australian Natural Science Library. First published 1952. Seventh Edition. Revised and metricated. Lightly age toned text block else clean and bright. Dustjacket has some minor indentations to front and rear panels.(BH) 7/2025.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Ernest Benn Limited 1928 paperback 80 pages, book detached from covers and light soiling to extremeties but still in acceptable reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. 176 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp.xii+372. 23.5cm. Colour frontispiece. 99 black and white plates (many composite). Figures in the text. Index. Hard cover. Very small spots on the spine. Light foxing to early pages. A good copy.