Wright R V S (32 results)

Article disbound from journal; no covers; stapled; in good condition.

Paperback. pp. viii, 191. 4to. Black and white illustrations, maps and photographs. Front cover starting to detach, ink name and previous bookseller's price sticker to front cover; good.

Paperback. pp. 172. 8vo. Black and white photos and black line drawn maps. Light shelfwear, library sticker to front cover; very good. National Museum of Man and the National Museums of Canada Bulletin 232, Anthropological Series No. 87.

Condition: New. In.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. STiff unamarked book with very faint dampstain to upper corner. ; 191 pages.

Paperback. Size: 8.5" x 11". 400pp. Covers scuffed, sticker blemish on the front cover else very good clean & sound condition.

records from southwestern Ontario(S. A. Mosquito News)1978. S. 137-138. m. Tab. (St. )br. -2) -Sonderabdruck-.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. J. N. LeConte, Philip Hyde, William Menken, Cedric Wright, Arthur E. Harrison (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1954. June,1954 issue [Vol 39, No.6] of the Sierra Club Bulletin. Octavo, perfect-bound printed wrappers. Photographically illustrated, with artful drawings, a map, and even a song as well. Near Fine - very near fine, with a modestly darkened spine (scan) with a small wrinkle at its bottom being the only flaw. See scans. Very high grade example. 108 pp. + 32 unnumbered pages of illustrations, mostly photographic plates. The outstanding photo work is by J. N. LeConte, Philip Hyde, William Menken, Cedric Wright, and Arthur E. Harrison, in several impressive theme-aggregations. The articles - see scan of contents page - are by editor August Frugé, David R. Brower, Robert K. Cutter, Richard M. Emerson, A. Starker Leopold, Loye Miller, Ginny Hill Wood, Aileen R. Jaffa, Father John S. Duryea, Peter Fabrizius, Margaret Thal-Larsen, Arthur E. Harrison, Clifford V. Heimbucher, Charles Wilts, Hervey H. Voge, and Harriet T. Parsons . Also, a variety of regular departments. Please see all scans. l-sc2.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. x, 133pp, references, bw ills, line drawings, maps.Pictorial card. Very light toning to page edges. Size: 4to.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

298 x 210mm; pp. (vi), 400; illustrated throughout with figures, line drawings, photographs, graphs, list of contributors and addresses, index; origina wrappers, a very goodcopy. First edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. A few foxing marks on fordges. Interior is still excellent. A little wear to spine tail.

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Folio hard cover dust wrapper, 400pp, b&w photos and drawings. Dust wrapper chipped/worn at edges and with several small tears, light wear to board edges; a good copy. Prehistory and Material Culture Series No 12. This volume contains archaeological studies as well as first hand ethnographic reports of fieldwork carried out in Australia and Papua New Guinea among users of stone implements.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. no jacket. second printing. 6 7/8 x 9 7/8" 403 pages (being pages 524 - 927 of the series). This is Treatise on Invertebratre Paleontology Part H Volume 2 only. This is the second printing. small neat previous owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise looks as new.

Quarto, beige illus light card covers, white & black lettering to spine, 400pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate fading & staining to spine, moderate creasing & chafing to covers, light soiling & tanning to page edges, neat gift inscription in ink to ffep).

Very good paperback copy, a couple of spots to the edge of the page block, a little fading to the cover, but contents sound, complete and unmarked. Paperback. 8.5" x 11". 400pp. Very well illustrated with maps, charts, drawings and photographs. Comprehensive in its field. Stone tools are the world's most common archeological artefacts and often the only surviving ones. They have been used to infer human presence in remote geological periods, patterns of trade and cultural diffusion, technological adaptation, cultural evolution and the economic basis of their makers. In this volume are archeological studies as well as first-hand ethnographic reports of field work carried out in Australia and Papua New Guinea among users of stone implements. We pack our books properly and ship daily from the UK, using recycled materials where we can.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Size 295mmX210mm. This volume of papers contains a variegation of contemporary archaeological praxis. It is intended to cater as much for our historically curious descendants as for our selectively curious individual selves. **The book has hard rubbing at the spine and light rubbing at the other extremities.**.

298 x 210mm; pp. (vi), 400; illustrated throughout with figures, line drawings, photographs, graphs, list of contributors and addresses, index; original cloth in dustwrapper (small repair), a near fine copy. First edition, the scarcer hardcover issue.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Very nice copy quarto x + 133pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Prehistory Series No. 5 also Australian Aboriginal Studies No. 26. Owners' bookplate on free front end paper o/w a very nice copy.

hardcover. Condition: fine. no jacket. Second printing. 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 " 521 pages. small previous owner's name at top of inside front cover. This is Part F Volume 1 only. shipping will be extra, please inquire.

1977. South Pacific, Oceania, journals. Prehistory and Material Culture series no. 12. Austrlaian Institute of Aboriginal Studies/Canberra. & Humanities Press. (also US ISBN: 0391008366). Very good to good+ pale brown/beige paperbakc cover 400p. Sun fading to spine, Please allow for additiional over seas postage.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is a "two volume" set, consisting of the book and a separate cardboard box, containing several looseleaf maps. Cover is in excellent condition, save for minimal rubbing/discoloration with age. DJ is unclipped and in very good condition. Both the book and looseleaf maps are in a single slipcase. Slipcase is in good condition, save for some discoloration and corner bumping/wear. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Slipcased.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 133 pages. First page has a previous owner's name in pen. Cover is a little worn. Page edges lightly tanned and foxed. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Hiley, F.E.; Edwards, Lionel; De Walton, John; Wightman,W.E.; Woodville, R. Caton; Abbey, S.; Prater, Ernest; Constable, Douglas (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Lost in the Pacific - John Edwin Hogg attempted to take a small boat to Panama from some islands 90 miles off the coast, but encountered treacherous seas; On Niagara's Brink - Orrin E. Dunlap, the unofficial historian of Niagara Falls, describes the area's most thrilling adventure, that of a barge and two men, Lofberg and Harris, who drifted to the verge of Horseshoe Falls - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part I - Oxford Anthropology student Winifred S. Blackman relates her experiences in three winters of living with the people of Upper Egypt - article with photos; Captain Doudera's Bet - The amazing photo-illustrated story of Captain Frank Doudera, of Brooklyn, New York, and his quest to obtain a timber wolf pelt within six weeks; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part II - Beatrice Grimshaw travelled up the Sepik River of New Guinea, where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Chippin' Paint - An amusing sea story; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part II - A British officer's remarkable journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; The Treasure of Tristan Da Cunha - Photo-illustrated article about a hoard of gold and jewels said to have been hidden here by pirates in 1810; Photo of a literal river full of logs in British Columbia; The Three Angleteers - Part IV - Three bored Englishmen travel to Europe for trouble and adventure; In the British Guiana Jungle - A vividly-written photo-illustrated account of an eventful boat-journey into the interior of British Guiana with a motion picture camera, culminating with a visit to the mighty Kaietuerk Falls, the greatest cataract in the world, five times higher than Niagara; The Secret of the Wilds - photos of wild animals which resemble those of prehistoric times; "Grip" and I - Part II - A bull-terrier spared from death by its new owner Count Nils Cronstedt returns the favour by saving him multiple times during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendent in Northern Nigeria; One Night - the story of a hunt in the darkness and a panther who stood his ground; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, February 1924, Lost in the Pacific, John Edwin Hogg, Panama, Niagara Falls, Orrin E. Dunlap, barge, Lofberg , Harris, Horseshoe Falls, An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt, Winifred S. Blackman, Upper Egypt, Captain Frank Doudera, timber w.

First editions. 34 issues. #87: Daniel Defoe of Captain Misson. 48pp. #132. Essay on Satire, Walter Harte. 46pp. #141: Selections from the Observator, Sir Roger L'Estrange. 38pp. #142: Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing, Anthony Collins. 77pp. #149: Poet's Complaint. 30pp. #153: Are These Things So? 28pp. #154: Arbuthnotiana. 39pp. #155-6: Selection of Emblems. Illus. 147pp. #157: Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, William Mountfort. 26pp. #158: Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, Colley Cibber. 66pp. #161: Grave, Robert Blair. 39 pp. #165: Of the Sister Arts, Hildebrand Jacob. 37pp. #164: Sonnets of Thomas Edwards. 105pp. #166: Poems on the Reign of William III. 41pp. #167: Midas, [Kane O'Hara]. 32pp. #171: Man of Taste, [James Bramston]. 19pp. #172-3: Ephesian Matron, [Walter Charleton]. 80pp. #174: Mischiefs, [Bernard Mandeville]. 40pp. #176: Dialogue Upon the Gardens at Stow, [William Gilpin]. 60pp. #177: Art of Politiks, [James Bramston]. 45pp. #178: Art of Modern Poetry, [James Miller]. 59pp. #181: Harlot's Progress, Theophilus Cibber. 26pp. English Mounsieur, James Howard. 64pp. #184: Master Mercury, [Daniel Defoe]. 88pp. #187: Essay on Historical Composition, James Moor. 49pp. #188: Donaides, John Ker; Donaides, [David Malloch]. 31pp. #191: Explanatory Discourse, Sir William Chambers. 52pp. #193: Rowley and Chatterton in the Shades, [George Hardinge]. 44pp. #195-6: Lucida Intervalla, [James Carkesse]. 78pp. #197: Odes on Various Subjects, James Warton. 47pp. #208: Rape of Europa by Jupiter and Acis and Galatea, Peter Anthony Motteux and John Eccles. 65pp. #199: Disserton concerning Meteors of Stile, or False Sublimity, Samuel Werenfels. 49pp. #207: Feminiad, John Duncombe. 31pp. #212-13. Hieroglyphic Tales, Horace Walpole. [iii], 51pp. Softover binding, printed wraps, very good condition.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1971. Small 4to. Orig. illust. boards. (x, 134 pp.). With illusts, and maps. Previous owners name stamp on front and back end-paper. (Aust. Abor. Stud. No. 26).

I. Folded doublesheet (=4 pages), ca. 135 entries; 4to.(ca. 28 x 21 cm). / II. 11 (1) pages of handmade paper, 88 Watercolours and 154+ Etchings and Mezzotints (few with pencil acquisition-prices); olive cardboard-cover; 8vo.(ca. 19 x 9 cm). *** 2 ORIGINAL FRANK-SHORT-ONLY SALES- AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, both referring to the catalugue-numbers of 'Edward F. Strange: The Etched and Engraved Work of Frank Short', 1908; which is included in this offer (#48 of a total of 220 printed copies) as well as a smaller sheet with holograph notes about Frank-Short-auction-offers at Sotheby's 1913-1919; all from the estate and partly with his ownership inscription or short manuscript notes of Harold J. Wright of Fulham. - Partly slightly used; OVERALL A VERY GOOD - STORYTELLING - SET.