Walks Talks Geological Field by Winchell Alexander (133 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.3.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Edition. G/none, ex library copy, used, hc, illustrated slate colored cloth, 353pp. Interior clean except for the usual library stamps and marks, pages near bright, binding tight. Inscription to former owner on the ffep. Card pocket removed from rear pastedown. Wear to exterior at corners, fraying at head and tail of the spine, binding slightly faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Pages are clean and intact.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Boards a bit rubbed, boards, edges, and endpapers lightly foxed, ink name on front endpaper. 1894 Hard Cover. 353 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, including an image of an erupting geyser in Yellowstone National Park (though it isn't labeled Old Faithful - the mathematical relationship between the duration and intervals of eruptions would not be described for another 45 years). Includes: The Geology At Our Door; Lost Rocks; The Gravel Pit; Among the Glaciers; The Hillside Spring and Its Work; Introduction to the Rocks; The Floods of the Great Lakes; The Mud Flat; The River Gorge; A Walk Under the Sea; By the Rocky Wall; Mysterious Forms of Life; Courses of the Earth's Masonry; A Walk in the Yellowstone Park; Among the Volcanoes; Frozen Seas of Lava; Imprisoned Heat; The Unstable Land; The Framework of the Mountains; How the Mountain Framework is Reared; Down in a Mine; The King of Metals; The Crystals of the Sea; Liquid Sunlight (Petroleum); Gaseous Sunlight (Natural Gas); Solidified Sunlight (Coal); Monsters of a Buried World; The Cemeteries of the Bad Lands; Lesson From a Lump of Chalk; Lone Burials in the Coal Lands; Terrible Fishes and Their Companions; Ancestry of the Pearly Nautilus; The King Crab's Grandfather and Other Grandfathers; Earth's Deepest Graves; An Earlier Beginning; Gathering World Stuff; The Whirling Fire-Mist; The Primeval Storm; The War in the Ocean; The World Without a Backbone; The Dynasty of Fishes; Scenes From the Coal Period; The Reptile Monarchies; The Mammalian Rule; Anticipation and Retrospect in Life-plans; The Throes of the Continent; The Reign of Ice; A Geologic Spring Time; The Earth Receives Her King.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 12mo. 329 pages, indexed. Hardcover in green cloth. Binding is rubbed, scuffed. Upper edge of rear cover has a small section that has been scuffed down to boards. Inner hinges secure. Prior owner's name written inside front cover. Text is sound. Illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Pages yellowed, some speckling to front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. Flood and Vincent, 1894. First Edition. Very Good/No Dustjacket. 353 pgs. VG Blue cloth with black victorian decoration on cover and spine. Sturdy book - binding is tight, no names or writing inside, pages clean. A little wear at corners. Many illustrations, No names or writing inside. " The Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle" appears above title on cover. Printed at The Chautauqua Century Press.Geology.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 5.5 X 8 inches, 329 pages. Brown cloth hardcover with black type and gilt design and lettering on spine. Withdrawn library copy with stickers on cover and stamps on end pages. Internal sheets all clean. Ragged top and bottom of spine. Solid square binding.

Good plus or better, light general wear, lightly bug-chewed. Cloth Pages lightly browned. Int hinge splitting at front endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. b/w Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. In brown cloth with black and gilt titling, 8vo, 329pp. (darkening and shelfwear to covers and extremities, vintage name to endpaper). Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 353pp, illus., some soiling to cover & pg edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover and edges show heavy shelf wear and tear. Pages are heavily yellowed and stained. Has some minor dirtiness on the outside. There is some slight dirtiness on the textblock/fore edge from handling. Cover has heavy scuffing and fading. Sipne is broken.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Gifter's inscription on front endpage. First signature detached from binding. Boards dampstained. Pages slightly dampstained. (Geology, Science).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. No Dustjacket. Reading Copy Only. Ex-Library with the usual faults, card pocket, ink stamps, etc. Tight sound copy with average wear, some browning to edges of interior pages. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature.

1886, Geology, Chautauqua Press, 329 p., good cloth with edge and corner wear.

1886, Geology, Chautauqua Press, 329 p., good cloth with edge and corner wear.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Smaller but heavy book, blue cloth with ornate black border to front and spine, gilt near good on spine top, 353 pages. Slight wear with some threading at tips and spine edges. Near Good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. 1886, 329pp, design in balck & gilt to cover, black lettering to cover, gilt lettering to spine, top corners bumped, dampstain to bottom corner of front cover, does not affects any pgs, some shelfwear to cover, spine ends slightly worn, browning to rear eps from newspaper clipping, turned corner to rear free ep, light foxing to last few pgs of book, otherwise contents clean & unmarked.

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

Embossed Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. End pages separated at rear gutter with hinge secure and tight; Lightly age toned, else textblock is clean and tight. All page edges are toned. Brown cloth with black and gilt stamped decoration on front cover, moderately sunned back cover, lightly scuffed covers, shelf wear. 329pp., including index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Condition: New.

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. nside endpages foxing. tight binding. No markings. No bookplate. Black gilt on cover and spine. DATE PUBLISHED: 1894 EDITION: 353PP.

Condition: New. SUPER FAST SHIPPING.

Hardcover. Condition: G; cover some wear hinges; bac. Water stain about 1/2" top of pages (no swelling).

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Book is in fair condition, showing faint liquid stain to edges of front end papers and frontispiece page, raised bumps to front board due to liquid damage, slight warp to back board and a 3" by 4" block of complete water damage--showing mold stain with no real odor, previous owner's names penned to front end paper, light foxing to text block, rubbing to boards, light bumping to corners, a bit of fraying at ends of spine, light wear to edges; otherwise in great shape with sturdy binding and clean pages. A decent copy.

Condition: Good. The Chautauqua Century Press 1898 grey cloth boards moderately soiled and stained. spine slightly age toned. previous owner inscription to ffep. binding tight.