A w p robertson (81 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. London: Bodley Head, 1950. Photos, index, 208pp. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Species account number 709 in the Birds of North America Life Histories for the 21st Century series. In 1992 the American Ornithologists' Union in partnership with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia undertook the publication of species accounts for each of the more than 700 species which breed in the United States and Canada. These illustrated reviews provide comprehensive summaries of the current knowledge of the species, with range maps and an extensive list of references. The series is finally complete, in 716 parts. Accounts are 8 ½ x 11 booklets.…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. This contains: Preface by Gary A. Yoggy; Foreword by James Drury; Introduction by Archie P. McDonald; G. M. Broncho Billy Anderson, the First Movie Cowboy Hero by Lane Toth and Tom W. Hoffer; Tom Mix by William E. Tydeman; Buck Jones by R. Philip Loy; Tex Ritter by Gary Kramer; Roy Rogers by Raymond E. White; Jimmy Stewart by Michael K. Schoenecke; Barbara Stanwyck by Sandra Schackel; Will the Real Indians Please Stand Up? byJacqueline K. Greb; Faces Without Names by Jim Collins; Steve McQueen by Richard Robertson; and James Arness by Gary A. Yoggy; followed by an index. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Condición: VG/VG (see notes). 1st. 12mo. 84pp. Small label free end paper, bit of offsetting from DJ flaps. Price-clipped DJ has a couple 1/4" tears, some rubbing.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. as pictured First British Edition as pictured very good condition hardback with a good dust jacket, price shillings present chips nicks to edges some shelf wear clean pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: Good. Godo condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Light age tone to page ends, Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Condición: Good. 1st edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with spotting and writing on the ffep. Good DJ with some marks and is price clipped.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1954). 1954 1st edition. Pp192. B/w photograph plates by the author, bibliography. Well-used but good copy in used dust-wrapper. Observations of birds and an account of setting up RSPB bird sanctuaries inEast Anglia. Includes work on the re-introduction of the avocet. .…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. Tan cloth, lettered in red. As issued. Former owner's address label mounted on upper front flyleaf. Color illus. dust jacket Fair only, lacking approx. 50% of spine panel, chipped corners, general wear, now in mylar. 1st ed. 256 pp., illus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Published Autumn 1961. Hardcover in dust jacket. The dust jacket shows shelf wear, including small chips and tears at the head and tail of the spine and along the bottom edge of the front panel. The blue cloth binding is intact. The title page contains a library stamp from the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum; no other library markings are present. The interior pages are clean and the binding is secure. worn with small tears at the edges and spine ends. W. F. Hepworth (Tone Paintings); J. D. Carrick, Frank Yeoman and Paul R. Matt (Original Drawings) (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Good + /-- Revised and enlarged edition. B/w frontispiece of Medway Gardens. Green cloth spine on thick cream boards with flower to upper cover. Binding is OK. Covers are rather soiled and a little rubbed. Light tanning to page edges. Owner's name on title page. Not ex-library. A good reading copy.…

Condición: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (mathematics, topology) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Unmarked book with jacket in great shape. Ships daily.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 220mm). Ppxii,84. B/w photographs. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Foxing and browning, bookplate, good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. "A Partridge Year is the result of a friendship between two people whose interest in the bird are in some respects dissimilar. Esmond Lynn-Allen and A.W.P. Robertson first discussed the possibility of a joint book on the partridge six years ago, and began work immediately. It soon broke down, however, because for every fact that they found they knew about partridges, there were two that they didn't know. Thus began for both of them a period of intensive checking and study, and by the beginning of 1956 the book was finished. It is, as they explain in the foreword, 'neither a comprehensive monograph nor a scientific study', but a week-to-week account of how a partridge spends its life; of its feeding methods in hard weather, of the break-up of coveys into pairs; of its courtship and nesting, and of the fascinating behaviour of the hatch. It is a book that should be in the hands of all lovers of nature. The brilliant photographs, which Commander Robertson took specially for the book, greatly enhance its value." .…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. The book describes the Authors love of bird watching and the adventures they have had. There are photographs throughout the book. There is slight foxing at the front and the cover has faded along the spine and around the edges.

Hardcover. Condición: Vg. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. First Edition. 192pp. Plates. 8vo Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 208pp, illustrated, hardcover, green cloth, gilt lettered, gilt bird drawing on front cover, very good condition, dust wrapper unclipped, The Bodley Head, London, 1950. * Cheshire and avocet interest.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 48 pages. P F Winternitz and D Horvitz "Rocket Propellant Performance And Energy Of The Chemical Bond" / Marvin Meyer "Throttling Thrust-Chamber Control" / Lieut.Commander F C Durant "The Naval Air Rocket Test Station - Purpose And Progress" / W R Sheridan "Expellant Bags For Rocket Propellant Tanks" / C W Tait, A G Whittaker and H Williams "Measurement Of The Burning Rate Of Liquid Propellants". (SL#129).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very good condition. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. Fifth edition. xi, 1155 pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good condition. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. xi, 1155 pp. New Edition, incorporating corrections from 1985 printing of Fifth Edition.

Condición: Very Good. 192, frontis, 43 b/w photos. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt. Vg. First edition.

1st ed. Some foxing; binding tight; bright green cloth a little faded on boards, & badly browned on spine, with wear & pale flecks. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good+. Covered in Mylar; B and w photos; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 256 pages.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 192 p. ill. 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliography. Subjects: Birds England East Anglia.Birds Habits and behavior.Birds Behavior. Genre:Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with minimal loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: From the library of J. E. Wightman. Physical description: 208 p, illus., 21 cm. Subjects: Birds Great Britain; Ornithology; Bird Species; Animals; Bird Photography. 1 Kg. …

hardcover. Condición: Good.

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with minimal loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: From the library of J. E. Wightman. Physical description: 208 p, illus., 21 cm. Subjects: Birds Great Britain; Ornithology; Bird Species; Animals; Bird Photography. 1 Kg. …