adam stwin (8 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Unmarked, Clean, And Solid Copy With Normal To Moderate Signs Of Wear. First Edition Not Stated, But No Indications Of Later Printings. Published Date Not Stated, Estimated Between 1890-1915. Binding Is Shaky But Fully Intact, Visible At Front End-Page, And Visible With A Small Split At Back End-Page. Illustrated Hard Cover In Good Condition With Minor Wear Along Edges, And Small (Approximately 1/2 Inch Tear In Green Cloth At Top Of Spine.

Quarter Cloth. Condición: Rough. No Jacket. Various {engravings} Ilustrador. Bound with a medium blue spine, gilt lettering. Illustrated paper over boards. There is some rubbing of the covers, discoloration. Sever corner bumping and edge wear. Fore-edge of front board is chewed. Interior text has slightly yellowed, clean and solid in it's binding. Black and white engraved illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. This is the 1880 printing. Front and rear hinges cracked. Beautiful black and white illustrations. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condición: Good to Very Good. Illustrated Ilustrador. Early Edition. 80 + 96 pages. Small spots to the handsome decorated binding. Size: 8vo.

Former-owner inscription dated 1888. Octavo, cloth-backed illustrated boards (hardcover), upper cover illustration of two yellow birds on a branch, 96 pp. Illustrated. Good+, with edewear. From first chapter (Do Stones Grow?): They do grown, don't they, Uncle Adam?" "Little girls grow, I'm sure. Now, jump! You're getting so big I can hardly lift you." "I don't mean little girls; I mean stones. Johnny says they dont grow." "What makes you think stones do not grow, Johnny?" "Why! How can they? They're so hard!" "So your teeth are hard, but they grew. This ivory paper-cutter is hard too; you know where ivory comes from?" "Well, I know ivory grows, and teeth, and bones, and shells; but they're different from stones." "How different?" Johnny thought awhile, then said: "They're alive; at least they have been alive, or they belonged to something -- elephants, or oysters, or something -- that was alive?" "Might not the stones have sometime been alive in the same way?.". Children's Literature, Natural History, Philosophy. JBS.

Cloth. Condición: Good +. 8vo. Unpaginated. Blue cloth stamped illustration of sea life, silver titling. Rubbing to cloth, heaviest along spine and corners of boards, front hinge cracked but holding. Illustrated children's stories set by the sea.

Condición: Acceptable. D. Lothrop & Company Hardcover. No jacket, but boards are pictorial. Heavy bumping and chipping to board corners, with some to spine. Stamp to front inner board. Pencil inscription to front fly leaf dated 1880. Discoloration to inner boards and fly leaves. Small stain to upper margin of run of pages and light foxing throughout. Hinge separation of about an inch and a half to front inner board.

Hard Back. Condición: G-vg. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None. 1st. 8.25x6.5x1/2 in.,Illustrations throughout,Tan and Blue HC with title and illustration on front,VG with moderate wear and fading on edges,poi on ist ep 1880,Juvenile,Offered for sale by xochi's booksto re at.