E h smith wright (16 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: N/A. First edition, first impression. 130pp, plus 29pp of tissued-guarded monochrome plates, tissue-guarded frontispiece, 12 distribution maps, and line drawings in text. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth has mottling and scattered marks and stains and is unevenly faded. Text block edges spotted. Some scattered rusting on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A handsome volume, well-produced. Meconopsis is commonly known as blue poppies. The genus was created by botanist Viguier in the early 19th century. …

Condición: Very Good. 14 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: The Antiquary; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. 1st Edition. Turquoise Cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and front board, 250 x 160 mm approx. xii + 252 pp. b/w frontis + 105 other photo illustrations of which 7 in colour on 83 plates + fold out map to rear all as called for. Published by OUP for The Royal Horticultural Society. 1952 First Edition. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good / Poor (Book- shelf wear to extremities of cloth boards- colour rubbing only, ink gift insc. Christmas 1953 to front free end paper, hint of foxing to paste downs. Dust Jacket- Numerous significant chips/loss and heavily rubbed, white titles a little tanned, mild to moderate foxing to rear panel and flap folds). No other notable defects). A sound reading / reference copy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 246 pp. ; red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents : A word from the president / C H Lewis -- Peace (poem) / Carolyn Cunningham -- Adventures into American Rose Annuals / Helen D Carswell -- A priceless blessing that costs nothing (poem) -- Keep it simple / Ralph M Dasher -- Sun kissed roses / J A Herholdt -- Nearly wild (poem) / Ollie Giltner -- A way of life / Verona E Weeks -- Rose plant quality control project / Dr Dennison Morey -- To paint a rose / Mrs Henry Diener -- The most perfect phase, judging hybrid teas / Dr A S Thomas -- Understock testing in the New Orleans area / Dr. A. G. Viskell -- Old Roses, living antiques of the rose world / Mrs Walter P Merhoff -- The Isle of Guernsey / Peter D W LePelley -- One little rose (poem) -- An engineer looks at the relation between cutback and bloomtime / Thomas S West -- Pest control in roses / Harvey E Barke -- A hybridizer's dream (poem) -- Why patented roses / George M Hart -- About roses in Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary / Josef Henyk -- Report on rose research in the U. S. Department of Agreiculture / Robert N Stewart, Peter Semeniuk -- American Rose literature since the war / Theo. Mayer -- The little rosebud (poem) / Bertha McQuerry -- Finis to International Sleuthing for a Rose" / Mrs. Walter P Merhoff -- Our chemical fertilizers / Orville E Bowles -- Some species native to North America / Dr Blanche McAvoy -- Unique genes in hardy wild roses / Percy H Wright -- Leaves (poem) / Pearl Kell -- Iran rose city, Isfahan / A. Varzandeh -- Experiments in producing new moss roses / Rev Walter Stanley Smith -- Roses in Scandinavia / Homer C Lyman -- All-America Rose Selections -- New rose patents -- New roses of the world -- Ineligible roses -- Proof of the pudding -- Illustrations : Palm Springs -- C. H. Lewis -- John F. Kennedy -- Polynesian Sunset -- Planning a rose picture -- Crown Jewel -- Eminence -- Mister Lincoln -- Camelot -- Oklahoma -- Happy Birthday -- America's Junior Miss -- Lotte Cunthart -- Seneca Queen -- Valby Park -- Woburn Abbey -- Green Rose. ; VG. Book.…

Leather. Condición: Very Good-. From the 12th London Edition. 520 pages, gilt eded all around, embossed padded leather, floral endpages. Shows some wear to top/ bottom of backstrip, leather a bit rubbed. F. T. Merrill, Mary B. Smith, F. H. Hayden, and F. E. Wright (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Handsome Victorian volume with decorative scroll work, stamped floral designs in a magnificent green, red and gilt pattern; gilt lettering; gilt page edges on all sides. Illustrated including frontis portrait of Browning with facsimile inscription. Binding is tight but boards with heavy wear and light damp staining to the edges, edges worn; pages with age toning and light staining. F. T. Merrill, Mary B. Smith, F. H. Hayden, and F. E. Wright (illustrators); Andrew, Kilburn and Seaverns (engravers) (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 683. Plus 14 plates, partly in colour. With 313 illustrations. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's green full cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Binding is poor but firm, text block is in fine condition. An excellent working or binding copy. ~ FIRST EDITION. K-2. ~ ~ NOTE: TOTAL REDUCTION SALE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (ilustrador).…

Decorative Cloth. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None Issued. Presumed FIRST EDITION. A GEM! FINE CLOTH BINDING WITH INTRICATE STAMPED FLORAL DESIGNS ON BROWN CLOTH BOARDS QITH GOLD GILT BANNERS AND RULED IN BLACK. VERY SOLID BINDING. CLEAN WITH THE SAME 2 NAMES AND GIFT FROM AND DATED 1885, ONE AT TOP OF FIRST EDNPAPER AND THE OTHER ON BLANK FLYLEAF. GOLD GILT EDGES ALL AROUND. SPLENDID FULL PAGE PLATES THOUGHOUT, INCLUDING FRONTIS OF BROWNING WITH TISSUE GUARD. 520 PAGES. FLORAL MOTIF ENDPAPERS. ENGRAVED BY ANDREW, KILBURNAND SEAVERNS. A STUNINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND CLEAN BOOK FOR BEING OVER 125 YEARS OLD. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS. E.T. MERRILL,MARY B. SMITH,F.H. HAYDEN,E.E. WRIGHT (ilustrador).…

Full Leather. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket As Issued. From the Twelfth London Edition, padded leqather binding with gilt decorationa along the edgges and gilt script title on front board and spine. AEG, embossed decoration on front board and wear at the corners and along the gutters of the spine.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 248, xvi pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations (4 color), 1 fold-out ; portrait ; 21 cm. ; green and orange cloth with designs ; no dustjacket ; OCLC: 9504907 ; LC: SB411 ; Dewey: 583.305 ; Contents: The early rose / Frank W Halliday -- The rose on the air / J Horace McFarland -- The Allentown rose-garden / C Chester Yost -- More municipal rose-gardens / Robert Pyle -- The garden value of rose species / E H M Cox -- The committee on old roses / Mrs. Francis King -- The duties of the old-rose committee / Stephen F Hamblin -- The old roses of California -- Francis E Lester -- Breeding new roses / George C Thomas -- Rose-breeding in Rhode Island / Josephine Brownell, Walter D Brownell -- A rose foundation / William Crocker -- Breeding better roses / Rev George A Schoener -- Roses from your ice-box / Persis Smallwood Crocker -- The wax treatment for dormant plants / James A Neilson -- The canker scare / R Marion Hatton -- Rose-disease investigations / L M Massey, Bruce Parsons -- The Central East, a symposium -- Roses along Lake Erie: Mentor, Sandusky, Toledo / Melvin E Wyant, Harry B Neumeyer, Paul Fakehany, Charles G Smith -- Roses in and around Detroit / E Genevieve Gillette -- Southeastern Ohio / Mrs. John B Wagner -- Along the Ohio River / Marie Bauer -- Roses in Cincinnati / R J Conners -- Roses in the Blue Grass /. C S Crouse, Maude M Crouse -- Roses in Eastern Indiana / Alexander McGalliard -- No roses without work / Mrs W D Bostick -- Protecting roses in Indiana / Mrs Berenice M Harrison -- Roses in Northern Indiana / A L Hubbard -- Time of planting and winter protection in Michigan / Charles M Greenway -- Roses can be grown in Illinois / E I Lanter -- Roses near the Mississippi / Dr. Ralph Graham -- Roses in industrial Illinois / Perry Wilson -- Roses in "Egypt" / Hon. Kent E Keller -- The rose-mindedness of Ontario / J Horace McFarland -- Roses in the Rocky Mountains / Maud Chegwidden -- Rugosa roses on a Kansas farm / Carol L Martin -- Why I prefer Spring planting / Agnes Fules Huntington -- Caring for a small rose-garden / Mrs Louis Hurd -- The modern way of feeding roses / Dr G J Raleigh -- Abolishing rose-bugs / Ruth O Ericson -- Failure and success in rose-growing / G F Middleton -- My lifetime with roses / E Gurney Hill -- Tributes to Ernest Henry Wilson -- Wilson, the explorer and teacher / Richardson Wright -- Wilson, the lover of plants / E H M Cox -- Frederick Loveless Atkins / Leonard Barron -- Three fine rose men pass on -- J C N Forestier / J H Nicolas -- John Hickman Dunlop / A J Webster -- Sing Sing's rose man / Lewis E Lawes -- Abyssinia as a land of roses / Franklin P Adams -- Roses in Brazil / Eudoro Ramos Costa -- The 1920 rose summer in Europe / J H Nicolas -- The American Rose Society in Europe / Robert Pyle -- The international rose test-gardens / Dr SPencer S Sulliger -- Roses abroad -- Name, names, names / E S Trott -- Proof of the pudding, 1931 -- Radio rose talks -- Rose notes -- New roses of the world ; wear to covers, else G. Book.…

Leatherbound. Condición: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 122. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1904 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 122.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Pictorial cover. Spine repaired and new matching back cover. Now very good, clean and tight. Extremely rare. A large number of contemporary photograps, fold out table. Interesting advertisements at the back. Tiny closed tear on cover, repaired at back. Tiny closed tear at top of half title page. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Pages 194-284 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Romance of the French Foreign Legion; Adrift in a Mine-Field - two men drift through a mine-field in a crippled seaplane, fending off mines with their bare hands!; That Night - a rice-planter's cyclone ordeal on Bordelieu Island off the Florida coast; An Englishwoman in South America - Mrs. Mayer-Nixson describes the ways of Chilean (Chilian) policemen, the curious manners and customs of the people, and the odd habits of Chilean servants; The End of the Rainbow - an adventure of Etienne, a half-breed trapper in Northern Canada who had not heard of WWI; Rua the Prophet - the curious history of a Maori fanatic, Rua Kenana, who established a native "New Jerusalem" in the heart of the wild and inaccessible Urewera Mountains of New Zealand - article with great photos; Canada's Last Frontier - part II of a photo-illustrated narrative of a trip to Canada's Eskimo country - including a photo of Fort McMurray which was but a tiny clearing in the woods, plus a photo of an early oil well, and the Pelican gas 'gusher' which had been buring for 18 years!; Our Zambezi Lion-Hunt - adventure involving a black-faced lion; The Tale of the "Tara" - the adventures of the crew of the auxilliary cruiser "Tara," torpedoed off the North African coast - photo-illustrated article; Exploring the Black Canyon - A.L. Fellows and W.W. Torrence help tap a river by a tunnel which irrigates a previously barren valley in Colorado. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Gilbert, A.; Pape, F.C.; Wood, Esmond; Wright, Frank; Rountree, Harry; Buchanan, Fred; Smith, Reg. F.; Evison, G. Henry; Gillett, F. (ilustrador).…

First Edition. AVON FANTASY READER, Avon Books, 1947 thru 1952, first edition, 18 volumes complete, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps. Contributions by Robert E. Howard, Gelett Burgess, William Hope Hodgson, Hugh Cave, Algernon Blackwood, Edust-wrapper ard Lucas White, James Francis Dwyer, G. K. Chesterton, Frank Owen, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Bond, E. Hoffman Price, H. P. Lovecraft, Sax Rohmer, Manly Wade Wellman, M. R. James, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, Seabury Quinn, Francis Flagg, Doanld Wollheim, Malcolm Jameson, Amelia Reynolds Long, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Donald Wandrei, Ambrose Bierce, C. L. Moore, Abraham Merritt, Frank Belknap Long, David Keller, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton, Henry S. Whitehead, Carl Jacobi, William F. Harvey, C. M. Kornbluth, S. Fowler Wright, Murray Leinster, August Derleth, H. G. Wells, H. R. Wakefield, et.al. Along with AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER, all 3 volumes, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Editions. 432, 432, 432 pp. Limited Editions, number 39 of 50. Yellow boards lettered in black on the spine. These are unread copies with only the lightest rubbing on the corners; no interior markings. There are far too many stories and poems in these volumes to list them all but some of the highlights are: VOLUME 1, issues 1, 2 and 3: The Voice of El-Lil - a novelette by Robert E. Howard; Red Blades of Black Cathay - a novelette by Robert E. Howard and Tevis Clyde Smith; The Rajah's Grandmother by Frank Belknap Long; The Slave of Justice by E. Hoffman Price; The White Queen - a novelette by Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard; The Vengeance of Sa'ik by Otis Adelbert Kline; The Man Who Limped by Otis Adelbert Kline; and The Scourge of Mektoub by Paul Ernst. VOLUME 2, issues 4, 5 and 6: The Blood of Belshazzar - a novelette by Robert E. Howard; The Justice of the Elephant by Clark Ashton Smith; The Pearl Robber by Frank Belknap Long; The Dragoman's Slave Girl by Otis Adelbert Kline; Thirty Pieces of Silver - a novelette by G. G. Pendarves; Four Doomed Men by Hugh B.Cave writing as Geoffrey Vace; and Shaykh Ahmad and the Pious Companions by E. Hoffman Price. VOLUME 3, issues 7, 8, and 9: The Sowers of the Thunder - a novelette by Robert E. Howard; Lord of Samarcand - a novelette by Robert E. Howard; The Dragoman's Jest - a novelette by Otis Adelbert Kline; On a Chinese Vase - a poem by Clark Ashton Smith; Jungle Twilight - a poem by Clark Ashton Smith; Scented Gardens by Dorothy Quick; The Hidden Monster by David H. Keller; and A Battle Over the Tea-Cups by August Derleth. Size: 8vo. Neil Mechem; (ilustrador). Book.…

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 216 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 216 Volume NIR 88-3792 Language: English.…