H j a aitken (10 resultados)

Condición: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (Crop Production, Livestock, Pasture).

Ex library, Ocatvo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Laminated Boards. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Very Good PP 191.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. St. Kilda; The First Hundred Years; A Short History of the Borough of St. Kilda 1875-1975 by H.J.A. Aitken. Publisher: Borough of St. Kilda, 1975, first edition. RARE. Good softback, some minor marks, rubbing, tanning and creasing, inscription to ffep, pages very good, minor marks, fading to spine area. 164 pages, illustrated. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.…

first edition octavo printed light card covers, 164pp, illus VG.

Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 196, (2, adverts), b/w fronts., b/w plates, b/w ills., some offsetting eps and prelims., orig gilt dec cloth, minor fishing front cover, spine sunned, d.j torn, lower half spine missing, protected. Collection of natural history sketches by the well-known Anglo-Indian author. illustrations by J.A. Shepherd (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; viii, 112 p. plates (part in color) map (on lining paper) 22 cm. ; LCCN: 47-8157 ; OCLC: 2021904 ; LC: DA890.E3; Dewey: 941.445 ; light blue cloth with black lettering, in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The Castle -- Holyrood -- The mediaeval city -- Old Town -- Old Town and Canongate -- New Town and Augustan Age -- Modern times. ; clipped corner, front endpaper ; name on flyleaf ; remainds of label on front cover dustjacket . Book.…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. First edition. A scarce first edition of this study on animals with illustrated from J. A. Shepherd. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece, seven plates, and sixteen in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of humorous animal writings, including: Bills of Birds, The Barn Owl, Snakes, The Panther I Did Not Shoot, The Coconut Tree, as well as a memoir of the author. Written by Edward Hamilton Aitken, a civil servant in India and founding member of the Bombay Natural History Society. Illustrated by William James Affleck Shepherd, an English illustrator best known for his anthropomorphic animal drawings and cartoons. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities. Fading tot he spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good. J. A. Shepherd (ilustrador). book. …

Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition. 136 pages. Features: Lovely Christmas package delivery cover illustration by Walter Dower; Game Laws 1948-49; The River Wise Man; November Steelheads - in the Whitney Drain near Lake Huron; Peanuts and Pictures; In the Presence of Mine Enemies; The Festive Board; The Happiest Huntsman - Henry Belden of California; The Undertaker and the Long-Tailed Bunnies; Variations of a Theme; Dress Rehearsal; McKillop's Geese; Aunt Maggie's Peach Orchard; Grouse of the Lugga; Adventures in the Night; Duck Hunters' Navy; As Advertised; A New Rifle Kills Clean; Gloves From Your Buck. Many great ads in color and black and white. Beautiful one-page color ad for Miller beer featureslovely lady sitting on the crescent moon in the night sky. Nice one-page black and red ad for Gaines Dog Meal (food). Nice color Santa ad on back cover for Camel cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Dower, Walter (Cover); Monroe Jr. C.E.; Fuller, Arthur D.; Halls, Richard; Dower, Walter; Hunt, Lynn Bogue; Golton, Glenn; Holeywell, A.C.; Woods, James G.; (ilustrador).…

Limited editions of 100 copies (parts 2-9) and 200 copies (part 1). Half-leather and boards, original printed wrappers bound in at end, folio, 45 cm, each part comprising 1 or more facsimile plates and accompanying commentary. Very Scarce. We have found only two auction records for full sets, from 1981 and 2013. A bound volume containing the complete set of 9 parts published in this series, namely : Part I: The Autograph of Charlotte Bronte by Thomas J. Wise; , Part II: The Autograph of Robert Burns by W. Craibe Angus and H.D. Colvill-Scott, Part III: The Autograph of Charles Dickens, by Thomas J. Wise; Part IV: John Keats, by H. Buxton Forman, Part V: Alexander Pope,by H. Saxe Wyndham; Part VI Matthew Prior by George A. Aitken, Part VII: George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron, by John Murray, Part VIII; Ludwig van Beethoven by J.S. Shedlock with Notes by Norman P. Cummings; and Part IX: Queen Victoria, by H. Saxe Wyndham. The Society of Archivists and Autograph Collectors was founded in 1893 but petered out for lack of support in 1900. As Munby noted in "The Cult of the Autograph Letter in England", Thomas James Wise was an active member of the Committee "which also included Walter B. Slater and Otto P. Rubeck, names familiar to students of the Wise saga." Bookplate of Thomas Parkin (1845-1932,of Fairseat, High Wickham, Hastings, Sussex) on front pastedown endpaper, leather worn and scraped, covers soiled and marked with faint circular blindstamp on front board, name and address of Parkin and small library stamp on verso of front free endpaper, fore-edges duststained and chipping to a blank prelim, contents otherwise Good.…