henry schaffer (5 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. ISSN # 0440-2316. From the collection of Robert Hershon.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: very_good. This books is in Very good condition. There may be a few flaws like shelf wear and some light wear.

Condición: Wie neu. Eight volumes (bound in five). 19 cm x 25.5 cm. Vol.5-6 (1907-1908) 423 pages; Vol.7-8 (1909-1910), 349 pages; Vol.9-10 (1911-1912) 474 pages; Vol.11 (1913) 250 pages.; Vol.12 (1914) 349 pages. Numerous monochrome illustrations and many fold-out maps throughout the periodical. Hardcover / Buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt Insignia of The Alpine Club on lower spine. [Original wrappers bound within]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Text-block edges dust-toned with age. Interiors bright and clean. Includes, for example, the following: Professor Mark Jefferson - 'The Distribution of People in South America,' Vol.V, No.3 (July, 1907) / Mary T.S. Schäffer [that is: Mary Schäffer Warren] - 'Among the Sources of the Saskatchewan and Athabasca Rivers,' Vol.VI, No.2 (April, 1908) / Dr. Ellsworth Huntington, 'The Relation of Afghanistan to Its Neighbors,' Vol.VI, No.4 (Oct.1908) / Professor Emory R. Johnson - 'The Conservation Movement,' Vol.VI, No.4 (October, 1908) / C.J Blanchard - Statistician United States Reclamation Service, 'Reclaiming The Desert,' Vol.VII, No.1 (January, 1909) / Henry G. Bryant - 'Notes of An Early American Arctic Expedition,' Vol.VII, No.3 (July,1909) / Eugene Van Cleef, 'Climatic Influences in the Economic Developments of Australia,' Vol.VIII, No.4 (October, 1910) / Charles A. Gilchrist, 'The Recent Volcanic Eruption in the Philippines,' Vol.IX, No.3 (July, 1911) / Arthur Purdy Stout, 'The Penetration of Yun-Nan,' Vol.X, No.1 (January, 1912) / John L. Cochrane, 'Conservation of Human Life in the Coal Fields of Pennsylvania,' Vol.X, No.2 (April, 1912) / Dora Keen, 'The First Expedition to Mt Blackburn,' Vol. X No.3 (July, 1912) / Henry G. Bryant, 'An Exploration in Southeastern Labrador,' Vol. XI, No.1 (January, 1913) / Geo G. Chisholm, 'Malthus and Some Recent Census Returns,' Vol.XI, No.1 (January, 1913) / Walter Woodburn Hyde, 'The Monasteries of Meteora and Greek Monasticism,' Vol.XI, No.3 (July, 1913) / Annie B. McConnell, 'Alone in the African Bush,' Vol.XII, No.1 (January, 1914) / Walter S. Tower, ' A Journey Through Argentina,' Vol.XII, No. 3 (July 1914) / Joseph Partsch, 'The Geographical Conditions of the Defense of Central Europe,' Vol.XIII, No.1 (January, 1915) / Herbert L. Bridgman, 'Recent Polar Exploration,' Vol.XIII, No.1 (Januar, 1915) / Walter Woodburn Hyde, 'The Mountains of Greece,' Vol.XIII, No.2 (April 1915) etc. The Geographical Society of Philadelphia was set up in 1891. the Society has supported significant expeditions such as Robert E. Peary's 1902 expedition to the North Pole and Ernest Shackleton's exploration of Antarctica in 1910. (Source: Geographical Society).

Newspaper. Five issue run, various pagination, folded tabloid newspapers on heavy white newsprint, poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, mild toning else very good. Early T.C. Boyle precedes his first book "Descent of Man".