John w slater (85 resultados)

Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Trade Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 20 # 104 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1952. Contains stories by John W Vandercook (The Challenge), Arthur Train (Monsieur Donaque), Erle Stanley Gardner (In Round Figures), Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), (The Pigeon Woman), John Steinbeck (The Poor Pirate), Selwyn Jepson (Letter of the Law), J S Fletcher (Mr Mann of London), and others. Light wear at the edges with rubbing to the spine hinges. Very small loss at the bottom of the spine. Script "c" written in black at the top left of the front cover. Vertical crease toward the left of the rear cover. Browning to the pages. A good copy. George Salter (cover) (ilustrador).…

HARDCOVER. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hardcover edition. later printing, 349pp, octavo. signed by McCain on bookplate. tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. (NAP). Text iin English, but of course the inscriptions are in Spanish. A clean, solid copy with tight binding and square, uncreased spine. No marks. Corners bumped, else little wear. Label on back cover. B&W photos (ilustrador).

Condición: New. In English.

paperback. Condición: Very Good -. None as issued. 2nd. Clean, solid copy with unmarked text. Cover has some surface dings, bends, and moderate edge wear. Binding is tight and square; no creases to spine or cover. Second edition. We are unable to ship oversize books and multi-volume sets internationally.…

Soft Cover. Condición: Very Good+. [xvi], 157pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B&w illustrations (ilustrador).

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Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xiv, 352pp. No dust-jacket. Binding very slightly cocked. This is not offensive. Volume bound in original brown cloth, with gilt and black lettering to spine and front cover. Decoration in gilt to front cover. Several minor bumps and tiny wear spots to covers. Markings in red and black ink to less than 20 pages, along with several tiny, faint spots to interior. Binding firm. Certainly a good, clean working copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Condición: New.

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Condición: New. In English.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with slight wear.

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Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. Pragmatism and Purpose: Essays Presented to Thomas A. Goudge. Book.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Reprint. 196 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding in green, cloth-covered boards. Light wear to edges and corners. Text block edges and inside pages are slightly toned, but clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has some edge wear, including a couple of short closed tears. Lightly soiled. Price clipped. A classic Canadian novel which first appeared in 1933 and tells the story of an Irish orphan growing up in Ontario in the 1840's. Includes biographical notes by Dorothy Bishop. Illustrated by Alan Daniel (ilustrador). …

Couverture rigide. Condición: Bon. third impression, 194 p. ex-library book (bookplate, loan sheet, card pocket). Publisher's binding a bit wor, Scotch tape's marks on rear pastedown.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 5th or later Edition. In gilt titled red cloth, corners & edges rubbed. Spine, gilt titles, edges worn, cracked at head. DW tape repaired. Internally, half title, coloured frontis, [4], (v-ix), [1], 707 pp, [1], [4] adverts, 24 pls (including 4 coloured), 300 facsimile reproductions, no dated but c1929, lower joint a little weak. 6th edition. (285*221 mm). Pages 87-705 contain a dictionary of the more important engravers and their works.…

Condición: New. 2006 reprint by Rediscovery Books SB 2 VolumesPublished Price £38 The voyages in question were those undertaken during the long search for Sir John Franklin's missing Arctic Expedition to find the North West Passage. This one, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, sought to draw a line under this great nineteenth century mystery, although the results were not conclusive. This extensive work provides a shivering insight into conditions on the expedition, which, at the time, was seen as a pinnacle of modernity and the author takes great pride that not one man was lost in the search. With contributions from a variety of expedition members, the volume contains substantial information on the natural history of the region. Book.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; 422 pp. ; 24 cm. ; LC:PN6014.G7 1986; ISBN:0671629697 ; OCLC: 13270864 ; LCCN: 86005687 ; stiff paper wrappers ; paperback ; Contents: House opposite / N K Narayan - Working for a living . Alice Munro - A house divided / David Walton - Thieving / Norman Rush - Cathay / Steven Milhauser - Lost sons / James Salter - The old left / Daniel Menaker - Saks Fifth Avenue / Leon Rooke - Arcadia / Charles Dickinson - Hiding /Susan Minot - Claire's Lover's Church / Teri Ruch - Shoe / Heidi Jon Schmidt - The Nuisance / Penelope Gilliatt - Harry and Sylvia and Sylvia and Son On / Welch D. Everman - Poems : Narcissus explains / Richard Howard - Babel aboard the Hellas International express / Amy Clampitt - Effet et Neige / John Hollander - Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Ground / Donald Finkel - The biographies of solitude / Irving Feldman - Telemetry before impact / George Starbuck - The thought that counts / Tom Disch - Memoirs: Sounds / Luis Brunuel - Heatherdown / Alexander Cockburn - Lost property / Ben Sonnenberg - Last home holiday / Dan Jacobson - Kwi-kwi, kwa-kwa / Michael Train - A late debut / Frank Hauser - Poems: Work-in-Progress / Djuna Barnes - Fringecups / Sandra McPherson - Moorhen / William Logan - Emigre / W. S. Merwin - The partisan / Nicholas Christopher - On reading a writer's letters / Mary Jo Salter - Articles: Translating Proust / Terence Kilmartin - Spying in Spain and Elsewhere / Claud Cockburn - For George Orwell / Christopher Hitchens - Revolutionary requirements, etc / Dorothy Gallagher - The culture gulch of the Time / Joh L. hess - Dishonoring Partisan Review / Murray Kempton - Notes on selling out / Dwight Macdonald ; stamp of The Carter Center, Atlanta on front endpaper ; remainder mark at bottom of textblock, else VG. Book. …

Condición: New. In English.

Softcover. Condición: As New. No Dust Jacket. 2006 reprint by Rediscovery Books; 387 pages, illustrated, maps drawings in text. Previous owners signature and date verso front cover otherwise as new, appears unread. The voyages in question were those undertaken during the long search for Sir John Franklin's missing Arctic Expedition to find the North West Passage. This one, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, sought to draw a line under this great nineteenth century mystery, although the results were not conclusive. This extensive work provides a shivering insight into conditions on the expedition, which, at the time, was seen as a pinnacle of modernity and the author takes great pride that not one man was lost in the search. With contributions from a variety of expedition members, the volume contains substantial information on the natural history of the region. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN/EAN: 9781905748174. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3700.…

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Reprint of the First Edition. First reprint of the true first edition, published January, 1924. (First published April, 1917). Twenty-three photo colour and sepia illustrations of birds by Oliver G. Pike. W. Bickerton, J.T. Newman, Herbert Lazenby. Also colour plates of nesting places at the British Museum, South Kensington including full-plate frontispiece showing: 'Kingfishers and nest in river bank from case in British Museum, South Kensington'. ***Good in blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt titles and blind border to front board. Light stain affecting the gilt titles on the spine. Boards slightly rubbed, faded and marked. Edges of boards rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed and bumped. Small splits to cloth of tail of spine. Head and tail of spine frayed and rubbed. Contemporaneous owner's name in blue fountain pen ink: 'H.C. Oldfield ' to top of front pastedown. Light unobtrusive scattered foxing to end-pages and outer margins of pages and fore-edge of text-block. Most pages clean. 220mm x 148mm. 256 pages including index to rear. ***Contents; Preface; Bird Life in January: Hard Times, Calendar; Bird Life in February: Mere and Fen, Calendar; Bird Life in March: The Month of Awakening, Calendar; Bird Life in April: The Summer Migrants, Calendar; Bird Life in May: May on the Moors, Calendar; Bird Life in June: The Leafy Month, Calender; Bird Life in July: Sea-Fowl Haunts, Calendar; Bird Life in August: Mountain and Moor, Calendar; Bird Life in September: The Sacrifice in Game, Calendar; Bird Life in October: Seed-time and Harvest, Calendar; Bird Life in November: The Home of a Naturalist, Calender; Bird Life in December: Wild Fowl on the Coast, Calendar; Index. List of illustrations: Kingfishers and their nest in river bank (from case in British Museum, South Kensington; Birds attracted by Coco-nuts; Little Grebe on Nest; Robin's Nest in Kettle; Peewit and her Nest; Kentish Plovers and their Nesting-place (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Long-tailed Tits and Nests (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Bullfinch on Nest; Nest of Chaffinch; Peregrine Falcon and Young (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Nest of Grasshopper Warbler; Linnet's nest in Rose Bush; Red Warbler Feeding Young Cuckoo; The Young Barn Owls; Young Nightjars; Stock Doves and Nest (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Puffins Feeding their Young (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Pied Wagtails (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Black-Throated Diver; A Brood of Young Kestrels; Group of Black-headed Gulls; A Sitting Woodcock; Herons and Wild Ducks. ***A nicely illustrated and informative book of the period. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Oliver G. Pike. W. Bickerton, J.T. Newman, Herbert Lazenby (ilustrador).…