King john compiler (8 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: As New. * Cover has some minor shelf wear. * Like-New inside and Out! Clean & Crisp Pages. (Email for more info/pics. Fiona King (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 88 pages, many illustrations by John King, inscribed by the compiler ('Mary'), hardback, a very good copy in a very good dust-jacket [1870948114]. John King (ilustrador). Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condición: As New. Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir?s most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm at the top of a tree to death-defying falls on Alaskan glaciers, the renowned outdoorsman?s exploits are related in passages that are by turns exhilarating, unnerving, dizzying, and outrageous. Fiona King (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: New. Fiona King (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Endpapers are browned, with slight staining to rear endpapers. Spine is slightly faded. ; Copy owned by noted painter Helga V. Edge with her signature and Cooperstown, New York and London addresses written on the front free endpaper. Some other brief writing on that page.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. A collection of five different titles from the Observer's Pocket Book series. All uniformly bound in cloth of varying colour, with titles front and spine. All illustrated. 16mos. All volumes in generally very good condition, some are slightly pushed at spine ends, most have a little dust marking to the upper text block edge, and some have a previous owner's name or inscription internally, else are neat, clean bright and tight. All in glossy, illustrated dust wrappers, some lightly bumped on extreme edges, some price clipped and almost all a little shelf worn and sunned, faded on the spine. A mixture of editions and printings but all in the style of dust wrappers introduced in 1970 - glossy and laminated with a distinctive square, framed illustration - and prevalent until around 1980. Observer's Pocket books is a series of pocket-sized books published by Frederick Warne and covering topics such as hobbies, art, nature and history. The first in the series - British Birds - was published in 1937. The 99th title, the Observer's Book of Observer's Books was released in 1999 (by Peregrine Books) in a matching format. The series was rounded to 100 with the publication of Wayside and Woodland in 2003. Many of the titles have been revised, reprinted, updated and released in different dust wrappers over the years - it is estimated that there are some 800 variations - and have become collectible: the earlier numbers and rarer issues can be hard to find We have many books from the Observer Pocket Book series in stock and can offer generous discounts to those ordering more than one at a time. Please inquire. …

Presumed first edition (no direct statement but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 312 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket (as issued?). Pebbled black cloth; light rubbing to boards; residue from removed sticker at lower spine with some shallow overlap onto adjoining lower boards; slight dulling/flaking to front board and spine's stamping but all still easily legible. Some foxing to text block edges; past owner's name/address label affixed to front pastedown; interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. Laid-in at front endpapers is the author's promotional brochure/order form announcing the first printing of Volume III and reprintings of preceding Volumes I and II. With Preface, a few b/w plates, and Index. Features fourteen essays regarding various facets of regional history of which the more interesting titles are: "Some Economic and Social Aspects of the History of Cullman, Alabama" by John Clinton Bright; "An Early Fayette County Home" by Marguerite T. Callahan; "Recollections of Olden Days" by Bertha Massey King; Early History of Winston County, Alabama Schools" by Sallie P. West; "The Pursuit and Capture of Streight's Raiders" by John A. Wyeth; "Some Recollections of My Family" by Andrew Lee Massey; "From Oxcarts to Diesels: A History of Hanceville, Alabama" by Emmie Alldredge Smith; "The Civil War as Seen by Captain Isaac Jasper Rogers" by Charles E. Wilson; and "History of Marion County" by a Committee of School Teachers. Series compiler Carl Atwood Elliott (1913-1999) served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's northwestern 7th Congressional District from January 1949 to January 1965. {AL-Shelf#1}.…

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.