kites (16 resultados)

Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. (1962). Yellow cloth in dust jacket with light wear and soil. Instructions, diagrams and plans for making different styles and shapes of kites. Size: 8vo.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condición: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated with photographs. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Pearsons Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Original publisher's paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: 286pp. Fine copy.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condición: Very Good. Rotch explains how specially designed kites are used to gather meteorological data at altitude, with three plates illustrating equipment and flight arrangements. 9 Pages, 3 plates. 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: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Smithsonian Institution; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condición: Very Good. 7 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from the Critical Review. 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: 12 x 21 cms. Category: Critical Review; Printed before 1800; Special Features. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condición: Very Good. Rotch's account of high-level meteorological observations made with kite trains at Blue Hill, describing the instruments carried aloft and the data obtained. Plates illustrate the apparatus and ascent methods. 8 Pages, 3 plates. 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: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Smithsonian Institution; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Gilt-stamped green cloth; 8vo; 108pp; illustrated with b/w photo frontispiece plus 13 other full-page photos by Courtlandt Kites; green photographic dust jacket; printed at the Springfield Offset & Printing Company. A look at sporting life in the early 20th century in and around Springfield, Massachusetts, located along the Connecticut border. He fished for trout primarily and hunted grouse, woodcock duck, quail, and rail, as well as shooting coon. Book is in VG condition with bump to tail of spine, internally clean. The uncommon jacket is in good condition with some minor edge chipping and soiling to back panel. Still an attractive copy of an uncommon book as the OCLC locates only the copy at the University of New Hampshire.

Condición: Like New. Robin Scalcs; Eley Ilustrador. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Gilt-stamped green cloth; 8vo; 108pp; illustrated with b/w photo frontispiece plus 13 other full-page photos by Courtlandt Kites; green photographic dust jacket; printed at the Springfield Offset & Printing Company. A look at sporting life in the early 20th century in and around Springfield, Massachusetts, located along the Connecticut border. He fished for trout primarily and hunted grouse, woodcock duck, quail, and rail, as well as shooting coon. Book is in VG condition with former owner's address label affixed to front free endsheet internally clean. The uncommon jacket is in good condition with some minor edge chipping and light discoloration to back panel. Still an attractive copy of an uncommon book as the OCLC locates but 2 copies at the University of New Hampshire and Washington State University.

paperback. Condición: Good. Paperback. Number of Pages: 18 Pages. Language: English. This book recounts the history of the development of Chinese kits and describes different types of kits. their special features and their relations to Chinese folk customs. The book is illustrated with 230 fine plates. including pictures of the most representative kites from different regions in China.

Stratton Air Engineering, Los Alamitos (um 1960/80), 24 S., Okart., etwas gebräunt (Englisch).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 4° - 346 pp. English and japanese text. Mainly illustrated with color reproductions. Book is pristine while dust jacket is very good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Green cloth. Signed: "To Henry D. Learned, With the best wishes of the author. Clifford L. Kites, March 1, 1951." One corners has a slight bump, spine is sunfaded a bit, news clip shadow on pages 22-23, hint of wear to corners. otherwise a very nice copy, clean and attractive, with a solid binding and clean pages. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Springfield Offset & Printing Co., Springfield, 1951. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 5.75" x 8.75". 108 pp. Green cloth. A previous owner has pasted a color picture of a fly fishing scene from a magazine, on the endpaper. Stories and poems of fishing for trout, and shooting duck, grouse, woodcock, snipe, rail, quail and other game in western Massachusetts. "I stood at the head of the pool, and without moving took out sixteen trout on a Parmachenee Belle fly, just as fast as I could take them off the hook. They were coming so fast, I lost all count of how many I had caught, and not wishing to run over the limit then of twenty-five, I waded ashore to count them.and found that I had twenty-one trout". Very good in very good wrapper.

Stuttgart, Württembergischen Verein für Handelsgeographie/ Museum für Länder- und Volkenkunde, 1914, 27 text-pag., 12 coloured plates with illustrations, b/w illustrations, original colour-illustrated stapled wrappers, quarto (26,8 x 18,4 cm.). = Rare illustrated short history of the paper kite and the flying-test in Japan through the ages, or on Japanese paper dragons as they are often called. Title-page with neat former owner's blindstamp, else in impeccable condition.

4to. [40 pp (unpaginated).], printed on Hammermill color Copy Paper, with numerous linoleum stamp plates printed using Daniel Smith Relief ink printed on Masa Paper, folded origami kite and sample string tipped-in from traditional Japanese cotton flying line. Punch sewn softcovers of Tairei paper, flyleaves of Kinwashi Paper, sewn with kite line, and decorated with hand-shaped bamboo, w/ Daphne paper envelope, printed labels on both, NF/NF, signed on colophon by artist/author. First edition, stated, of this very scarce artist's book, presented by the Drachen Foundation to promote and increase the knowledge and appreciate of Japanese kites, and kitemaking techniques. Murosako is well-known within the kite community for her beautiful kites using bamboo and varieties of handmade papers, made into startling paper shapes, often with insect wing, bettle shell, or vegetable motifs. No copies located in Worldcat.