Skaife s (137 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The cover has brown cloth with goldtone letters and a vignette. The three parts titles are Among the Insects, Among the Birds, and Under the Sea. Numerous, b/w photos and illustrations. In the story, the children are shrunk to be smaller than the insects, birds and sea life. Th…

Condición: Good. 1963. First Edition. 199 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue pictorial cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bump…

Condición: Good. Second Edition. 250 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear wi…

Condición: Fair. No edition remarks. 281 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are mildly tanned with minor foxing. Heavy tanning to endpapers. Missing front free endpapers. Heavy cracking to gutters and hinges. Pen drawings to front pastedown and endpapers. Mild w…

Condición: Fair. 1961. First Edition. 178 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and plates. Clean pages, illustrations and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscriptions to front past…

Condición: Good. 1963. First Edition. 199 pages. No dust jacket. Grey illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and plates. Clean pages, plates and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen markings to front free endpap…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Sydney Harold Skaife was an eminent South African entomologist and naturalist. This is the third of his stories for children. Dr.Tertius gives his grandchildren, Bunty and Bobby, a miniaturisation drug so that they can explore under the sea in a tiny submarine. Illustrated with "photograp…

217 x 139 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wraps; pp. 44; line drawings in text; black-and-white photographic portrait of the author; very light scattered foxing. Good condition. An absolutely fascinating series of radio lectures on ants and termites, by the greatest authority. The talks have such themes as "The Most Pernicious Ant…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Part 3 only. No edition or date stated. Publication of 92 pages. There is bold black lettering on the spine and on the front cover. The boards are in good condition. There is light foxing on the first and last pages. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shi…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 279 pages (complete). Dust jacket shelf rubbed, a bit torn and marked. Boards shelf rubbed and a bit insect damaged. Insect damage on front and back end pages. However, it is still in a very good condition, tightly bound and intact. Ex-library. Revised edition.Du…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. With an Introduction by Professor F. Clarke. Illustrated throughout by the Author. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Undated c1936?? Publication of 281 pages. The boards are are a little shelf rubbed and minor scuffed marks. On the early…

8vo; original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. viii + (ii) + 387, incl. index; plates, incl. colour; line drawings in text. Light wear to extremities; gift inscription to front pastedown; some foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. First edition of this natural history classic.…

Condición: Good. No Edition Remarks. 387 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Contains in-text monochromatic illustrations throughout. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards h…