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Verlag: Andre Deutsch Ltd 18/06/1984, 1984
ISBN 10: 0233976434ISBN 13: 9780233976433
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton, 1929
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. 1929. Sixth Impression. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated by Robert Gibbings. B&W illustrations throughout. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front paste down. Some gutter cracking. Tape repair to gutter at p232. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine, with insect damage, staining and marking to boards. Small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends.
Verlag: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1111
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 438 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages are loose. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Markings to some pages. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Minor dog-eared corners. Rear free endpaper cut out. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Sticker to rear board.
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1947. Fourteenth Edition. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Robert Gibbings. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1947. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Beige 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. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
Verlag: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1927
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Robert Gibbins (illustrator). First edition. The second impression of this beautiful study of birdlife. The second impression published in October 1927.A beautifully illustrated work on birdlife. This work was written not intended to be for scientific value. It's purpose is to understand and appreciate the beauty of nature. The text is accompanied by intricate woodcuts by Robert Gibbings in the form of vignettes. These twenty one vignettes celebrate the beauty of the natural world from the animals to the process of observation. Bound in the original publisher's cloth. Externally generally smart. Fading to the boards. Rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Offsetting to the front pastedown. Pages bright and clean. All vignettes clean. Very Good. book.
Verlag: London; Hodder and Stoughton, 1927., 1927
Anbieter: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION (printed in same year as First). Octavo, pp. xii, 243, [1]. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and vignette to title page by Robert Gibbings. Finely bound by G. J. Sawyer in emerald green full morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine, gilt bird motifs to compartments and double gilt fillet to boards; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers and gilt dentelles. Spine lightly sunned; a little light foxing to textblock edge otherwise contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. A Near Fine copy in an uncommonly handsome binding. Sir Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Falloden (1862-1933) had a long career as a Liberal statesman; he was Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of the Great War and his posts included Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords and Ambassador to the United States. His off-duty pastimes included a passion for natural history,particularly ornithology; Grey was involved in the foundation of the British Trust for Ornithology, and this volume records his personal experiences and observations over a lifetime of interest in the subject.
Verlag: London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1934., 1934
Anbieter: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hard Cover. INSCRIBED BY BINDER. Third Popular Edition. Octavo, pp. xii, 305, [3]. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and vignette to title page by Robert Gibbings. Later craft binding in full bottle green morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to upper board and bird design in gilt over both boards and spine. Aeg, gilt dentelles and leather doublures and endpapers by Desmond Yardley. Spine lightly sunned, minor chip to lower edge of upper board (see photograph). Contents clean and bright with inscription to final blank to fore: "D. Yardley Rebound 1937 L.C.C. C.S.A.C.", with number 7 written above a crossed-through 9, all in the same hand. A Near Fine copy. Handsome binding by the widely admired craft binder H.J. Desmond Yardley (1905-72), whose skilled work was much in demand by collectors. Yardley began his binding career with music scores in the early 1930s, after which he studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (the C.S.A.C. of the inscription) and he was elected to the Guild of Contemporary Binders in 1956. Examples of his meticulous work may be seen at the British Library, V&A and Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels. An early "apprentice piece" by Yardley whilst at the Central School where he received tuition from William Matthews, George Frewin and Peter McLeish. Harrop, Dorothy A : Craft Binders at Work V H.J. Desmond Yardley, pp. 245-250 [1975 Book Collector].