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1966rif. 21819Dunedin: Otago Museum. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Softcover. No signatures.; Second edition. 30 2 blank pages. Illustrated covers. Page dimensions: 238 x 175mm. Illustrated with 40 figures b&w photographic illustrations. Colour photographic illustrations on covers. "The Maori word 'hei' means a pendant preferably a neck pendant and 'tiki' means human. Hei-tiki therefore signifies a pendant or amulet in human form." - the opening sentences. . Otago Museum paperback
1864rif. 20961Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker. Good with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Small tears and chips to cloth at ends of spine and at tips of corners of boards. Hinges split and reinforced with red cloth tape. Signs of label removal from front endpaper. Contemporary owner's signature on title page "Geo C. Smythe / Coole Glehn illegible". ; x 2 xviii 2 282 2 blank pages chromolithograph frontispiece 3 chromolithograph plates 6 tinted lithograph plates 4 maps 1 with hand-coloured route of Col. Smythe; 2 folding 2 lithograph plates. 3 in-text engravings. Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine gilt sailing vessel illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 223 x 138mm. Pink coated endpapers. "The circumstances which led to my official mission to the Fiji Islands and an account of the voyage to them by way of Sydney and Auckland and on return to England by San Francisco and Panama will be found briefly related in the Introduction. Mrs. Smythe's Letters written originally to friends at home contain a personal narrative of our cruise aomng the Isaldns and of our subsequent sojourn at them." - from the Preface by W. J. Smythe. The illustrations are: Levuka Island of Ovalau; The 'Pegasus' towed to her Moorings; Interior of the Great Chapel at Mbau; Mbau; Chapel in process of erection at Vutia; Navatu; Meeting at Nanduri Mathuata; Meeting at Nakorotumbu; View of the Reef Lakemba; Fawn Harbour Vanua-levu; View from the Observatory Levuka; Cocoa-nut Trees in a Storm; View from Observatory looking towards the Wood. The 4 maps are: Map of Pacific Ocean; Map of Fiji Group; Map of Route from Navua to Namusi; Map or portion of Melanesia. ; 8vo . John Henry and James Parker hardcover
1873rif. 11666New York: The Tribune Association. Fair with no dust jacket. 1873. First Thus. Hardcover. Ex-library Riwaka Library a small 19th century provincial New Zealand library Riwaka is situated 5km from Motueka in the upper part of New Zealand's South Island. Rebound in late 19th Century half-calf library binding. Cloth lifting from boards. Hinges broken. Damp wrinkles to endpapers. One leaf nearly detached. A 1" tear to frontispiece. Creasing to frontispiece. Large 5" tear to one leaf. ; Uncommon in this edition. xv 1 17-624 pages frontispiece facsimile letter 2 plates 5 in-text illustrations an appendix of lxiii 1 pages. Lacking the half-title page. The appendix is found between pages 430 and 431 i.e. it precedes the section titled "Miscellanies". Half-calf binding. "The 'Recollections' as prepared by Mr. Greeley originally for a newspaper are in no full sense of the word an autobiography. Many incidents of his life he preferred or was obliged to leave unmentioned; and certain slight memoranda of his life subsequent to the period at which his own 'Recollections' close may have a value to the reader of this volume." - from the Appendix. Greeley was an editor of the New York Tribune. Selected contents: Adieu to New Hampshire; A Year by Lake Erie; My First Experiences in New York; Log-Cabin Days; Socialism; Margaret Fuller; Beggars and Borrowers; The Great Senators - The Compromise of 1850; The Slavery Controversy; My Farm; Two Days in Jail; A Ride across the Plains; The Rocky Mountains - The Great Basin; Utah - Nevada; The Sierra Nevada - The Yosemite - The Big Trees; Secession - How Confronted; Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis; Literature as a Vocation; Poets and Poetry; Reforms and Reformers. ; Ex-Library; 8vo . The Tribune Association hardcover
1928rif. BOOKS4352Hanover NH: Dartmouth Press. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. 1928. 8vo. 339 pp. . Dartmouth Press unknown
1870rif. BOOKS8106London UK: Lockwood & Co. FR/NO DUSTJACKET. 1870. 5th editon. Cloth. 4to. xxii 336 pp. 64 pl. cover rubbed bumped frayed spine torn writing on ffe page toning plate edges frayed . Lockwood & Co. hardcover
rif. W7-600YYHarper & Brothers Publishers. Good. Publication 1897. Hardcover is in very good condition. Books are lightly used. Map is included. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
rif. 1358485070.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 1359075011.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1934rif. 864H4567London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited. Fair. 1934. First English Edition. Hardcover. xiii 3 362 6 ads pages. Twenty-one black and white photographic plates. "Based on material collected by the World Committee for the Relief of the Victims of German Fascism." - subtitle. Madden describes this work as a "Marxist publication which concludes that the Nazis burned the Reichstag. An appendix claims to list 747 proven cases of murder committed by the Nazis. Above-average but not excessive wear and soiling to publisher's faded red cloth. Binding intact. The only markings begin at page 231 and continue to the end. Small handwritten fore-edge stickman images become moving pictures if you quickly flip through to the back of the book. Quite harmless actually although such a playful excercise seems oddly inconsistent with the content of the book. Dust jacket not included. Kehr & Langmaid 1090 Madden p.180 Weiner Library Catalogue No. 7 - 189.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Reichstag Fire Nazi Party Adolf Hitler Germany - History . John Lane The Bodley Head Limited hardcover
1952rif. 709840PN. New. 1952. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
rif. 4802Toronto: University of Toronto Pr. 1930. 2 Vols. Royal 8vo. viii288; 108 plates. Illus from drawings and photos. 635 vases pictured and described-largely the gift of Sigmund Samuel. Red cloth; spine lettering and cover vignette gilt. Ink name stamp on front free endpapers foxing to . prelims. Inner leaf split on both front hinges else a nice bright sound set. Toronto: University of Toronto Pr., 1930. hardcover
1929rif. 041669Sydney: Alfred James Kent Government Printer 1929. 286pp 20 bw plates 24 text figures 16 tables appendix. Or wraps. Front cover detached but present stamp of Royal Society Qld and cancelled stamp on front cover. Issued June 1929. Scientific report from the Australasian Antarctic expedition 1911-14 under the leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 4to. Alfred James Kent, Government Printer Paperback
1898rif. 032955New York: Harper & Brothers 1898. vii 679pp index bw ills map. Or decorated blue cloth. Prev owners bookplate on front pastedown prev owners name written on each edge. Lovely fresh copy of this single volume edition of Dr Nansen's arctic expedition on the Fram. First Single Volume Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Harper & Brothers Hardcover
1897rif. 33899NY: Harper & Bros. 1897. TWO VOLS. with. FOUR MAPS in pockets of the first volume. 3 smaller maps in rear pocket; fourth larger map in front pocket. Boards show moderate wear. Gilt. Both volumes are a bit rubbed at the base of their spines. 3/4 inch closed tear at top of Vol. II. Hinges sound. Owner's name and number at front flyleaves of both volumes. Pages mildly toned. A clean and sound set. Careful packing and fast efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. Please note: International and Domestic Priority orders for this item will require additional shipping. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Harper & Bros. Hardcover
1892rif. 10431London Printed at Chiswick Press 1892. HB NODJ ISSUED 1892 1st edition with colophon on Last pageSoft Light Brown Tweed with White Vellum Leather Spine with Gold Gilt Decorations & Titles NF/VG AS-IS NODJ Minor Cover Rub & Scuff Minor Soil Spine Some Fox 194 pgs Interior Nice Tight Clean . First Edition. Hard Cover. London Printed at Chiswick Press hardcover
1930rif. 431G2248Ottawa: Department of the Interior Government of Canada 1930. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 130 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Thirty-nine reproductions of black and white photos. Fifteen maps four of which fold out. Heavily worn. Prior owner's lavishly handwritten details upon first blank leaf. Covers almost loose. Taped repairs to spine. Contains summaries of the work done 1882-1928 by various expeditions Church of England missions the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Dept. of the Interior and Geological Survey of Canada in opening up the country and providing new maps and information. AB 2751. Department of the Interior, Government of Canada Paperback
1847rif. 269466Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1847. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good hinges and gutters cracked leather spine ends chipped with some minor loss leather on covers and spine scuffed lightly worn cover corners library bookplate and tiny writing in ink on front pastedown title plate glued to front fly paper glued to rear pastedown light water stains on page edges small line in pen on second free end paper. 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Carey and Hart hardcover
1969rif. 41668New York NY: Harry N. Abrams Inc. 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. Out of Print. Includes cloth slip-case. Includes 172 illustrations 151 plates in full color. Text by Enrique Lafuente Ferrari. Appendix by Jose Manuel Pita Andrade. Translated by Robert Erich Wolf. Teal cloth boards with white-embossed titles along spine and front cover. Minor shelfwear to DJ: light rubbing along edges. Light rubbing along cloth board edges. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. Heavier scuffing along edges and covers of slipcase with some ink marking on sides. Slipcase is in Good condition. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Hardcover
1709rif. 751196 191 1 ii 128 pages dedicated to Sir Francis Child Printed by J. Barber to be sold by S.Keble, B. Tooke, and D. Midwinter hardcover
1917rif. 46074New York Historical Society hardcover
rif. MASTER304949ILONDON: PRINTED FOR THE RAY SOCIETY. VG/G 2 VOLUME SET PUB. 1957/1959. FAINT STAINS TO DJS. Pages: 1348. . HARDCOVER. DJS EDGEWORN WITH SMALL CHIPS & TEARS IN MYLAR WRAPS. ALL PAGES CLEAN BINDINGS TIGHT. . PRINTED FOR THE RAY SOCIETY hardcover
rif. NH234Printed for the Town of Hanover by the Dartmouth Press 1st edition 1928. hbk 339pp illustr photos and folding-map at rear rough-cut pages no dj as issued crisp clean forest green cloth boards with gilt titles very faint indentation on rear board now in custom acetate jacket otherwise an excellent clean tight bright unmarked copy almost as new Printed for the Town of Hanover by the Dartmouth Press, 1st edition 1928 hardcover
1913rif. 65311Stirling: Eneas Mackay 1913. Cocked and shaken gilt top edges boards very lightly rubbed and discoloured frontis. unfortunately detached along with tissue guard but extant. Light foxing to closed edges and endpapers browned else pp clean and bright. Second Edition. Cloth. Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo. Eneas Mackay Hardcover
rif. Lath97aTown of Hanover/Dartmouth Press 1928. hbk 1st edition 339pp. no dj as issued pebbled green cloth with gilt titles illus. 8 photographs and map untrimmed long foreedge an exceptionally fine clean tight crisp copy now in acetate jacket from the collection of Edward Lathem longtime director of the Dartmouth College Libraries Town of Hanover/Dartmouth Press, 1928 hardcover
rif. 9559International Book House Ltd. HBNO DJ no date Early 1st edition thus Brown Cloth with darkening to edges of Cover & to pgs edges at top Interior Nice Tight Clean with few pgs darkened near top VG/VG AS-IS NODJ. Hard Cover. International Book House Ltd hardcover
