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Best.-Nr. 217173Collection Guides JoanneParis, Hachette, 1863; in-12, 220 pages, ill. in et h.t., bibliographie, percaline bleue (reliure de l'éditeur). Qqs rousseurs, mouillure angulaire en fin d'ouvrage.
Best.-Nr. 217528Clermont-Ferrand, Monier, 1904 in-8, 86 pp., broché. Haut de la couverture découpé.
1966Best.-Nr. 33703San Francisco. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Postcard. Postcard for the Muddy Waters concert at the Fillmore Auditorium November 4-6 1966. Art by Wes Wilson. Near fine but for crease to upper left corner. City Lights Bookstore was one of the places tickets could be purchased. ; 4 5/8" x 7 7/8" . unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 123819Salem Massachusetts: The Essex Institute 1935. Softcover. VG- Some minor wear to wraps; A few pencil markings throughout. Plain brown stapled wraps; pp. 103-120; 3 bw plates. An article from the Essex Institute's now the Peabody Essex Museum historical collections file taken from Vol. LXXI No. 2 April 1935; The account of the home of a wealthy Chinese Mandarin merchant as told by Bryant Parrott Tilden a son of Boston. The Essex Institute paperback books
1987Best.-Nr. RROBBRE00MELWolfe 1987. Very Good. Roberts Ned H. Major. The Breech-Loading Single-Shot Rifle. Waters Kenneth L. Prescott AZ: Wolfe 1987. First edition. xix 333pp. Illustrated. 4to. Khaki cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Book condition: Very good with bottom corners gently bumped ghost tape marks to edges of pastedowns and faint crease to bottom corner of front free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with lightly rubbed bumped and creased edges a few one inch creased tears a couple of tiny losses and clear tape repair over foot of spine. Wolfe hardcover books
1967Best.-Nr. BL2333New Haven and London:: Yale University Press 1967. 1967. FIRST EDITION. Large 4to. xv 478 pp. Frontis. 14 illustrations including fold-outs 3 tables glossary index. Dark blue cloth blind stamped cover illustration gilt-stamped blue spine label dust-jacket; jacket worn. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Through a friendship that he developed with the wealthy American sportsman former wartime naval officer and book collector Henry C. Taylor Waters began his studies of the history of navigation. He published "The Rutters of the Sea" in 1967 and the "Art of Navigation in England and Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times" in 1958 books that Taylor had instigated as well as financially supported. In 1960 Waters became head of Navigation and Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum. There he played an important role in converting the Old Royal Observatory Greenwich into a museum in 1967. He served as secretary of the National Maritime Museum from 1968 to 1971 and then became deputy director from 1971 to 1978. Retiring from the civil Service in 1978 at the age of 67 he held two visiting professorships a Caird Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum and a fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library. Wikip. Extra postage will apply. Yale University Press, 1967. hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 529041New York: Harper & Row 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second edition. Octavo. 162pp. Near fine with a bit of wear and foxing to the topedge in very good rubbed dust wrapper with edgewear including short tears nicks and creases. Waters' facsimile inscription on the title page. With the ink owner Signature of Ellis B. Haizlip theater and television producer best known for the variety show SOUL!. Harper & Row hardcover books
1951Best.-Nr. 465440New York: Doubleday 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Moderate edgewear corners a bit bumped foredge toned very good in attractive very good dustwrapper with a stain on the rear flap. Doubleday hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 35916Chicago: Sage Books / The Swallow Press Inc 1972. Third edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 347pp. Octavo 22 cm Bright yellow cloth covered boards with the title stamped in black ink on the backstrip. The publisher's device is blind stamped on the front board. Near fine. The spine ends are bumped and there is very minor soiling on the bottom edges of the covers. Tanned pages. The dust jacket is in very good condition with mild rubbing and age-toning. The edges are lightly chipped and there is a short closed tear in the bottom edge. The spine is sunned. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. A reprint of Waters' dramatic and colorful biography of the paradoxical Stratton originally written in 1937. Sage Books / The Swallow Press Inc hardcover books
1984Best.-Nr. 573861Austin Texas: Thorp Springs Press 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New edition originally published in 1930 with new Foreword by the author. Fine in modestly rubbed very good dust jacket with a modest chip at the crown. Author's first novel. Thorp Springs Press hardcover books
1974Best.-Nr. 106712NY:: Hastings House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0803846681 . Second printing. Strip of offsetting on front free endpaper else very good in a very good a few short closed edge tears age toning dust jacket. . Hastings House, hardcover books
1883Best.-Nr. 394426New York: James W. Pratt 1883. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Olive green cloth printed paper spine label. Preliminary pages coming loose hinges cracked stamp on front pastedown spine darkened with label worn and ends frayed thus good only. James W. Pratt hardcover books
2006Best.-Nr. 8102London: Virago 2006. Limited issue of 1000 copies of the first edition signed by Waters on the limitation page as issued. Copy #423. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Upper board corner with small bump and tiny crease on the spine bottom edge; slipcase with bump to upper corner. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine slipcase. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Virago Hardcover books
1962Best.-Nr. 66007Great Britain: Neville Spearman Ltd. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. 247 pages tan cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. The copyright date on the copyright page has been marked out with black marker. Otherwise this is a nice copy. Very Good in a slightly soiled and edge chipped dust jacket. . Neville Spearman Ltd hardcover books
1897Best.-Nr. 67671London: Lawrence and Bullen Ltd. Good. 1897. Hardcover. #247 of 600 copies. 312 pages some untrimmed unopened. 11 1/2" x 7 3/4" red cloth covers with gilt stamping. The spine is sunned and toned. the covers show some discoloration and rubbing and fraying at the spine ends and cover corners. The front hinge is cracked and the contents show some light toning- otherwise this is a complete bright copy. Good. . Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 2760Martha's Vineyard The Indian Hill Press 1998
1960Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no flaws save slightly faded spine with creaseless covers and spine, sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. 297 pages.
Best.-Nr. 2391STRASBOURG les Editions UNIVERSITAIRES de STRASBOURG 1934, in4 broché,152p.+tables;facs similés des pages de titres d'ouvrages anciens sur les eaux minérales médicales , publicités médicales ht , rare , non coupé
Best.-Nr. 37030Lyon, Bosc, 1946, in 8° broché, 56 pages ; bibliographie in-fine ; papier jauni ; couverture ternie. RARE.
1934Best.-Nr. 11838Lyon, Les Editions "Provincia" - Petit In-4°, broché, couverture souple coquille d'oeuf titrée en bleu et noir, XIV planches ( fontaines, puits, plans légendés ...etc .) VII-122 pages, 11f ( dont index), bord des plats un peu dentelés sans plus et bel exemplaire sur papier couché .
1990Best.-Nr. 071001United States: Stanford University Press 1990. Hard covers in clean tidy condition with a very good dust jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stanford University Press Hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. 822181Published by Moss Rose Press 1981. 1st edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by Waters Mercedes. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. B/w illustrations. Limited to 120 copies. Red cloth. Originally published in shorter form in 1970 and 1977. Some minor foxing to outer page edges and endpapers. Dustwrapper is scuffed and lightly sunned. Published by Moss Rose Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. A9781166500023New. unknown
Best.-Nr. B9780804010467Paperback / softback. New. The novels and nonfiction work of writer Frank Waters stand as a monument to his genius and to his lifetime quest to plumb the spiritual depths that he found for himself in the landscape and people of his beloved Southwest. paperback
Best.-Nr. B9780804010474Paperback / softback. New. The Wild Earth's Nobility is the first of Frank Waters's semiautobiographical novels in the Pikes Peak saga. Here in a frontier town in the shadow of the commanding mountain the Rogier family settles near an age-old route of migrating Native Americans. In an era of prospecting silver strikes and frenzied mining Joseph Rogier becomes a successful building contractor rears a large family and is gradually overwhelmed by the power of the great peak. In Waters's visionary prose the story becomes a mythic journey to reconcile instinct and reason consciousness and intuition and the powerful emotions of a family struggling with its own dreams and human limitations. Frank Waters 1902-1995 one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction. Of Pike's Peak 1971 the Chicago Daily News wrote "It is a product of maturity written with a sustained strength and beauty of style rarely found in fiction today." Pike's Peak is composed of three condensed novels: The Wild Earth's Nobility Below Grass Roots and The Dust within the Rock. paperback
