cormack maribelle william alexander (16 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. (1) in parentheses on the last page, dj in mylar cover, price not clipped, prior owner name and bookplate, clean and tight.

Cloth. Etat : Good. No Jacket. The covers have moderate wear and light soiling, the spine has some stains, soiling and a couple of small marks from an ink pen. There is writing on the copyright page and soiling to the page edges and the text is clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Book issued in mustard cloth with brown titles and the image of a tiger on the front panel. 207 pages with many illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated by Henry J. Meloy. The dust jacket has been price clipped, and is nice with some wear to the edges. Selling quality books for over 35 years.

Etat : New. Justis, Lyle (illustrateur). SUPER FAST SHIPPING.

hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. Ex-library with typical library markings/labels. Binding tight, pages unmarked. Age-toned, some soil. Foxing inside covers. Cover scuffed, soiled, bumped corners, exposed boards. No dj. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Etat : New. Justis, Lyle (illustrateur). SUPER FAST SHIPPING.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Justis, Lyle (illustrateur). 6th Printing. Tan cloth boards are well-bound, soiled & rubbed from handling & age, a slight bowing. Textbox edge a bit dusty. Previous owner's name on front fly-leaf. Pages clean & sharp throughout.

Cloth. Etat : Near Very Good. Hilda Frommholtz (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Blue cloth hardcover with dark blue lettering, xiv pages, 298 pages, illustrated by Hilda Frommholtz, showing a few tiny pale specks on covers, very minor rub at spine ends, small bump at top edge rear cover near outer corner, generally a nice clean copy, complete dust jacket shows light soil and light wear at spine top, dust jacket spine very slightly faded, jacket is fairly nice, date on title page is 1941, number "1" on last page indicates first printing.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good Jacket. First Edition. Green Cloth Book In Unclipped Jacket Jacket has a bit of wear at corners and an abrasion to lower right front which affects most of one authors name. But overall a very nice copy in a Nice Jacket. historical novel regarding Prince Charles Edward Stuart trying to win the throne of England -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors.,

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Good condition with wear and markings.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hilda Frommholtz (illustrateur). 1st Edition. INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER on the front free endpaper as follows: "To my dear friends-- | Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey J. Hamlin | with the hope that they will | find time to read this new opus | somewhere in far away South | America. | And best wishes from the | Senior author. | Wm. P. Alexander | Wryelin [?] House | Williamsville, N.Y. | Dec. 1, 1941." FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xiv[2]1-298p. Frontispiece black and white drawing plus eight full-page black and white drawings, as well as black and white headpieces by Hilda Frommholtz. Blue cloth with darker blue letters on the front cover and the spine. Very minor wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, two corners and bottom of spine slightly bumped, cloth clean and bright, all illustrations present and in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket slightly soiled and somewhat tattered, but most all there and not price-clipped. Maribelle Cormack [1902-1984] was a museum director and children's author. She attended Cornell University, the Universities of Vienna and Geneva, and Brown University. She is known for her interests in nature and astronomy and held a weekly nature story hour for children. She once served as assistant to Professor William P. Alexander at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Her papers now reside at the University of Oregon. William P. Alexander became a member of the Cornell University faculty in 1915 where he taught agriculture and assisted Professor Anna Botsford Comstock, a pioneer in the nature-study movement. In 1920 he moved to the Museum of Buffalo Society of Natural Science to take care of their tension work. In addition scientific books, Alexander authored several books together with Maribelle Cormack. Hilda Frommholtz was a well known illustrator, including of The Sleepy Time Stories. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. First edition. An association copy, inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper: "To Dr. Clyde Fisher, with many thanks for the great pleasure his lecture gave me last Sunday, Maribelle Cormack." George Clyde Fisher was a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and then the first head of the Hayden Planetarium at the AMNH. As such a nice association association between museum leaders, as Cormack was the head of the children's department at the Park Museum in Providence, RI. Written for youth, this book tells the tale of a meadow mouse who enters a museum, whereupon all the animals in the dioramas come to life and tell the mouse about their life histories. With a brief preface by Anna Botsford Comstock and wonderful illustrations on every page by Henry J. Meloy. Orange cloth with black lettering and cat illustration on the front board. A very good plus copy with some fainting soiling and light sunning to spine, lacking the dust jacket.