Newcomb rev (13 résultats)

Decorative Cloth. Etat : Fair. First edition.. An original copy, still useful. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 479 pages with intertextual illustrations, decorated gray cloth. A fair copy only but the exact printing is uncertain because the title page as well as pages #15-16 (a portion of the contents listing) missing, boards are worn through at corners, cover cloth soiled, back strip cloth is fraying, hinges cracked but secure, binding shaken, and, paper moderately yellowed and with scattered foxing throughout. Still a good reference reading copy but not worth re-binding. Sold as is. …

Small octavo hardcover (G+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No date (circe 1855). 24mo. hardcover in marbled paper covered boards over maroon half leather spine lettered in gilt. 144 pp. Full page and vignette engravings and decorated chaper headers. About very good, 19th century Sunday School bookplate front pastedown, wear to the edges and tips, some scuffing to the spine, fingering to the pages. Collection of short, instructinal tales for girls.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Poor Condition. COVERS DETACHED. Hardcover. SCARCE ORIGINAL 1854 PRINTING. Ex-Library with usual markings: catalogue sticker on spine, stamps on endpapers. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show significant shelf wear, rubbing and scuffing to corners and edges, COVERS DETACHED BUT PRESENT. Hinges cracked, pages remain bound together tightly. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Believed First Edition. 258pp, lacks dust wrapper, prize plate and previous owners details to front paste down, no other inscriptions, undated but believed late Nineteenth century. Decorative boards are rubbed to edges and corners with some significant areas of soiling. Good condition internally, little reading wear, hinges are slightly loose, considerable spotting to front and rear end papers but text is much less affected. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.…

Etat : Used - Good. Good hardback. Not dated; earliest was 1873; bookplate on front pastedown showing 1883. green cloth with decorative gilt lettering on front board and spine; beveled edges; corners & head and foot of spine all heavily worn; spine dulled; page edges darkened & fingerprints on end papers; binding tight.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good.

Reprint. Inscription; front hinge cracked but tight; some scattered light foxing; spine browned & bumped; cloth a little faded. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in original violet cloth with gilt; a Used - Very Good. VG hardback in original violet cloth with gilt; a.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 270 pages plus ads. Bookplate on front paste-down, otherwise a nice copy in the original cloth binding. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 270 pages plus ads. In the original brown binding. Handsome bookplate on front paste-down. Book.

Etat : Good. Frontispiece by Dickes. 160x102mm decorated green cloth with decorative gilt cover and extra gilt pictorial spine (tips sl.worn/rubbed) All Edges Gilt 258pp. Prize inscription to Ada Smith from Netherton Wesleyan Sunday School 185 [sic prob 1875] a few signs of use but tight, square and neat. *Behaviour at school, table, family worship, keeping the Sabbath, household etc. 1 volume. Hardcover.…

Leather. Etat : Very Good. An early example of this illustrated account of the ill-fated expedition to the North Pole undertaken by the Jeannette, and of the survivors of its wreck. An early edition of this work, which was first published the year prior.The "Jeannette" was the vessel chosen by James Gordon Bennett to sail for the north pole via the Behring Sea, on an expedition led by Lieut. George DeLong. When the ship was crushed by ice, only a few of the party survived to reach safety.This is a popular narrative of the expedition, edited from DeLong's journals by Ray Lee Newcomb, and with an introduction from Rev. W. L. Gage.Illustrated with a frontispiece, numerous vignettes and full page illustrations, and seven maps and plans. Collated, complete.In a full calf binding, with endpapers renewed.Former bookseller's inscription to a front blank.With the bookplate of Captain Richard Campbell to the front pastedown. He served on submarines before becoming a specialist in hydrographic surveying, a skill which took him around the world including Antarctica aboard the HMS Endurance. During the Falklands War he led the conversion of deep ocean survey vessel HMS Hydra into a hospital ship, which transported wounded personnel to Uruguay. For this significant contribution, he was appointed OBE. In a full calf binding, with endpapers renewed. Significant rubbing to back strip and board perimeters. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown. Inscription to a front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd handling mark. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). book.…

hard cover. Etat : Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. Hartford, CT:American Publishing Company. 1882. 1st edition. 479pp. Illustrated. Hardcover.  Decorated boards soiled and shelfworn, with silver still bright on front cover but dulled/darkened on spine strip.  With wear along edges, spine ends beginning to fray, and edge points gently bumped and worn to boards.  Page edges soiled.  Internally end-pages lightly age-toned with a previous owners name in ink on 1st free end-page, otherwise, aside from an occasional smudge or spot of very slight foxing scattered throughout, a very good, clean copy.  The binding is tight with hinges intact.  *"With Graphic Descriptions of Arctic Siberia, The Lena and its Delta, the Native and Exiled Inhabitants of the Country, etc;and Mr. Newcomb's narrative of a winter overland journey from the arctic ocean to St. Petersburg. Also an account of the Jeannette search expeditions, their discoveries, the burning of the Rogers, etc, etc.".title page.…