Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1842124692 ISBN 13 : 9781842124697
Vendeur : Paradise Found Books, Chico, CA, Etats-Unis
Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Light edge wear, faint crease on rear cover, rear cover and pages starting to yellow, clean copy.
Edité par Phoenix Press - Orion, New York, NY, 2005
ISBN 10 : 1898800499 ISBN 13 : 9781898800491
Vendeur : Renaissance Books, Riverside, CA, Etats-Unis
Soft cover. Etat : New. No Jacket. 2005 re-issue of book first published in 1978. Story of a civilization in which emperors are larger than life, bureaucrats are satirized, nature is adored, and war is reviled. Explains the political process with emperor at the top and district magistrates are at the bottom of a bureaucratic structure, and how political, philosophical, social and aesthetic experiences are reflected in imaginative writing. Illustrated with b/w photos and line drawings. Notes, Further Reading, Index. Published @ 8.99 Pounds.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 1950
Vendeur : Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : G+. No Jacket. 253 pp, the book and contents are clean nad tight, the endpapers have a name and date written on them, covers are tight and have a little light soil.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 1940
Vendeur : Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good +. No Jacket. Phoenix Press, New York. 1940. Hardcover. Edition/ Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good +; faded tint on textblock top; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with green lettering on the spine; green stag on the front board. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split 396 pp 8vo. This is a book of 253 poems by some of the best poets in the US who were writing for the newspapers and magazines. The poetry was supposed to be somewhat "suggestive" but by today's standards it is very tame and not ribald at all. It does possess a fine collection of classic prose that serves to teach young people the beauty of rhyme and meter. A clean very presentable copy.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 1937
Vendeur : Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. 256 pages. Age tanning to pages, wear and tear around the edges of the boards, small stains throughout. Nothing that interferes with reading. Evidence of paper having been glued to back inside cover, but removed.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1950
Vendeur : Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller, Pleasant Prairie, WI, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good +. First Edition, First Printing. Original price of $2.00 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket has archival repaired tears and small edge chips now protected in paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking.
Edité par Phoenix Press Publishers, New York, NY, 1943
Vendeur : Second Edition Books, Butte, MT, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good -. Etat de la jaquette : Good-. Ex-library; with usual library markings. Binding tight, smudging throughout interior. Red boards worn to corners, bumped at spine ends. Pictorial dj preserved in mylar except for 3/4 of back; glued to boards; dj warped from water damage; worn along edges and flap folds; soiling and shelf wear, spine faded. Rough cut pages. "The scene of this action-packed Western is the Cherokee Strip in the days when Oklahoma was not yet a sate, and the only law of the land was: "Draw first and jaw after." - from dj flap. 256 pages.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 1951
Vendeur : Second Edition Books, Butte, MT, Etats-Unis
Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Signed and inscribed by author on first title page, "To- Dr & Mrs J.F. Lhotka, Sr. two helpful people J.W. Pelkie." Binding tight; interior clean and bright. Blue cloth-covered boards with orange lettering on spine; minor bumping at corners and spine ends. Unclipped dust jacket in mylar; chipping at corners and spine ends. Although he was raised like Mike Apperson's son, Lon must contend with Mike's estranged family when they inherit the ranch after Mike dies without a will. 222pp. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 1948
Vendeur : BookScene, Hull, MA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Phoenix Press, New York, NY 1948. First Edition. 1st Printing. 256 pages. Nice Firm copy ! Jacket has edge wear, short tears, missing chips. Previous owner name. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 5986.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 1949
Vendeur : BookScene, Hull, MA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Phoenix Press, New York, NY 1949. 253 pages. Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner name. Jacket has edge wear, short tears. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 5990.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 1949
Vendeur : BookScene, Hull, MA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Phoenix Press, New York, NY 1949. First Edition. 1st Printing. 256 pages. Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner name. Jacket has edge wear, short tears. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 5986.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 1946
Vendeur : Small World Books, Rochester, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Good +. Etat de la jaquette : No DJ. 1st Edition. Unmarked, solid copy. Red covers with black lettering on spine. Pages tanned to light brown from age. Paper over board inside gutter by title starting with light breaks. Moderate soiling and age spots from age, shelfwear. Rare title.
Edité par NEW YORK NY PHOENIX PRESS PUB 1940., 1940
Vendeur : JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
NEAR FINE WITHOUT D.J. BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT WITH SOME MODEST SCATTERED FOXING. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Edité par PHOENIX PRESS, NEW YORK, NY, 1952
Vendeur : Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, Etats-Unis
HARD BACK GREEN. Etat : GOOD-. JACKET: GOOD- DJ. Pictorial dust jacket: mild book wear, shelf wear, edge wear, rubs, corner bumps, discoloration, few tears, soil marks. Boards: title on spine, mild wear, light discoloration. Interior: bookplate from the previous owner laid in with glue remains on the front free end paper. Top edges soiled. DATE PUBLISHED: 1952 EDITION: 223.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 1948
Vendeur : BookScene, Hull, MA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Phoenix Press, New York, NY 1948. First Edition. 1st Printing. 256 pages. Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner name. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 5986.
Edité par New York N.Y., American Geographical Society / George Grady Press; Phoenix Engraving Company 1941 -, 1941
Vendeur : Franz Kühne Antiquariat und Kunsthandel, Affoltern am Albis, Suisse
Edition originale
4° (25.5 x 20 x 3.5 cm). XV, 228 SS. Einige Kartenskizzen i. Text, zahlreiche photogr. s/w-Tafeln u. Abbildungen in Buchdruck (Clichédruck, Autotypie) a. satiniertem Papier. OLn. (olive-grau, lamin.; leicht bestossen / slightly bumped) mit gedr. (R-) Schild. Erste Ausgabe / Original edition. Untere Ecke etwas gestaucht / lower corner bumped. Leichtere Alters- u. Gebrauchsspuren, private Widmung dat. Johannesburg 1949 a. Vorsatz. Gesamthaft sauberes, recht gutes Exemplar / over all a clean and rather good copy. - - Digitalis. in Hathi Trust - CONTENTS : Introduction (Log of the flight, Route map); 1. Union of South Africa, 2. Basutoland, Swaziland, Mozambique, 3. The Rhodesias, Nyasaland, 4. Tanganyika Territory, 5. The Equatorial Mountains, 6. Uganda Protectorate, Kenya Colony, 7. Interlude among the Lions, 8. Down the Nile and along Mediterranean Africa, 9. The Scope of Aircraft in Africa - With List of photographs, Bibliography (pp. 207-215), and Index - Each chapter with Route map and key to photographs - Appendix I is a table of Temperatures acc. to Altitudes (in feet) from 4.700 to 22.000, for 7 days, Dec. 23-Dec. 29; Appendix II are Notes on Equipment: "The airplane used [.] was a Bellanca Skyrocket, six-place cabin land monoplane [.], put into sevice June, 1935. [.] The camera used was a Fairchild F-8, 5- by 7-inch, carrying rollfilm. When low altitude made short exposure necessary, the Leica camera was used with a 135-mm lens, and one-thousandth seond shutter setting." (etc.; p. 204 f.). -- Rachael Mary Upjohn Light Meader (Kalamazoo, Michigan 1916-2008 ibid.), American Eexplorer, navigator, aerial photographer. In 1938, "the Lights flew some 35,000 miles across the [African] continent with the goal of photographing little-known locales in East Africa. To prepare, Mary studied Morse code. She also learned how to shoot photos with an aerial camera and how to navigate and fly their Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket monoplane, which was both unheated and unpressurized. Flying several hours each day, the couple had to breathe oxygen through tubes - with diminutive Mary hanging over the side of the plane strapped into a special frame they had installed. This adventurous position enabled her to take inaugural pictures of the land, mountains, and jungles below. Her more than 2,000 photographs captured swaths across all regions, including the Ruwenzori Mountains in Uganda, which had never before been photographed. Their flight was historic in aviation circles as well as among geographic explorers and photographers." (etc.; K. Demas, in: depressioncenter org, Eisenberg Family Depression Center Univ. of Michigan, Sep 22, 2020) - "During the planning of the trip, many points on Earth had not been captured on film from the air and the American Geographical Society promoted these photographic flights, as they were trying to build an aerial collection. Light's idea was to travel across areas of South America and Africa that had never been aerially photographed. [.] While there [in Cape Town, South Africa], she took a picture of the ice dome and crater of Mount Kilimanjaro and of the glaciars and pinnacles on Mount Kenya. Her photographs include different views of native villages, urban areas, and the Egyptian pyramids, among other subjects." (Wikipedia). -- WEIGHT CATEGORY 2 kg - Sprache: de.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY,, 1946
ISBN 10 : 0877441502 ISBN 13 : 9780877441502
Vendeur : Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. GIFT QUALITY as pictured First edition 1946 Very good condition hard cover nice dust jacket appears unread clean pages.
Edité par Phoenix Press, New York, NY, 1948
Vendeur : BookScene, Hull, MA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Phoenix Press, New York, NY 1948. 255 pages. Nice Firm copy ! Jacket has edge wear, short tears. Previous owner name. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 5986.