Bridges john g (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Australia Story Trust, Sydney, NSW, AUS. 1945. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name stamp on the front and rear pastedowns dated 6/29/45; mailing label and postal fee ticket affixed to front board. Book Condition: Good; shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board edges; dust soiling and rubbing to spine; light foxing to endpapers. Blue endpapers. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 256 pp folio. This book is dedicated to the Saviors of the Pacific in the Great War of the World, this volume is intended to bind the Sons of Liberty and Soldiers of Sacrifice- Americans and Australians alike- into a great Common Fellowship of Remembrance. This book give a photographic history of the Australia that the soldiers fought to protect in WWII. It covers the major cities, the products of industry, the Aborigines, the sights, the peoples, the Outback, Tasmania, and New Guinea. Filled with B&W photographs and enough text to identify the scene and give a bit of history. A clean very presentable copy. No International Shipping. Priority shipping will require additional postage.…

Cloth. Zustand: G/No Dustjacket. Sydney, Australia: Australia Story Trust. G/No Dustjacket. 1945. . Cloth. 4to., 256 pp, rubbed, bumped, page toning . Black & White Photographs (illustrator).

Cloth. Zustand: G/FR. Sydney, Australia: Australia Story Trust. G/FR. 1945. . Cloth. Inscribed as gift . 4to., 256 pp, dj: torn & frayed but plastic covered; bk: slunted spine, some worn hinges . Black & White Photographs (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Free of markings.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Staples rusting, else internally in very good condition, cover has some mild foxing, and some unobtrusive marks on the front. Folded map in very good condition.

Large 4to, pp. 255. A book of black-and-white photographs with short descriptions. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Cover soiled, owner's name and drawing on flyleaf, o/w a VG tight copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; A profusely illustrated coffetable book: "Dedicated to the saviours of the Pacific in the Great War of the World, this volume is intended to bind the Sons of Liberty and Soldiers of Sacrifice - Americans and Australians alike - into a great Common Fellowship of Rememberance, so that in the Autumn of their days people and places dear to the hearts of both may live again, and by the mere turning of these pages, be renewed in the glorious memories of the land of perpetual sunshine."; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 256 pages.…

6 plates, 8vo, pp.45-73, original printed tan wrappers; top of text block soiled else very good. The other papers being On improved India Rubber Springs for Railway Engines by William G. Craig; On Railway Axle Lubrication by W. Bridges Adams; & On a New Lubricating Material by John Lea.

1st Thus. Hardbacks. Part of the Muses Library series. Blue cloth, gilt decorations and titles, teg. Good set, no d/ws. Spines cocked, faded, gilt dulled, bumped and worn; edge of boards and corners rubbed, bumped and worn; boards marked; pages a bit browned with some foxing; place label inside front boards; spotting to edge of pages. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.…

Eighteen vols. xxxix, [1], 458; xxxiii, [1], 399, [1]; xxv, [1], 479, [1]; xxv, [1], 520; xxv, [1], 458; xxiv, [2], 492; xxiv, 588; xxiii, [1], 609, [1]; xxiv, 700; xxv, [1], 618; xxvi, 497, [1]; xxv, [1], 520; xxvi, 599, [1]; xxvi, 548; xxv, [1], 691, [1]; xxvi, 635, [1]; xxiii, [1], 663, [1]; xxiii, [1], 661, [1]; xxiv, 651, [1] pp. With frontispiece's, photo illustrations, facsimiles of letters, maps. Uniformly bound in brick-red publisher's cloth, black & gilt spine labels (minor bumping to upper right corner vol. 1), w/ d.j.'s, from the Clark County Historical Society, deaccessioning material. First editions of the first 18 volumes in this massive project encompassing Ulysses Grant's letters, and correspondence from his Prewar career through Reconstruction. Beginning with his 17-year-old cadet letters home at West Point, and then service in Louisiana, Texas, the Mexican War, and at Fort Vancouver, entry into the Civil War, the early campaigns of Fort Donelson, Battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, ascension to Lieutenant General, the battles of Petersburg, Cold Harbor & the Wilderness, General Sherman's March, Appomattox, assassination of President Lincoln, the capture of Jefferson Davis, and finally the disbanding of the immense Union Army. Simon (d. 2008) drew upon a vast number of previously unpublished, or unknown, letters, memorandum, and writings of Grant, and together with extensive notes and analysis offered an essential research tool for the study of American History, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the steps to the Grant Presidency. The set continues in production, and Simon himself oversaw the first 31 annotated volumes. He also edited the memoirs of Julia Dent Grant. …