Bryan jr edwin h (18 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Good +. No Jacket. 253pp, illus., some soiling to cover.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint Edition. An ex-library copy in original pictorial green paper covers. The usual ex-libris markings (ownership stamps, card pocket), and mild cover wear. The binding is sound, and the text is clean/unmarked. Book.

Zustand: GOOD. First thus. Originally published in 1941 as "American Polynesia, this revised and enlarged edition adds 11 chapters on the northwestern Hawaiian islands and one on Wake Island, as well as an expanded bibliography. These islands in the Central Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Samoa were mostly uninhabited, and were exploited for guano in the 19th century, but with the rise of air travel and especially the war with Japan in the Pacific they took on added importance. Illustrated with photographs and many maps. Index. 253 pp Good overall in green cloth with black lettering (corners somewhat bumped, offsetting to endpapers, but contents are clean).…

Zustand: New.

Paperback or Softback. Zustand: New. American Polynesia and the Hawaiian Chain. Book.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. First edition (it appears the book was published simultaneously in paperback and hardcover of which this is the only copy of the paperback available as of now); 6 x 8 1/2; pp. 208; speckled gray wraps; a small bump to tail of spine; minor creases to lower corners; backstrip with a bit of age-toning; faint penciled-in signature to first blank page; illustrated with numerous maps and photographs; pages clean; overall very good or better.First appearing as "forty-five weekly installments in the Honolulu Advertiser, September 11, 1939 to July 15, 1940," the chapters of the book comprise a remarkable reference source on American Polynesia including, interestingly enough, several islands which are decidedly not American. 2.…

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 253 pps.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Dust Jacket. 254 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ yellow discoloration to binding. Spine darkened. Spine ends bumped w/ modest rubbing to corners. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ b/w photos and maps.

Oblong octavo, cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 128 pp. Good, with edgewear and light soiling to covers. Illustrated. Contents: Sugar Can Weevil, Some Representative Insects, What is an Insect?, How do Insects Grow?, How Bad Insects are Controlled, Control of Bad Insects by Their Enemies, Keeping Bad Insects Out of Hawaii, The Silverfish, The American Cockroach, The Burrowing Cockroach, The Praying Mantis, The Chinese Grasshopper, The Pink-winged Grasshopper, Katydids, The Long-horned Grasshopper, The Field Cricket, The Black Earwig, Termites, Lacewings, Dragonflies, Damselflies, Lice, Trhips, Bugs, The Assassin Bug, Leafhoppers, Sugar Cane Leafhopper, Aphids, Scale Insects, Mealybugs, Cutwoms and Armyworms, Some Other Moths, Sphinx Moths, The Kamelhameha Butterfly, Other Butterflies, Beetles, Souring Beetles, Ladybeetles, Click Beetles, The Anomala Beetle, The Chinese Rose Beetle, Long-horned Beetles, The Black Ground Beetle, Fuller's Rose Beetle, The Sugar Cane Weevil, Mosquitos, A Soldier Fly, Long-legged Flies, Drone Flies, The House Fly, Flesh Flies and Tachina Flies, The Lantana Gall Fly, The Mediterranean Fruit Fly, Pomace Flies, Fleas, Hornets, The Muddauber, Other Wasps, Ants, Leafcutting Bees, The Carpenter Bee, The Honey Bee, Relatives of Insects, Millipedes, Centipedes, Scorpions, The Jumping Spider, The House Spider, The Black Widow Spider, The Orb Web Spider, Sowbugs and Sandhoppers, Collecting and Preserving Insects, Sphinx Moth and Long-horned Beetle, Classification and Scientific Names, Representative Insects. Hawaii, Hawaiian, Entomology, Insects, Natural History islic.…

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: New.

Softcover. Zustand: Very good. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Very minor shelfwear. Assumed first edition. No other printings ackknowledged. All drawings and plates intact.

Zustand: Very Good. 8vo. pp 208. Signed presentation copy: " To Roger Perry with the aloha of E. H. Bryan Jr." Very slight shelf wear otherwise VG. Roger Perry = a conservationist based in the Galapagos. Very good. First Edition. Wraps.

Honolulu, Hawaii 1941. Illus, 8.5x6", cloth, 208 w/index, EX-LIBRARY, usual markings, corners bumped, spine sunned. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.