Warner james oliver (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd Printing. A creased spine with light edge rubbings. No store stamp. Leech, James (illustrator).

[10002119420] 1972. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 224pp. Map endpapers, black and white and color illustrations, maps, diagrams, photographs, appendices. A small piece of clear tape around the top edge of the back flap of the dust jacket, and a previous owner's name in ink and blind stamp on the front free endpaper. "With absorbing skill Oliver Warner, the distinguished naval historian, recounts the fluctuations of the action which led to Wolfe's brilliant victory, death and apotheosis. To follow each stage of the engagement through the accounts of the men who were there - and through the remarkable illustrations collected in this book - is to experience personally one of the three great victories of the annus mirabilis". Book about James Wolfe. Includes James Cook & Admiral Saunders. Locale: ; Canada. (Military--Canada, Colonies).…

First Edition. EN PROVINCE in Atlantic Monthly for July through November, 1883, first edition, 5 volumes, the August issue has a small chip at the spine center, else all are vg+ in original wraps. Also contains original stories, essays and poems by Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Dudley Warner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, F. Marion Crawford, et.al. These 5 different travel essays by James were all published in the book A LITTLE TOUR OF FRANCE later in the year.…

Oblong 4to. [4], 205 leaves of bonds, glazed, plated, and gummed papers, including regular finish, linen finish, featherweight, ripple, parchment, damas, and more in a rainbow of colours, w/ diagonal corner cut stepped back thumb tabs. Green pebbled cloth post-binder, gilt lettering stamped on front cover, raised gilt company seal on front cover, nickel-plated screw posts at gutter margin (some edgewear, rubbing, gummed papers adhered to one another, a couple separated, 1 w/ closed tears), still a VG- exemplar. First edition, thus, of this very rare salesman sample catalogue for O.F.H. Warner & Co. papers marketed to printers and advertisers for printing, stationery, typing, circulars, and more. The glazed, plated, and gummed papers were served as excellent papers for catalogues and book covers, jewelry boxes, perfume boxes, stationery boxes, candy boxes, and more. The bond papers could be purchased in white, corn, deep blue, green, golden rod, gray, pink & russet; Featherweight bond used often for Bible printing could be purchased in blue, canary, golden rod, green, pink, and Tuscan; while the glazed and plated papers came in vivid primary colours of yellow, coral, blood orange, vermillion, blue, and more. The company was founded by Oliver Warner (1853-1907) in 1875, and quickly established himself as one of the most successful paper wholesalers in the Baltimore area, and would run the company until his death, when his son James Warner (1884-1969) would continue to operate until after World War II. No copies located in Worldcat.…