Title drift (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Signed, First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated) New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 2013. NEW. Signed by the Author directly on the Title Page, no inscription. Dust Jacket Fine in Brodart cover, no wear, no tears, not price clipped ($24.95). Boards Fine. Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry, Smoke-Free shop.…

First (only) edition. Privately printed. Wrappers. 8vo, 101 pp., text block stapled as issued, very good copy, light stain in area of author's name on front wrapper. Full subtitle: Materials for a discussion on the attenuated border of the moraine described in Volume Z of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Laid in is a separate printing of a letter from the author to the editors of Science, n.s., vol. 5, no. 115, pp. 448 (1897) entitled Greenland Glaciers. Accompanied by two offprints by the same author. Notes on Kansas drift appeared in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 38, no. 157 (1898), and is very good in offprint wrappers with two tears side-by-side in bottom edge of front wrapper. Notes on the southern ice limit is reprinted from the American Journal of Science, vol. 49 (1895) and is very good in offprint wrappers. Williams was Professor of Geology at Lehigh University.…

Wraps. Zustand: Good. no date, circa 1845-46. Illustrated, saddle stitched wraps. 24 pp. Small black and white engravings throughout. A toy book published by Jonathan Grout of Worcester, Massachusetts, at that time a bookseller and publisher. Rear cover has an address of 199 Main Street, which according to the 19th century Juvenile Series website, Grout occupied from 1845 to 1846. It appears he published a variety of juvenile series books. This work contains an 18 page account of William Tell and his exploits, followed by a short piece on a snow drift involving a boy and his sheep. GOOD condition. Minor soiling and staining to the wrappers, with chipping, creasing and tearing along the extremities and corners. One inch tear to the rear cover. Moderate to heavy foxing and spotting in the interior, with curling to the page corners.…