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NORTH AMERICAN F-86 SABRE (CROWOOD AVIATION SERIES)
Written by Duncan Curtis.
Stock no. 1828781
Published by The Crowood Press.
1st
2000.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Crowood Aviation Series. The full story of the North American F-86 Sabre its design and development, covering both the F-86 and its close relative, the US Navy's FJ Fury. Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and a few colour. 192 pages including index. ISBN: 1861263589. A lovely copy. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scratched and a little scuffed, slightly faded to spine.
NORTH AMERICAN P-51 MUSTANG (CROWOOD AVIATION SERIES)
Written by Malcolm V. Lowe.
Stock no. 1828777
Published by The Crowood Press.
1st
2009.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
One of the most significant aircraft of World War Two, the P-51 Mustang grew out of Great Britain's urgent need for new warplanes in the early years of the war. Large format. Black cloth boards, gitl title to spine. B/w photos and a few colour. 272 pages including index. ISBN: 9781861268303. Light scratch to front cover. Else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- AIRCRAFT
- MILITARY
- NORTH AMERICA
- WORLD WAR II
GREAT LAKES LIGHTHOUSES ENCYCLOPEDIA
Written by Larry Wright; Patricia Wright.
Stock no. 1828321
Published by The Boston Mills Press.
1st thus
2011.
Nearly fine condition.
Featuring more than 650 lighthouses located on both the American and the Canadian sides of all five Great Lakes. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. ISBN: 9781554078936. Cover corners lightly rubbed. Rear cover lightly scuffed. Contents clean.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN)
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (AMERICAN)
- NORTH AMERICA
- CANADA
- LIGHTHOUSES
- ENCYCLOPEDIA
AUDUBON'S QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA
Written by John James Audubon.
Illustrated by John James Audubon.
Stock no. 1827646
Published by The Wellfleet Press.
1st thus
1989.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Complete and unabridged. Large format. Heavy. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 155 full-colour illustrations. ISBN: 1555215157. A few minor marks to boards. Tiny knock to lower front edge of board. Some minor foxing to text block. Foxing and browning to endpapers and prelims else contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and is heavily foxed to verso (not visible to front), slightly faded to spine.
- Categorised in:
- NATURAL HISTORY
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL
- NORTH AMERICA
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
Written by George Catlin; Michael Macdonald Mooney.
Stock no. 1826992
Published by Gramercy Books.
Circa
1995.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Originally published in 1841 in two volumes entitled 'Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians'. This edition edited and with an introduction by Michael MacDonald Mooney in one volume. Black cloth spine with gilt title, orange paper sides. B/w illustrations and 4 colour plates. ISBN: 0517147440. Reprint. Text block grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- HISTORY (AMERICAN)
- NORTH AMERICA
- NATIVE AMERICAN
- ANTHROPOLOGY
WORLD TIMBERS VOLUME TWO: NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA (INCLUDING CENTRAL AMERICA & THE WEST INDIES)
Written by B.J. Rendle.
Stock no. 1826758
Published by Ernest Benn Limited.
1st
1969.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A comprehensive work containing some of the better known world timbers illustrated in colour and concisely described with the minimum of technical terms. The information is presented in a form designed to appeal to those who are interested in timber but are not specialists in wood technology. Intended primarily for use by architects and their clients, the timber trade, and timber-using industries. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0802016677. A few minor marks to boards, lower corners lightly bumped. Previous owner's library label to front and rear pastedown. Light browning to page edges and text block. Black dustwrapper with yellow spine is lightly rubbed and scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- NATURAL HISTORY
- BOTANY
- TREES
- ARCHITECTURE
- NORTH AMERICA
- SOUTH AMERICA
- CENTRAL AMERICA
- WEST INDIES
PROFESSOR POTTS MEETS THE ANIMALS IN NORTH AMERICA
Written by Peter Spence.
Illustrated by Gillian Chapman.
Stock no. 1325051
Published by Franklin Watts Ltd..
1st
1981.
Very good condition.
Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout accompany the rhyming verse. ISBN: 0851668968. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Some pale page edge browning to contents.
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- POETRY AND VERSE (CHILDRENS)
- ANIMAL STORY
- NORTH AMERICA
A NATURAL HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN TREES
Written by Donald Culross Peattie.
Illustrated by Paul Landacre.
Stock no. 1825287
Published by Trinity University Press.
1st thus
2013.
Slightly better than very good condition.
A fascinating look at the history of trees in North America, including how species were discovered and the roles each played in America's history. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781595341662. Corners of covers lightly rubbed. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean.
- Categorised in:
- NATURAL HISTORY
- BOTANY
- TREES
- NORTH AMERICA
- HISTORY (AMERICAN)
LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN DIVING BIRDS
Written by Arthur Cleveland Bent.
Stock no. 2139121
Published by Dover Publications Inc..
1963.
Very good condition.
Card wraps. B/w photos. Auk, Grebe, Auklet, Guillemot, Loon, Puffin, Dovekie, Murre, Murrelet. Republication of the original 1919 edition. ISBN: 048621091X. Some light wear to edges and corners.
- Categorised in:
- NATURAL HISTORY
- ORNITHOLOGY
- NORTH AMERICA
ROCKWELL THE HERITAGE OF NORTH AMERICA
Written by Bill Yenne.
Stock no. 2138459
Published by Bison Books.
1st
1989.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Large format. With over 250 photographs, diagrams and cutaway drawings. ISBN: 086124544X. Some brown offsetting to endpapers. Wrapper has a little edge-creasing.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- AIRCRAFT
- NORTH AMERICA
THE WEST INDIES
Written by John Henderson.
Illustrated by A.S. Forrest.
Stock no. 2137139
Published by Adam & Charles Black.
Circa
1908.
Almost very good condition.
A & C Black Colour Book 20 Shilling Series. Cerulean blue cloth with attractive sailing ship, crab and sun vignettes. Gilt titles to spine and front cover. 74 tissue-guarded colour plates. Top edge gilt. Index and booklist to rear that lists books later than 1905. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine and edges are browned; a few nicks to cloth to top and tail of spine. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Joints are a bit cracked. Frontis is MISSING! Tape marks to tissue-guard of plate opposite page 104. Some light foxing and browning. Assumed reprint from books listed in booklist to rear.
MONTCALM AND WOLFE
Written by Francis Parkman.
Stock no. 2134947
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode.
1st
1964.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
A continent at war - the Seven Years' War in America. First published in two volumes in 1884. This edition has an Historical Foreword by Esmond Wright, Professor fo Modern History in the University of Glasgow. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Maps to endpapers. B/w frontis. Top edge blue. xx and 719 pages including index. Spotting to covers. Browning and a few marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine, with tears and chips, but minimal loss; some browning.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- HISTORY (AMERICAN)
- NORTH AMERICA