Dr Davies presents information about sharks, complete with colour and black & white photographs. Green tape marks on endpaper, and previous owners inscription. Bumped corner and top edge. Slight wearing at edges of dust jacket, scuffing and water stain on back cover.
Some foxing to pages. Page edges are untrimmed.
Spine faded and marked, corners bumped, front board is marked and front edge has dent. Text clean and binding tight. Endpapers foxed.
Text in German. Paperback copy in very good condition with very slight wear to edges. African stools and chairs. Black and white photographs.
Binding is firm but worn, with some discolouration to the spine. Tropical worm damage,this consists mainly of small holes, about 8 to a page with about 1-2 mm diameter, they have the apperance of small ink spots. Cloth binding with embossed title.
With 1980 Supplement (1966-1980). Ink inscription on front fep. Lower edges of boards have small area of water/insect (?) damage. DW sunned on spine, chips at top edge.
Authorised translation from the German by Walter Ijzendraat. Book clean and binding tight. DW chipped top and bottom and slightly worn.
No date of publication, probably 1970s. Book clean and whole, some moisture marking to back cover and small chips to front.
Spine of dw faded, chipped at top and with insect damage at bottom.
Recently rebound in black buckram with gilt titles to the spine and new end papers. The new binding is not sympathetic to the age of the book but has had the benefit of preserving the contents very well. Contemporary owner’s name to the title page and some notes to the back fep dated June 1816.
Falling apart, fraying and tearing.
A complete illustrated history of the gun.
Frayed head and tail of spine. Bumped corners teacup stain on front cover, with two lines of staining . Pencil marginalia, and foxing
Ex Libris of F.H.C. Beech to the front paste-downs of both volumes. Some foxing to the flyleaves. Text is clean and clear. Binding still tight. Boards show little wear.
“Translated from the French by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith. With an Introduction by Eric Shipton”. Previous owner’s name in ink to the front fep. Light foxing noted throughout. Contains black-and-white and colour photographs. Boards show some wear, especially along the edges. DW shows losses to the top and bottom of spine and various closed tears with general wear.
Binding is in poor condition. Both boards are off and bundles are loose. A good candidate for re-binding. Ink note to the blank pg after the index, on the origin of the word mews. Two names to the paste down fep. Page edges untrimmed. All pages of the book are however in good condition.
Author’s insciption and signature on half-title page. Pages browned at edges. Water damage to top corner of front board and endpaper. DW has faded spine and small chips top and bottom.
A practical craft for domestic science classes, girls schools, women’s institutes, trade classes, for millinery and dressmaking , and the homeworker. Green cloth cover with some wear to edges. With photographs and errata slips tipped in. Previous owner’s inscriptions in pencil.
Clean text, tight binding. Light marking to top fore edges of pages. DW has chipping to top and bottom edges of spine. Spine of dw slightly faded.