Search Results: Titles starting with K from Loe Books

Berlin: Globus Verlag, 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small Folio. No date but c. 1895. 288 pages; double page folding colour frontispiece plate; b/w illustrations througout. Publisher's blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, good and strong, a little marked. Contents clean and tight, original patterned endpapers, the front with a postcard of Wilhelm II pasted on, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Scarce. Text in German..

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1940. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. Original dust jacket very good, with a little general wear and a little rubbing to edges, spine somewhat darkened and a little scuffed to the head, rear panel a litte dust soiled, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good clean first edition copy..

London: Macmillan, 1901. Book. Illus. by Thompson, Hugh. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xiii 286 [2], b/w frontispiece plate with tissue guard (slightly foxed) numerous black and white illustrations by Thompson. All edges gilt, bight. Original green cloth binding with elaborate gilt decoration, gilt lettering, a little dullness to the spine, cloth lightly rubbed to the top and bottom of the spine. Contents clean and tight, name and date of 1901 to the top of the front endpaper, light/fine foxing to endpapers only, otherwise contents very clean. A good tight copy with an ornate decorative binding..

Nairobi: Buchanan's Kenya Estates Limited in Association with Hatchards of London, 1961. Book. Illus. by Joy Adamson. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp.xxvii 654, frontispiece with overlay , large fold map and 31 colour plates and 80 black and white plates with 110 diagrams throughout. Dust jacket near fine and now protected in a removable archival sleeve. Original hardback binding, fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, no marking. A fine copy in a scarce near fine jacket..

London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1826. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo. pp. vi, 65. Original harback binding, worn with boards attached by cords only. Paper to backstrip missing. Contents good, loose within boards, title page a little marked, some corners and edges worn, a little pencil annotation. A fair but complete copy of this rare key.

United Kingdom: Field Studies Council, AIDGAP Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Abstract Field Studies 6 No.4 (1987), 695-766; b/w illustrations. Covers very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good paperback copy. 0.

Freshwater Biological Association, 1967. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 28 pages, colour frontispiece plate, b/w illustrations. Covers fine, now protected in clear removable plastic. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine copy, clean and bright, virtually as new. (Freshwater Biological Association Scientific Publication No. 23).

United Kingdom: Field Studies Council, AIDGAP Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Abstract Field Studies 6 (1986), 531-579; b/w illustrations. Covers very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good paperback copy. 0.

Bideford: Edward Gaskell, 1995. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. Signed and inscribed by the author - "To Mr & Mrs EW Martin with love and best wishes Elizabeth Revill". (Ernest Martin - countryman, writer, pacifist, socialist, who worked and lived in Devon.) 179 pages. Cover very good, contents clean and tight, unmarked. A very good signed copy. The author's first novel..

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 403 pages. Original dust jacket good, with some general wear and rubbing, a little chipped and scuffed to edges not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions, no foxing. A very good copy with a good dust jacket..

Oxford: Basil Blackwood, 1965. Book. Illus. by Gell, Kathleen. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A remarkably well preserved copy. B/w illustrations. Original dust jacket fine with minimal rubbing to edges, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions, no foxing. A fine bright copy..

London: Robert Culley, 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 288 pages. Original dark green hardback binding with gilt lettering to the spine, very good, cloth slightly marked, gilt bright, a little rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight, neat contemporary gift inscription to the front end paper, a few lines marked to the edges, otherwise very clean. A very good copy." The purpose of this volume is to give such a statement of the facts of the foreign missionary enterprise [the Methodist Church]...".

London: Helm/A & C Black Publishers Ltd, 2003. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo. 476 pages; colour illustrations throughout, distribution maps. Covers very good with light rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy. [This is a complete guide to the mammal fauna of Africa. Covering all known species (around 460), this guide will enable identification of all land mammals likely to be seen anywhere in Africa. Detailed accounts, with colour illustrations, are provided for most species, but some complex small mammal groups are summarized by genera. The colour illustrations show both sexes in sexually dimorphic species, and there are also a wealth of line drawings illustrating typical behaviours, the function of camouflaged or disruptive markings and the details of interspecific variation among closely allied species. Distribution maps show the ranges of most species covered].

1983. Painting. Illus. by TIMOTHY GREENWOOD. Fine. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. 380 mm x 230mm. Watercolour study of a Kingfisher. The image measures approximately 380mm x 230mm . Frame, very good. Glazed, approximately 440mm x 380mm. The work is signed. Condition is very good, the colours appear unfaded. Mount appears not to be acid free. [Biography - Timothy John Greenwood (1947 to 2010; British). An accomplished artist, renowned for his fine copperplate etchings of birds and animals, but perhaps the zenith of his artistic output was a series of 48 watercolour paintings of rare pheasants featured in their natural habitats, several of which have been sold at Christie's. He features in Iain Grahame's Ruffled Feathers, an often humorous account of life at Daws Hall, an international breeding centre for endangered pheasants and waterfowl at which Greenwood was the resident artist; he also illustrated the book. Greenwood's art education began at the Ravensbourne College of… Read More

London: Newnes, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to (19 x 26cm). "A personal summary and interpretation of the happenings at home and abroad during the year 1936 together witha chronology, time charts, maps and nearly 200 photographs." (From the front panel of the dust jacket); pp.215. Original dust jacket, with a little general wear, a few very short edge tears and very slightly chipped to the head/tail of the spine which is also slightly toned, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good clean copy with original dust jacket..

London: Keeping the King's Connection, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 492 pages. Original laminated board binding, as new. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A fine tight copy..

London: Collins, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo. pp. xi, 272, b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket very good, with a little general wear and a little rubbing to edges, lightly scuffed to head/tail of the slightly faded spine, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good clean copy..

The Author, 1946. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition Thus. Large 8vo. An offprint reprinted from the Winter Number of the Flyfishers' Journal, 1945/6. Printed card wrappers + four pages. Central crease to pamphlet where previously folded, loose at staples otherwise very good with light general wear. A scarce little item..

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 25 x 18cm. Signed to the title page by the author. Dust jacket very good; now protected in a removable archival sleeve, hardback binding very good. Contents clean and tight, signed by C Bonnington to the title page, date to the front free endpaper A very good to near fine copy..

Poland: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1981. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo (16 x 24cm). 16 pages, colour & b/w illustrations. Covers good with a little general wear and slight bumping to spine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. Text in Polish. A very good copy..