Search Results: pheasant jungles by beebe william

New York, London: Putnam Knickerbocker Press, 1927. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Author photographs. This Hard cover book is in Good condition. complete and solid. Blue cloth covered boards worn on edges. Gilt lettering on spine and gilt on front cover is fading or rubbed. Illustrated by 60 black & white photographs by the author. He was Director of Tropical research of the New York Zoological society.

NY: Putnam. Good+. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Extremities lightly bumped, gilt rubbed. ; xii, 248 pages; Illustrated with sixty photographs taken by the author, index. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Hardcover. 1928. 3rd Printing. 8vo 248pp . Very Good with no DJ. B&W Photographs. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and gold title box on front cover . Slight shelfwear to bottom edges of covers. The author was the Director of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society. He spent seventeen months in the Far East gathering material for a Monograph of the Pheasants .

NY: Putnam. Very Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 248 pages; Illustrated with sixty photographs taken by the author, index. ***A bright and attractive copy .

G.P. Putman's Sons. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (travel, animals, asia) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

New York: G. P. Putnam & Co.. Very Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt spine lettering a bit faded and with light rubbing to spine ends. Gilt front decoration lightly faded. Previous owner's notes on front free endpaper. ; The author, Director of Tropical Reasearch of the New York Zoological Society, spent 17 months in the far east before he published this book. Some of the chapters previously appeared in "The Atlantic" and "Harper's Magazine" but all have been rewritten. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages .

NY: Putnam. Very Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine extremities bumped, gilt rubbed. ; 8vo; xii, 248 pages; Photographs, index. .

New York: Putnam (1927). First edition in good condition in worn blue cloth covers. No dust wrapper.

New York & London. G.P. Putnam & Sons. 1927. Hardcover. 8vo. 22cm, xiii,248p., with 60 plates and illustrations, index, illustrated endpaper, bookplate, decorated blue cloth, very good to fine copy.(sgc). Beebe was director of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society and spent seventeen months in the Far East gathering material for a Monograph of the Pheasants.

New York: G P. Putnam's Sons, 1927 248 pp with 60 B&W photos taken by the author. Glasine protector on illustration frontis Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue buckram boards have title in a gold-stamped cartouche, in which there is some loss of gold. Spine is darkened with the gold stamping exceedingly faded. Pictorial endpapers with a scene of the western Himalayas. William Beebe was Director of Tropical Research for the New York Zoological Society. He spent seventeen months in Asia gathering material for a monograph on pheasants that resulted in this book as his first important scientific undertaking. His adventures covered Ceylon, Sikkim, Garhwal, Burma, Tibet, Yunnan, Pahang and Borneo. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Buckram. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good plus condition/P. 1927. ........ Cloth w/DJ. Photographic endpapers, tinted blue. With nearly 60 illustrations. . 8vo., 248 pp., Rubbed, front hinge weak; some staining; dj chewed, torn with stains .

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. G/No Dustjacket. 1927. ........ Cloth. With 60 illustrations from the author. . 8vo., 248 pp., Tips rubbed, shaken & cracked .

New York, London: Putnam Knickerbocker Press, 1927. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Author photographs. This Hard cover book is in Good condition. complete and solid. Blue cloth covered boards worn on edges. Gilt lettering on spine and gilt on front cover is fading or rubbed. Illustrated by 60 black & white photographs by the author. He was Director of Tropical research of the New York Zoological society.

New York: G. P. Putnam & Co.. Very Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Gilt lettering peeling off. Former owner's notes on front endpaper ; The author, Director of Tropical Reasearch of the New York Zoological Society, spent 17 months in the far east before he published this book. Some of the chapters previously appeared in "The Atlantic" and "Harper's Magazine" but all have been rewritten ; 8vo; 248 pages .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. xiii, 248pp, index, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Or blue cloth. Prev owner bookplate, tear and rippling to front free endpaper, joint cracking at frontis. Expedition to Burma, Malya and Borneo.. First Edition in Book Form. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. fair. 23 cm, 248, 60 illus. from photographs by the author, front board weak, cloth on front board creased, board corners and edges worn. Ink note and pencil erasure on front endpaper. The author was Director of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society; he spent 17 months inthe Far East gathering material for this monograph on pheasants.

G.P. Putman's Sons. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Book Good. No dust jacket. (East Asia, natural history, travel)

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927, c1927. 248pp., index, black and white photographs, double-page end-paper landscape photograph. 8vo Navy blue cloth with blue titles inside a gold box on front cover, gold titles on spine. Minor rubbing on the gold box, spine a bit darker than the covers, Very Good+ hardcover with only minimal rubbing lower edge of the spine.

New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1927. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], v-xiii, [1], 248; pictorial endpapers, 58 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 25 plates; very good in original blue cloth stamped in gilt.

Putnam, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 248 pages. Blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration, clean and bright with light edgewear, points of rubbing to corners. Spine square. Binding sound. Dusty top edge. Dust jacket tattered with heavy edgewear, large chips from spine ends, and with front inner flap fully split at front hinge, but present and held in place by Mylar cover. DJ also sports crease lines from when it had previously been folded and laid-in inside the book, but is now jacketing the book in fully removable protective Mylar wrapper. Illustrated endsheets; slight crinkling/creasing to FFEP. Small contemporary bookseller's ticket at bottom edge of rear paste down. Pages lightly toned, text unmarked.