Search Results: the call of the stars a by kippax john r

Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover without DJ, cover worn, front hinge detached, back hinge loose,

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. Oversized hardcover without dust jacket, red cloth covers, top edge gilt, clear and bright gilt lettering to front cover (spine lettering faded but legible), xviii+ 431 pages, plus XLIII [black-and-white] Plates, several drawn Figures and a colour frontpiece; rubbing and shelf wear to cover corners and spine ends, otherwise very gently used, not abused, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout. [this copy priced low, priced to go as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H may be requested] See also our listings for Donald Fernie's Whisper and the Vision: Voyages of the Astronomers, and for Gartmann, Heinz's Rings Around the World.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. First edition. Octavo, red cloth, pp. xviii, 431; with 54 illustrations. Kippax's calling card is paper-clipped to endpaper. Signature of George Wedlake (1856-1922), mayor of the city of Brantford Ontario, Canada. Large chip to margin of one plate not affecting image, previous owner's rubber-stamp on endpaper, hinge paper a bit cracked although hinges are firm, light wear to cloth, corners a little worn and bumped, small divit out of cloth at fore-edge, of upper board, else very good. No dust jacket. [Oversize*].

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 Full burgundy cloth, gilt titling. Some edgewear, corners bumped, spine gilt dull, front cover gilt still bright. Some foxing, mostly on the front endsheets, title page and frontispiece, & last 15-20 pages. Jacket is edgeworn, with some loss at the corners and spine ends, couple of closed tears with associated creasing; irregular inch-by-half-inch hole with associated tears in spine, no loss of text, sort of mended with patch loosely taped in. xviii, 431 pages, index, 43 b/w plates, 4 charts, color frontispiece, a few diagrams in the text. Popular account of basic star-gazing with cultural and mythological history. Sections on the night sky at different seasons, chapters on the Milky Way, the Sun and each planet (no Pluto, of course); comets and meteors.. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 6½" by 9".

New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing