Search Results: Authors starting with U from GN Books and Prints

Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet and Human Origins by Peter Ungar.
Paperback, 2017, uncorrected proof copy, illustrated, published by Princeton University Press, 228 pages +.
In good condition. A little scuffing and marking to covers. No creasing. Some marking to page edges and staining to lower edges. Page surfaces reasonably clean, no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for more information.

Chambers's Educational Course: The Spelling Vocabulary - A Collection of Current English Words Liable to be Misspelled

















Hardback, 1898, published by W. & R. Chambers, Limited, London and Edinburgh, 80 pages + viii.











Octavo/8vo, measures around 6 3/4" by 4 1/2" by 3/8". No dust jacket. Brown cloth binding, embossed lettering and detail to front board. A little marking and some scuffing to binding but quite clean and colouring still vivid. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges, bumped corners. Binding firm. Page edges browned and a bit marked. Some marking to endpapers, inscription to front free endpaper, numerals to front pastedown. The odd mark to page surfaces but otherwise clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.

West Indies Pilot, Volume II, comprising Mona Passage, the leeward and windward islands from Puerto Rico to Grenada inclusive.








Hardback, 1969, eleventh edition, N.P. No. 71, illustrated, including foldout maps, published by the Hydrographer of the Royal Navy, London, 386 pages + xiv, together with 62-page Supplement No. 5 - 1976.





Measures around 9 3/4" by 6 1/8" by 1". Grey cloth binding, yellow lettering to front board and spine. Some discolouration to spine and parts of boards. Scuffing and a little marking, some signs of shelf-wear, slightly bumped corners. Binding reasonably firm, slight slackness. Page edges browned, marked and scuffed. Page surfaces clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.

Sweden: A Wartime Survey Hardback, 1942, edited and published by the Press Bureau of the Royal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, 250 pages, illustrated.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 1/2" by 5 1/4" by 1/2". Red leather binding on flexible boards, gilt lettering to front board and gilt crest to spine. Marking, scuffing and wear to binding, rubbing at edges and on hinges. Binding firm. Page edges a little browned, scuffed and marked. Minor foxing and marking to endpapers. The odd mark but otherwise page surfaces clean, no inscriptions, underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.

Hannibal the Hare and Other Stories [Harlequin Story Books series]
Hardback, 1969, illustrated, published by Treasure Hour Books, London, 24 pages.
Measures around 12 1/2" by 9 1/2" by 3/8". Paper on card boards, pictorial front board. Some marking and scuffing. Chipping and tearing to spine. Signs of shelf-wear, slightly bumped corners. Page edges browned and scuffed. The odd torn and creased page. A little marking to page surfaces. Gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper. See pictures for further information.

The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer Hardback, 1963, first edition, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 388 pages.
In good condition. Dust jacket shows some wear, scuffing and marking, with slight tears and chips at corners and edges. White cloth boards and spine. Boards are reasonably clean, though boards a little marked at tops and bottoms. Spine marked. Tape marks to inner flaps of dust jacket and to pastedowns and endpapers. Binding firm. Page edges deckled, also a bit marked but reasonably clean. Page surfaces clean, with no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.