Search Results: Titles starting with W from Ravenroost Books

London: Brockhampton Press, 1999. 4to. 120 pgs. As New hardcover in As New dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with period paintings, portraits, woodcuts and drawings. Contents: Background and Early Years, Yeats the poet, Searching for an Identity, Maturity, Personal Recollections, Late Flowering and Death, The Poems, Index of First Lines, Further Reading. ISBN 1860199615. #1384.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 4to - 9¾" - 12" Tall.

New York: Tor., 1996. 8 vo. 254 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. A novel of contemporary magic realism. By the author of American Book Award Winner "The Red Magician". June 1996 first printing. ISBN 0312861753. #732.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The MacMillan Co., 1924. 105 pgs. Verg Good+ cloth hardcover in original dust jacket. Book is clean and umarked, binding sound, very slight rubbing to edges and corners. Jacket has small chips at spine edges and corners and paper is worn through in places along the flap edges. Flap information lists other titles in the Little Books on Religion series. Apparently then as now, "No subject of science seems to be more misunderstood by those who are not biologists than the doctrine of evolution...When one has been completely informed concerning evolution, he realizes that it does not contradict the Bible in any serious way, but really teaches the same fundamental truths from a different perspective.". Contents: I. Introduction, II. Evidence of Evolution, III. Lamarck's Theory of Use and Disuse, IV. Darwin's theory of Natural Selection, V. The Mutation Theory of De Vries, VI. Some Other Theories of Evolution, VII. Modern Views on Evolution, VIII. Influence of the Evolution Idea,… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1911. 12 mo. 307 pgs. Very Good hardcover. Top edge gilt. Red cloth, gilt spine and cover decoration. Light edge and corner wear and spotty fading to cloth. Illustrated frontis and seven additional black and white plates by George Gibbs. Text clean and unmarked. #223.. Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by George Gibbs. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1998. 8vo. 276 pgs. First Edition. Fine hardcover in Fine dust jacket. Author's second novel, a story of female violence, fear and resourcefulness. ISBN 0609601091. #1014.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Glasglow: William Gilmour, Jun. & Co. vii.106+pgs. Very Good condition wine-colored cloth hardcover. Faint spotting to front cloth as pictured, otherwise clean, sound and unmarked within. Not dated. Circa 1927. [Bound in with title page is a warning statement from the Preservatives Act of 1927 banning the use of salicylic acid as a preservative while allowing sulphur dioxide or benzoic acid]. Very uncommon. Collection of recipes for the "Trade" gathered into sections: British Fermented Wnes, Alcoholic Cordials and Liqueurs, Brandy, Gin, Rum, Whisky, Bitters. Plain Syrups, Non-Alcoholic Cordials and Wines, Syrups for Aerated Beverages, Fruit Syrups, Brewed Ales, Stout, Etc. Book #2601.. No Additional or Previous Printings. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - 5 x 7.25 Inches.

Oregon: Timber Press, 1993. 8vo. vi.139 pgs. Near Fine hardbound in Fine dust jacket. Very faint shelf rubbing to bottom edges, else fine. Illustrated throughout with water colors by Fay Anderson and line drawings by Margo Branch. Concise yet systematic study of these South African perennial irises. Contents include: preface, introduction, history, morphology, characteristics, phylogeny and evolution, geology, ecology and speciation, cultivation, Nivenia (species), Klattia (species), Wistenia (species), excluded species (Proteaceae), glossary, bibliography and index of scientific names. Author was recently awarded the prestigious Herbert Medal by the International Bulb Society for his lifetime of work in the study of the Iridaceae.The Herbert Medal, named for pioneer geneticist and plant breeder William Herbert, is the highest honor the Society can bestow. ISBN 0881922331. #1040.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by Fay Anderson, Margo Branch. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More