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By: N/A
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Wells Gardner... 1906.:
Seller ID: 81186
4to. Bound in original bright rd cloth. Sm.remains of a label on fr.and back endpaper. Very good. Nice bright copy. 3 col. plates. Numerous b/w ills., many of which are full-page (incl. one of a diver: “It became necessary to descend the shaft”). 412 pp./ cat. 32 pp. A.e.g. Contains: Round the Camp-fire (Matable) / Stories from Africa / The Giant of the Treasure Caves / Marvels of Man’s Making (Victoria Falls, etc.) / etc; View more info
By: “BB”: WATKINS-PITCHFORD, D. J.:
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Hollis and Carter, 1948 1st edition:
Seller ID: 80501
Hardback, 10 x 8 inches. Light blue cloth with silver lettering to spine and front. Top edges red. In very good condition. Spine and edges of boards faded. Some minor handling marks to cloth. Some light foxing to free endpapers. Inside pages all very clean and tight. 141pp. Illustrated with 15 colour plates. View more info
By: “JEHU JUNIOR”
Price: £300.00
Publisher: London, “Vanity Fair” Office, 1880:
Seller ID: 78374
Large hardback, folio size, approx 16 x 11 inches. Green bevelled cloth with gilt lettering and floral decoration to boards and spine,blind embossed on rear cover. All edges gilt. In very good condition. Lovely bright clean cloth. Some minor bumps and rubbing to corners and ends of spine, ends of spine slightly nicked. Some light rubbing to cloth, Two bumped holes in cloth on rear board. “David Bryce & Son, Glasgow” bookseller label to front endpaper. A c... View more info
By: "SNAFFLES":
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Gale & Polden Ltd.:
Seller ID: 79300
Large hardback, 4to. 12.5 x 10 inches. Beige cloth with tinted plate on front cover. In very good condition. Corners and edges slightly bumped and rubbed. Some minor handling to boards. Some light foxing to title and prelim pages. Foxing to outer page edges. Neat inscription to front endpaper “To Bill, from Isabelle, Christmas 1930.” Else a very clean and tight copy. Profusely illustrated by Snaffles, including 28 tinted, mostly full-page plates. Contents i... View more info
By: (ALDIN, CECIL) / IRVING, WASHINGTON / STEELE, RICHARD:
Price: £75.00
Publisher: William Heinemann. 1909.:
Seller ID: 73129
Size 5.0 x 6.75 inches. In brown hard card covers with colour plate pasted to front. In very good condition. Spine slightly rubbed with small piece missing from bottom end. Slightly rubbed around edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1912. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. 30pp. With 3 colour plates tipped in and b/w illustrations in text. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin. Scarce. View more info
By: (BROCK, C.E.); ELIOT, George:
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London / New York J. M. Dent & Co. / E. P. Dutton & Co. 1905:
Seller ID: 80088
Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In light green cloth with gilt lettering and extensive gilt decorations to spine and front. With decorative endpapers. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Small nicks to corners of spine. Endpapers slightly darkened. Side and bottom page edges rough cut. Inside pages very clean and tight throughout. A very nice copy. 262pp. 24 colour plates & decorative title page by C. M. Brock. View more info
By: (CRANE, WALTER) MARZIALS, T:
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons , 1883 (1st.):
Seller ID: 78636
Hardback, Oblong, 8vo. 12.5 x 9 inches. Maroon cloth binding to spine, bevel edge boards with decorative paper covers. In good condition. Cover is a little worn with rubbing to edges and chips/bumps to corners. Spine rubbed and nicked at ends with a couple of small splits to cloth. Some darkening to endpapers, neat inscription to top of half-title page “H.M.M. Oct 1882.” Some rubbing and a couple of small tears to edges of endpapers. Some minor darkening to e... View more info
By: (HUDSON, Gwynedd M.) CARROLL, Lewis:
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd. (n.d.).:
Seller ID: 79648
Hardback, 4to; approx 10 x 8 inches. Red cloth cover with gilt lettering to front and spine and decorative gilt pictorial design. In red dustwrapper with colour plate to front and black lettering. Illustrations to endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW, spine and edges rubbed and faded, small nicks to corners. Colour plate on front clean and bright. In protective sleeve.) Cloth is faded with some heavy fading around edges of front board with da... View more info
Price: £125.00
Publisher: London, Published at The Office, 1867 - 1874.:
Seller ID: 80475
8 parts bound in 1. Hardback, Tall 8vo. approx 11 x 8 inches. In full calf leather binding, diced patterned boards with blind embossed and gilt decorative panelling. Black leather spine label, with gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges, some handling marks to boards. Minor chips to top ends of spine, with small split to front hinge nr top end. Some light foxing to endpapers. The odd minor spot t... View more info
By: (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM:
Price: £300.00
Publisher: William Heinemann, London. 1908 1st edition:
Seller ID: 77156
Tall 8vo. (10 x 7.5 inches.) Beige pictorial cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With gilt vignette to front. In very good condition. Spine darkened and bumped at ends, two small nicks to front edge. Small marks and darkening to edges of boards. Mild foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Colour plates all present and clean and bright. Occasional foxing spots. Else a very clean and tight copy. A beautifully illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s play. 134pp... View more info
By: (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) SWIFT, JONATHAN:
Price: £100.00
Publisher: London, The Temple Press, 1937 1st thus.:
Seller ID: 78638
Hardback, 9 x 7 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt decorative lettering to spine and blind embossed lettering to front. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW darkened with some heavy foxing spots to rear, chips to corners and edges. In protective sleeve.) Some minor rubbing to corners else cloth clean and bright. Some slight darkening between endpaper and to title page else inside pages very clean and tight throughout. Plat... View more info
By: (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) WALTON, IZAAK:
Price: £95.00
Publisher: London. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1931 1st thus edition:
Seller ID: 77354
Hardback. 4to; approx 10 x 7.5 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and gilt lettering and gilt fish design to front. Top edges gilt. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, slight rubbing to corners and front board. Spine faded, boards a little darkened. Endpapers and half-title page slightly darkened, else inside pages very clean and tight throughout. 224pp; Pictorial endpapers; 12 colour plates (with tissue guards) & many B&W illu... View more info
By: (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) WALTON, IZAAK:
Price: £220.00
Publisher: London. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1931 1st thus edition:
Seller ID: 81239
Hardback. 4to; approx 10 x 7.5 inches. In full brown morocco leather binding with gilt lettering to spine and front, and decorative embossed-paneled front board. Top edges gilt. Illustrated endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spine. A couple of minor handling marks to boards. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions. Inside pages all exceptionally clean, bright and tight throughout. No internal or external foxing at all. 224pp; Ill... View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph, 1954 1st edition:
Seller ID: 77464
Hardback, 10 x 7.5 ins. Half bound in red and grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illustration to front corner. In original dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (DW some marks, corners torn, some minor tears to edges.) corners slightly bumped, edges of boards faded. Felt pen inscription to rear endpaper “H.E.S.” Some minor foxing along top edge of frontis and title page, small crease to bottom corner of frontis plate. A coupl... View more info
By: AIKEN, Joan;
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape. 1968 1st:
Seller ID: 75670
10 x 7 ins. In blue cloth with black lettering and design to fornt and spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrap. (DW in plastic sleeve, edges/corners rubbed, spine a little faded, ink mark nr top of spine.) Inside pages clean and tight throughout with no marks or isncriptions. Cloth clean and unmarked. 107pp. B&W and full-page colour illustrations. View more info
By: ALDIN, CECIL:
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd. 1933 1st thus:
Seller ID: 74491
Large volume approx 13 x 10 inches. In blue cloth with yellow/cream lettering to front and spine. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges of cloth and minor bumps to corners. Inside some very minor foxing to endpapers else inside pages in fine condition. 17 colour plates & many b/w ills. 123 pp. Folding colour map at rear. View more info
By: ALDIN, CECIL;
Price: £120.00
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1930 (2nd.impr.).:
Seller ID: 77926
Lg.4to; Hardback, 12 x 9 .5 ins. Blue cloth lettered in light blue. In very good condition. Some rubbing to corners and edges, corners a little bumped. Endpapers darkened. A couple of very minor marks to pages, mounted plates all clean and bright. ---- Devoted solely to Cracker (bull- terrier, and probably Aldin's favourite dog) and Micky (wolfhound - by the time of writing he was credited with being the third largest dog in the British Isles). 20 coloured plates,... View more info
By: ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN: LEYSSAC, Paul:
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., 1937 1st:
Seller ID: 80333
Hardback, 8.5 x 6 inches. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial vignette to front. top edges gilt. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Spine faded and darkened, ends of spine nicked, edges and corners rubbed. some marks to rear board, some fading to cloth. Inscribed and signed on front endpaper by Translator Paul Lessac “To Miss Phyllis Hartmall, with sincere good wishes, Paul Leyssac, 25 Nov 1937.” 338pp + 2pp cat. With Original B&W i... View more info
By: ANDRE:
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston Searle & Rivington, ca1881:
Seller ID: 78635
Hardback, 10 x 7.5 inches. Brown cloth binding to spine, illustrated paper covered boards. Floral endpapers. In very good condition. Cover is a little worn with rubbing to edges and chips/bumps to corners. Spine rubbed and nicked at ends with a couple of small splits to cloth. Some darkening to endpapers, neat inscription to top of half-title page. A couple of old glue repairs to binding. A couple of minor handling marks else pages very clean and tight. 32pp. Each page i... View more info
By: ARDLEY, Patricia B.: ARDLEY, E.C.:
Price: £32.00
Publisher: London, Collins, 1939 1st edition:
Seller ID: 81363
Oblong hardback, 11.5 x 9 inches. Halfbound in yellow illustrated paper covered boards and cream cloth binding to spine. In illustrated yellow dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW, some darkening, tear to spine and rear top edge, crease to rear, in protective sleeve.) Some minor darkening to covers under wrapper, some minor rubbing to edges and slight bumps to corners. Some minor darkening to endpapers with neat pencil inscription “To... View more info