Jonathan Cape. First edition, first issue. DW. Flat signed by author to title page, no other inscriptions or dedications. Near fine in wrapper. View More...
First Edition. No DW. Slim 4to. Paper covered illustrated boards. Illustrated throughout. Boards very slightly soiled, spine sunned and pulled at head, extremities rubbed o/w contents clean. VG. View More...
Todd Publishing Company London. c1945. Small square 8vo. Hardback. No DW. Illustrated boards. Colour illustrations. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Generally a clean and sound copy. View More...
Cream decorated boards with tipped in illustration. No DW. 8vo. 64pp plus 2pp. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations within text. Some wear to boards with spine joint exposed and tear (repaired). Foxing to endpapers, margin of pages 21/22 torn without affecting text. One illustration neatly coloured in yellow o/w a nice copy. VG. View More...
Macmillan and Co. London. 1937. First edition, UK. No DW. Original red cloth gilt, edges lightly rubbed, spine lightly faded. Pages slightly toned with light foxing to margins of endpapers otherwise a very clean and sound copy. View More...
Hildesheimer & Faulkner. No date [1885]. First edition. Landscape 8vo. Original illustrated boards, rubbed to edges. Worn green cloth backstrip. Illustrated with wonderfully bright chromo-lithos. sadly one on page 36 damaged by damp and lacks small portions and also has parts of text from opposite page stuck to centre of illustration. Also many sepia plates and illustrations to text. Front hinge re-enforced with white paper. Pages foxed, mainly to prelims and margins, occasional marks to pages otherwise a sound copy of a lovely item. View More...
Cambridge University Press. 1928. No DW. First edition. Original green cloth Boards are slightly spotted and has worn paper label to spine, with a perfect spare copy of paper label to rear of book. WOODCUT BOOKPLATE OF ISAAC FOOT to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned otherwise a clean and sound copy of a scarce item. Foot, the father of Michael, built up a library of over 70,000 books at his home near Callington and would wake at five in the morning in order to read them. In old age he taught himself Greek, so as to read the New Testament in the original View More...
First Edition. Red cloth, gilt. No DW. 124pp. Illustrated. Slight wear to boards. Gift inscription and occasional mark and crease to contents o/w sound. VG. View More...
Macmillan And Co. London. 1934. Reprint. Hardback with wrapper. Internally a clean and sound copy. Wrapper is sunned to spine and worn at extremities with some tape repairs to verso. View More...
