Quarto. Bound in beige buckram, gilt to upper board. Top edge gilt. The family name and history is completely blank and would make an ideal gift. The boards are slightly soiled, the endpapers very lightly browned and some very occasional light foxing throughout. VG+. View More...
Snowdon Mountain Tramway & Hotels. 1923. First edition. Paperback. Illustrated. A lovely copy that lacks small portion from head of spine. View More...
George Routledge. London. N.d.(c1870) Hardback NO DW. Square 8vo. 313pp. Illustrated throughout by the best of Victorian artists. Original decorated green cloth gilt, head and tail of spine frayed, contents slightly shaken, some browning and foxing to pages but generally a clean and sound copy of a lovely collection of tales and illustrations. View More...
W. & R. Chambers. London and Edinburgh. 1888. Reprint. Original decorative blue cloth gilt, slightly dulled and worn. Stamp of ref. library - no other library marks. Head and tail of spine crumpled. Very attractively patterned endpapers. Engraved frontis. of courtroom with tissue guard. Some pages slightly thumbed. Generally a clean and sound copy. View More...
George Routledge and Sons. No date, circa 1880. Tall slim 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt, wth mounted chromo-litho coloured plate to upper board with decorative gilt and black borders. 96 pages with an illustration to each page together with descriptive text. Inner hinge cracked in centre but binding relatively sound. Boards slightly rubbed and soiled. Small neat ownership stamps to front endpapers which are slightly worn and chipped to lower edge. Occasional foxing and browning to pages otherwise a clean copy of a scarce and attractive item. View More...
W.M. Clark, London. ND c.1860. Hardback. Half tan calf over marbled boards, raised bands, faded gilt title to spine. Colour plates and b&w drawings. Lacks plate xciv from Appendix. Plate xciii has been bound into end of Vol.1, as per 'Directions to Binder' at rear of book. Female figure opposite title page of Vol. 1 missing. 733pp. (Vol.2 begins at p.349.) Head of spine is rubbed and worn, as are edges and corners. Top corner of upper board has lost surface of leather. Small patch of the marbling midway down the outer edge of upper board also lost. Internally, hinge showing at front and re... View More...
Red cloth, blind-tooled and decorated. No DW. 32 black and white photographs, all folding out as one page. 4.5cm tear along first fold o/w a lovely volume. VG+. View More...
Photograph album of Schell Ranch, Washington, showing with colour photographs and maps, the areas for purchase. Boards slightly soiled o/w contents clean. VG. View More...
Adlard & Son & West Newman Ltd. London. 1919. First edition. Original limp art-vellum covers, worn along edges and slightly soiled. A sewn 40 page booklet. 6 photographic plates, edges and title page foxed otherwise contents clean and fresh. SCARCE. View More...
The Bodley Head. London. 1959. DW. From the front flap you would suppose this book was written by a young woman, who for ten months was a prostitute in the West End of London. Many believe this to have been written as a work of fiction by Jonathan Gash [Jonathan Grant] If this is true, as Harrington's believe, it is his first work and predates the first Lovejoy novel by 18 years. Gash did work as a GP and doctor in London so... The book in addition to the normal pink plain wrapper which is messily price-clipped has a very well done handmade cover-story wrapper - wittily titled "Komm-Mit No Nui... View More...
Original gilt red cloth. vii [i] and 77pp [2pp]. 15 b/w photos. Extremities slightly worn. Corners slightly bumped. Head and tail of spine crumpled. Spine slightly sunned. A lovely copy of this scarce book. View More...
Publisher:
Edinburgh: Printed by William Brown and John Mosman, the Assigns of James Watson, deceast, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 1724
Seller ID: 34073
First edition. 562, 114, [vii]pp. Bound in full contemporary calf, lower hinge cracked but sound. Slight worming in two places affecting a few internal pages, now deceasd. Generally a clean and sound volume. View More...
W. Peacock, London. 1795. Second edition. 12mo. Dark blue full leather binding, gilt to spine and dentelles. Gilt edges. Six fold-out maps with coloured outlines, and one fold-out plate of solar system. Introduction of 33pp, but dictionary unpaginated. The spine is well-rubbed, and a little further wear to extremities. Lovely blue marbled endpapers. Interior is clean and tight. This is a fascinating volume of its day, and generally in lovely condition. View More...
The Sixth edition, Corrected and Improved. Half brown calf, marbled boards. Folding plate. 799pp. 2 columns. Lacks one page: - The Hebrew Grammar at One View. Insect damage to rear end papers. Pencil annotations to verso of final page, with no loss. Small stain to lower board o/w internally a very clean copy. View More...
Thomas Nelson, London. c1958. NO DW. Illustrated boards with red cloth backstrip. Colour illustrations throughout. A few marks to boards o/w a very nice copy and extremities a little rubbed and worn. VG. View More...
Elephant Editions, London. 1999. 47 page saddle-stitched pamphlet in yellow card cover with paper illustrated title-piece tipped-in to front cover. Very clean and sound. View More...
Third edition. iii, 203pp. + 190pp. of itinerary + 2 very large folding maps + 8 engraved plates. Bound in red russian morocco. Boards and extremities rubbed and worn. Some occasional foxing and browning to pages o/w contents clean and sound. View More...
12mo. Orig grey limp bds. hand sewn binding. Edge wear to bds., Pages unopened o/w VG+. From the library of Charles Batey of the Oxford University Press. View More...
Publisher:
The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire. 1960
Seller ID: 28234
First edition. DW. Quarto. lxvi, 287pp. + 82 plates at rear. Frontis. + Illustrated throughout. Endpapers lightly foxed o/w Nr. fine/VG+ in wrapper that has small closed tear to bottom margin of upper panel and is slightly worn at extremities. ISBN 0117007552. View More...
One volume only. Half red calf, gilt decorations to spine, faded marbled boards. Frontis. Engraved illustrations. Some occasional pen and pencil annotations with no loss. Some browning to outer edges o/w a charming copy. VG. View More...
Cymdaithas y Traethodau, London. ND. c.1850. Full red calf, gilt to spine. 9x14.5cm. Lettering to spine, which is a little sunned: AMRYW. Two volumes in one. Illustrations. English Translation of Welsh title: Customs and Rituals of the Jews and other nations mentioned in the Bible. Name of previous owner, in beautiful script, to front endpaper. Extensive handwritten notes in Welsh to blank pages to front and rear. A lovely little book. View More...
First edition. Small 8vo. Illustrated. Frontis. + illustration opposite pp.30 have been coloured unskillfully. Original blind decorated cloth, gilt extra. Boards and spine sunned and soiled, rubbed at extremities. Lacks front endpaper o/w contents clean and sound. VG. View More...
First Edition. No DW. 12mo landscape. 74pp. Colour illustrations. Original grey boards, colour illustration laid down to upper. Head and tail of spine bumped, extremities rubbed. Lacks front free endpaper. Contents very clean and bright. VG. View More...
