Morrison, Robin; Arnold, WendyMareMagnum
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Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 96 pages, filled with large, full color photos of lavish interiors of such places as the Athenaeum apartment, Mayfair, Basil St. hotel, Knightsbridge, 11 Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea, Ebury Court, Belgravia, Montcalm, Marble Arch, Ritz, Piccadilly, Stafford, St. James, etc.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, neat contemporary inscripotion on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
1ère édition de l'ouvrage du journaliste et écrivain Charles CANIVET (1839-1911) sur l'histoire des "colonies perdues" et de leurs "héros [...] abandonnés": le Canada et le marquis de Montcalm, l'Inde et Dupleix, sur fond de considérations sur la rivalité coloniale avec l'Angleterre; illustrée de "65 gravures sur bois"; extrait du catalogue éditeur in fine. Français
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red buckram, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt, gilt back, dark top, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's notable 'British Battles' series.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, a coloured plate and 29 plates in monochrome; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. With the errata slip facing p.190. Collects three extended essays: 'The Likeness of Wolfe' (Kerslake), 'The Genealogy of James Wolfe' (Wagner), 'James Wolfe: A Chronology' (Shaw-Zambra). Includes several plates of uniform, pedigrees and comprehensive historical tables. Very scarce.
Features: Delta County, Colorado Sheep War; Concords in Africa? - Stage Coaches were used in Africa too!; A Golden Jesus - Famed artifact of the Henry Mountains; The Stringfield Massacre - McMullen County, Texas; How about living in a Bank? - the Christy Building, formerly the Ness County Bank building in Scott City, Kansas; Queenie Danced Naked at the Convention of the Panhandle and Southwestern Stockmen's Association in Oklahoma City in 1914; Desert Cowboy - Sam Cuddeback, the last of the Mojave's early-day riders; War Horse No. 9 - Montcalm and Mr. Auclair; Old Red Mountain City, Montana; Panhandle Outlaw - Shine Popejoy; All of us Thorps could Ride! - a Washington state/Yakima Valley family; Wild Old Days!; Methods of Boys on the Hustle;A Con-Man's Christmas Carol. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
12 pages. Illustration of the "Empress of Scotland" on front cover. A very detailed fare guide which describes various classes of sailings from Montreal and Quebec to Southampton, Cherbourg, Hamburg, Liverpool, Belfast-Glasgow, and Antwerp. Average external wear and fading soiling. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage item. Book
