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0446307939.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
192363534London: Jonathan Cape 1923. First Edition. First impression. Autographed letter tipped on to front pastedown addressed to a C.L.P. Scott Cambridge dated January 1924. Octavo; deep olive cloth titled in black on spine and front cover; frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of color plates; text illus. A straight tight copy somewhat foxed at prelims; Very Good lacking the dustwrapper. <br /> <br /> A charming book on the identification of various seagoing vessels based on the silhouettes they present at sea "and to offer a lookoutman's comments on their character and habits and tempers." The brief ca. 60-word letter on "Anchor Line" stationery concerns the hull colors of ships on the CPR Canadian Pacific Railroad Line. Jonathan Cape unknown
1025809491.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1923377715New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1923. Hudson Rodmell H illustrator. 8vo. Cloth. Bookplate "Bought at the High Seas Bookshop R.M.S. Translyvania". Hudson Rodmell H illustrator. 8vo. Inscribed on ffep to John D. Whiting with portrait dated 1928 by Gladys Miller tipped in. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
1925WRCLIT60973London: Jonathan Cape 1925. Quarto. Cloth paper labels. Drawings and plates. First edition. Gift inscription in corner of front free endsheet usual tan offset to endsheets otherwise a very good copy on lightly worn and soiled dust jacket with a few short tears. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1928192162Alfred A. Knopf 1928. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1928 new edition. Wrapped dust jacket has several open tears the largest of which is about 3 x1.5 inches and toning. Black cloth boards and binding are good. Front free endpaper has a name and date in script. Pages are clean and unmarked with lightly toned edges. LO Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
7218BONE Muirhead. BONE James. THE LONDON PERAMBULATOR. New York: Knopf 1925. 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece xii 195 1 pages 15 plates. First American edition. A London walking tour describing public buildings shops and neighborhoods w much of architectural interest illustrated by Muirhead Bone. Binding sunned and rubbed. unknown books
192822633NY: Knopf 1928. New edn. Muirhead Bone. 8vo pp. 195. Owner's signature and date on flyleaf o/w a good tight copy inworn dj. A description of the people the buildings the inns the clubs the atmosphere of the city. Knopf unknown books
192522853NY: knopf 1925. Muirhead jBone. Large 8vo pp. 195. Paper little yellowed o/w a good tight copy in a torn remnant of dj. Impressions of London gathered from 20 years of living in the city. knopf unknown books
67290hardcover. Illustrated throughout with plates by Muirhead Bone. 195pp. Short 4to cloth. N.Y.: Knopf 1925. A very good copy.<br/><br/> unknown books
192575957London: Jonathan Cape 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Muirhead Bone. 16 full pages b/w illustrations from etchings and drawings by Muirhead Bone. Jacket has a few small chips and nicks and short closed tear. Size: Quarto. Illustrator: Muirhead Bone. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Inventory No: 75957. . Jonathan Cape hardcover
1925054353New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - 11 x 9 Inches Tall. Illustrations by Muirhead Bone. LOW Sir David Alexander Cecil Low 1891-1963 . FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. NEW YORK : 1925. Printed using Caslon Old Face type. Printed at the Southworth Press Portland Maine. Bound by The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. Author presentation copy. PLUS Christmas Card. Hardback. Frontispiece and 15 other full-page black and white illustrations by the author's brother Muirhead Bone. Dark-blue cloth; gilt lettered spine. Top-edge gilt; others untrimmed as issued. Top corners bumped. Bright tight and clean. INSCRIBED five-line inscription by the author to fly-leaf dated December 1925. INSERTED; a Christmas Card from Jim & Annie Bone; plus another general card form them. PLUS cartoon published posthumously by LOW 1946; of Bone pushing a Pram with London landmarks inside. No internal markings. Minor wear. VERY GOOD. xii 195 pages. Scarce association copy. JAMES BONE CH 16 May 1872 - 23 November 1962 was a British journalist most notably London correspondent for the Manchester Guardian for 33 years. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1947. He was also the primary author of 4 travel books one about Glasgow one about Edinburgh and two about London. Born in Glasgow Bone's parents were journalist David Drummond Bone 1851-1911 and his wife Elizabeth Millar Crawford 1847-1886. His brothers included Sir Muirhead Bone the artist and Captain Sir David Bone author and mariner. He married Anne McGavigan in 1903; they had no children. Bone was a boyhood friend of 'Bard of the Yukon' Robert W. Service who also was brought up in Glasgow's West End in Roxburgh Street while Bone lived close by in Buckingham Terrace. After leaving school aged 14 Bone worked briefly for the Laird Line which operated passenger and trade routes between Scotland and Ireland before joining his father at the North British Daily Mail. When this newspaper was taken over in 1901 he left and temporarily pursued a freelance career writing reports for the Glasgow Herald Daily Record and the Glasgow Evening Times. Also in 1901 to coincide with the Glasgow International Exhibition 1901 Bone's first book Glasgow in 1901 was published under the pseudonym James Hamilton Muir a name formed from his own name and those of his co-author and friend Archibald Hamilton Charteris the nephew of Scottish theologian Archibald Charteris and his brother the book's illustrator Muirhead Bone. In 1902 he started work at the London office of the Manchester Guardian where in 1912 he became the London correspondent writing a regular column his London Letter in which he related events from London in an informal way. The 3 other books by Bone are : The London Perambulator 1925 illustrated by Muirhead Bone The Perambulator in Edinburgh 1926 illustrated by E.S. Lumsden and London Echoing 1948 illustrated by Muirhead Bone. Bone retired in 1945. His wife died in 1950 but Bone lived to see his 90th birthday in 1962 receiving birthday messages from Queen Elizabeth II President John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. He died on 23 November 1962. Folio; approx. 11 x 9 inches. Heavy; extra potage needed outside the UK. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR WITH INSERTS. BONE James 1872-1962 Bone Muirhead Sir 1876-1953 <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1925415620London : Jonathan Cape 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine paper-labelled cloth copy: a rare example in a very good slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 7-184 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Subjects; Travel. London England Description and travel. London England Description and travel 20th century ; Guidebooks. Guides. Topography. London : Jonathan Cape hardcover
1925142132London: Jonathan Cape Limited 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Jonathan Cape Limited 1925. Quarto 184 pages plus a frontispiece and 15 illustrations from drawings by Muirhead Bone. Cloth with a printed paper title label mounted on the front cover and spine; front cover lightly sunned toward the foot; cloth slightly rubbed and bumped; leading and bottom edges uncut and substantially unopened; endpapers lightly tanned; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little tanned on the spine and chipped and torn with slight loss chiefly to the top edge. Jonathan Cape Limited hardcover
1925202286London: Jonathan Cape Limited 1925. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Bone Muirhead. 184 pages with 16 black and white illustrations. Red cloth covers with black titles top and base of spine lower edge bumped ffep frep yellowed page edges yellowed Very Good. Beige paper dust jacket with black titles edges spine faded lightly worn 1 cm tear to top edge of front cover top and base of spine chipped and worn top corners chipped Good. <br/> <br/> Jonathan Cape Limited hardcover
19251855559358Jonathan Cape 1925. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings.Scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Dust jacket is wrapped in mylar. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1931990W21London; Toronto;: Jonathan Cape; Hodder and Stoughton; J. M. Dent 1931; 1946; 1951; 1962. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8.5" by 6"; 8" by 6". Muirhead Bone; Not Stated. A 4 volume set of uncommon works on the history and social geography of London all in original dust wrappers. A 4 volume set of uncommon works all in their original dust wrappers. Volume 2 and 3 dust wrappers unclipped. Volume 1 dust wrapper clipped but original price still present.Each volume features multiple illustrations. Volumes 1-3 feature monochrome frontispieces and many further plates:volume 1 features 15 further monochrome plates. Collated complete.Volume 2 features 30 further unlisted monochrome double side plates.Volume 3 features 15 further monochrome plates. Collated complete.Volume 4 features 8 illustrations across 4 double sided plates in addition to vividly-colour illustrated endpapers. Collated complete.All volume reprints of the original popular works apart from volume 4 which is a first edition. Bound in original cloth all in original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally very smart. Small area of fading to vol1 head. Fading to vol2 spine and boards. Endpapers occasionally spotty. Former owner's ink inscription to vol3 front free endpaper. Bookseller sticker to vol2 front paste down. Vol2 and vol3 dust wrappers unclipped. Vol1 dust wrapper clipped but original price still present. Closed tears to vol2 and vol3 dust wrappers. Age toning chipping and occasional spotting to dust wrappers. Sunning to vol 2 and 4 spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Vol1 pages occasionally spotty and occasional spotting to text block edges. Very Good Indeed Jonathan Cape; Hodder and Stoughton; J. M. Dent hardcover
GB0008B7F1II3N00Jonathan Cape Ltd. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Jonathan Cape Ltd hardcover
19276339London England: Jonathan Cape 1927. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. with 2 letters from James Bone laid in. Octavo 8 1/4" tall 184 pages three-quarter calf five-banded spine with marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers gilt spine titles and gilt top and bottom fore-edge. A very good clean hardcover with leather rubbed at all corners hinges and binding tight paper just lightly yellowed. Illustrated with 16 full-page B&W illustrations including frontispiece by Muirhead Bone. Laid in are two handwritten letters one to Collin Brooks and signed by the author dated 1951 and the second to the author signed by his sister and dated 1947. Though a later printing this is a fine binding and made special by the accompanying handwritten letters. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1167260899.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1120976359.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
195332684London: Dent 1953. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Ruse mark from paperclip on front board pastedown and endpaper else a very good hardback in a tanned ajcket. <br/><br/> Dent hardcover books
1953K302357London: J M Dent & Sons. 1953. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. chipped dust jacket c64pp. col & b/w illus. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket with minimal chips J M Dent & Sons. unknown
443544J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London. Hardcover. Poor. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. The Little Boy and his House. Stephen Bone and Mary Adshead. J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London. First edition. 1936. 60pp. Large format hardback in Poor condition for its near 90 years of use but complete covers are navy blue with lettering in black on white together with colour drawings of scenes from the book ; it IS complete still but covers are almost detached and some pages hinged with old sellotape to keep it together ; page 59/60 is detached but still intact ; it is worn along the edges and corners and the spine is missing with only some of the backing left ; the front cover and title page are both scribbled on and so are some othe J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London hardcover
1953763R35London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1953. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 10.5" by 8". Stephen Bone; Mary Adshead. A charmingly illustrated work detailing a boating adventure complete with a well-preserved dust wrapper. This work tells of a Little Boy living on an island along with his friend seeking the advice of a Master Mariner on boating.A companion volume to 'The Little Boy and his House'.This work was penned by Stephen Bone and Mary Adshead a husband and wife who both had illustrious careers as painters and writers.Beautifully illustrated by the authors with bright and colourful illustrations. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart with some discolouration and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Dust wrapper is sunned to the spine and has large chips from the head and tail of the spine with a number of small tears to the covers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. hardcover