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8vo., Second Edition, with plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO AN UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 792). Limited reissue of the original edition of 1936.
8vo., Sole Edition, on laid paper; decorative cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, very neatly and skilfully recased with new endpapers to style, a near fine copy in the original tissue dustwrapper. very scarce. This is the brightest copy we have seen. Brockett, 15430.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; navy cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. Classic account of mid-Victorian childhood near Farnham, Surrey, by the author of 'The Wheelwright's Shop' and other works.
8vo., Second Impression, with 15 plates on 8, and illustrations and musical scores in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in 1971. The well-known folk-singer's account of his family farm at Rottingdean was awarded the Robert Pitman Literary Prize.
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and 16 plates on 14, free endpapers lightly spotted; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Valuable and very readable account of nineteenth century life on a large farmstead at Saddlescombe in Sussex. This is the much-needed re-issue (itself now hard to find) of the original edition published by Dent in 1938.
8vo., with photographs, illustrations and maps; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 5 plates on 3 and a double-page plate, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one tape repair on front panel and medium-size piece (not affecting text) missing from rear panel. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
8vo., with frontispiece and several maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a litrtle frayed at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy. Printed in advance from 'Field Studies', Vol. I, No. 3 with altered pagination.
Octavo. Pp. Bound in the original printed stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused. ~ First edition. Doctoral dissertation. With a dedication by the Author to the scholar Professor Frits Vos (1918-2000).
First edition, 8vo (178 x 110mm) viii, 151, [1] + 4pp., of adverts, folding frontispiece, additional title page, 8 engraved plates, orig. embossed cloth, gilt, head of spine repaired with overlaid cloth, foot frayed.
Portrait-frontispiece, 3 other portraits and a 1 monument plate, all foxed on outer margins, 4pp list of subscribers, 2 folding pedigrees, the final leaf is an advert., lvi, 441, [1] pp., contemporary calf, covers detached, with the bookplate of Percy Walter Lewis Adams, Adams of Greenfield, nr. Tunsatll, Wolstanton, Co. Stafford.
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, green top, fore-edge mildly spotted else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper lightly rubbed at edges. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and numerous fine illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; pale green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of the author's delightfully written and illustrated account of a pre-war walk through the Wealden countryside from Lewes to Clayton. Many of the buildings and scenes depicted are scarcely changed. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
4to., First Edition, with a title-vignette and 19 charming illustrations (7 full-page); cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities. Nice copy of the author's delightfully written and illustrated account of a pre-war walk through the Wealden countryside from Lewes to Clayton. Many of the buildings and scenes depicted are scarcely changed.
8vo., First Edition, with pates and illustrations in the text; tan cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 130 mm), [2], xi, [3], 50pp., with half-title, lithographed frontispiece, neat stamp to title page, rebacked quarter blue calf, orig. marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, a nice copy. Provenance: From the Norfolk library of Ron Fiske with his bookplate.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. Well-written and illustrated account of the author's childhood and adolescence in Oxfordshire and Scotland during the 20s and 30s. Scarce, especially in this condition.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wrappers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
First edition, royal 8vo (260 x 170 mm), [8], [8, list of subscribers], [9]-370, 38, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, 14 engravings in the text, orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to spine, uncut, a very good copy.
12mo, 177, [3, index]pp., hand-coloured engraved folding map, 2 engraved plates, original printed wrappers bound-in a rear, nineteenth-century red calf, head and foot of spine slightly frayed otherwise and nice copy.
First Edition, 4to, viii,[i],[10]-111[i.e. 119],[1],ii,xviii,[4]pp., irregular pagination: 59*-60*, 75*-76* and 109*-111*, errata leaf pasted to verso of dedication leaf, one of 100 copies printed, signed by Peck on the title page, folded map frontispiece, 8 engraved plates, several engravings in the text, title printed in red and black, some light spotting, closed tear to U1, orig. boards, re-backed, uncut. A rare topographical work. William Peck, originally from Epworth in Lincolnshire, set up business as a Druggist in Bawtry from where he wrote his history.
First edition, small 4to (260 x 160 mm), xliv, 227, [1]pp., LARGE PAPER COPY, Dr. W. G. Hoskins copy, double-page coloured map of Leicestershire before the title (linen-backed with extra large margin), original blue cloth, hinges frayed in places, printed paper label on spine, uncut, a firm clean copy.
Philadelphia, 1807. Samt. blankt omslag, ryg repareret. VII,131 pp. Lettere brunplettet.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with 48 plate-reproductions (a number double-page) of Moll's maps, endpapers and fore-edges lightly spotted; marbled boards, cloth backs gilt, gilt tops, uncut, white cloth backs mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES. The first complete reissue since 1778 of a work of enormous importance to the scholar of eighteenth century England. In it Defoe writes of the social habits of the people, and the products, industry, trade and commerce of the various parts of the country, as well as describing the various places of historic or other importance.
London, 1776. Cont.hcalf. Gilt back. Hinges in lower part of back cracking. IV,411 pp. Brownspotted throughout.