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8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at extremities. Edwardian village life in Worcestershire's Vale of Evesham
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and very numerous photographs and maps (a number fill-page) in the text; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Includes Declaration of a Freeman, Table of Fees, List of Benefactors, List of Plate. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 7 coloured plates and 12 plates in monochrome, half-title browned; mid-blue cloth, upper board framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, covers unevenly sunned, backstrip faded (but all lettering entirely legible in blind), a good, firm copy. The last of Thomas's works, published a few months after his death at Arras in April 1917. The first UK edition (4 October) follows that of the US (22 September). See Eckert pp. 238-240.
4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title-spread and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; blue cloth,gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Impression thus, with a frontispiece and 32 plates on 25; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Nice copy of Hughes' classic trilogy comprising A London Child of the Seventies (1934), A London Girl of the Eighties (1936) and A London Home in the Nineties (1937). First published as a single volume in the previous year.
Vg (no dj, marbled orange boards with brown cloth backstrip, ex-owner's ink inscription front free endpaper, faint spotting prelims only else contents unmarked) 12mo 167pp. Anthology of prose, verse, b/w illustrations, on London and Londoners.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a tinted frontispiece and 55 fine plates, free endpapers lightly spotted; original tan buckram, upper board framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, bevelled edges, uncut, covers mildly age-marked else a very good bright, fresh, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, and numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text, endpapers and title faintly spotted; cloth, skilfully and neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good copy.
8vo., Second Edition, with a folding engraved map as frontispiece and 3 folding engraved maps; original green cloth, upper board withy blind frame border enclosing title and author in gilt, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, fresh copy. With the engraved bookplates of C J Peacock and Alfred Pounder on front paste-down and front free endpaper respectively. The engraved county maps by Hall (of Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire and Hampshire) are unusually crisp and clean. A previous owner has encased the cloth covers in clear plastic. Lovely copy of the corrected and expanded version of the original edition of 1855. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; long contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, black endpapers, a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy. VERY SCARCE. Bennett, p.249.
8vo. First Edition thus, with frontispiece, numerous plates and illustrations, and 16 maps (a number folding); original pictorial wrappers, a very good clean copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (repeated on wrapper) by Rowland Suddaby; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Collects no fewer than ninety-nine short (and longer) stories by the laureate of the Essex marches. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with a tinted frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 15 tinted plates, 34 charming illustrations in the text, a full-page facsimile and a full-page map; original cloth gilt, gilt back, bevelled boards, patterned green endpapers, uncut, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, corners lightly bruised else a very good, firm, clean copy. The author's first work 'Winscombe Sketches' was issued unillustrated in 1867 with a second, revised, edition in 1882. The present work is considerably expanded and adds illustrations for the first time. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 21 plates on 10; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a small quantity of relevant ephemera (including the purchaser's original receipt) loosely inserted.
Two volumes. Crown quarto. Paginated consecutively. Pp. xvi, 3-240; 241-467. Plus a folding map engraved on steel, engraved frontispiece and 11 other plates. Title-page printed in red and black. Uniformly in the original illustrated wrappers, these edge worn and chipped, back wrapper of one volume loose, some dog-eared corners. Both volumes placed in a handsome custom made box, full green cloth over boards, facsimile title-page laid-down on cover. An unsophisticated set, untrimmed, preserved entirely in the original state, bright interiors, thoroughly free of foxing. ~ First American edition in the extremely rare original, two paperbound installments. Sold separately, each volume's cover bears the header: "50 Cents. Complete in Two Parts"; and "Part 1" and "Part 2", respectively. A pioneering work by the Anglican missionary George Smith (1815-1871) who, after the Treaty of Nanking, explored the newly opened cities of China, recording his findings and observations. The work is particularly appealing for its description and portrayal of everyday life in nineteenth-century China and the impact of the new British Rule. It includes an account of Hong Kong. Cordier BS, 2115; Lust, 385.
First Edition, 4to (260 x 205 mm), [2], 72pp., large paper copy, with an additional portrait of the author engraved by John Collyers, title-page printed in red and black, added engraved title depicting Neptune with trident framed by scenes of the celebrations, large folding engraved plan of the table layout along the quay, one further engraved plate, contemporary crimson morocco-backed boards, original pink printed label on upper cover, spine rubbed and joints cracked. A festival to celebrate the fall of Napoleon I, April 1814. a vivid account of the 'grand festival' in Great Yarmouth was written by Robert Cory, a local businessman and the builder of a suspension bridge across the River Yare which collapsed in 1845 with considerable loss of life. Inclusively was again the order of the day, and on a larger scale than at Cambridge: over 9,000 people were fed at fifty-eight tables stretched along the waterfront. An afternoon of feasting, donkey-racing and a 'pig hunt' culminated in the burning of a vast, symbolic bonfire representing the 'Funeral Pile of the Buonapartean Dynasty'. Despite concerns prompted by the participation of 'the lowest order of society', everything passed off peacefully. Even the weather obliged: the drizzle stopped five minutes before dinner was served.
8vo., Fourteenth Edition, with large folding map (closely cropped but without loss) mounted on cloth, some mild wear and age-staining to map, title, and a few fore-margins; attractively and strongly bound in twentieth century half calf, marbled boards, original tooled calf backstrip laid down, a very good, tight, clean copy. Fordham, p.28.
First edition, 12mo (163 x 100 mm), v, [1], [7]-319, [1], v [index], [1, advert]pp., vignette to title page, engravings within the text, orig. publisher's cloth-backed printed boards, joints split. Provenance: Maggs Bros. pencil not to front paste-down 'Ex Sir Thomas Phillipps Library', with Sir Thomas' Ms. press-mark in pencil to front free-endpaper.
First Edition, engraved vignette on title, folding hand-coloured map (1 inch closed tear), 2 plates, viii, 717, [15] pp., cont. half half, rubbed.
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dark green boards, foxing/dustiness to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 440pp. In-depth study of world geography aimed at upper froms at school. Illustrated. Quite scarce.
8vo., Second Impression, with 8 plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published six months after the first edition. Includes accounts of several leading personalities of the Civil War period, among them Hamon L'Estrange, Layer, Marsham, Walpole and Repton. Clarke & Gretton, A10; Darroch & Taylor, 679 (incorrectly dated 1958!).
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 35 illustrations by the author in the text; green pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue at end. Lovely copy of a Norfolk classic.
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 154pp. Thorne & Hatfield Monograph Mo 1. BAR British Series 336. Illustrated.
