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8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers lightly faded at backstrip else a very good, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
viii, 528 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Several fold-out reproductions of historic maps indicating local landowners. Map endpapers. Intended to "preserve our past by recording the delights and sorrows of those who passed this way. We have attempted to publish accounts to preserve the personalities of this multicultural community. It is hoped the book will be a source of reminiscence for those still living and a legacy for future generations. In it is a combination of the British way of life depicted by those very early pioneers plus our European people who came in search of freedom." - page v. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderfully informative local history and genealogical reference. Hackett (2) 198. Book
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, damp effect to lower front outside edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine and now protected in non-removable transparent sleeve. 254pp. The history from the earliest times up to the 7th century of what are now the British counties of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.
First edition, 4to, [2], iv, 26pp., title page mounted on a stub, folding engraved plate, presentation inscription on title "from the Author to Davis Giddy Esqr. [Davies Gilbert]", 4pp. list of subscribers provided "from a copy given me by J. Rashleigh. J. D. Enys", several ink corrections and annotations (by the author?), small neat stamp to fly-leaf, without the final leaf that contains a note announcing the issue of the engravings, marbled endpapers, nineteenth century half green morocco, spine gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, a nice copy. A note pasted in at the end "Mr. F. is sorry he cannot send with this a Plate of the Window, but he has only one copy left.", later provided by Mr Rashleigh of Menabilly. A early ink note on the title refers to the author "The Revd. Benjamin Forster, Rector of Boconnoc & St. Michael Carhayes in Cornwall." The ESTC locates copies at the British Library, the Bodleian, University of California, Riverside, and University of Texas.
ST-BRIEUC, Les Presses Bretonnes -1932 - in-8 - broché - Couverture factice - Illustrations en texte - XL-283 pages - Propre
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 13 plates on 12, some very light marginal spotting (rather heavier on endpapers); cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly scuffed and soiled.
VG/G . not price-clipped. no inscriptions. dj is grubby to back with missing notches to edges and cuts. internally a lovely clean copy. 1st Edition. Edited and completed by D.John Stephan. 83 pages. Illustrated in b&w. Blue/Grey cloth with gilt text to front and spine
48 pages. Features: Great cover photo of a fully occupied Royal Albert Dock in 1958; Photo inside front cover of HMS Jersey (P275) in 1977; Full-page pre-war photo of a spritsail barge in the West India Dock, Port of London; On the Waterfront; Where to See the Big Ships; News From Portsmouth - a photo report; HMS 'Ganges' - a last look; Bosphorus Shipping; Vintage Thames Shipping Photos - part 1; Guide to Ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy; New Ship News; European Commentary; Freak Ships (2) - The 'Ross Winans'; "Invincible" goes to Sea Trials; Readers' Album - Atlantic Liners; Ship Sales; Letters; Ship Societies - The Coastal Cruising Association; Nice photo of the HMS 'Cornwall' in 1936 inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
72 pages. Black and white photos. Features: How Canada is organised for criminal law administration; The Progress of the Moonshiner - article with great photos of huge illicit plant discovered in Toronto operating as an oil reclaiming company; The Bathurst Inlet Patrol - history of this patrol which ran from 1914 to 1918; Science in Law Enforcement - article by J. Edgar Hoover; Drunk and Disorderly!; "Doping it Out" - stories of pursuing illegal narcotics dealers; Photos of the RCMP's Coronation contingent, complete with list of names; Some Observations on Judo; Preventing a Breach of the Peace; A Lost Hunter - finding an employee of the Fraser Companies Ltd. in New Brunswick; The Comparison Microscope; Canoeing; Old Timer's Column; Obituaries for Ex-Superintendant James Ritchie, Errol Lampson Crawford Lindsay, Lewis Roger Bartlett, John Newton Murray, Joseph Arthur Pineau, Thomas Switzer, Phineas Brunett, George Forbes Guernsey, Frederick Richard Rudd, Daniel Nicholson, Daniel Davis, Andrew Hugh McMillan, Samuel McCrea and Harold Cornwall Foster. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this informative issue. Book
Near VG hbk reprint bound in red cloth, black decoration and lettering. Bookplate, dated 1932, on the front endpaper. 21649. eng
[2],361-382pp., presentation inscription from the author, from the library of John Davies Enys, disbound.
[275]-287pp., 3 plates, from the library of John Davies Enys, disbound.
8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartment tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of the first omnibus edition of Du Maurier's classic Cornish trilogy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., Twentieth Thousand, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates, some very light age-spotting, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original pictorial red cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt edges, patterned endpapers, expertly recased, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue at end.
8vo., First Edition, with a tinted lithographed frontispiece (skilfully mounted on pale cartridge) and 11 tinted lithographed plates; late-nineteenth century half calf, neatly rebacked with new endpapers to style, old blind-tooled backstrip laid down, original gilt-ruled morocco labels preserved (title-label with two gilt letters reinforced), sprinkled edges, an unusually bright, clean and carefully restored copy with virtually no trace of the usual foxing. The plates were engraved by M & N Hanhart from illustrations by Brandling. This is the scarce original edition of Collins' third book, following his biography of his father 'Memoirs of the Life of William Collins' (2v, 1848) and his first novel 'Antonina' (3v., 1850). It is arguably his best-remembered work, together with his two later novels 'The Woman in White' (1860) and 'The Moonstone' (1868). Very nice copy of an uncommon and notable account, and a mainstay of any Cornish collection. Sadleir, 'Excursions' p.137, gives the date of publication (from the Bentley Catalogue) as 30 January 1851; Anderson, p.70; CBEL III, p.481; Parrish, pp.14-16; Wolff, 1374.
Features: Recorders' Errors or Oversights? - Locomotive running past and present - No. 245; The Eleventh Hour of Steam - 1; The Preservation Bubble; First of the SDJR 2-8-0s; Cornwall to Caithness; Railway Club Photographic Competition; East European Journey; To Switzerland - for Steam (and so much else); The Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway; The Railways of Bord Na Mona; Annual Report on Railway Accidents; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: The LNER B1 4-6-0s in Retrospect; Beyer-Garratt Locomotives in South Africa; Past, Present and Future at Yieldingtree; Two Miles a Minute - by steam - LNWR 2-2-2 No. 3020 Cornwall; Light Railway Timetables 1968; Around Britain's Light Railways; End of Steam to Buxton; End of BR's Observation Cars; and more. Moderate wear. Writing on front cover and throughout contents. Sound copy. Magazine
8vo, 24.6cm. Pp. viii,330, several pls., maps, tabs. and figs., refs. Orig. wrs. Little rubbing to covers but a good copy yet.
8vo., with numerous photographs in the text and large folding street plan; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
Decribes the locations and backgound to the filming of the original BBC series based on the "Poldark" novels of Winston Graham. 80p. illus. N ame of previous owner on title page,else fine Book
64 pages. Features: This Happened Before - Germany invaded Denmark in 1864, before its most recent Hitlerian invasion - article with great photos; Gathering of a Clan in London - The MacLeods affirm their loyalty to their chief - article with photos; The Little Man Who Leads France - Paul Reynaud; Jean Arthur at Home; Spring Comes to Cornwall; H.M.S. Gipsy is raised by Salvage Men; Where the Sportsmen Have Gone - sports stars of a year ago are now in the military or doing war work at home - article with photos of Bob Gregory, Eric Filby, Ted Drake, footballer Bartram, Sydney Wooderson, Alan Pennington, Peter Cranmer, J.G. Jenkins, G.M. Milne, Mervyn Jones; Leslie Ames, Cliff Bastin, George Male, Len Harvey, "Snowie" Buckingham, Len Hutton, and Tom Lawton; Croonerettes - Pat Taylor, Gloria Brent, Evelyn Dall, Vera Lynn, Beryl Davis and Phyllis Robins; The Good Soldier Schweik - created by the Czech writer Hasek; Diary of the War, No. 33 - The 31st Week; The Marooning of Barny; Letters about refugees; Nice back cover ad for Coty lipstick; Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with the tiniest of marks to front cover and no bumping to corners. 96pp. A nostalgic trip around this beautiful part of Cornwall with over 180 well-captioned photographs from the last century.
First Edition, 15,[1]pp., from the library of John Davies Enys, disbound.
[2],153-158pp., from the library of John Davies Enys, disbound.
