Spine ends rubbed. Bookplate; A handsome true first edition of this classic. Medium brown boards with gilt spine lettering. Binding tight; 12mo; 255 pages View More...
Slight wear to extremities. Small stains to cover; Rather peculiar compilation of interviews, poems, and assorted writings intended to help the reader understand the author; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages View More...
Hinges not tight. Endpapers, first and last few pages darkened. Small open tear to top right corner of front free endpaper. Former owner's name on front free endpaper which has also bled through to the half title page; Black boards with gilt lettering and gilt design. Numerous b&w illustrations and two tissue guarded drawings in bold colors; 8vo; 479 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Some of the pages unopened ; Top edge gilt. Decorative blue boards with gilt lettering and black pictorial design. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 518 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to spine heels. Front hinge professionally repaired. Else in NF condition; Decorative brown buckram boards with black embossed lettering and an embossed decoration in black with the Sunbeam in gilt. ; 8vo; 511 pages View More...
Hinges professionally repaired. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; Decorative dark green buckram boards with black embossed lettering and an embossed decoration in black with the Sunbeam in gilt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 511 pages View More...
Minor rubbing to top and bottom spine. Bookplate and previous owner's name on front endpaper. Pages a bit browned; Dark red boards with gilt lettering. Conway is a very famous mountaineer. He travelled widely in Europe, Egypt and the East; led an expedition in the Himalayas 1892; traversed the Alps 1894; explored in Spitsbergen, Bolivian Andes and Chile. He also wrote "The Alps", one of the most beautiful illustrated mountain books of its time, published in London by A & C Black (also available) ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 252, 16 pages View More...
Boards with light wear to extremities. Spine a bit slanted. Light soiling to front boards; Decorative green boards with gilt and black lettering and beautiful pictorial design ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 420 pages View More...
Very light rubbing to boards. Both volumes in remarkable shape with binding tight ; Printed in German Fraktur. Decorative green boards. Gilt spine lettering and black decorative spine pattern. Beautiful world-theme endpapers. Stunning tissue guarded color plates. Numerous b&w photographs. Marbled edges (a bit browned) ; 4to 11" - 13" tall View More...
Light wear to extremities. Spine ends with light chipping. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper; History and travel along the Rivieras with most excellent color & black and white illustrations ; Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 328 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities and with light ink soiling. Several waterstains to spine, but the gilt spine lettering still beautifully intact. A bit of browning and foxing to first and last few pages. ; A long journey that starts in France and goes through Greece, Turkey and to the Holy Land to the Black Sea and the Caucasus. Chapters on Fishing and Natural History. Numerous tissue-guarded photographs. ; Bell's Colonial Editions; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages View More...
Light wear and spotting to black boards. Bookplate; Slip bound in attributing title page quote to upcoming Maugham play 'Sheppey' ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 301 pages View More...
Browning to endpapers. Occasional foxing. Wear & open tears to DJ; Comprehensive guide to steamships 'down under' with six colour illustrations and no fewer than two hundred seventy-six images in black and white; B&W and Color Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 260 pages View More...
Minute tears to top spine ; One of the scarces titles by A&C Black, with black shield on title page. With 77 tissue guarded plates from watercolors by Amedee Forrestier ; 8vo; ix, 390 pages View More...
Boards with light wear to extremities. Minute tears to spine ends. First and last few pages browned. ; A later edition with red shield on title page, but otherwise identical with the first edition, including the year on title page. Black boards with gilt lettering and shield and gilt and orange linear design. With 77 tissue guarded plates from watercolors by the Anglo-French artist Amedee Forrestier. Inman 5.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; ix, 390 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate. Rear library pocket, but no other signs of ex-lib; 8 maps and 15 plans; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; xxxiii, 228, d, 7 pages View More...
Some spotting on boards, small hole on the bottom of spine. Spine has some frayed portions. Binding cracked at page 80 and page 129 ; In red decorative cloth with title stamped in black on front and staped in gilt on the spine. 32 full color plates and pull-out sketch map in back of volume ; Watercolor; 8vo; xii, 210 pages View More...
Light wear & chipping to DJ. Previous owner's inscription poorly erased in front free endpaper; First printing of the American edition, stated, after a successful court challenge ; 8vo; 243 pages View More...
Small tear to spine covering and top spine. Boards with light wear to extremities. Front hinge started with webbing showing, but holding strongly. Very few pages in advertising section have been trimmed due to a small binding error ; With numerous maps, plans, and drawings. Quite rare ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; vi, 215, 112 pages View More...
Spine sunned & worn to top. Previous owners name and address to front endpaper ; Red, gold and black decorative cloth. Title gilt-stamped on spine and front. 20 watercolor illistrations ; BookPlate; Watercolor; 8vo; vii, 127 pages View More...
First and last few pages browned. The slightest hint of dampstaining to rear boards. The best copy of this rare A&C Black volume that we have ever seen. ; Part of the 20 Shilling series. Decorative dark red boards with gilt letterings and pictorial design in gilt, mauve and green. 77 tissue guarded plates from watercolors by T. Mower Martin, aka "The Father of Canadian Art". Rear folding map. Inman 12.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xviii, 272 pages View More...
Boards with light wear to extremities. Slight browning and foxing to endpapers; A lovely example of A&C Black's "Beautiful Britain" series. ; Beautiful Britain; Color Illustrations; 8vo; 64 pages View More...
DJ with loss to corners and light chipping. One closed tear to DJ rear. ; Absolutely superb duotones in ocre and black by Rockwell Kent. Blindstamped lettering to front boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 627 pages View More...
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. The slightest of bumping to the corners. Spine a bit sunned and with gilt spine lettering faded. ; A study of the British cities, of which there are many, that have noted cathedrals, with color illustrations from watercolors by W. W. Collins - internally it looks similar to an A&C Black illustrated book. Red boards with decorative blindstamped pattern and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. ; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 427 pages View More...