Blackburn, England: 1919. 24" x 36". 1 pp. measuring 24" x 36" Some small spots of foxing, creased where it has been folded. A town almanac supplement to the Blackburn Times. Includes lists of Blackburn Town Council and other town offices held, Public offices and institutions, Places of Worship, etc......
London: Royal Comm. Hist. Monuments, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Small 4to. 176 pp. Red cloth hardcover with gilt coat of arms cover design. Spine text faded; spine ends and corners bumped. Some scuffing and soiling to boards. Very light foxing to front matter, rep, and page edges around plates. Foldout.....
London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin. Cloth. 4to. 160 pp. Cover has wear to edges, corners, head and foot of spine; corners bumped; light discoloration; light soiling. Former owners' names to fep, foxing to end pages, frontisepiece, tissue guards. Handsome beveled cover with gilt decoration and colored lettering. 20 color portraits.....
London: Punch Office, 1853. Cloth. 304 pp. 8vo. Cloth. Wear and sunning to boards, damp stains to rear board. Sunning to spine, cloth chipped off of upper half, tear to center, spine ends bumped. Bumping to corners w/ board exposure. Bookplate to fpd. Previous owner's name/date to ffep. Foxing and.....
London: The Folio Society, 1967. Hard Cover. 158 pp. 8vo. Quarter cloth over marbled boards in slipcase. Slightly bowed. Spine lightly sunned. Interior tight and clean. Minor shelfwear to slipcase. Edited by John Hampden.
London: Methuen & Co., 1909. Cloth. 8vo. 381 pp. Owner's writing on ffep. B&w plates. Pages slightly stiff and fragile at edges. Cover worn at spine and bumped at corners. Nice copy of an early 20th century biography of the prominent Elizabethan nobleman.
London: S.P.C.K., 1953. Cloth. 8vo. 46 pp. Cloth bright, spine and corners sl. bumped. Light erasure mark to ffep. Jacket spine sl. soiled, light tanning and edgewear. Six addresses interpreting the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. (No illustrations.).
New York: Carlton & Phillips, 1853. Hardcover. 411 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. Samuel Budgett was a very successful, 19th century English merchant & devout Methodist. "The design of this volume is to furnish a work wherein an actual & a remarkable life is traced in relation to commerce." Slight sunning &.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1969. Cloth. 8vo. 246 pp. Corners lightly bumped to cover, light wear to corners. Dj has light edgewear, light soiling. Biography of Lady Dilke, English woman who married Mark Pattison and then Sir Charles Dilke. Involved in politics, a labor activist, and art historian.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1975. Decorative Cloth. 4to. 962 pp. B&w illustrations. Pages slightly bent at corners. Cover in good condition. England under the Tudors and Stuarts.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. First edition. Hard Cover. 7 x 10 1/4". 208 pp. 1" tear in back top jacket corner. Pages crisp, binding tight. Owner's stamp in front inner cover. Story of King Arthur.
New York: E.P Dutton & Co., 1958. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 240pp., an account of England's Princess Margaret's romance with divorced commoner Peter Townsend, written by Townsend's friend Norman Barrymaine, " in 'The Peter Townsend Story' Norman Barrymaine presents a living picture of the lean, attractive man who captured Margaret's.....
London: Andre Deutsch, 1955. Cloth. 12mo. 184 pp. Cloth bright, front cover sl. bowed. Hinges cracked. Warm personal inscription from the author on ffep. 1/2" closed tears on pp. 9-10, 97-8. Jacket tanned, top edge nicked, tiny chips at spine. Anecdotes of a Cockney bon vivant: diary excerpts, 1922 -.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1899. Reprint. Paperback. 455 pp., lg. squarish 8vo. Paperback. Nabu Public Domain Reprint. Covers slightly rubbed/scuffed; edges lightly worn. Binding tight; pgs clean & crisp.
New York: St Martin's Press, 1985. Paperback. 197 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Scuffed and lightly edgeworn. Dogearing to several lower page corners.
London: The Folio Society, 1977. Cloth. 271 pp. 4to. Cloth in slipcase. Slipcase scuffed, lightly edgeworn. Light scuffing and damp staining to book. Light foxing to few pg edges.
London: The Folio Society, 1977. Cloth in Slipcase. 8vo. 271pp. Book in great condition. Slipcase w/ some shelf wear to corners & light sunning to top. Handsomely bound. Illustrated.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and John Hatchard, 1815. Hard Cover. 348 pp. 4to. Contemporary rebind in black half-leather and marbled boards, with gilt lettering to spine and new endpapers. Text block uniformly toned, with some foxing scattered throughout. Slight rippling to text, large horizontal tear to pg.....
London: Folio Society, 1997-98. Hardcover. 2899 pp., 4to. 6 vols (5 in slc + 1 in another slc). Titles: Anglo-Saxon England, Early Medieval England, England in the Later Middle Ages, England under the Tudors, England under the Stuarts, England in the Eighteenth Century. Boards & spines practically fine; some sm.....
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 479 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Betrayal, subterfuge, secret fortunes, charactrers like in a Shakespearian tragedy, including Pincess Diana & Pince Edward. Light shelfwear to boards. Light cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Po address stamps to eps.....
Manchester: Institute of British Foundrymen, 1944. Cloth Hardcover. 4to. 278 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, lightly shaken, very small knick to cloth on spine. Containing the papers presented to the 41st annual general meeting of the Institute and a selection of the papers presented to.....
Bellows Falls, VT: Charles Ewer and Timonthy Bedlington, 1824. Quarter Cloth Hardcover. 8vo. Approx 300 pp. per volume (5 volumes) All volumes are shaken, with rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corrners, light foxing throughout, soiling to covers. Vol I & V have damp stain to top half of.....
New York: Fireside/Simon and Schuster, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Unpaginated lg. 4to. Paperback. First edition. Creasing, dampstaining to covers; wear to edges w/ scuffing to spine. All pgs clean w/ paper doll figures intact.
Chichester: Phillimore, 1984. Hard Cover. 8vo. 146 pp. B&w photos. Owner's signature on ffep. Jacket slightly wrinkled at edges. Pages fine. Bio of a British historian.
London: Vernor & Hood. Leather. 8vo. Approx. 600 pp. per book. 26 books. Spine ends and corners on all volumes are lightly bumped and rubbed, small amount of knicking and rubbing to leather on all volumes. Ten volumes have been rebound with contemporary leather, and original boards. Introduction volume has.....
