careless john pseud andrew chatto (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. 24 Full Page Color Illustrations By One of the Family (illustratore). A Poem in Ten Cantos. Red cloth binding with paper lable title, author etc on spne. Top and botton of spine and corners of binding rubbed and bumped. 127pp. Content clean, bright and sound.Copy is in good condition is no dust jacket, Spine and paper label on spine are darkened. Binding shows some shelf wear. Ohotos availale on request.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. London: Thomas McLean, 1821. First edition of this well-illustrated spoof of British sporting society, with 22 (of 24) vividly hand colored humorous plates. Original embossed cloth spine over marbled boards, viii, 136 p. Covers worn, with rounded corners and chipped spine ends, hinges cracked but covers well attached. Text block solid with one gathering just starting to show just a little bit of flexibility, not looseness. Front free endpaper absent, but half-title present. Pages and plates free from chips, tears or markings, but some fingerprinting, light soiling and scattered foxing, with substantial offsetting of the plates onto the text pages opposite. Plates retain excellent color. A well-used but overall decent copy of this hard-to-find title in first edition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 4to (28 cm x 19 cm).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 12mo. [2], iv, 165, [1] pp, frontis, 5 pl., ill. Contemporary quarter leather. Maroon pebbled boards. Marbled end pages. Prelims and frontis foxed. Lacking original wraps. The humorous plates depict contented smokers from around the world, and one scene of Scottish snuff-taking. Book plates of Miss Mabel Tompkins and Miss Ruth W. Tompkins to rear pastedown with respective notes to each in pen. Sabin 1414-1416.