careless john pseud (6 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.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. viii + 127pp, coloured illus in the style of the early 19th century, good. *First printed in 1821 - a scarce poem on the adventures of a country squire in London etc.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Methuen & Co. 1905 edition. Soem minor foxing to pages, text clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. One of the Family (illustratore). 1st Edition. With Twenty Four Humorous hand coloured plates, being a spoof on British Sporting Society First edition, large paper copy, in contemporary half red morocco over worn boards, corners & edges bumped & worn. Spine, re-laid, retaining the old, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-viii), [1], 2-136 pp, 24 pls (unnumbered, hand coloured, & dated 1821-1822), with the half title, bookplate to fpd (A Edward Newton 1864-1940 - Oak Knoll [Books]), armorial stamp to fep, some light offsetting, watermarked Whatman 182? Housed in a red cloth box and a red quarter calf cloth slipcase. (272*180 mm). (Tooley 128. Abbey Life 387. Schwerdt I:95. Prideaux 305) In addition to Careless, Chatto also used Joseph Fume & Stephen Oliver as pseudonyms. An excellent example.

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.