Cuming james (28 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ is in rough shape with numerous large chips and tears, creases. The underside of the jacket was neatly reinforced with masking tape along the top and bottom edges, over the decades the glue has bled through to the front of the jacket. Despite the rough DJ it did a very fine job protecting the book underneath. Beveled red cloth boards are clean and bright and the gilt text shines like new. The only issues with the exterior of the book is a few small dents in the cloth. Internal binding is good and text pages are tight. No hinge issues, no handwriting, no library markings, no bookplates, no signatures present. Paper is toned due to age and there is some foxing which is mainly limited to the end pages. The second end page is the darkest out of all the toned pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good minus. Without dust jacket. First American Edition. Sold as a very nice reading copy only. Octavo, 9" tall, xviii + 341 pages + plates; gilt titles on red cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, hardcover first edition with moderate shelf wear, slight fraying started at the spine corners; hinges and binding solid, text paper light to moderately yellowed with scattered foxing and a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Without dust jacket.…

Condizione: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Reading Copy. Spine label missing. Front and rear hinge cracked. In polypropylene bag. (hunting, hunters, wales, 18th century, autobiography, sportsman, sports writers, sporting writer).

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Approx. 3" split to the spine.

Cloth. Condizione: G/No Dustjacket. Edinburgh & London and New York: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. and Charles Scribner's Sons. G/No Dustjacket. 1928. . Cloth. With four plates in full color and over 25 in line from contemporary prints. . 8vo., xxvi, 304pp., Binding stained and frayed;shaken, gently cracked . Black & White/Color Plates (illustratore).…

Softcover/Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Description.

Softcover/Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Description.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Large hardcover. Red cloth over boards with gilt stamping on front cover and spine. Cloth is faded, and there are some dark stains along spine and front hinge. Stamping remains clear and bright. Bumped corners. Title page dated 1928. 304 pages. In good condition. Number 159 of a limited run of 175 copies. Pages are lightly foxed, but otherwise free of marks. Four color plates, including frontispiece. Nimrod was the pseudonym of Charles Apperley, a well known sportswriter. This collection contains essays on, unsurprisingly, his horses, but also hare-hunting, road accidents, coaching in France, and more.…

12mo (18.5x11.5cm), paperback, 154pp. Very good condition. Light wear only. With b&w photographs. Owner's name penned at title page. Pictures available on request.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth, top edge gilt (light wear at head of spine - otherwise VG in protective cover). Pp. xxvi + 304, illus with coloured and half-tone plates (no inscriptions).

Condizione: Good. Deluxe edition (hardback), limited to 175 numbered copies (this is copy number 162). 8vo (26cm by 20cm), xxvi, 304pp. 4 colour plates, 26 half-tone plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. The binding is a little marked, and there is some foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is in good plus condition.…

2nd edition softback with stiff wrappers As New small octavo xxx + 195pp., b/w plates, text ills., map, bibliog., index, Traces the lives of two men, father and son, from the last of the convict ships to Sydney in 1840, the boom years of wool & gold, formation of towns, 'Marvellous Melbourne'.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. A very good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's small ex libris label on front fixed end-paper. Some edge foxing but clean internally. Pp.xxvi,304. 4 colour plates. 26 half-tone plates. Includes numerous chapters on horses, several on coachmen and coaching, with others on hare hunting, sport in North Wales, road accidents etc.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xxvi,304pp, 4 colour and 26 half-tone plates, clean and sound, no inscriptions, red cloth gilt, Very Good / Good dustwrapper; wrapper has sellotape repairs to fraying at corners and spine ends.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Limited Edition. VG+, Ltd ed, 1927, 33 pls. In red cloth, gilt titles, faded lightly at edges, corners & edges lightly rubbed & bumped. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped. DW, in mylar jacket, faded to spine, titles in black inks, lovely coloured image to front. Internally, an edition limited to just 250 copies, half title & coloured frontis present, [1], [5], (vi-xviii), [1], 2-341 pp, [1], 33 plates (of which 4 are coloured & 5 reproduced by kind permission of the V&A Museum), teg, remainder uncut, printed by William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, teg, remainder uncut. A Sporting Classic. Apperley, [pseud. Nimrod], writer on sport, wrote at first under various pseudonyms (Acastus, Eques, and A), he published his first article for the Sporting Magazine as Nimrod in January 1822 and he subsequently usually used that nom de plume. See ODNB. …

8th edition hardback with dust jacket Very Good small octavo xiv + 341pp., colour frontis., colour & b/w plates, index, With 4 nice full-page colour plates. Occasional browning in text o/w a nice copy in blue cloth boards.

Condizione: Good. Deluxe edition (hardback), limited to 175 numbered copies (this is copy number 94). 8vo (26cm by 20cm), xxvi, 304pp. 4 colour plates, 26 half-tone plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. The spine is sunned, the boards are rubbed, there is a short ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, there is some minor foxing of the preliminary pages else the contents are VG. Overall, this copy is in good condition. …

Limited numbered edn (231 of 250). 4to. Original bevelled-edged gilt lettered red buckram cloth, top edge gilt (spine faded - otherwise bright VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. xviii + 341, illus with tipped-in coloured and half-tone plates (some light spotting on endpapers; previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions).…

Condizione: Good. Deluxe edition (hardback), limited to 250 numbered copies (this is copy number 146). 8vo (26cm by 20cm), xviii, 341pp. 4 colour plates, 29 half-tone plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the endpapers, heraldic bookplate to the front pastedown, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (light rubbing of the spine panel, light chafing of the top edge). …

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp xviii, 342. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover with top edge gilt. Illustrated in colour and b/w throughout. Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Edinburgh and London: William blackwood & Sons Ltd.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First edition, limited. No. 3 of 175 copies. xxvi+304p. 4 colour plates including frontispiece, and 26 half-tone plates. Edited with introduction by E.D. Cuming. Paper and page edges toned, some foxing to first few and last few pages. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Firmly bound in publisher's clean red buckram, gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Dust jacket has very light wear to extremities, spine faded with some marks. Front pastedown bears bookplate of Bate of Llanarmon-yn-Läl. Co. Denbigh. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Quarto. 341pp. Red buckram boards with gilt titles. Some fading to spine and board edges, a little light rubbing. T.E.G. Limited edition of 250 copies on large paper, this being no. 149. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and 29 half-tone plates. Former owners name stamp to f.f.e.p. Otherwise contents clean and bright. Overall a Very Good copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Limited Edition. Quarto. 341pp. Red buckram boards with gilt titles. In red dust wrapper with black titles and colour mounted plate, some damage to plate and some tape repaired closed tears to wrapper edges, spine discoloured. Limited edition of 250 copies on large paper. Illustrated with 4 colour plates and 29 half-tone plates. Occasional very mild spotting. Otherwise a Very Good+ copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Limited Edition. 4to. 304pp. In red buckram boards with gilt titles, with red dust wrapper having black titles and mounted colour plate, some markings and edge wear, spine discoloured. Limited edition of 175 copies this being no. 26. Illustrations in colour and line from contemporary prints. Occasional mild spotting. Overall a Very Good copy. …

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1868 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 28 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…

2pp., 12mo. In envelope, with stamp and postmark, addressed to Walters at his London publishers Hodder & Stoughton. In good condition, lightly aged. On reading Walters' 'Romantic Cheshire' he notes that he refers to '"Lewis Carroll" as "whilom Vicar of Daresbury"'. He points out that this is not the case, and that '"Lewis Carroll" was the son of the once Vicar of Daresbury. | My father was Vicar of Daresbury from 1884 to 1896 and I remember the old Vicarage where Mr. Dodgson resided very well. It was demolished about the time my father was appointed Vicar.' The family firm of J. J. Whitley & Co. continues as gin distillers.…

Hardciover. Condizione: Used-Very Good. Royal 8vo. 341 pp., illus. Partial dj. (large parts missing from spine and rear panel). T.e.g. 185 of 250 copies on large paper.