Lord cranworth (30 risultati)

Condizione: Very good. - Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth's signature at the bottom left of a 3 inch high by 5 inch wide clipping from an envelope. "PAID 1857" with the royal crown is stamped in red at top right and partially overlaps the address penned in an unknown hand. The autograph is mounted with glue from the verso onto…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Complete with all plates. The boards are edge rubbed with knocked corners and light, small marks. The binding is secure. Ink inscriptions from a previous owner on the front end page. Browning on the end pages. Light spotting throughout, not affecting text. No other ink inscrip…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Numerous photographic plates, folding map to rear. 8vo. Bound in modern quarter green leather, red panel gilt, raised bands, t.e.g., foxing throughout to the text, generally light though a little heavier to front and rear, at least one plate loose, small corner tear t…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd edition. The boards have been neatly rebound in full recent leather. Internally, there is age-related wear throughout, but there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are neat and complete with all plates and maps present. Tightly bound and in very good condition for its…

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condizione: Fair. Condition Notes: Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with rubbing to the leading edge of both boards. Lining papers grubby. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Tissue guard to the frontis torn, if complete. The contents complete, clean and tig…

Hardback. First Edition. Original green cloth boards in good condition despite a little wear to the extremities Spine discoloured with shelf wear to the top and base Top edge gilt Binding still fairly tight Small pencil signature to the front free endpaper There is foxing throughout although the pages are generally clean and leg…

Cloth. Condizione: Good. A second expanded edition of Lord Cranworth's account of sports and lifestyle in Africa, illustrated with folding maps and photographs. An expansion on 'A Colony in the Making', this is a second, revised edition, containing thirty-seven chapters on native tribes and settlers, the creatures and plants, po…

London: MacMillan and Co., 1912 8vo. xiv,359pp. 37 illustrations on plates, index. Slightly rubbed on the edges, a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's green cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our bo…

Coleridge was the nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. See his entry, and that of Cranworth, in the Oxford DNB. The letter relates to Palmerston's first ministry. 1p, 16mo (cut down to a 12 x 10 cm piece of wove paper). In fair condition, lightly aged and discoloured, with traces of glue from mount adhering to one edge of…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. In very good condition overall. Decorated front board, spine and rear board are in very good clean condition. The head and foot of the spine are without splits. Generally very clean interna…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. fascinating description of life in the early days in Kenya, travels in Abyssinia, and the East African campaign in the First World War; Binding: Orig. red cloth gilt with tatty dust-jacket; Condition notes: Some v. light spotting O/W V. Good; Illustrations: 24 B/W Photos; Pages: xi + 368; Edition…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First edition with the rare unclipped dust jacket, chronicling the author's 33 years of experience in Kenya and his contacts with legendary settlers, hunters and pioneers including Denis Finch Hatton, Berkley Cole, Lord Delamere and many other promine…

1st edition. 8vo. xi,368pp plus 24 plates. Original red buckram, with slight fading to the spine and striated fading to the lower board. Free endpapers browned. Very good otherwise, with the armorial bookplate of Marguerite Hastings on the front pastedown endpaper. Macmillan. London. On pre-first World War Africa, including Abys…

Leather Bound. Condizione: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine…