9780715342275 - Flower of Gloster di Thurston, E.Temple (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Reprint. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. Gift message to front pastedown. Good DJ with some edge wear and faded spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and sun fading.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty top of page edges, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slightly dusty rear and a little rubbing to spine and to upper and lower edges. 244pp. A new impression of the original journey from 1911 with a new introduction and plates by L.T.C. Rolt. The author travelled by canal boat through the Thames & Severn Canal (closed in 1933 and re-opened in 2018) as well as the Oxford Canal, the Warwick line, the Stratford & Avon and the Avon and Severn with Eynsham Harry the boatman and Fanny the horse. Illustrated. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 inches.

Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A new impression of the book first published in 1911 by Williams and Norgate, London. Introduction and new plates by L.T.C Rolt. In the early years of the 20th century the canals of England were an unknown territory . The pioneers of writing about them were Aubertin, Black, Bonthron, Neal and Temple Thurston. Temple Thurston was a professional author and his book has a polish and artistry.Secondhand copies of the original work are now hard to find. In the 1960s there was a resurgence of interest in canals and L.T.C. Rolt justifiably wanted to promote this minor classic. Dedicated to 'Bellwattle' from Cruickshank' in 1911.[from Temple Thurston's Patchwork Papers stories] Beautifully illustrated with line drawings and photographs from Temple Thurston's own album. 2441 short chapters. 4pp.22cm x 14cmVery Good in very sl rubbed pictorial dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Facsimile Edition. Facsimile of the original with a new introduction by L.T.C. Rolt. Clean, tight, sound and presentable copy. Dust jacket ditto, unfaded, lightly rubbed, price clipped. No inscriptions. xv + 244 pages, illus. Approx. size 9" by 6". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; canals; ISBN: 0715342274. ISBN/EAN: 9780715342275. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28583.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Thus. A very nice clean, bright copy of the new impression which was first published in 1911 by Williams and Norgate, London. Fresh looking brown cloth boards with crisp gilt title lettering on the spine. No isncriptions and clean pages throughout, albeit with a little toning to the page block edge. The dust jacket is not price clipped, although there is some edge wear and rubbing to the extremities and a short tear at the back corner, head of the spine. In all a super copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. W. R. Dakin (illustratore). First Thus. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a handsome bookplate to the front paste down and a neat signature to the f.e.p. The price clipped dust wrapper has some minimal edge wear but is still in fine condition. This copy has the bookplate of Augustus M. Kelley (New York) suggesting that they distributed stock of the David & Charles edition in the United States. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This 1968 facsimile reprint of the first edition published in 1911 is complete with the original drawings by W. R. Dakin. It has the benefit of a new introduction by L. T. C. Rolt and new photographs. Temple Thurston's book, long out of print is the story of a leisurely voyage in a narrow boat with Eynsham Harry the boatman and fanny the horse, up the Oxford Canal, along the Warwick Line, and down the Stratford upon Avon; then by Avon and Severn to the Thames & Severn Canal and so to the Thames again. Ref QQQ 7.