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Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1901
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Very good. Menpes, Mortimer (illustrator). First Edition. Large octavo (approx. 6 1/4" wide by 8 3/8" tall) green cloth covers with gilt titles, white rules and decorations on the top cover and spine. Top edge gilt. xiv + 255 [1] pages. 99 plates, most in color. Each plate has a tissue guard with description of the plate printed on it. Seven facsimiles letters, etc (including fold-out diagram of the Boer Plan of the Battle of Magersfontein). Light scattered foxing throughout, and some browning on endpapers. Cover corners a bit worn, still very good. Boer War, South African War, Transvaal, South Africa. 090617A.
Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1903
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Gilt decorated green cloth boards. Tear on top of spine, minor scuffing and some marks on cover and spine. Inner hinges are cracked. List of illustrations on page xii is detached. Second printing of an edition first published in 1901.
Published by Adam and Charles Black N.D., London
Seller: C P Books Limited, Oxted, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Darkening to spine with rubbing to ends and 2 inch split to seam, damp stains to cover fore-edges, owner's signature dated 1901 to fpd, tanning to feps. ; Colour Illustrations; 1.8 x 8.4 x 6.1 inches; xiv, 254 pages; [1901] account of the Boer War. Tissue guards to 99 plates, facsimile letters at rear. Green cloth with gold lettering, white rules and chequerboard pattern, top edge gilt.
Published by Adam & Charles Black, London/ 1903., 1903
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Signed
Hardback. Colour & Black and White illustrations by Mortimer Menpes. Very Good, without dust jacket. Concerns the Boer War. From the library of MP Denis Healey, and signed by him. Oversize; Postage & Packing may cost extra.
Published by Adam & Charles Black, London, 1905
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: fair to good. Fifth Printing. 207, 75 color plates, foxing inside boards, bookplate inside front board, boards scuffed, small tear at top of spine.
Published by Adam & Charles Black, London, 1903
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: fair to good. Mortimer Menpes (illustrator). Second Printing. 235 + app, profusely illus. in color, facsimile letters, fr bd weak, ink name fr flylf, discolor ins bds & flylves, bd & sp edges worn. Profusely illustrated with 99 full-page color plates. Mortimer Menpes made these sketches as a Special Correspondent for BLACK AND WHITE during the Boer War; his daughter, Dorothy, transcribed his descriptions of the incidents depicted. A series of facsimile autograph letters is appended. Also included is a six-page announcement and order form for this book.
London; Adam and Charles Black. 1903. Large 8vo., original mid-green cloth attractively panelled in grey to spine and upper cover and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; pp. xiv + 254 + [ii], including 16pp. facsimile letters; with a total of 99 coloured plates protected by captioned tissue-guards and a pull-out chart tipped in to the rear; externally fine, internally near fine, with browning to endpapers and a previous owner's armorial bookplate, and inscription, to front pastedown endpaper. Second edition, of only 1500 copies; first published in 1901. War Impressions is Mortimer Menpesâ personal account of his time spent in South Africa during the Boer War, and was the very first title in A. & C. Blackâ s Twenty Shilling Series. This same retail price was maintained for twenty years. This is generally thought to be the first title in the canon to employ the newly-invented three-colour process, marking a change of direction for the firm, and setting a pattern for all the A. & C. Black books to come. Inman 85a.