Rev John James Raven (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 287 pages. Some wear to the covers; the pages are tanned, a few small chips. A few ink marks inside; name and stamp from previous owner's inside. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Countries & Travel; Inventory No: 225883.

EX-LIBRARY, super octavo, maroon heavy boards with blue cloth spine, gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, viii + 287pp, VG- (usual library markings, moderate bruising & scuffing to board edges/extrems, light to moderate chafing to boards, heavy tanning & chipping to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout, light cracking to rear gutter) has a wonderful old booksmell to it.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Facsimile Edition. Facsimile Edition of the book published by Elliot Stock, London: 1895. pp viii 287. Pictorial card covers. Almost AS New.

Hardback, 8vo. Approx 9 x 6 inches. Halfbound maroon cloth covers with blue cloth spine with gilt lettering. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to cover, soiled spot to front, some rubbing and minor bumps to corners. Some minor foxing to endpapers, previous owners stamp to front. One or two minor handling marks else pages clean and tight. Edges rough cut. Else a clean and tight copy. 287pp. With decorative head & tailpieces. One of the Popular County Histories series, this volume covers Suffolk.…

1st edition. Black cloth spine, maroon cloth boards. Gilt lettering and crest to spine, no dustwrapper. 9.25ins x 6.5ins, viii, 287pp. Previous owners name and address to front free endpaper. Half title and verso of last page very browned. Rear hinge weak. Part of the Popular County Histories series. G+.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. First edition. 194pp, with a portrait frontis. Contents clean, on good paper, with some foxing to the endpapers, prelims and final pages, only a few odd spots in the text. 26.5x17cms, top edge gilt, fore-edge spotted, in the original binding of maroon cloth titled in gilt: firm and bright, spine slightly sunned. Upper corners knocked, spine ends puckered and rubbed, some slight bubbling of the cloth. A very nice copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Raven, The Rev. John James. The history of Suffolk. First edition. London: Elliot Stock, 1895. Popular County Histories Series. Hardback, Good. Maroon boards, bumped to corners with light shelfwear to edges and a patch of rubbing on the lower board. Blue cloth spine split along the top hinges, with small horizontal tear and light damage to base. Gilt lettering to spine. Binding intact but cracked along front gutter. Light tanning to endpapers. viii, 287pp. Decorated chapter heads, contents clean and bright. The pages are untidily cut along the front edge throughout. John James Raven (1833 1906) was an English cleric, the vicar of Fressingfield in Suffolk and a writer on campanology; for many years he was a vice-president of the Suffolk Institute of Archæology. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…