Balston Thomas Editor (7 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Geoffrey Bles Pub 1956. Book is in fine and unread condition, pages all clean tight and bright, beige hardcover is strong with corners lightly rubbed light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition Thus. Cream Boards with gitl titles to spine and blue to front board with gilt whatman paper watermark device. 190 x 130 mm approx. Portrait frontis + one other portrait and 6 Wood Engraved chapter head pieces by Frank Martin all as called for. A fascinating picture of life "below stairs" in a great eighteenth- century house. The housekeeping book written by Susanna Whatman was commenced in 1776 as mistress of Turkey Court, Turkey Mill Maidstone Kent; following her marriage to James Whatman a world renowned paper maker in the county. Very Good/ Poor (Book- No notable shelf wear or soiling to boards and no previous owner name. Original Glassine wrapper a little rubbed and soiled with significant loss to rear and other nicks. Promotional flyer/bookmark laid in). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale. FRANK MARTIN (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Mylar jacket is torn at the top corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black buckram gilt, DW, thick 4to., xliv, 355 pages, color frontispiece, nine pages of half-tones and over 1,000 engravings reproduced. Broadside prospectus folded twice to form six pages laid in. Rear upper tip bumped, slight edgewear, spine mildly faded, else a very good copy in the scuffed, original clear fitted DW printed in red. Additional shipping cost may be requested.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Extremely well illustrated with many hundreds of examples, quarto, pp xliv, 355, exceptionally clean internally, black cloth very slightly dusty otherwise in excellent condition, in the original printed Mylar dustwrapper, and in the original packing box. A heavy book - extra postage may be necessary. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. From the library of poet William Matchett with his signature and date (1960) to the ffep. 4to. - over 9¾ in. - 12 in. xliv + 355pp., illustrated throughout with hundreds of b/w reproductions. Black cloth with gilt titles and decorative device on the spine. Light spotting along the top edges, else a nice clean Near Fine copy, in a Near Fine plastic jacket with red printed titles on the front. Laid in loose is the prospectus for the book.…

, xliv, 355 pages, black and white engravings throughout, coloured frontispiece. Includes leaflet for Robert Gibbing Memorial Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1960 plus letter for press invitation to the event First Edition , spine faded with mark from label, dent to top front corner, slight fading and shadowing to front board, marks to endpapers from tape, library labels to endpapers, pages clean, good condition , black cloth, gilt title and illustration to spine, gilt monogram to front board, marbled endpapers, blue top edge , 29 cm x 23 cm Hardback ISBN. …