Bower Watten (7 results)

Condition: Fair. 1887. No Edition Remarks. 190 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrations. Black and white illustrative frontispiece. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil annotations and a stamp to front pastedown and a previous owner's name and annotations to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners, crushing to spine ends and rubbing and moderate staining all over. Spine heavily tanned. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Book has slight forward lean.

Condition: Good. 1887. No Edition Remarks. 190 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper and half title page. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Minor marks to boards. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Book has a visible forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good tight condition, prize label to free front end page which has been partially removed, some marks/discoloration to pages and fore edge, red cloth some soiling/blotches and fading, shelf wear and corners bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "A curious historical novel, set in the fictional district of 'Stratharran', and modelled on the Scottish crofters' campaigns of the early 1880s. The author's pseudonym ties the book firmly to Caithness: 'Bower' and 'Watten' being villages in that county. John King Grant (1832-1907) was born in Mortlach, Banff and - as a career journalist - held various editorial posts including at the 'John O'Groat Journal' the 'Birmingham Daily Post' and 'The Northern Ensign'. He held the latter post until the year of his death and he is buried in Wick. The jolly, off-the-peg, cover Illustration chosen by the publisher's binders could not be further removed from the struggles of the Caithness Highland agricultural community, upon which the novel is based. (see Mowat, John: A Bibliography of Caithness, Wick, 1909 p. 65) Frontis plate - "The Smithy". 190p +2p catalogue. Clean and tight though a little toned, owners stamp(?) on fep and spine darkened. See Scans.

Hard Back. Bound neatly in green cloth with painted detail and gilt title to front board and spine Black painted detail to back board Pages clean and bright throughout With blackandwhite plates including a frontispiece of The Smithy and various small illustrations throughout pp 190 2 Overall a beautifully decorated edition. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pictorial red cloth/gilt. Cloth slightly soiled/rubbed. PO bookplate with its offset to opposite page. Rear endpage browned. Sound and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Presumed first edition. Blue pictorial cloth. Presentation plate on front pastedown hand dated 1909. Name of owner at front of book.Endpapers bit browned. A nice copy.