Carr C Introduction (7 results)

348 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket. Olive cloth with color pictorial vignettes to front board and spine and cross motif to rear board; surface scratches/flaking to front board's color; nicking/fraying to cloth at spine ends; boards' beveled edges have light bumping and minor wear to their fore-edge corners. All edges gilt. Patterned endpapers; past owner's personal bookplate on front pastedown; pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper; tear and slender paper loss at title leaf's bottom gutter corner; some minor foxing and soiling. Mild toning to book's five color plates on unpaged leaves - frontispiece without a guard sheet but with other four retaining theirs (all uncredited but presumably by Walter Paget); twelve full page b/w plates on paged leaves (all but one credited to either "EN" or "E. Nister" but probably still by Paget); other b/w illustrations inset amongst text. A few stress points to binding but overall still firm. An uncommon edition of John Bunyan's classic highpoint of Christian theological and allegorical fiction.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition containing 8 of the 13 stories in the US edition which was published in 1950 under the title 'The Best Science Fiction Stories:1950' by Frederick Fell. Boards have a little bumping to the spine and corners. Page edges are browned with quite heavy spotting. Endpapers are browned with previous owners bookplate to the front pastedown. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has one small closed edge tear and chipping to the top and bottom of the spine and the corners. The rear panel has some discolouration and light staining. First printing.

4°, Leinen. 140 pp. Cloth with dust jacket. A very good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Geoffrey C. Ingleton (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight overall yellowing to fabulous retro jacket showing scenes from Australian life, corners rubbed with small loss. Not price clipped (30s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 245pp. The extraordinary memoirs of Alexander Harris (1805-74), soldier, teacher and author known for his early semi fictionalised accounts of convict life in Australia. He arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1825 and returned to London, England in 1841. Harris had numerous jobs including a soldier, clerk, a tutor and a timber getter. He travelled mostly around the Hunter Region, the Shoalhaven, Illawarra and Bathurst in New South Wales. In 1851 he left for the United States. He emigrated to Berlin, Ontario on the outbreak of the U.S. civil war in 1861 and died in Copetown, Ontario in 1874.

8vo., blue clothbound hardback with unclipped dust jacket; [xxxvi] + 328pp+ 39pp notes and index, b/w portrait frontis + b/w line drawings throughout. Clean copy with no previous ownership inscriptions or annotation. Browning and foxing to edges and to first and last few pages, dust jacket rather rubbed, sunned and edgeworn, otherwise a Good copy. (Shelf 200) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. LC Lambrecht (illustrator). 1st. #332 of 1000 copies, signed by photographer; slipcase lightly sunned along opening and top edge, Dust jacket in clear protector. Links of 46 Irish golf clubs are described and photographed in color. A color map of Ireland shows the locations of each golf club. 206pp 7.40lb 12.6x16.4x1.3in EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES NECESSARY. Signed by Author(s).