Chas Riddle (6 results)

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, skillfully re-cased with original spine and panels laid over, later endpapers, a very good tightly bound copy, some scattered foxing else clean and unmarked, b&w plates and maps, one plate silked to leading edge, iv + 292pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bournemouth with maps of Bournemouth Old and New maps and estate plans 1 plate is missing ow contents in vg condition name on front paste down front board slightly pulled showig small piece of webbing Boards vg cond but spine is sunned.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The impressively illustrated first edition of Mate and Riddle's detailed guide to Bournemouth in the 19th century. The first edition.Illustrated with thirty-two plates. Collated, lacking the frontispiece.Charles H. Mate and Charles Riddle present a history of Bournemouth over the course of a century, detailing its establishment as a prominent Victorian era health and pleasure resort.Rebacked, retaining the original endpapers. Inscription to front pastedown. Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with original back strip laid down. Retaining original endpapers. Back strip age toned, with boards bright. Inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Small spill mark on title page. Pages otherwise bright and generally clean, with perimeters lightly age toned. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardback, approx 6 x 9 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and gilt crest to front. In good condition. Rebound/resewn with later endpapers. Cloth faded and rubbed on spine and boards. Edges and corners rubbed and bumped. Pages with some mild foxing and minor handling marks. Some minor water staining to top edges of plates. Else a clean and tight copy. 292pp. Illustrated with b&w photo plates. The history of an English county borough, in Hampshire, now in Dorset, that began to attract attention as a resort about 1840. Bournemouth was the home of Robert Louis Stevenson from 1884 to 1887 and the book includes some interesting anecdotes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Small Folio. (4) + iii + (1) + 292 + (4)pp including 4 page list of subscribers. Tissue guard portrait photo frontis. 32 plates complete. PublisherÕs red cloth covers, gilt crest in corner + lines around edges on front, gilt lettering on spine. Original brown & green wallpaper floral eps. Neat old signature on ep with date Ò July Ô10 Ó. 3 old newspapers cuttings ligtly stuck on feps. Covers : new spine with old laid down, original front and rear, very professional rebind, sl shelf knocks corners. Contents : foxing to prelims, sl foxing throughout else very clean & tight. Very clean tight copy. Plates clean & unfoxed though some ery feintbpencil notes on 2. VG.

Hardback, approx 12 x 9.5 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine and gilt crest to front. Top edge gilt. Patterned endpapers. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped with some minor darkening to edges of boards. Spine faded and bumped at ends. Some light/mild foxing to title and preliminary pages, some minor spots to inside pages. Else a very clean and tight copy. (4) + iii + (1) + 292 + (4)pp including 4 page list of subscribers. Tissue guard portrait photo frontis. 32 plates complete. The history of an English county borough, in Hampshire, now in Dorset, that began to attract attention as a resort about 1840. Bournemouth was the home of Robert Louis Stevenson from 1884 to 1887 and the book includes some interesting anecdotes.