Couch Bertha (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Not dated but circa 1930. 160pp, with colour plate frontispiece and four further colour illustrations, numerous line drawings and sketches throughout, colour decorated endpapers. In pictorial boards with linen spine (boards are worn and heavily rubbed and a little chipped and indented at edges, rounded and scuffed on corners and spine ends, where the cloth is worn). Hinges cracked, some mild occasional spotting, and the 'belongs to' section has been filled in. A little loose but holding.

Soft Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Small octavo, a portrait frontispiece, pp 160, a few ink splashes on the fore-edge, otherwise clean internally, front hinge cracke with a little weakness, soft blue cloth very slightly worn, a tiny contemporary bookseller's label on the front endpaper - J.A.D. Bridger, Penzance. SCARCE. [The Oates/Selborne copy, with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates.].

pp. vi, (7)-160. Portrait frontispiece. Original cloth, front joint nearly cracked through, otherwise a good copy, with an ALS from JOHN Q. COUCH, son of Jonathan Couch, 1898, to Dr. H. Montgomerie, apologising for not being able to make an appointment, tipped in at the front. *SCARCE - with a Subscribers' List at the end accounting for 81 copies, including 2 to Queen Victoria. COPAC lists 5 copies in the UK.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. - the life of the local historian / antiquarian / ichthyologist - Jonathan Couch of Poloperro ( a Cornish fishing village and port on the south-west coast ) as written by his daughter with the help of one Edward G. Hocken - It describes his early scientific interest in fish and Cornish fauna in general, including extracts from his scientific publications, notes on local history, superstition, and family history - She includes a short general description of Polperro in the late 19th century - this copy is a nice association as it bears the former owner's blindstamp on the flyleaf reading " Cohch's House, Polperro, Cornwall " - light green printed flexable cloth, upper corner bent and cracked, but solid, same corner bumped, but a vg bright square of a scarce book, the suscriber's list in the rear lists a mere 75 copies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.