Couling M J (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG/VG. First edition in d/w. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on dedication page. Inscription reads, to the sister-in-law of the subject of the book, 'To Jessie - his sister-in-law/with best wishes & love./Monica.' Illustrated with photographs. The biography of Ken Couling, (1906-1991), written by his wife Monica. Ken was a clothing manufacturer, a war-time RAF pilot and, after the war, ran an aircraft hiring business. The book includes the 271 letters he wrote to his wife between 1943 and 1946. Lean to spine; minor spotting to edges; minor bumping to covers; d/w has slight sunning to spine; else a very good copy, in a very good d/w, of a UNIQUE FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 224pp. Over 400 illustrations, some marks to half title , bound in brown cloth with price clipped dustwrapper.; Quarto.

Size 11 x 8 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With pictorial dustwrapper. Dark brown endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine faded. Rubbed and light creasing along edges. Foxing spots to inside covers. Price clipped). Ends of spine bumped. Corners rubbed. A very clean and tight copy. 224pp. With over 400 illustrations and photographs. An evocative look at Bournemouth from the 1800s through to the early twentieth century.…

1st edition of a private printing. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. 8.75ins x 6ins, [viii], 291pp plus 24pp illustrations. Story of a clothing manufacturer who became a war-time pilot and went on to establish an aircraft hiring business in the 1960's. The majority of the book comprises 271 letters from Ken Couling to his wife written between June 1943 and February 1946 during his overseas service. Pasted to the inside front cover is a signed presentation card from Monica Couling (author & wife). Dustwrapper lightly sunned to spine. F / VG.…