Dilks Bruce (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st edn. PB. G. Front hinge tender. Dedication "Peg, with best birthday wishes 20 April 1933" signed by the Author on title page. Book.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With frontispiece. Former owner's name on half title. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; lvi, 275 pages Original decorated blindstamped cloth.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. 45 pages. Solid copy with a spine lean and covers show llight wear. Interior is unmarked. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Printed wraps. pp 50. Frontis portrait and 9 plates. Bridgewater Booklets No. 6. Very good indeed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Small, slim 8vo.pp.45. Local history:part of the 'Bridgwater Booklets' series. Frontispiece b/w map of 'Medieval Bridgwater.' Original publisher's card binding in buff with black lettering and town emblem on front cover. / Bridgwater is a large historic market town and civil parish in Somerset,he edge of the Somerset Levels, bounded by the River Parrett. Very good indeed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Small, slim 8vo.pp.53. Local history:part of the 'Bridgwater Booklets' series. Frontispiece b/w map of 'Medieval Bridgwater.' Original publisher's card binding in pink with black lettering and town emblem on front cover. / Bridgwater is a large historic market town and civil parish in Somerset,he edge of the Somerset Levels, bounded by the River Parrett. Very good indeed.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition of this brief and scarce study of pilgrimage in Bridgwater by Thomas Bruce Dilks. The very scarce first edition of this work in the publisher's original paper wraps. Bookplate to the verso of the title page. A booklet containing a local history of pilgrimage in Bridgwater, No. 1 of the 'Bridgwater Booklets' series, written by T Bruce Dilks. A scarce copy of this work which is very scarce in the first edition. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally very smart, with just a little creasing to one corner and a small closed tear to the front joint of the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

14pp., 12mo. Stitched into grey paper wraps, with white label printed in black and red on front cover. In fair condition, lightly worn and aged. The titles are: 'The Sea Bird at Dawn | January, 1937', 'Wonder', 'On my Father's Collection of Seaweeds', 'The Water Gate, Bridgwater Castle', '"Barchester"', '"We trusted that it had been he." (dated 'Good Friday, 1938'), 'The Third Day | Narrative of Cleopas' (dated 'Easter, 1938'), 'The Victorians', 'Robert Blake', 'Keats', 'John Richard Green' and 'To my Nurse | June, 1938'. One copy traced (Bristol). See Image.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. Very scarce first edition of this brief survey of Bridgewater by Thomas Bruce Dilks. Little booklet containing a compressed local history of Bridgewater, no. 2 of the 'Bridgewater Booklets' series. Written by T Bruce Dilks.A very scarce copy held by three institutional libraries only including the British Library and the University of Manchester Library.Illustrated with frontispiece. LEJ & MA Brooke's pictorial bookplate to verso front wrap. In the original publisher's wraps. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly sunned to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to fore edge affecting only first and last few leaves; pages otherwise bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed. book.