Folkestone, First Edition (16 results)

Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. NrF. First Edition. Booklet. 32pp. Illustrated with photographs. Articles include, 'Entertainment In The Thirties' by Ken Stace Paine; 'F W Woolworths' by Beatrice Fagg; 'Folkestone Inns Of More Than A Century Past'; 'Memoirs Of Folkestone' by Eileen Martin; 'Boots Cash Chemist' by Polly (A Yesteryear Boots Young Lady'; 'Memories' by Marjorie Sidey; 'Broadmead Manor' by Marjorie Sidey. A near fine copy of a SCARCE first edition. NO inscriptions, underlining or highlighting.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, VG. 415pp, lacks endpaper, but with half title, foxed throughotu, but readable, a fair copy, cloth rubbed & worn. A fictional account of the formative years of Shakespeare. Volume CCXL in the Collection of Ancient & Modern British Authors. 550 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Volume I (of two) only. 239pp. Bound in dark green cloth with printed paper label on the spine; this original hardcover binding is solid and holding strong with light general wear and stains to the boards. Circulating library information on the front pastedown and previous owner's pencil scribbles on the front fly. The text is clean and unmarked with light scattered foxing throughout. A good, or slightly better copy overall.

First edition hard back publisher's original apple green cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 9'' x 6'' 102 printed pages of text with two colour plates [one by Rowland Hilder], and monochrome photographic illustrations, woodcuts, and sketch maps. Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with foxing to the paper, not priced. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips and protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Folkestone].

First edition hard back publisher's original apple green cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 9'' x 6'' 102 printed pages of text with two colour plates [one by Rowland Hilder], and monochrome photographic illustrations, woodcuts, and sketch maps. Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with tiny closed nick to upper panel, not priced. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Folkestone].

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Original brown blind decorated cloth lettered in gold on spines. Very clean tight text BUT front cover (although clean) is bit bleach marked and faded. Spine lettering a bit faded but still easily legible.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Moderate edge wear, more so on the spine edges; binding on Volume I is loose; interiors are very good. Two volume 19th century work on the Bishop of Rochester, "with notices of his distinguished contemporaries". "Compiled chiefly from the Atterbury and Stuart Papers". Ex-Library.

First edition, viii, 109, [1] + 2pp., of adverts, several small neat stamps, orig. cloth, lacking spine and lower cover.

First edition hard back publisher's original maroon cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine [oxidised] and upper panel. 8vo 8" x 5½" 138, 6 [pp]. Monochrome photographic illustrations. Cracking to inner hinge of upper joint, surface rubbing to spine tips and corners, small splash marks to spine. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Folkestone].

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. viii, 109pp. Original blind decorated cloth with gilt titles. Some wear and fading to boards, neatly rebacked retaining remains of original backstrip, inner hinges reinforced, contents with slight fading and spotting to edges, lacking to strip of title page, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "An Historical Sketch of the Art of Sculpture in Wood" From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Robert Folkestone Williams. 1835 1st edition; The Library of the Fine Arts; London. "With Notices of the Most Remarkable Sculptural Works in the Same Material Now Remaining in Europe, and Some Account of Their Designers." From the Preface: "The Art of Sculpture in Wood, though of great interest, has not received that attention it deserves; and the want of some account of its history has been frequently acknowledged by those who have felt any gratification in the study of the arts of design. The following pages have been written as a popular compendium of the most interesting information that can be acquired upon the subject; the Author having in preparation a more elaborate work for those who are desirous of a complete book of reference, in which ever thing relating to Timber Architecture and Sculpture in Wood will be lucidly arranged, and philosophically treated; and it has been his object, during the composition of this volume, to render it sufficiently learned for the general reader, while to the practical student it may serve as a preliminary dissertation to the work to which he has alluded." Condition: Light foxing and a couple small stains on the front cover; there is a larger stain at the bottom half of the back cover. Light wear to the cover corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Foxing to the pages throughout. Overall the book is in Good+ condition.

4 pp, 1 sheet folded. Music, pp 2-3; last page blank. 7 stanzas of musical scores w/ lyrics, followed by 1 additional verse of lyrics. 12-1/8" x 9-1/2" General wear & light foxing. Early gift inscription, "C. H. Bell from / R. Anderson", at top of front wrapper. A VG copy. Printed self-wrappers, with illustrated front wrapper. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve 1st edition (Harwell, p. 119; Parrish & Willingham 7084). Not in Dichter & Shapiro EARLY AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC (though 3 other Dunn Civil War sheet music publications are listed, as is one other Selby).

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. 484pp. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards with gilt spine titles. Slight rubbing to covers otherwise very good indeed. Bookplate to pastedown.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Many Ads Front & Back of Main Text (illustrator). First Edition. All 8vo brown cloth with black & gold blocking except Sheffield which maroon cloth, Pawson & Brailsford, and Swansea published by John Hodges, and all ex-St Aasph Cathedral library. Each vol. has extensive prelims with front and back many ads. Vg original condition, 10 late Victorian vols.[incl 1878 Sheffield, 1879 Swansea,1883 Reading, 1888 Manchester, 1889 Cardiff, 1891 Rhyl, 1892 Folkestone, 1893 Birmingham, 1894 Exeter, all thick vols., & 1895 Norwich, eg is 672 pp. These days rare vols. Carriage to be agreed. Size: 8vo. Association Copy.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce collection of Robert F. Williams' three part novel. The first edition, complete in three volumes. The first edition of this novel by Robert Folkestone Williams, complete in three volumes. A very scarce copy.Williams was an all-round man of letters, who produced numerous poetry, fiction, journalistic, historical, and biographical works. These volumes contain a historical fiction inspired by and loosely based on the life of William Shakespeare and sixteenth century England. In a half calf binding over marbled boards with leather spine labels, slightly chipped to volume III. Externally smart with some shelf wear and rubbing to the boards and leather, particularly to the head and tail of the spine, as well as some minor scuffing. Inscribed by a previous owner to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor faint scattered spotting to the leaves throughout. Very Good. book.

[WILLIAMS, Robert Folkestone]. The Youth of Shakespeare. Three vols. Bound in later morocco-backed marbled boards. London: Colburn, 1839. First edition. Block, p. 254. A near fine set.