John Wheeley (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Printed Pages - 637. Illustrated - black and white photographs. Sellers Note - This is a heavy book 2.7KGs therefore the postal costs will be higher and signed for will be necessary. Please email for quote.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SCARCE. 1st 2003. Near-fine hardback copy in vg+ jacket (slight fading to spine and superficial surface wear, eg scratching). Large quarto sized book. HEAVY BOOK! OVERSEAS SHIPPING EXTRA AT ABOVE-DEFAULT COST. LISTING PHOTO DOES NOT NECESSARILY MATCH THIS COPY.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper much sunned at the spine, a decent copy otherwise; ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 2.9kg. overseas shipping will require additional postage . ### Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with silver titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 12" x 8½" (2.9 kg); pp 637; Preface by Derek Bradbury; Includes: Black & white photographs, within the text; Cartoons; 2-column text; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #203730 ||.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1904). ND (c. 1904) 1st edition. 12mo (110 x 176mm). Ppx,141 + 3pp ads. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph and 36 illustrations from engravings. Binding A. Red cloth, titled in gilt on spine & upper board, blind-stamped decoration on upper board. Cloth, especially fore-edge, quite stained & faded, spine faded, internally clean. A good copy. Volume Three in the publisher's "How to Buy" series, following on from How to Buy a Camera, 1902, and How to Buy a Gun, 1903. "This volume, like its immediate predecessor in the series, treats only of the cost of outfit, of the prices of tackle, and of such artificial baits as may logically be considered under the head of tackle. It goes a little further, it is true; for it tells not only what price to give, but also how to buy, thus following the rubric of the series. .The moral of most of this advice will be found to be that the most expensive is the cheapest in the long run." Contents include:- Part I: Game fish; Salmon and trout; Part II: Coarse fish; Preliminary remarks; General tackle; Tackle for the various coarse fish; Part III: Sea fish; Tackle for sea fish. No date of publication is given however various book adverts are included such as several volumes of The Country Life Library of Sport including Cricket (1903), Shooting (1903), Fishing [In preparation] (1904), and Big Game Shooting [In preparation] (1904). .

FIRST EDITION. Large 4to. black clothbound hardback, silver gilt, in dust jacket, with original cardboard box. [iii] + 637pp. with b/w illustrations throughout. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Dust Jacket has not been price clipped. VG/VG. (Shelf 10) NOTE: Heavy Book (2.6kg +) Postage outside the UK might incur a surcharge. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The book celebrates 50 years of The Alvis Owner Club including its pre-history, the formation of the club and its early years, an anecdotal history of the club over its fifty years, arranged in chronological order, together with a Who's Who of the Alvis Owner Club.The book is still in its original box. This is a large, heavy book which will require additional postage. Inventory # M6126.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition. Type: Z 637pp. 2003. First edition. 4to. large sized. Scarce. A very good, clean, tight copy of this tome in a very good minus jacket. Original publisher's black boards - stamped in silver to the spine and to the front board. A light bump to the head of the spine and a slight bump to the tail of the spine. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in b/w. Bright red endpapers. No inscriptions. The jacket has not been price-clipped. It has a chip to the head of the rear panel of the jacket it measures 3.5cm x 2cm which has an associated 14cm long crease - not paticularly heavy. A very good, clean, tight copy of this scarce large tome in very good minus jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to. Pp iii, 637. Illustrated. Original cloth. D/w. No inscriptions. As new condition. Postage will be at cost.

Both items excessively scarce, with the only copies traced on OCLC WorldCat and COPAC at the British Library. The leaves of both have been separated, but comparison with other copies confirms that they are both complete, and otherwise in good condition, with slight wear, and the two leaves of the second item laid down on a piece of paper. ONE: By 'J. M. G.' Title-page: 'The Old Oaken Chair: | Addressed to | Different Members of his Family. | By J. M. G.' 8pp., 12mo. A neat production, originally on two bifoliums. Gutch's name completed in pencil on title-page, with note: 'Only 12 printed'. Prefatory note: 'WRITTEN in my 76th year, upon receiving from my Brother, GEORGE GUTCH, an OAKEN CHAIR, as a companion to a curiously carved LIBRARY TABLE he had previously sent me.' The poem, in blank verse, covers pp.5-8, and begins: 'OLD OAKEN CHAIR! I love thy antique form, | Thou bring'st to my remembrance the review | Of by-gone days and scenes; - the love I bear | To him, who sent another gift to suit | This room, the shelves of which contain | Volumes of early lore, of poetry divine; | Of that which helps to meditation, | And recalls the mind from earth to heav'n.' The poem refers to the loss of a parent (his wife?), 'kind Mary Anne'. The latter part of the poem concerns the travels in the Aegean of his son J. W. G. Gutch, with six footnotes, the first two reading: 'My son, a Queen's Foreign Messenger, was at this period sent with despatches to Sir William Parker and Mr. Wyse, respecting the settlement of the affairs of Greece.' and 'After delivering the despatches, he was permitted to land at Athens, and had sufficient time and opportunity to visit the celebrated classical scenes which surround the city.' TWO (by 'H. B. T.)': Title-page: 'The Old Oaken Chair. | Dedcated | (without permission) | to | Mrs. Gutch.' 2pp., 12mo. Originally a bifolium, with title-page on recto of the first leaf and poem on the recto of the second. Uniform in design with Item One. Poem dated at end: 'H. B. T. | Worcester, | 7th October, 1850.' Twelve-line poem in three four-line stanzas: 'FULL many chairs on dais placed, | Have held both knaves and fools; | Some who their Country's cause betrayed, | Some who were party's tools. | But here's an honest chair of oak, | Which holds an honest man; | Whose life will bear the scrutiny | Of Honour's closest scan. | Dear Madam, let me breathe a wish, | (As you will breathe a prayer,) | That years may pass ere you shall sigh, | "Ah! there's the VACANT CHAIR!"'.

Both poems excessively scarce, with the only copies traced on OCLC WorldCat and COPAC at the British Library. The three items wrapped in letterhead of 'Merrixton House, | near Stepaside, | Pembrokeshire', with anonymous manuscript note, dated 3 July 1915, stating that 'only about a dozen copies were printed'. (Another copy consulted bears the pencil note 'Only 12 printed'.) ONE: By 'J. M. G.' Title-page: 'The Old Oaken Chair: | Addressed to | Different Members of his Family. | By J. M. G.' 8pp., 12mo. A neat production on two bifoliums, unbound and unstitched. In good condition, lightly aged. Prefatory note: 'WRITTEN in my 76th year, upon receiving from my Brother, GEORGE GUTCH, an OAKEN CHAIR, as a companion to a curiously carved LIBRARY TABLE he had previously sent me.' The poem, in blank verse, covers pp.5-8, and begins: 'OLD OAKEN CHAIR! I love thy antique form, | Thou bring'st to my remembrance the review | Of by-gone days and scenes; - the love I bear | To him, who sent another gift to suit | This room, the shelves of which contain | Volumes of early lore, of poetry divine; | Of that which helps to meditation, | And recalls the mind from earth to heav'n.' The poem refers to the loss of a parent (his wife?), 'kind Mary Anne'. The latter part of the poem concerns the travels in the Aegean of his son J. W. G. Gutch, with six footnotes, the first two reading: 'My son, a Queen's Foreign Messenger, was at this period sent with despatches to Sir William Parker and Mr. Wyse, respecting the settlement of the affairs of Greece.' and 'After delivering the despatches, he was permitted to land at Athens, and had sufficient time and opportunity to visit the celebrated classical scenes which surround the city.' TWO: Another copy of Item One. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with the leaves detached and folded and mounted on stubs. Autograph note by Gutch on the title page: 'To his dear Daughter | Frances Gutch'. The Oxford DNB states that Gutch's only child was his son J. W. G. Gutch. THREE: By 'H. B. T.' Title-page: 'The Old Oaken Chair. | Dedicated | (without permission) | to | Mrs. Gutch.' 2pp., 12mo. Bifolium, with title-page on recto of the first leaf and poem on the recto of the second. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with discoloration and slight damage along gutter. Uniform in design with Item One. Poem dated at end: 'H. B. T. | Worcester, | 7th October, 1850.' Twelve-line poem in three four-line stanzas: 'FULL many chairs on dais placed, | Have held both knaves and fools; | Some who their Country's cause betrayed, | Some who were party's tools. | But here's an honest chair of oak, | Which holds an honest man; | Whose life will bear the scrutiny | Of Honour's closest scan. | Dear Madam, let me breathe a wish, | (As you will breathe a prayer,) | That years may pass ere you shall sigh, | "Ah! there's the VACANT CHAIR!"'.