Markham Major (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. 12mo, 1521 pgs, index, illustrations. Original cloth. Spine faded and torn at top of spine, covers rubbed and soiled. Interior has former owner's inked name on endpaper, previous name scribbled out; otherwise tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Charts and Diagrams (illustrator). First Thus. In printed tan jacket over red cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 139pp. (fading, soiling and sm. nicks to jacket at extremities. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. SECOND EDITION Revised and Enlarged Both as to Text and Illustrations, with 118 ILLUSTRATED Examples of Pewter Ware and a Compendious Index. Handsome Red Cloth, Elaborate Gilt Design and Lettering on Front Cover & Spine. Spine faded otherwise FINE. Light age-toning of page margins otherwise FINE. Book.

Condition: Good. 1948. 392 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Fair. 1928. Second Edition. 355 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. With photographic frontispiece. Photos embedded in text. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Liquid droplet marks to upper text block edge. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. Book has a moderate forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. No. MCLXI; No. MCLXII; No. MCLXIII; 424 pages; Contents clean and complete in brown polished buckram binding with leather title label and gilt lettering at spine; leather label rubbed. Three issues of this wonderful journal bound together. Some of the articles in these three issues include: Will Home Rule be Rome Rule? by J. P. Mahaefy; The Lady of the Canaries by St John Lucas; Stalking the Red Deer of Otago by A. E. Leatham; From Sepoy to Subahdar by Major MacMunn; Tales of the Mermaid Tavern by Alfred Noyes; The Burial of a Queen - Hocken and Hunken ; "The Great Straloch"; The Folly of International Sport - The "Decay" of Cricket - The Game and the Spectator; The Making of the Panama Canal by Charles Paxton Markham; The Constitution under Cromwell and under Asquith by Arthur Page ; Omar, the Policeman of Beyrout; With the Abor Expeditionary Force by Wanderer; Shipwrecked by George Forbes, F.B.S.; etc.

Condition: Fair. 1932. Sixth edition. 151 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs and diagrams. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose and some pages detached. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed.

Octavo hardcover (VG-) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Near fine coloured illustrated paper covered boards, 10.00 x 7.5 inches approx. , front board shows a racing car moving towards the reader at speed, Tiltes in orange block leters with white edges, light blue rear board, spine illustated with small images of a sea-plane and two ships, no obvious wear, very good matching coloured dust jacket, faded to spine, chipped to top of spines some edge wear, clean and bright, not clipped, no inscriptions, front paste-down and two thirds of the endpaper have darkened over time, the fold in has kept the remaing third of the front endpaper much lighter, coloured frontispiece, 'Trumpeter Albert Twiggs entered the room and saluted. ' black and white drawing on the title page of the Sphinx, stories in chapters not paginated, four full page coloured plates, 2 full page black and white plates and numerous black and white drawings in the text, no rear endpaper. Internally clean with a few minute traces of foxing, easy to read with clean bright pictures,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 355 pp.; frontis., ill. blue cloth with gilt-titles/decoration, 26 cm.: Sound binding (lightly cocked), touch of foxing to edges/end-papers, light bumping to corners of boards. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Condition: Good. Good condition. 5th edition. (plate, great britain, hallmarks ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket 5th edition. (gold, silver, makers marks) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardback Book with title stamped on spine. Green boards with minor wear stars sharp. Book suffered some light water damage to first page only. 152 pages plus full index & Appendix. Endpaper maps & photographic frontispiece Stony Stratford Celebrations 1897. Profusely illustrated throughout with Plates & Maps. Generally good condition has mark on closed Foreâs small area 1cm. Posted next day by recorded delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Plates and maps (illustrator). Reprint. New. First published in 1951.

Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition. 392 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly tanned with minimal foxing. Mild cracking to front hinge, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Notable annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean.

H/B green cloth bds, gilt lettering to upper bd and spine, Good+, sl. rubbing to spine ends and corners, small bump to leading edge, pp143 +advertisements at the end.

Reeves and Turner, London, 1928, second edition, 355 pages, list of Freemen of the Company of Pewterers, partially illustrated list of Touch Plates at Pewterers' Hall, index of Members of the Pewterers' Company and of Pewter Workers, general index, profusely illustrated in b&w, 7"x10.25", hardcover, burgundy cloth with gilt titles and decorations, top page edges tinted burgundy, corners and spine ends slightly bumped and worn with only minor fraying present, minor shelf wear, spine and covers very mildly soiled, 2.25" scrape on back cover which has torn some cloth and exposed some cardboard underneath, no dust jacket, front inner hinge cracked with webbing visible, rear inner hinge just beginning to crack, both holding with previous tape repairs, former owner's inscription in ink on front free endpaper, contents clean and tight, book good+ (G+/no dj) 3775 [(s)1007KW].

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 4 Coloured Full Plates & Drawings (illustrator). Very bright illustrated boards. Repaired nick to bottom of spine. No date circa 1927. Owner Inscription on ffep. Size: 7" By 8.75" Tall.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Coales, K.W. & Silas, Ellis & Lumley, Savile & et al., (illustrator). Circa 1926. Good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards, spine shows totem pole and front shows two scouts on a bouy. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations and plates. First poem is The Shining of the Sun by Markham. Covers are edge worn and a bit grubby, some fading to rear cover. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to textblock. Small sticker to top margin of page 97 ("April 14 to 19. Easter. House Parties. Worthing & Bexhill"). Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Staplebound. Condition: ex library-good. 11 p. 22 cm. Staplebound booklet. Ex library with notations and stamps. Former owner's label on first page. Twenty-ninth Annual Convention, Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, Trenton, New Jersey, October 15-17, 1936. Letters to the Hon. J. Hampton Moore, President, Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A bound off-print. No date but authors dedication inside front cover dated 1926 and resented to Rev J C Wall who was the vicar of Kelmarsh in 1926. 22pp. Spine fragile with small parts missing and characteristically rusted staples. Overall a good tight copy.

Hard. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Second edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London and New York: Reeves and Turner/Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Large 8vo., 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", xviii+355pp., profusely illustrated. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles and designs, top edge gilting. "Including Sections on the History of the Pewterer's Craft, Statutes, Ordinances, etc., relating to Pewterer's from A.D. 1348. The Manufacture and Composition of Pewter Ware as well as its Cleaning and Repairing. Description of some 1,100 Marks or Touches, and Facsimiles of 200 from the original copper plates of the Pewterers' Company, London; etc. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged both as to Text and Illustrations. With 118 Illustrated Examples of Pewter Ware and a Compendious Index". 7" x 10 1/4", xviii, 355 pp., illustrated with reproductions of black & white photographs of pewter ware." Minor wear/rub at the tips, light occasional foxing. Very good plus, clean, bright, sturdy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Second Edition. Nice copy. Fine copy. Blue cloth. Large or heavy book and may require extra postage. No Amazon international order on this title. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

HardBack. Condition: Good. Printed by subscription 1924. Red linen boards, ivory linen spine. Boards bumped at corners and sun bleached toward edges, small black pen mark, spine bumped head and tail. Pages clean and unmarked, occassional very light spotting throughout, top page ends darkened. Slight lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Cloth. xviii, 355 pages; Fair copy, although binding somewhat loose and light foxing throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Very good weighty book in clean maroon cloth bevelled edge covers with handsome bright gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; copiously illustrated; slight spotting to end papers but virtually absent elsewhere. No dust jacket.

"Including Sections on the History of the Pewterer's Craft, Statutes, Ordinances, etc., relating to Pewterer's from A.D. 1348. The Manufacture and Composition of Pewter Ware as well as its Cleaning and Repairing. Description of some 1,100 Marks or Touches, and Facsimiles of 200 from the original copper plates of the Pewterers' Company, London; etc. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged both as to Text and Illustrations. With 118 Illustrated Examples of Pewter Ware and a Compendious Index". 7" x 10 1/4", xviii, 355 pp., illustrated with reproductions of black & white photographs of pewter ware and maker's marks, drawings. Maroon cloth with titling gilt on spine with gilt design and on front cover, top-edge gilt. Beveled cover edges show light wear, bookplate removed from front paste-down, some age-related tanning to endpapers, tan spots of book edges and to a few page margins. Bookseller's label on front flyleaf: (Old Corner Book Store Boston, Mass 1828-1928 100th Anniversary). No dustjacket Very good (interior is a clean, unmarked copy). Weight: 3 1/4 lbs.

First edition, 4to, xii, 224pp., frontis., 42 plates, some light spotting throughout, orig. publishers white buckram-backed red boards.

Now the 3rd Battalion (Militia) of The Northamptonshire Regiment from 1756 to 1919. 4to. Portrait frontispiece and forty-two other plates. Very good in the original half art. vellum on red linen-covered boards, a little sunned, small damp spot to the upper board, t.e.g. others uncut. xii, 224pp. Printed for Subscription, Handsomely produced history.