Melross (13 results)

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Photo is the book you will receive. In very nice condition with nominal wear, a tight binding and nice clean text with no markings, notes or highlighting.

Condition: vg. vg Trade Allborough Press 1990 edition paperback mark/smudge on the edge of pages and back cover has a crease In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG 89pp 0.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine /As New. 1st Edition. Cover art shows figure in blue landscape. Blue Pp 82. A square, tight, clean copy; inscribed:- 'To Hazel with best wishes Alec Gurney Melross. April 1977, Seville.' Apart from the inscription, this copy is as new. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 96 pages, fine condition in card covers with author's presentation inscription to Ann Karkalas on front free end-paper (" To Ann/ with thanks and/best wishes/Alec Gurney Melross/October, 1991"). Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. 4to, cream boards printed in black, bit worn at extremities, entirely unpaginated. Line drawn text illustrations. The free front endpaper is fully taken up with a presentation inscription from Melross to Miss Elizabeth Tank (whose papers and archives are at the Schlesinger Library, at Harvard), itself surrounded by his black-ink drawing (signed) of a Trout Stream. Nearly a Very Good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Inscribed by author. Very good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Heath Robinson, William; Prescott, E [et al.] (illustrator). Privately Printed Hardback Edition. 325 x 235mm. pp. 70 (approx). C.1930. English text. An amusing volume telling the story of the Nithsdale Argosy. Black and white characertures and illustrations throughout. Bound in original cream boards. Inscribed to half-title reading 'To Mr Rochester. With the Compliments of Mrs E Still'. Endpages and boards show moderate foxing. Binding strong. No underlining. 1kg. Extra postage overseas.

1st edition original boards Very Good small folio (76)pp., b/w plates, etching, illusts., maps, No. 75/310 copies. Story of the Nithsdale Silver Fox Ranch. An inscribed complimentary copy from the author. With an original signed etching by Frank Mason. Small split at spine, boards a little grubby & worn at peripheries but internally very good indeed.

4to. Unpaginated, 2 colour plates and one portrait photo with tissue-guards, text illustrations (many full-page) by Bateman, Marchant, Heath Robinson (see image), etc., one including a folding-reveal, double-page colour plate loosely inserted. Original decorated white parchment, bevelled edges, decorated presentation leaf. Parchment rubbed, with wear to extremes, and soiled.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1962 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 228 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 228.

82 unnumbered pages, num. figs (cartoons etc), 2 col. pls, large portrait, 1 loose double col. plate titled ''Business Unusual'' (An artist's Impressions of the Work at Nithsdale) by David Wikon. Additional copies of the two other colour plates are loosely inserted, 4to, original paper-covered boards (outer ends spine worn, waterstain on upper edge of front cover, lower corners rubbed).