Pearson John Calder (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A book of black & white plates with captions; brief text. xxxi, 355 pages. 4to. Hardcover, bound in green and cream cloth. No dust jacket. Fine. In a slipcase, rubbed at the edges.

Vellum Spine Over Boards. Condition: Very Good+. Frontispiece (illustrator). Limited & Numbered Edition. Book #65 of 125 copies. Very clean and tight textblock. Very light character soil down spine; Lacks slipcase; 77p. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frontispiece (illustrator). Limited & Numbered Edition. Book #25 of 130 copies. Clean and tight textblock. Beautiful marbled design to binding. Paper dust jacket with light wear to edges and corners and light character soiling. Inside original slip case. 87pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rowfant Club January 1959 Binding: Hardcover $NRP.

First edition, 1/275 copies (this #34). 4to. xxxi, (1), 355 pp. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings, facsimiles, plates of the club's collection of 354 candlesticks, with captions giving the name of the donating member and a brief description (by tradition, each new member donates a candlestick to the collection). Old tape shadows on endpapers, front and rear, else very good. Original two-tone cloth, gilt spine title, publisher's gold cardboard slipcase (edges rubbed). (10577).

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Frontisoiece, 356 other plates and text illustrations. 22pp. of text. 4to, grey cloth, g.t., board slipcase. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1959. Very good (+). One of 275 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 356 pp. Original white cloth covers w/ gilt title on green cloth spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine a bit sunned. Top edge gilt. #45 of 275 copies. Comes in original gold cardboard slipcase. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Small folio, 22 pp. of text with frontispiece and 356 plates. Cloth, title gilt on spine, original glassine and gold paper covered slipcase. One of 275 copies (this one unnumbered). A fine copy in original shipping box & brown paper. One of the few books with photographs of fine and unusual candlesticks. The candlestick shown in the (slightly blurred) scan, is that of our founder, Peter Keisogloff (1900-95), who became a Rowfant Club member in 1931.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Calder, Julian; Fordham, Peter; Cooke, Richard (photos) (illustrator). First Edition. 90 pages. Features: Christmas Fact and Fantasy; London's Christmas Choirs; Christmas on Duty; Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World; Two Words (short story); The Electric Pen - a hundred years ago a primitive version of the mimeograph provided an unlikely link between Thomas Edison and Lewis Carroll; ; The Tyranny of Things; Seasonal Greetings - tracing the history of Victorian era Christmas Cards - article with lovely colour illustrations; The Model World (fashion model article); Nice colour-photo one-page ad for the Triumph TR7; Camels in America (USA); A True Christmas Story; The Constancy of Coade stone; The Boy Who Stole the Sun (children's story); Toys for Adults; The Carthusian Liqueur; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this charming issue.