Richie Ewing (2 results)

This is one volume from a set, at the bottom of the spine it reads, DIV. III: Attractively bound, very good original brown cloth pictorial boards, gilt lettering to the front and spine, very good clean and bright condition, the decoration to the boards is back with gilt highlights, there is a super gilt crocodile to the front, some edge wear, a little fraying to top and bottom of the spine, corners bowed, plain endpapers, no publication details, the books opens with a tissue protected full page coloured engraving 'Ismailia on the Suez Canal, ' this is followed by a series of 4 coloured portraits, after which is a full page black and white engraving ' the Slave Market Zanzibar, this illustration is labelled Part XI, on the reverse side the text begins with at page 482 mid sentence, pagintation 482-720 pages, page 720 finishes mid-sentence. The text is set out in double columns, it is clean and easy to read, there are many black and white illustrations some full page and some within the text. 10.5 x 7.75 inches approx. A very smart and fascinating book. Ideal for collectors especially if those who possess other volumes from the set, intersting for students and historians. .

Quarter -Leather Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. iv + 956 pages, quarter leather binding in good condition, some rubbing. Contents Very good, clean & tight copy, no inscriptions. Originally published monthly, this is the full year Jan-Dec inclusive with index. Includes fact & fiction & poetry, fact includes American girls and their education, various articles about Fleet Street by J. Ewing Richie, Four months at sea from England to New Zealand, Friendships of Jesus by Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe (Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 was an American abolitionist and author & pre-dates her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin ), Great modern preachers, life in Northern India, Queen Louisa of Prussia, & lots more. Fiction includes more of a story of the siege of Hull by Marie Hall, Oliver Westwood by Emma Jane Worboise, We and our neighbours by Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe ( looks like the 1st printing in the UK, pre-dates the 1875 Sampson Low 1st. Edition UK book, ) Historically interesting for it's Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 items. & lots more. A Heavy book so extra postage charge outside UK. 15 x 22cm Approx.