S E St Leger (24 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair. reader's copy. Slightcocoking of spoine. A lot of foxing. Ozoned most of any residual basement smell. Shelving code PTC.

Condition: Very Good. 51 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: Essex Archaeological Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 11 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24.5 cms. Category: English Illustrated Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. complete. Facsimile frontispiece. a much worn and used copy. boards are torn, chipped and knocked. thorough foxing, staining and marks. some inscriptions. loose binding and visible netting. end papers have been tape repaired. age related wear. reading copy. Please note: it is a heavy copy, extra postage will be required if posted outside South Africa.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. 1st edition. 274pp, large octvao, color frontispiece, color plates & b/w ill., tight binding, clean thropoughout, worn blue cloth boards, spine is worn and faded leaving the titles vague, edge and corner wear.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A fine original antique hand coloured engraving. Hand coloured - colouring contemporary but . Mounted and ready to frame . . Very good condition, . A splendid opportunity to acquire an antique original view - decorative, attractive and scarce . A splendid scene --fine view of CIGAR AND LOTTERY, TWO STEEPLE CHASING HORSES JUMPING A WIDE STREAM , WINNERS OF THE ST LEDGER AND DERBY 1841 A Fine Original Antique Coloured AQUATINTAQUATINT.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A fine original antique hand coloured engraving. Hand coloured - colouring contemporary but . Mounted and ready to frame . . Very good condition, . A splendid opportunity to acquire an antique original view - decorative, attractive and scarce . A splendid scene --fine view of SATIRIST AND CORONATION, WINNERS OF THE ST LEDGER AND DERBY 1841 FINE COLOURED AQUATINT.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid antique illustration . Unmounted. Excellent condition . Printed in 1877. A large composite print showing various scenes including the start and the finish between Lady Golightly and Silvio, both Lord Falmouth's horses.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. November, 1903. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 274 pages. Frontispiece in color. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, slightly faded marks and the edges are a little frayed. There is foxing on the early and last few pages, little within the body of the book. The pages are neat and complete. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1903. Colour & tinted plates throughout, also numerous black and white text illustrations. Top edges gilt. Front free endpaper missing. Endpapers browned. Publishers highly decorative blue cloth, some very light rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine and corners. Small mark on front, else very good clean copy. Colour and tinted plates throughout + text illustrations. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. heavy, extra postage may be required outside South Africa. boards are edge worn, a bit knocked and damp stained at the back. foxing and marks. binding has been repaired. one faint rubber stamp. book is complete and in good reading order. considering its age. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition of only 2,150 copies (compared to the more usual 3,000).Dark blue cloth boards with titling in gilt to cover and spine. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine. 50 colour illustrations, 15 in b&w and a further 100 sketches in the text. This really is in fine condition clean and bright, no loss of colour to the spine. Inman 86. the author (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. The cloth cover of the book is rather wasted. However, the book itself is in good condition apart from discolouration due to age. The colour plates are vivid and binding is intact. St.Leger (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. the boards are worn and marked and the spine ends are frayed especially the bottom which is very frayed. the book has a previous owner's crossed through name and 2 seperate ownership stamp marks. the book is also foxed and there are age related marks. that said, the binding is excellent and the book is complete with all plates as called for which are in excellent condition. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Large thick octavo hardback in decorative cloth, illustrated, name on flyleaf, a very good copy. First edition. Depictions of the Boer War.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 274 pages (complete). A passive copy. The boards are much worn, marked, scuffed, stained all about. They do, however, retain a dignity that is pleasing. The spine has wear, marks. The boards and spine are steady and sure. Inside, the contents are pleasing. Whilst there is evidence of use, ownership and age throughout, the pages are contented. The pages fore and aft have flecks of foxing, some handling marks. The pages in general, and by far, are clean, clear, genteel, convivial, very occasionally flushed with shallow foxing, generous, engaging. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

First edition. 66 full-page colour plates. 8vo (9 1/4 x 7 inches), 274-pages. Original blue cloth blocked in colours. Endpapers foxed, remains of prize label on front pastedown, frontispiece detached but undamaged. Overall a very nice copy indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Blue boards with red and orange patterns and gilt titles. Spine ends bumped. Very well bound. Sold on behalf of a local hospice. May need extra postage.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Five very smart first edition volumes from the New Naturalist series, with illustrations throughout. Five volumes. First edition. From the New Naturalist series. This set includes: Wild Orchids of Britain, 1951. Illustrated with sixty-one photographs in colour, thirty-nine photographs in black-and-white, and many in-text figures including maps. Collated complete. Written by Victor Samuel Summerhayes, an English botanist who was appointed the head of the orchid herbarium at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew for 39 years. Illustrated by Robert Atkinson, an English painter and illustrator. The Sea Coast, 1953. Illustrated with ten photographs in colour, twenty-four photographs in black-and-white, and many in-text figures including maps. Collated complete. Written and illustrated by James Alfred Steers, an English coastal geomorphologist who was Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge from 1949 to 1966. Dartmoor, 1953. Illustrated with seventeen photographs in colour, thirty-six photographs in black-and-white, and three maps of the area. Collated complete. Written by L. A. Harvey and Douglas St. Leger-Gordon, an English writer of many books on Devon and Dartmoor. Illustrated by E. H. Ware, a British artist and illustrator. Moths, 1955. Illustrated with seventy-seven photographs in colour, seventy-one photographs in black-and-white, and many in-text figures including maps. Collated complete. Written by Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford, a British ecological geneticist. Illustrated by Samuel Beaufoy, a British illustrator. The World of Spiders, 1958. Illustrated with four photographs in colour, thirty-two plates in black-and-white, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. Written by William Syer Bristowe, an English naturalist, a prolific and popular scientific writer and authority on spiders. Illustrated by Arthur Smith, a British natural history illustrator who specialised in entomology. In the original full green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor shelf wear and the odd small mark to the boards. Light fading to the spine, particularly of The Sea Coast. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown of Wild Orchids of Britain, Dartmoor, and Moths. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of World of Spiders. Near Fine. Robert Atkinson; J. A. Steers; E. H. Ware; S. Beaufoy; Arthur Smith (illustrator). book.…

first edition 274pp ills.[col.plates] VG+ (blue cloth w.red/orange dec.borders,mod.rubbed and sl.soiled,mod.bumps and sl.wear to extrems.,new eps,prelims.and edges sl.foxed,contents and plates clean w.tissue guards present,sl.cocked) tidy copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Xii + [274] pp. + 66 plates. Blue buckram binding, beautifully painted and gilt front board and spine. Top edge gilt, protected in plastic sleeve. "Colonel Stratford Edward St Leger CMG CVO DSO (1867 12 October 1935) was an Anglo-Boer War and World War I diarist and artist. His artwork was being published in the London magazine Black and White by the middle of 1900. His only published book came out in London under the title of War Sketches in Colour in November 1903. In addition to being a detailed account of the experiences of the 1st Mounted it contained full-page reproductions of sixty-six of his sketches in water colour and pen and ink, plus ninety-seven line drawings and five section maps. St. Leger mounted an exhibition of his work at a gallery in Bruton Street, Mayfair in May and June 1904 and consisted of fifty water colours with fifteen large and a great many smaller pen and ink drawings." - See Wikipedia.Very minor shelfwear, has been protected in a plastic sleeve a long time. Top edge of spine has puckered a little. Some age related spotting and toning to page edges and some pages.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 418 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 274 pp.+ Color Frontis & 65 Other Color Plts, Orig Cream Color Hardback with Red & Blk Outline Design on Cover, 4to, Gilt Spine Title, Top Edge Gilt, Deckle Pages, Near Fine, 1st Limited Ed #246 of 250 Copies, Signed by Author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 1st Limited Numbered Edition. pp XIII, 274. 1st printing. Number 211 of an edition limited to 250 copies. Signed by the Author to Limited Edition page, TEG. 2 pages untrimmed. With 66 full page captioned, tissue guarded illustrations. Excellent decoration binding with bevelled edges. Sight wear to head and tail of spine, otherwise fine. An excellent book.…

Limited deluxe edition, no. 142 of 250 copies, signed by the author. Illustrated with 66 full-page plates and text drawings. vii, 274pp. 4to. Inscribed to the front pastedown: "William M. McInnes / from Ida O. Folsom." William M. McInnes served as the executor of Ida O. Folsom's will. Her library was sold "by Order of the Executor William M. McInnes" through the American Art Association and Anderson Galleries in 1932. Publisher's cream decorative cloth gilt, top edge gilt. with light wear to extremities, cloth a bit rubbed and scuffed, front hinge a bit overopened Illustrated with 66 full-page plates and text drawings. vii, 274pp. 4to Limited deluxe edition, no. 142 of 250 copies, signed by the author. Signed.…