Surtees Robert Smith E D Cuming Editor (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Geo. Denholm Armour (illustrator). 1st Edition, Special Edition. 0-948560-15-0 The R.S. Surtees Society, Nunney, 1993. Hardcover. Blind stamped decorative beige boards. Gilt titled and gilt decorated spine. Gilt stamped titles and gilt stamped illustration to upper board. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. Cellophane dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate pasted onto the front pastedown. Bookplate partially tanned. Rear pastedown lightly foxed. Endpapers partially stained. Overall, the book is in a good condition. The dustjacket is chipped, stained and tanned and is in a fair condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Colored Plates/half-tone Illus (illustrator). 1st. 359 clean, unmarked page;red c. w/gilt decorations/titles; sunned spine; moderate wear at exremities; 4 single-sided colour plates;+ half-tonme illus.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. ARMOUR George Denholm 1864-1949 (illustrator). Limited Edition. Small 4to, Ltd ed, VG, 1927, 28 pls. In red cloth, titles in gilt, edges faded very slightly, corners and edges bumped and rubbed. Spine, titles in gilt, edges bumped. DW, in mylar jacket, couple of small marks and chips, titles in black inks, lovely coloured image by Armour to top cover. Internally, some light offsetting to eps, an edition limited to just 230 copies, (xxvi), [1], 2-332, 28 plates, of which 8 are coloured, printed by William Blackwood and Sons, teg remainder uncut. Surtees, was an author whose books ran counter to the currents of his age in their lack of idealism, absence of sentimentality, and almost wilful flouting of conventional moralism. His leading male characters were coarse or shady; his leading ladies dashing and far from virtuous; his outlook on society satiric to the point of cynicism. See ODNB.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by George Denholm Armour (illustrator). Limited Edition; First Printing. Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer. This is #180 of a limited editin of 230, describing hunting tours takens by Surtees in the early 19th century. Bound in red linens, with tipped in full color illustrations, deckle edges and an illustrated dust jacket, the book has light rubbing to the boards, as well as light age-toning and foxing. The DJ has some rubbing, light stains and and a closed tear; it is now in Mylar. ; Color and B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 332 pages.