Witts Edith (8 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good mint green hard cover. Bumped corners. Light wear around the edges and spine. Gift plate on the ffep. Pages very clean and bright. 1st Edition, NAP.

Condition: Fair. 1964. 96 pages. Green cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Condition: Good. Boards have light toning to edges. Content clean and sharp with foxing to endpapers. Prize plate to blank page. Prize clipped DJ with tears and creasing to edges and little tape repairs and bit of toning/soiling.

Condition: Good. 1963. No edition remarks. 95 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Presentation plate on front free endpaper. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some mild rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Condition: Good. 1963. No Edition Stated. 96 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with yellow lettering over blue cloth. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Presentation plate to front endpaper. Tape remnants to endpapers. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine and board edges. Minor scuffing and soiling to boards. Clipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, tear and loss to edges and corners, with foxing and tanning all over. Notable soiling and tape remnants to DJ.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very pleasing selection of volumes that explore the fascinating histories of the Cotswolds. A bright collection of five works, each exploring various areas of the Cotswolds' history, including its architecture and churches, monumental brasses, and the diary entries of a parson that sheds fascinating light on the period between 1820-1852.Three volumes are first editions. 'Monumental Brasses' is a facsimile edition and 'Diary of a Cotswold Parson' is a second printing, published the year after the first.With monochrome illustrations from photographs throughout each volume. With many full-page and in-text to 'Monumental Brasses'; sixteen plates to 'Minor Pleasures'; fourteen plates to 'Churches'; frontispiece and fourteen plates to 'Diary', and fourteen plates to 'Stow'. Collated, complete.Containing the following works:'The Monumental Brasses of Gloucestershire' by Cecil T. Davis (1969) - Originally published in 1899.'The Minor Pleasures of Cotswold' by Edith Brill and Peter Turner (1971)'Cotswold Churches' by David Verey (1976)'The Diary of a Cotswold Parson' i.e. Reverend F. E. Witts, 1783-1854. Edited by David Verey (1979)'Stow on the Wold: A History of a Cotswold Town' by Joan Johnson (1980) In the original cloth bindings. With the original dust wrappers, 'Diary' and 'Brasses' being unclipped, and the remainder of the set being price-clipped. Externally, very smart, with only slight signs of shelf wear, most notable to 'Minor Pleasures'. Dust wrappers are very smart, with only light edge wear to 'Stow', 'Churches' and 'Diary'. With sunning to the wrap of 'Minor Pleasures'. Handling marks and a small closed tear to the wrap of 'Monumental Brasses'. internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 96 pages. 250 grams. This book is in good condition marked only by presentation plate and original bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper. The dust jacket is in good condition exhibiting some wear, tears, and chipping. Dust jacket front panel shows young blonde girl in bed with dark-haired doll. 'Lovely Lorinda, forbidden by her grandmother to enjoy the company of friends she likes, is unhappy; while the stars, it seems are shining bright just when she is most miserable. Her friendship with Ruth, later permitted by her guardian, enables Lorinda to learn that there is a Friend who loves her, in spite of all the scrapes she has been in. Suddenly the stars in the evening sky take on a new, friendlier look and Lorinda welcomes the message of the star of Bethlehem into her young heart.' 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction, Children's.; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001051.