w thacker (355 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, blue cloth lettered gilt, vignette in gilt to the foot of the upper board, top edge gilt, patterned endpapers. The binding remains tight, light soiling, dated signature of a previous owner to the reverse of the frontis. Illustrated, 216pp.

Condition: Good. 1872. Third Edition. 87 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Staining to paste downs. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering has become dull.

xi, 285 pp. plus ads. With illustrations by Oswald Born, Sturgess, and Stanley Berkeley. 8vo, publisher's red cloth with gilt vignettes and lettering in gold and black. Third edition, revised. A19th c. ex-library copy, with blindstamp, bookplate and pocket and slip on rear endsheets. Both inner hinges starting; a little bubbling and use to cloth at extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have little wear. Pages tanned with spotting,

Condition: Good. Boards have some fading to the spine. Content has light toning and is clean and bright. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Novel. Eighth edition. Covers rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped with some wear. Gift inscription on the half title page, , otherwise the interior is clean binding tight, pages toned.

Condition: Good. 1899. No edition remarks. 365 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Rough cut edges to textblock with gilt top edge. Black and white plates by Bernard Partridge. Colour frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 113 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut text block edges. Inscribed by the author with dedication to 'G K C, with the author's very best wishes. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Light brown staining to pages throughout. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks to boards.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Binding remains firm.Pages are prominently tanned with foxing throughout. Boards have heavy edge-wear with substantial bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over.Mild mottling to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, no jacket, illustrated, including a color frontis, the cover has a good amount of surface-wear, some of the pages are unopened (often incorrectly stated as uncut) which is correctly defined as pages in their original state which will need to be opened with an index card, knife, etc. (carefully! ) The rear hinge is cracked but the binding remains secure.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. F.C. Macrae (illustrator). 5th or later Edition. W Thacker & Co, London, 1923. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. One or two minor marks to boards. Corners are bumped. Slight wear to edges. Spine has bumping to top and bottom. Previous owner's mark. Nice mostly clean copy.

Condition: Fair (becoming shaken). Third edition (1st pub. 1881). 285p+ 40p of publisher's ads, ca. 80 text ills. + many line plates by J.H. Oswald Brown, John Sturgess, and Stanley Berkeley. No jacket, probably as issued. The final edition of this comprehensive Victorian guide, somewhat revised. Omits the sidesaddle chapter because Hayes and his wife, Alice, were preparing their separate book on the subject. Adds new material on riding "vicious" horses, military riding, making polo ponies, and an index, and reworks other parts. As described, but still a good reference copy. (Wells 3382). Hardcover, stamped in black and gilt.

hardcover. Illus. by F.C. Macrae (illustrator). 12th ed. 8vo, 159 pp. Nearly fine copy in the original gilt-decorated cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo. Contemporary blue leather, gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Wear and darkening to spine. Bookplate. Clean internally.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. This lovely 1895 edition of Rudyard Kipling?s Departmental Ditties and Other Verses contains over forty verses including; The Post The Fitted, The Man Who Could Write, The Rubaiyat of Omar Kal?vin, My Rival, The Lovers? Litany, The Masque of Plenty, The Song of the Women, The Moon of Other Days and many other wonderful verses. Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. This wonderful book is bound in deep blue with a bright gold illustration on the cover, it would look fantastic on any bookshelf. Title: Departmental Ditties Author: Rudyard Kipling Publisher: W. Thacker Publication Date: 1895 Format: Hardback Condition: This book is in poor condition with damaged spine, worn and marked boards, tanned pages, loose and missing endpaper, inscription on the endpaper.

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, ninth edition, Green cloth pictorial gilt, top edge gilt. Splash mark to the bottom right corner of the upper board, water stain to the foot of the lower board. the binding is tight and the text clean and unmarked. Tissue guarded frontis, b&w plates, viii + 231pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Departmental Ditties and Other Verses' by Rudyard Kipling. W. Thacker and Co 1898 tenth edition. Slight spine sunning. Bookplate inside the front cover. Good+.

Condition: Fair. 1898. No Edition Stated. 247 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Volume I. Rough cut pages. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning.

Cloth (Hrdcvr). Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). London, UK: W. Thacker & Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1911. Cloth (Hrdcvr). 12mo., 238 pp., cover rubbed, soiled and frayed, hinges weak, minor foxing .

R.A. Sterndale, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. (illustrator). First published in the late nineteenth century, A Naturalist on the Prowl or In the Jungle is a lively account of wildlife observation and sporting adventure in colonial India. Written by Edward Hamilton Aiken, better known by the initials EHA, the book reflects the author's keen eye for natural history as well as his engaging style as a journalist and commentator on Anglo-Indian life. Richly illustrated by the noted artist and naturalist R. A. Sterndale, the work combines anecdote, field observation and humour in a series of vivid sketches of animals, hunting encounters and jungle life. It remains an appealing example of Victorian natural history writing, blending scientific curiosity with the adventurous spirit of the period. A Naturalist on the Prowl or In the Jungle, by EHA (Edward Hamilton Aiken). Illustrated by R.A. Sterndale, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. Published by W. Thacker & Co., London and Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta. Second edition, 1897. Printed by William Clowes, London. A good green cloth hardback with gilt beetle motif to front along with title and gilt titles to spine. Covers bumped and rubbed with some staining to front right of cover. Some offsetting to endpapers. Text is bright and clean throughout. Gilt top edge to text block with some markings along lower edge. The advertisements section at rear with some water staining - not affecting the main text. Attractively illustrated throughout. Text in English. xi + 257pp + (2) Author's works + (i) + (32) Publisher's advertisements. Dimensions: approximately 195mm high x 145mm wide x 30mm deep. Weight: approximately 604g (unpacked).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. This is the 1899 printing. The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. F C Macrae (illustrator). 1909 seventh edition hardback with decorative navy cloth covers and gilt titles to front and spine. An Indian Naturalists' Foreign Policy, describes the Indain wildlife with the most charming line illustrations by Macrae, of scorpion, bats,lizards, frogs, ants and the odd human. Decotaed end papers, clean interior devoid of inscriptions, marks, tears or folds and all pages tight within binding. Covers clean and unscuffed, would make a lovely gift.

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. Macrae, F. C. (illustrator). 6th Ed., hard cover brick red cloth bds, gilt titles and small vignette of sleeping man in a chair to btm upper bd corner, some scuffing to spine ends and corners, Good, no dust jacket, neat pen and ink inscript. to ffep, some light age-browning to frontis. and title pge in places, contents clean and tight, cracked at hinge at pge 64 but holding, b/w drawings by F C Macrae, pp159 + P32 adverts to rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. R A Sterndale (illustrator). 2nd Edition. 1st published as a series in in The Times of India. A little scruffy but text clean and clear. Book's binding a little tired. Fox marks to 2 first pages and the last 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrated by Fred Roe (illustrator). 416 pages. No dustjacket. Dark brownish-reddish hardback binding which is lightly marked an spine and spie-junctions are colour-faded. Heavy wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Page-edges and endpapers browned/spotted/greyed o/w pages clean.

Condition: Fair. 1901. no. 367 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Volume XIX. Rough cut pages. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have moderate shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed with considerable tanning. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block.

Condition: Good. 1899. No Edition Remarks. 337 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Colour illustrated frontispiece with black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with water staining to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Missing DJ. Bumping to the corners of the cover boards. 9th Edition. Pages are clean and free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. BP/Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Good. Fourth Edition. 323 pp. Hardcover in good condition. Bumped corners. Shelf wear. Ex-libris bookplate inside front cover. Fourth edition with 180 natural size illustrations from actual specimens. Spotting to pages.

Condition: Good. 1901. No Edition Remarks. 335 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout with colour frontispiece. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Some pages uncut throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with water staining to spine.