Guide County Kent, First Edition (23 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 36 pages. Illustrated. At the time of this guide's publication, Orpington was still a parish within the county of Kent. It did not become part of the London Borough of Bromley until April 1, 1965. The guide features the "Invicta" horse, the traditional symbol of Kent, prominently on the front cover. Wikipedia Wikipedia The booklet was designed for portability and included: A map of the Orpington district. 14 illustrations showing local sights. Advertisements for local businesses, which are now considered valuable for genealogical and historical research. Facebook Facebook +1 (SL#281).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. illus., Plates (illustrator). 1st. Foreword by the Rt. Hon The Lord Conwallis, 290 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition hardback, 1988. Original pictorial dustjacket VG. Grey cloth very clean. Pages lightly foxed at the top edge, internally very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 136 pages. Pictorial endpapers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. thick card covers, slight rubbing to edges, clean condition, 236pp, pages clean and VG+ condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 28pp. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs of windmills, map of locations and diagram of windmill. Illustrated car. In fine condition. No date. Post and packing on this item will be lower than quoted at £2.95. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0.0 0.0.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. VG+/VG. First Edition, First Printing in d/w price clipped. Illustrated with photographs. Front endpapers are an 18th century map of Kent; rear endpapers are a 1975 map. The principal people, places and events of the County's history in date order 2500BC to AD1973. With Indices to places and people and a comprehensive entry-related source index. Light spotting to top-edge; d/w has light sunning to spine; else a very good plus copy, in a very good d/w, of an UNCOMMON first edition, first printing.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Type: Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 28 pages in stiffened covers, very nicely illustrated, a summary of the windmills in Kent as of the late 1970s. Centrefold of this stapled publication gives a map of the windmills covered. An important 2-page feature of the book is entitled 'Odds and Ends' with references to "the more important windmill remains" in Kent, with four photographs of "some lost Kent" mills on the following page; and the booklet concludes with a glossary of terms and a sectional drawing of a smock mill. In very good+ condition,

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Type: Book pp XVI, 290. 1st printing. Small losses to lower corners and last 2 pages of book, otherwise fine. DJ complete, spine sunned and stained, otherwise fine.

gr. 8°, Hardcover. Condition: Gut. First Ed. 136 S. dust-jacket, many illustrations and maps, in good condition Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 554.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Plain paper dust wrapper a little faded with a faint school stamp to the upper panel, now wrapped in a removable protective sleeve. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Previous owners' name to the first blank; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over grey boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5½" (0.9 kg); pp (xvi) 290; Index; Preface by Rt. Hon. The Lord Cornwallis; Includes: Black & white plates; Appendices (7); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #186592 ||.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back publisher's original light beige cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 8¾" x 5¾" xviii, 290 [pp]. Twenty-two monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy paper. Light pen marks to fore edge. In Very Good square and bright condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Maidstone].

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original dove grey cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 9'' x 6'' xviii, 290 [pp]. Twenty-two archive monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in very near Fine condition dust wrapper with only a small crease line to the top of the spine. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Maidstone].

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 8vo, i-xx, 258 pp, 2 page advertisement leaf, frontispiece of Knole House, full page plates and black and white illustrations in the text, folding Genealogical chart of The Sackville Family which is complete but rather crudely repaired. Original blind - stamped cloth, 5 cm section of the spine is lifting but firm, wear to the head of the spine. A fair to good copy.

First Edition. Poor copy bound in half aniline calf over marble boards. Wear and tear as with age (part of spine missing). Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; vi, 192 pages : pl. (incl. map, plans) ; 24 cm. Subjects; Antiquities. Travel. Kent (England) Description and travel. Kent (England) Antiquities. England Kent. Description Travel History Houses Historic Buildings. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy bound in half aniline calf over marble boards. Wear and tear as with age (part of spine missing). Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; vi, 192 pages : pl. (incl. map, plans) ; 24 cm. Subjects; Antiquities. Travel. Kent (England) Description and travel. Kent (England) Antiquities. England Kent. Description Travel History Houses Historic Buildings. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, with a 20th Century rebinding (likely for library useage). In spite of this, the interior remains in-tact. 192pp. Text, Indexed, plus Engraved Title page, folding Map of Kent, folding Plan of Canterbury and 44pp. Engravings of Views. Fascinating early travel guide to England, coinciding with the rise of an interest in the heritage and sights of England itself. Compiled by a consortium of unknown individuals, this volume is a snapshot of the Garden of England as it was then.

First edition, royal 8vo, xiii, [3], 98 + 6pp., of adverts, coloured double-page map frontispiece, some light foxing, early presentation inscription to front endpaper, original boards, a little stained, new cloth reback, uncut.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xiii, Division 1, 64 pp including a list of Fresh water mollusca and insecta, Division 2, pages 67 -96, coloured frontispiece map of Faversham. Catalogues for publisher William Pamplin at rear. Some loss to the rear free end paper but a very good copy in the original boards with paper label, a new spine strip labelled by hand on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, 8vo. xiv + [ii] + 98 pp. + [6] pp. catalogue. Complete with both maps as called for, one double-page hand-coloured lithographic map of Faversham & district and one engraved uncoloured map of the Isle of Thanet. Bound in twentieth century cloth with the original tipped in label to front board. Condition: Good++. Boards are bumped to corners with wear commensurate with age, titled, red cloth spine is clean and fully intact with all binding sound. Free from previous owner's names or marking.

Condition: Very Good. First edition in contemporary half camel calf covers which have been rebacked, marble paper covered boards and page edges, original gilt title lettering and designs to the spine, new end papers. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains [iv] 189 printed pages of text with 50 monochrome engravings and two fold-out maps, one of Kent, the other Canterbury. Without any foxing or age toning to the paper and in Very Good clean and fresh condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Antiquarian].

First edition in contemporary full burgundy calf covers, original gilt title lettering and designs to the spine, elaborate gilt tooling to the edges of both boards, all page edges gilt. 8vo. 6½'' x 4''. Contains [iv] 216 printed pages of text with 50 monochrome engravings and two fold-out maps, one of Kent, the other Canterbury. Just a little foxing to the first map and title page, the paper remaining free of age toning and in Very Good clean and fresh condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Antiquarian].

First Edition. First edition, large 16mo, pp. 404; original brown cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, blind-tooled borders; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, edges and cloth scuffed, back joint weak. A good copy overall. Illustrated advertisements throughout, including endpapers. At head of title: "To be published every three years." Not in OCLC.