Summer Rambles: First Edition (47 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. This is a Good Copy of this book in Publisher's blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover.Bevelled edges.This copy has one previous owner's inscription to the half title page.Well Illustrated with b&w sketches.One small snag tear to the cloth to the rear cover (…

Hardcover. Condition: With All Faults (W.A.F.). No Dustjacket. First Edition. 251 pages. No dustjacket. Binding has a pronounced forward lean to spine, original dark green hardback binding, wear/splits to spine-ends, split down half of outer rear hinge, wear to card at boards' corners. Both inner hinges cracked showing cloth but…

Hardback, 218mm x 140mm buff cloth boards, gilt titles, first edition, 110+pp. plus index, Colour illustrations. Black and white illustrations. Illustrations by Russell Leslie. Good/NoWrapper. Owners inscription. Book has been handled, smudging and isolated faint staining to boards. Block is clean with colour plates bright. Attr…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 8vo. Original grey blind-stamped cloth. xii. 363 pp. plus adds. B/w engraving illustrations. 1859 inscription to prelim. Rear endpapers have some old damp-marking, not affecting textblock, which is clean throughout. Binding has some edge-wear and age-fading. Overall contents GOOD+ / bin…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued without dust jacket. 1st Edition. This is a UK later printing hardcover published by Palmer and Howe, Manchester, in 1866. The book is Very Good with straight spine, sharp corners and softened spine ends. The page edges are toned. The title page confirms this edition…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 152 p.; 16 cm. Series: The "Come-with-me" books. Subjects: Natural history; Natural history Great Britain ; Juvenile literature; Autumn…

Hardcover. First Edition. Large Octavo, 314 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's maroon red cloth bearing black and gilt lettering to the pictorial spine. Boards have moderate wear including mild sunning to the spine, slight whitish spotting and some soiling smudges. Slight rubbing and minor frays to the edges. Sli…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 152 p.; 16 cm. Series: The "Come-with-me" books. Subjects: Natural history; Natural history Great Britain ; Juvenile literature; Autumn…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. A very good copy in blind-stamped green cloth, browned on the spine which is lettered and decorated in gilt. A clean copy internally with no ownership inscription and not foxed. Pp.xii,363 + 8pp. publisher's catalogue. 30 woodcut illustrations by Samuel Williams. Chapters o…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 475 pages; title page with plate and tissue guard. Original blue hardback binding, very good with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight, this was from the National Library of Scotland as part of Sir George Taylor's bequeathed collection. a few library stam…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: None, as Issued. First Edition. 486pp. Brown cloth. Approx 3cm split at top front of spine, 9cm split from top of rear spine edge, bottom rear corner bumped, corners rounded, hinges cracking and prelims heavily toned. Posthumous first publication of these works by noted 19th ce…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Us Edition. Two volumes in dark green embossed cloth gilt lettered on spine. 341 pp and 339 pp. First American edition (the true first the Uk editon of 1838). Jameson, a successful writer already, came to Canada for only one reason, to get a financial settlement from her estranged husband, Robert…

Original Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued Without Jacket. First Edition. xi+251 pp + ads. crown, attractive green cloth gold blocking, bevelled bds., b&w illus. Book by a Victorian botany lecturer designed to encourage readers to use the then new train routes round Manchester to get out trekking a…

First Edition. An Account of explorations by Miller, a Scottish geologist and lay theologian who was considered one of the finest geological writers of the 19th century and whose writings were widely successful in arousing public interest in geologic history. Spine ends chipped. Barely visible dampstain splash on front cover. Ot…