Tripper East Notes Diary (2 results)
More imagesPublished by James Maclehose and Sons 1910
- Hardcover
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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US$ 221.07
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Condition: Fair. 1910. No Edition Stated. 130 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. All plate present. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Tanning and foxing more prominent to endpapers. Page edges are notably creased….Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Boards are noticeably bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. Considerable bleach spotting to spine. Notable handling marks to boards.
More imagesPublished by Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1910 1910
- First Edition
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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First and only edition. An attractive and well-illustrated travelogue compromising a comprehensive tour of the Indian subcontinent including Sri Lanka and also Burma, concluding with a whirlwind dash through "Suez, Cairo, and the Desert". Uncommon with just three locations on WorldCat, British Library, National Library of Scotla…nd, and University of Glasgow. Boyd, a well-travelled chartered accountant of Thinacre, Ayrshire, later privately published an account of his services in WWI with the Cameronians, A Yarn of War, Palestine and France, 1917-1918. Octavo (189 x 125 mm). 24 half-tone plates from the author's photographs. Original moderate blue morocco, lettered in gilt on the spine, raised bands, single fillet panels to the compartments, palmette centre tools with stars in the corners, single fillet panel on both boards, broken line roll gilt on the board edges, top edge gilt the others uncut, single gilt fillet around the turn ins, pale pink and blue marble endpapers. Spine very slightly sunned, boards a touch sprung, tan burn on the free endpapers, but in all respects a clean, bright copy, very good.
