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BONE, James 1872-1962 [ Bone, Muirhead Sir 1876-1953 [illus] ]Biblio.com

The London Perambulator. By James Bone; with illustrations by Muirhead Bone. NEW YORK : 1925.

1925ref. 054353New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - 11 x 9 Inches Tall. Illustrations by Muirhead Bone. LOW Sir David Alexander Cecil Low 1891-1963 . FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. NEW YORK : 1925. Printed using Caslon Old Face type. Printed at the Southworth Press Portland Maine. Bound by The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. Author presentation copy. PLUS Christmas Card. Hardback. Frontispiece and 15 other full-page black and white illustrations by the author's brother Muirhead Bone. Dark-blue cloth; gilt lettered spine. Top-edge gilt; others untrimmed as issued. Top corners bumped. Bright tight and clean. INSCRIBED five-line inscription by the author to fly-leaf dated December 1925. INSERTED; a Christmas Card from Jim & Annie Bone; plus another general card form them. PLUS cartoon published posthumously by LOW 1946; of Bone pushing a Pram with London landmarks inside. No internal markings. Minor wear. VERY GOOD. xii 195 pages. Scarce association copy. JAMES BONE CH 16 May 1872 - 23 November 1962 was a British journalist most notably London correspondent for the Manchester Guardian for 33 years. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1947. He was also the primary author of 4 travel books one about Glasgow one about Edinburgh and two about London. Born in Glasgow Bone's parents were journalist David Drummond Bone 1851-1911 and his wife Elizabeth Millar Crawford 1847-1886. His brothers included Sir Muirhead Bone the artist and Captain Sir David Bone author and mariner. He married Anne McGavigan in 1903; they had no children. Bone was a boyhood friend of 'Bard of the Yukon' Robert W. Service who also was brought up in Glasgow's West End in Roxburgh Street while Bone lived close by in Buckingham Terrace. After leaving school aged 14 Bone worked briefly for the Laird Line which operated passenger and trade routes between Scotland and Ireland before joining his father at the North British Daily Mail. When this newspaper was taken over in 1901 he left and temporarily pursued a freelance career writing reports for the Glasgow Herald Daily Record and the Glasgow Evening Times. Also in 1901 to coincide with the Glasgow International Exhibition 1901 Bone's first book Glasgow in 1901 was published under the pseudonym James Hamilton Muir a name formed from his own name and those of his co-author and friend Archibald Hamilton Charteris the nephew of Scottish theologian Archibald Charteris and his brother the book's illustrator Muirhead Bone. In 1902 he started work at the London office of the Manchester Guardian where in 1912 he became the London correspondent writing a regular column his London Letter in which he related events from London in an informal way. The 3 other books by Bone are : The London Perambulator 1925 illustrated by Muirhead Bone The Perambulator in Edinburgh 1926 illustrated by E.S. Lumsden and London Echoing 1948 illustrated by Muirhead Bone. Bone retired in 1945. His wife died in 1950 but Bone lived to see his 90th birthday in 1962 receiving birthday messages from Queen Elizabeth II President John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. He died on 23 November 1962. Folio; approx. 11 x 9 inches. Heavy; extra potage needed outside the UK. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR WITH INSERTS. BONE James 1872-1962 Bone Muirhead Sir 1876-1953 Alfred A. Knopf hardcover

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