NELHAMS MikeMareMagnum
1.299 Ergebnisse
20004to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and tinted photographs throughout; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Nelhams, the resident gardener, gives a richly illustrated account of the family, garden and plants associated with this magnificent feature of the Scilly Isles.
19498vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges.
1997Sm. 4to., Sole Edition, with a portrait and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (this copy no. 226). The last of Rowse's works on his birthplace, published posthumously in celebration of the life of one of Cornwall's greatest men of letters. 'When Dr. Johnson was sleepless at night he occupied his mind composing Latin verses. Similarly when I can't get to sleep I take to making rhymes on Cornish place names.'
19868vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
18618vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved title vignette, 10 engraved plates and very numerous woodcut illustrations in the text; original green cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, brown endpapers, uncut, a most attractive, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Scarce, especially in this condition.
19908vo., First Edition, with plates; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
19918vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
19808vo., First Edition, with illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Memories of St. Levan parish.
19368vo., Third Edition, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue, upper board lightly faded at upper edge else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Twenty Years at St. Hilary. [Third Edition]
1985Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
19478vo., First Edition, tiny signature on front free endpaper, some very faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; ivory cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue and blind, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly sunned dustwrapper. Lovely copy of Foster's psychological novel set in Cornwall. EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19518vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous drawings (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
19758vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper
18618vo., Second Edition, with a folding engraved map as frontispiece and 3 folding engraved maps; original green cloth, upper board withy blind frame border enclosing title and author in gilt, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, fresh copy. With the engraved bookplates of C J Peacock and Alfred Pounder on front paste-down and front free endpaper respectively. The engraved county maps by Hall (of Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire and Hampshire) are unusually crisp and clean. A previous owner has encased the cloth covers in clear plastic. Lovely copy of the corrected and expanded version of the original edition of 1855. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
1930Sm. 8vo., with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and a folding map coloured in outline, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon in this condition. Brockett, 50140; Spielmann & Jerrold 20.
18858vo., Second Edition, with very numerous woodcut illustrations (by the author) in the text, title very lightly spotted; cloth, boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, black endpapers, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1865, collecting a series of essays written for the Gentleman's Magazine between 1862 and 1864.
19234to., Second Impression, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plate by the author; pictorial green cloth gilt, gilt back, top lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. Published in the same month as the first edition. Hardy's great Arthurian verse drama is unusual among his works in that the two illustrations - 'Tintagel Castle' as frontispiece (repeated in gilt on front board) and the castle's 'Great Hall' - are the work of the author himself. Purdy, pp.227-231.
18908vo. First Edition, title browned; original plum cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, patterned endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, copy. With the fine nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite on front paste-down. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Revised and reprinted from the Folk-Lore Society Journa
19778vo., First Edition, with pedigree on endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Seventh novel in the Poldark sequence.
20104to., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs and reproductions throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
19918vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs, and line illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Collects favourite passages from sixteen volumes of the immensely popular Minack Chronicles, published between 1961 and 1990.
18918vo., Twentieth Thousand, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates, some very light age-spotting, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original pictorial red cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt edges, patterned endpapers, expertly recased, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue at end.
19798vo., First edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, maps and pedigrees in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19868vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, 12 plates, 3 pedigrees on 2 folders and a double-page map in the text; original blue cloth gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Already scarce, especially in this condition
19508vo., First Edition; oatmeal coarse-grain cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly dust-spoiled and with tiny chip at head of backstrip.. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
