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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.
19818vo., First Edition, with endpaper pedigrees; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Eighth novel in the Poldark sequence.
19538vo., with a frontispiece; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
19498vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
19718vo., with plates; red tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19938vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19828vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; orginal printed wrappers, covers unevenly sunned else a near fine copy. SCARCE.
19778vo., First Edition, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in price-clipped, lightly age-browned dustwrapper. The author recreates four notable Cornish shipwrecks.
19678vo., Revised Edition, with very numerous plates and double-page map; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937.
19998vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
19108vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and large folding map on japon, endpapers lightly browned; pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green and black, uncut, a very good, bright copy.
18928vo., Sixth Edition, with coloured and monochrome maps and plans (a number folding) and coloured front endpaper map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, coves lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright,clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
19894to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; white cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19868vo., First edition thus, with illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Enlarged version of the original edition ['Cornish Cats'] of 1974.
19118vo., with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and folding map coloured in outline, small neat signature on front free endpaper, small stain on half-title; original series binding of dark blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, blue top, one corner bruised, lower hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp series catalogue at end. First published in 1897. Brockett, 50140; Spielmann & Jerrold 20 (recording the first edition).