From Bodeltone to Bolton-le-Sands The Story of a Village by Entwistle, Kenneth - 1982

London: Thomas Payne and Son, and Edward Brooke. Fair. 1785. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather boards detached, gilt paste-on label on spine. Paper paste-on label on front states: "Enclosure No. 11267 from E. W. Adams (hand-written above printed name now blacked out) , to Mr. D. C. Lannes, Gen. Pat. Attorney, Western Electric Co. , Inc. , 195 Broadway, New York, U. S. A". Laid in at page 409 is a letter addressed to D. C. , from Clarence G. Stoll, 195 Broadway, New York, who was retiring on August 22, with no year given on the letter, the handwriting being of old school. Petrie, who ran unsuccessfully against John Bristow for a seat in the House of Commons from the Borough of Cricklade, discovered that the winner purchased votes, and took Bristow to court. Petrie prevailed, and this book deals with the lawsuit, as well as other issues which came to light. An extremely rare volume in its original state. Foxing, dampstaining, extremities rubbed and frayed. Old initials in upper… Read More

Landmark Publishing Ltd, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st printing 2002. Firmly bound and very carefully read. Both book & jacket are in excellent clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Collection of b/w photographs..

London: London: Printed for Thomas Kelly No. 17 Paternoster-Row, 1821. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition, large quarto; viii + 724pp. In original half leather binding, very worn, boards detached, spine backstrip missing, opening and closing leaves loose with marginal chipping and creasing without loss of text, text block otherwise sound with unobtrusive sporadic light staining and soiling only, complete with engraved portrait frontispiece, extra engraved title page and 16 full page engraved plates. Despite its tired condition, still a complete working copy of this early illustrated biography in first edition.

The Woman in White. By Wilkie Collins. The Home Library Series A.L. Burt Company. P Undated, circa 1940. Maroon cloth boards with gold gilt topstain. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice vintage copy.

THE PICKWICK PAPERS. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens. Dodd, Mead 1935. 637 pages. Illustrated edition. Dark green boards, Gilt decorated spine. Titling still fairy. bright. . Illustrated by C.E. Brock. All colour plates including frontispiece are affixed to binding and are in nice condition. 16 colour plates in all. Used. Good Condition/ No Dj if issued. 637 pages 5 3/4 X 8 1/2. A nice copy. Will ship from Oregon. We consider offers.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. xii, 320 pp. Bound in black boards, title in gilt on spine, in green dust jacket printed in white. Black and white illustrations throughout. Fine, bright copy in Very Good+ dust jacket with light wear to extremities. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1861 blind embossed and decorated cloth with gilt to spine, rubbed at spine ends and corners, frayed spine ends, binding loose on cords, front hinge split and opened between half title and frontis ( ie not attached to text block), inscription to fep dated Glasgow 1919, early inscription to blank recto of frontis, has engraved frontis and title as well as printed text title, 2 leaves (half title and frontis) + xvi, 294 +4pp adverts, rear fep removed, first three signatures detached, a tidy copy but needs to be resewn and recased into the original boards, includes a folding genealogical chart, includes information on the Sinclairs of Roslin (Rosslyn) . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Dent, 1915 third reprint of 1898 edition dated 1915, olive cloth with gilt decorated boards and spine, decorative endpapers, xxiii 638pp + colour plates ( 12 as called for) minor handling wear or soiling, very small Times Book Club label to rear paste down. reprint. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

This book is in fairly good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, edges, and spine of the cover boards, as well as spots on the outside back cover board. There is minimal bumping and fraying on the cover boards. The pages are yellowing and tanning, with some vertical fraying and warping, but the pages are clear of markings. A few of the pages are dog-eared and edges torn. "The Forsyte Saga was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called 'The Man of Propery; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us. The word Saga might be objected to on the ground that it connotes the heroic and that there is little of heroism in these pages. But it is used with a suitable irony; and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt-edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. Discounting for the gigantic stature and blood-thirstiness of… Read More

Coventry: Coventry: Printed, for Private Circulation Only, by J. W. Parbury, West Orchard, 1875. 1st Edition . Full cloth. Very Good. First edition, quarto; [x], 129pp, complete with 10 plates (including 7 sepia lithographs) and a hadnful of in-text woodcuts. In contemporary green cloth (very lightly worn) with gilt arms to centre of front board and gilt lettering direct to spine. Early ink ownership names to front free endpaper and reverse of frontispiece, binders ticket to rear pastedown, endpapers stained by turn-ins, small light marginal stain to frontispiece well clear of image, a very clean attractive copy of this uncommon history.