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Hardback. Good. #0030B, 1934 Sept. Little Brown, Boston / Atlantic Monthy Press Books. Hardcover, No Dj. Cloth Cover has light wear, darkened with age. The Cloth is b/w checked cover has a small hole in side of spine. Very good inside. Has 26 full page illustrations b/w, the front one is color only. 351 pages. Personal checks are subject to payment.

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Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1934. hardcover. Poor/None. 0x0x0. Some water damage in storage. 389 p., many pages unopened; this is a first limited ed., no. 693, signed by author; binding firm, interior clean and unmarked, but no slipcase so there is some fading at edges of green boards; carved design on front board; spine firm; deckle edges; frontis. color plate of horse race painted by the author; many other ill. in b&w, including photos of such notables as W.R. Hearst from a chapter about a visit to Hearst's ranch; reproductions of portraits of the Bronte sisters, as well as the Duke of Reichstadt, a Currier & Ives print of a locomotive; photos of places in Vienna, Budapest, London, including Dr. Johnson's reception room; booklet in back reproduces an unfinished work of Charlotte Bronte in her own hand. AS IS

Little Brown, 1934. First Edition. Very Good condition. Slight external staining.

Charles Sessler. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Philadelphia, 1934; paper covers; mild edge and corner wear; underlining on front cover; crease horizontally across center of book; housed in plastic sleeve with cardboard; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior clean and unmarked; not paginated.

Boston: Little Brown, 1934. First Edition. hardcover. Inner hinge split, else VG in a chipped and torn Dust Jacket. 16 essays including six on books and writers and four on sports

Ayer Co Pub, 1990-05-31. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Ayer Co Pub. hardcover. Very Good. 5x1x8.

Little Brown & Co, 1934. near very good condition in black and white checked cloth with a darkened spine (bookplate).

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 351 pp. Patterned cloth with a green, black and white pictorial paste-on on the front panel; black and green paste-on on the spine; pale green upper edge; headband; colour frontis; illustrated wtih black and white plates. Light wear on the corners with some darkening on the spine; no dustjacket; no interior markings; hinges tight; gutters intact. The Chapters are: The Derby; Ascot; Off to the Grand National; A Book Collector Goes to the Dogs; Adventures in London: Morning; Adventures in London: Noon and Night; Adventures in Gough Square; Franklin and Johnson Meet at Mr Strahan's; Adventures Westward; The Course of Empire; Adventures at the Hearst Ranch; Adventures in San Francisco; Vienna and I; I and Budapest; The Bronte Country: My First Visit; and The Bronte Country: My Second Visit; followed by an index..

New York: Books For Libraries Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Owner's address label on front fly, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Essay Index Reprint Series.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with chips and tears, rear jacket panel lightly foxed. A few minor spots on top page ridge, endpapers faintly foxed. 1934 Hard Cover. xii, 351 pp. Black-and-white checkered cloth boards with paper label. Color frontispiece, illustrated with black-and-white plates. Sixteen essays by the famous book collector: six literary papers, four on sports, a six about personal adventures.

Boston, MA: Little Brown & Company, 1934. 389 clean, unmarked pages/Index; b/w checked cloth w/paper label;dj w/chipping, 1" paper loss n back panel,unclipped price, in mylar; checked c w/green paper labels; .various essays about Horse Racing; California Redwoods, William Randolph Hearst, Duke of Reichstadt, Folger Library, Greyhounds, Ascot, Helen Keller, Hearst Castle, Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, Charlotte Bronte, Etc; in mylar protective wraps. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Color & b&w. 8 Vo.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1934. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. First edition. Near Fine (would be fine but for slight tears to the margins of several pages, not affecting the text). No dj. Very interesting travel essays, set in England, San Francisco, Budapest, and Vienna from the noted traveller and book collector.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. VG. 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition bound in black and white checkered cloth with a pa per title label and spine label. Illustrated with color frontis and 25 black & white plates. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4" 351 pages. A Very Good copy. Th is is an ex-library copy with minimal markings. It has two small rub s pots near the base of the spine. The spine is tanned and faded. Some l ight tanning to the covers. There is a memorial book plate affixed to the front endpaper and a light rub mark on the rear endpaper else clea n, tight & otherwise unmarked. .

Ayer Co Pub, 1990-06. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth-backed boards. Limited edition #847 of 1129 copies signed by Newton to the limitation page. Slight toning to board extremities. Tight and square. Includes worn glassine DJ. Small booklet in rear pocket. The slipcase label is chipped and the slipcase has mild wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages; Signed by Author .

Little, Brown and Company, 1934. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good hc ed. w/dj in mylar. Dust jacket sunned, corners and edges worn. Book spine lightly sunned. bookplate on first endpaper, name of owner in ink on first free endpaper. Small clipping glued into first free endpaper has resulted in discoloration to that page. Otherwise, clean and tight. Marking on top of text block. 26 plates, mostly b/w. 351 pp.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1934. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Limited edition, olive green paper backed in tan cloth, 8vo, 389 pages, illustrated throughout, signed by the author on the colophon; toning to edges of boards, interior is unmarked and illustrations are sharp. Limited edition printing of 1,129 numbered copies, of which this is number 115. Within the back cover is included a facsimile of the unpublished novelette, "A Leaf from an Unopened Volume", by Charlotte Bronte.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The front endpapers have some light toning to the edges and there is a small spot of paper loss where a sticker was removed. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and a couple of small chips, especially to the spine ends. There is toning to the spine and edges of the dust jacket. "When A. Edward Newton sits ensconced in his library at Oak Knoll, Pennsylvania, he appears as a delightful eighteenth-century Tory, an intimate friend of Samuel Johnson and Boswell." (from Wikipedia) .