Search Results: Biography & Memoir from Alex Richardson

Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1984. 1st edition. Hardback. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. [ix prelims] 364 pages. 16 pages of b&w plates. Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned; a single foxed spot to the top and the fore-edge. Endpapers and paste-downs also tanned. The kraft paper jacket has some obvious wear and creasing along its top edge, including a small closed tear on its back at the head of the spine.

Tokyo: Liber Press, 1994. 1st edition. Hardback. Brown cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 158 pages. Pull-out map with several b&w illustrations. Translated from the Japanese by Glyndon Townhill. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has a bit of creasing along the top edge of its front.

Stamford: Peter Maskell Publishing Services, 2010. 1st edition. Hardback. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Octavo. 197 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Preface by Pat Marston Walker; Introduction by Peter Maskell; Foreword by Chris Yates. Number 234 in a limited edition of 570 copies, signed by Pat Marston Walker on the title page and Peter Maskell on the limitations page. Good in Good jacket. Page edges rather tanned. Jacket also tanned along the top of its front; small dink near the front spine fold; some rubbing to each face; a crease in the bottom corner of the front flap.

Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1999. 1st edition. Hardback. Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [xiv prelims] 225 pages. Numerous b&w photographs within the text. Foreword by Raymond Baxter. Pasted onto the front free endpaper is a bookplate signed by both Cunningham and Golley. Good in Good jacket. Text a bit tanned at the edges. Jacket has some wear and creasing along its top edge, as well as a few faint marks on its faces.

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. [x prelims] 499 pages. 40 pages of colour and b&w plates. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half title page: "For Larry, / with thanks, and admiration, / Denise Gigante / 3/27/12". Good in Good jacket. Back board has a couple of small bumps on its top edge. Several pages of the text creased in the bottom corner. Jacket a little worn along its top.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970. Hardback. Octavo. 224 pages. Illustrated with a b&w plate showing a page from the author's 'Little Weather Journal', a facsimile of the title page of the 1789 first edition and 8 b&w reproductions of engravings from that edition by Johann Rudolph Schellenberg. First edition in English of this classic of Swiss literature, the picaresque autobiography of a lowly cloth worker translated from the German by Derek Bowman who also provides a Preface, a critical Introduction and a set of notes and references. Good in Fair jacket. Spine has some rubbing to its gilding and wear at its ends. Tinted top edge of the text faded with several small foxed spots. Jacket has obvious wear and creasing to its edges, particularly along its top, a sunned spine and faded edges. There is a small loss in its front top corner and a closed tear to the front top edge. The front also has a closed tear to the spine fold, near the bottom, while the back has picked up a scratch and a few… Read More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 1st edition. Hardback. Blue-grey boards with red lettering to spine. Octavo. [xviii prelims] 250 pages. 10 b&w figures and 2 tables within the text. Near Fine in Very Good jacket which has some creasing along its top edge.

Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983. 1st edition. Hardback. Grey cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [x prelims] 188 pages. 4 pages of b&w plates; several illustrations within the text. Very Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned, as are both pastedowns. Jacket has a tanned spine and flaps and a little wear at the spine ends. Both faces have picked up a few small marks.

Bath: Fairfield Books, 2019. 1st edition. Hardback. Original green boards with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 256 pages. Numerous b&w photographs within the text. Signed on the half-title page by Rumsey, Henry Blofeld and A. N. Other whose name I cannot quite make out. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has flared out a bit along its edges.

Keele: Keele University Press, 1994. 1st edition. Hardback. Red cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 368 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned; a few spots to the top edge. Jacket has a tanned spine and edges, with some creasing at the spine ends. Both faces have a couple of marks along the spine fold.