Westward Ho!

Cambridge: Macmillan & Co.,, 1855. His greatest popular success First edition. Kingsley's greatest popular success, Westward Ho! was originally planned as a patriotic tale about the defeat of the Spanish Armada at a time when Napoleon III's anti-English posturing was alarming many of Kingsley's countrymen. By the time of publication the Crimean War had switched public angst towards Russia,… Read more about this item

Undated but school prize plate to front pastedown dated 1912. Colour frontispiece and one colour plate. Illustrated endpapers. Lovely blue, cream and black illustrated boards with black title to front, title on bright gilt panel to spine. Binding firm with light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Foxing to endpapers and text block edges creeping into margins otherwise content clean… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Macmillan & Co.,, 1855. With secretarial presentation from the author First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "From The Author" in a secretarial hand on the half-title of vol. I. Kingsley's greatest popular success, Westward Ho! was originally planned as a patriotic tale about the defeat of the Spanish Armada at a time when Napoleon III's anti-English posturing was alarming… Read more about this item

H. M. Caldwell Company, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. No date, circa 1900, very good maroon cloth (no dust jacket) with gilt stamping to spine and a small famous authors circular stamp to cover with blind stamping to both front and rear covers. Covers show some light wear inclduing light bumping to a couple of corners and mild exposure… Read more about this item

London: Collins Clear-Type Press 638 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H), thin burgundy leather over card covers/spine - gold lettering and decoration on spine, top edge gilt - in slipcase. Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone plates, including frontispiece, decorated title page. Set in the times of Elizabeth I, and loosely based on the adventures of the privateer, Amyas Preston (here renamed Amyas Leigh),… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co.,, 1908. An attractive prize binding, on Kingsley's historical novel Westward Ho! (1855), based on the life of Amyas Preston (d. 1609), a privateer who sailed to the New World and who led the Preston-Somers expedition. Octavo (188 x 125 mm). Contemporary green calf prize binding, red label to spine lettered in gilt, raised bands ruled… Read more about this item

1936 Charles Scribner's Sons. Hardcover. A Very Good Volume with a full color paste front, having several tiny nics overall. Bound in black cloth (faded spine titles) with barely bumped/worn corners. Pictorial end-papers; front free end-paper has a tiny p.o. ink name. Nine full N.C. Wyeth color plates, all present. A tight and clean copy. NO Jacket. Deckle edge.… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. hardcover. Spines somewhat darkened. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase with minor wear. Edward Wilson. Two quarto (7" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in half canvas stamped in red, black, and gold leaf with a design by Edward Wilson, and green paper sides bearing a two-color drawing. Introduction by John Winterich. One… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., (1920). Large 8vo., 604pp., top-edge gilt. Limited Edition, 91/100 signed by the illustrator. Publisher's gilt-lettered dark blue cloth with color pictorial label to front cover. Illustrated with color endpapers, color plates, and illustrations; all by Thornton Oakley. Binding in lovely condition; 1922 pencil Xmas gift inscription; internally some faint foxing scattered throughout; light… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. Spines somewhat darkened. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with a closed split along the back edge. Edward Wilson. Two quarto (7" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in half canvas stamped in red, black, and gold leaf with a design by Edward Wilson,… Read more about this item

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1933. 8vo. 634 pp. Contemporary dark blue half calf over blue cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt panels and brown leather title label. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Bayntun. Minor marks to boards. Lengthy ink inscription to verso of ffep & first blank. Internally clean. With sixteen full-page colour plates… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co , 1899 . Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". None. Charles Kingsley's exciting work of historical adventure fiction, in a charming full calf school prize binding. A smart edition of Charles Kingsley's famous historical novel, in a full calf signed school prize binding from Relfe Brothers of London.First published in 1855, this exciting tale… Read more about this item

Geneva: Heron Books [no date]. (Hardcover) 572pp. Very good. Gilt decorated blue leatherette. Decorated endpapers, ribbon marker, frontispiece. There is a small horizontal cut at the foot of the spine. Introduction by L.A.G. Strong. (Fiction).

New York, Macmillan and Co., 1885., 1885. 8vo. 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, spine decorated with gilt stamped roses within gilt scrolled borders, t.e.g.; marbled endpapers. Fine, fresh copy. 591 pages. Bookplates of Kate Allerton Papin on the front pastedown. Basis for the 1988 animated film, for TV.. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., n. d. (ca. 1890). Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo, 5 x 8, 500 pages. Full title: Westare Ho! or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, Rendered into Modern English by Charles… Read more about this item

New York.: Scribners., 1936. Black cloth, gilt spine title, color pictorial cover.. Very good, no dust jacket.. 24.8x18 cm.. N.C. Wyeth.. weight: 1.8 lb. 9 full-page color illustrations.

Limited Editions Club, New York, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. CHARLES KINGSLEY. Westward Ho! in 2 volumes, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947.Quartos, No. 343 of an edition of 1,500, pp. xvii, 292; ii, 293-576, 1 (limitation page), blue printed boards quarter-bound in cream cloth, top edges tinted red,… Read more about this item

London: Humphrey Milford, 1932. Or the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth. With twelve illustrations. Pp. viii+594+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus11 plates; marbled edges and matching endpapers; school prize binding in dark green half calf, spine lettered… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Limied Edition Signed Numbered. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Edward A. Wilson. Limted Editions Club, number 183 of 1,500 copies, signed by the illustrator, Edward Wilson in green ink on colophon page, This Edition of Westward Ho! has been made for the members of the Limited Editions Club and printed by the Akerman-Standard… Read more about this item

London- UK: Humphrey Milford-Oxford University Press, 1927. WESTWARD HO!- Charles Kingsley- Herbert Strang's Library- Humphrey Milford-Oxford University Press- London- 1927- Softcover:-16mo-VG/ no dj as issued-illustrated red and black wraps-ink spot on back cover-some ligh rubbing PO name on illustrated end paper and on book edge- otherwise a tight and scarce copy-287pp no tears or writing-SEE PHOTOS-"The classic adventure story by… Read more about this item