Ages Not So Dark Being An Anthropological Retrospect of Britain and the Extreme West of Europe by J. Foster Forbes - 1939

Thomas's Publications, 1945. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1945. First Edition. 93 pages. Illustrative jacket over blue cloth. Book has a smoky odour. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Noticeable white marks overall. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Some tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

New York: Forbes & Company, 1904. First printing. Hardcover. Good. 12 volumes bound together--January 1904 (Vol. IX, No. 49) issue - December 1904 (Vol. X, No. 60) issue. Quarto, leather-backed boards, gilt titles on spines, original heavy covers bound in, illustrated with photo plates & plans, many old ads., clean unmarked text, generally a Good copy, age-toning and some soiling to the pages, some wear to the edges of the outer pages, some soiling to the boards, wear to the edges of the covers including some loss to the leather and cracking or splitting to the outer joints. Internally Very Good. Index to the complete contents of volumes IX and X at the front. This heavy volume might require an additional postage charge.

Aird and Coghill 1948 . Hardback Very scarce book. Worn blue covers with damage at edges and corners. Whole book bumped at lower corner. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover and gift message on front end paper. All pages creased and slightly damaged at tip of lower corner. Illustrated with B & W photos and diagrams in the text. 42 pages. A history of this Castle in North-East Scotland. 10.5 x 8" Wt 0.5 Kg Fair

London: Macmillan, 1879. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes, red cloth gilt, small 8vo, very good, light wear, bookplates of the famous Japanese art collector William Sturgis Bigelow, some pages uncut and unopened at top edge. 290 & 344 pp. Uncommon in good condition in the trade.

Original Rare First Edition Very Good+ Blue Hardcover with Very Good- Mylar Protected Dust Jacket. Several jacket chips and creases. 1945 Clean 93 pp. B/W illus. Old inscription by a previous owner on title page. Great drawing by H. W. Lomas of British Goliath like Giant and King David like British boy facing him. See all our Three Geese in Flight Scans for Cover condition and interior.

London: Head, Hole & Co. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Some foxing. Some damage to three fold-out pedigrees (no loss). 1873. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover with gilt titles and ruling. 320mm x 220mm (13" x 9"). [400pp]. Illustrated throughout in black and white with heraldic arms, with fold-out pedigrees. Vol 1 of the Pedigrees of the Families of England, Vol ll was completed (Yorkshire) but not others. Lists the Pedigrees in alphabetical order giving family tree and family arms. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .