CANTERBURY by Shore, W. Teignmouth - 1907

Carruthers Gould. Sir F. Froissart's Modern Chronicles 1903-1906. London. T Fisher Unwin. 1908. Wide 8vo approx 180mm x 245mm. 1st Edition, limited number 4 of 50, signed by author/illustrator. Wheat cloth backed blue boards, paper label to front. Pp115 with 51 illustrations as called for. Boards a little bumped and some shelf wear. Early ownership inscription of 1908 on front pastedown. Binding firm and sound, all pages in fine condition.

Methuen, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1972 1st edition. Firmly bound and carefully read. The book is in excellent clean conditions. No inscription or ownership markings. No torn, loose or missing pages. No jacket..

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.

The 1854 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of King Alfred of England, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All nine B&W engravings are intact.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with wear on heel and top. Small markings on FFEP. A few pages have deckled bottom edges. Pages are age tanned and have small stains.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. [9x6in]; 256 pp., four plates with 10 images, one map; Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on light blue label on spin, all edges trimmed; light green tinted pictorial dust jacket with white lettering on front and spine, image of dog kennel in the ice, advertisement on back; Minimal shelf wear to covers and edges, dusty age toned top edge, bookplate of Steve Fossett on front end paper; Minimal shelf wear to dust jacket, light soiling to covers and darken spine, minor rubbing along edges and corners. [Conrad p. 377]. Jack Bursey (1903-1980) was a polar explorer and US Coast Guard Commander. He was selected by Richard Byrd as a member the Little America expedition (1928-1930) to the Bay of Whales on the Ross Ice Shelf. During his career in the Coast Guard, he was also part of the Byrd U.S. Antarctic Expedition in 1939-41 and the massive Operation Deep Freeze in 1955-57. Operation Deep Freeze was the United States contribution… Read More

Carruthers Gould. Sir F. Froissart's Modern Chronicles 1903-1906. London. T Fisher Unwin. 1908. Wide 8vo approx 180mm x 245mm. 1st Edition, limited number 4 of 50, signed by author/illustrator. Wheat cloth backed blue boards, paper label to front. Pp115 with 51 illustrations as called for. Boards a little bumped and some shelf wear. Early ownership inscription of 1908 on front pastedown. Binding firm and sound, all pages in fine condition.

Methuen, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1972 1st edition. Firmly bound and carefully read. The book is in excellent clean conditions. No inscription or ownership markings. No torn, loose or missing pages. No jacket..

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.

The 1854 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of King Alfred of England, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All nine B&W engravings are intact.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with wear on heel and top. Small markings on FFEP. A few pages have deckled bottom edges. Pages are age tanned and have small stains.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. [9x6in]; 256 pp., four plates with 10 images, one map; Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on light blue label on spin, all edges trimmed; light green tinted pictorial dust jacket with white lettering on front and spine, image of dog kennel in the ice, advertisement on back; Minimal shelf wear to covers and edges, dusty age toned top edge, bookplate of Steve Fossett on front end paper; Minimal shelf wear to dust jacket, light soiling to covers and darken spine, minor rubbing along edges and corners. [Conrad p. 377]. Jack Bursey (1903-1980) was a polar explorer and US Coast Guard Commander. He was selected by Richard Byrd as a member the Little America expedition (1928-1930) to the Bay of Whales on the Ross Ice Shelf. During his career in the Coast Guard, he was also part of the Byrd U.S. Antarctic Expedition in 1939-41 and the massive Operation Deep Freeze in 1955-57. Operation Deep Freeze was the United States contribution… Read More