Gloucestershire by J.D. Newth - 1927

A & C Black Ltd, 1927. Hardcover. Good. 1927. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Illustrated by G. F. Nicholls. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

A.&C.Black Ltd., 1927. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Minor cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

Publisher's embossed blue cloth with spine lettering gilt, octavo, pp. ix, [x], 208 plus adverts. Twenty-four full page G. F. Nicholls color illustrations as called for. Sketch Map of Gloucestershire. Spine ends and board tips with shelf wear. Bottom rear board tip bumped. Cloth is puckered on rear panel near bottom edge. Scattered foxing throughout. Previous owner has made an amusing declaration in pencil on free front endpaper, to wit: "This is Jessie's book because Edith gave it to her." Boards bowed slightly due to book's being shelved at a bit of an angle.

London: A & C Black, 1927. Book is clean and bright with no inscriptions. Some light wear to the spine. Coloured frontispiece and 23 further colour plates all present. One corner bumped.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by G. F. Nicholls. 5" x 8". Hardback.

London: A & C Black, 1927. First edition (hardback). 8vo (21cm by 14cm), x, 208pp. 24 colour plates and a sketch map. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Spine a little sunned, minor foxing of the preliminary pages, short ownership inscription; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

London: A. C. Black, LTD., 1927. Book. Illus. by G. F. Nicholls. Near Fine. Blindstamped Cloth. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 208 slightly yellowing pages, dust jacket is chipped along top of backstrip, and is stained on back boards. The cloth and binding is near fine..

London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. ,. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine blue cloth-covered boards with blind-stamped decoration to the front board and spine, with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dust-jacket - quite scarce with a d/j. Some chipping/small tears with loss to the corners, and a few 'closed' tears/tinting to the edges, etc. The d/j is price-clipped to the front corner flap, but the d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and now looks near VG. First Edition. Top edge dark blue, and the remaining page fore-edges have some very light speckled spotting (foxing). Published in Blacks' well known series of books on various English counties with scenes, both rural and of towns depicted, in this case, by the popular painter and illustrator George F. Nicholls. Some very light pale scattered spotting to the prelims and last few pages, and some VERY occasional… Read More

London: A & C Black. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Light foxing to edges. DJ price clipped and with light wear ; Very scarce with DJ. 24 illustrations from watercolors; Color Illustrations; Small 8vo; viii, 208 pages .