Haunts of Ancient Peace by Alfred Austin - 2009-04-10

Good. 1902 1st print good solid tight book design on front light green boards

Macmillan & Co., 1902. Hardcover. Good. 1902. No edition stated. 169 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Illustrated by Edmund H New. Frontis with tissue guard. Upper text block edge gilt. Author's name not stated on title page. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book. Ex libris plate to front pastedown. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. A few dog-eared corners. Frontispiece's tissue guard is heavily foxed. Boards have some edge wear, with moderate bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are slightly crushed. A bit scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Spine is noticeably sunned. Book has a moderate forward lean. Gilt is bright.

Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Hardcover. Good. 1908. No Edition Remarks. 169 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with lettering. Contains colour plates. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracking to front hinge. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Binding remains firm.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1908. vi, 169, colour frontispiece and 19 further colour plates. Publisher's blue cloth, somemarks to front cover, foxing throughout except for plates. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Agnes Locke. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Book.

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, 1/1/1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Original blue cloth, top edge gilt. Endpapers darkened, otherwise clean internally.

London: A & C Black. Spine slightly sunned, else a very good copy. 1908. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 169 pp. .

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1908 169 pp.; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, t.e.g., f.e./b.e. deckled, frontis; a.e. lightly tanned, a few dots of foxing first pp. Cover: med blue, b/w chevron ornamentation front/spine, black titles front, gilt titles spine; v lt shelf/edgewear, a few light smudges front.

MacMillan & Co London 1902. first edition, blue cloth with gilt to spine & front, 169pp illus, G(corners v sl bruised, front board soiled, sl sunned spine & sl edgewear, biographical writing to front pastedown & ffep of author, moderate foxing to ep's & fore edges, underlining & annotations throughout text) lacks d/w

Macmillan & Co, 1902. Hardcover. Acceptable. NO JACKET, BOARDS ILLUSTRATED IN GILT AND TOP EDGE, NAME AND DATE ON END PAPER IN BLACK INK, SOME FOXING THROUGHOUT, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT BY EDMUND H. NEW

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.