My Life Among the Blue Jackets [1] by Weston, Agnes [1840-1918] - 1910

Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1917. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1917. 16th Impression. 373 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. B&W photographs throughout. Front endpaper missing. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 1cm) and crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.

James Nisbet & Co. Limited, 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1909. 3rd Edition. 329 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Small tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining to both boards.

Hardcover , 1919.

London: Nisbet, 1917. Blue cloth covers are clean and crisp. Contains bookplate and presentation plate of Robert Watchorn dated 1919. Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece of Agnes Weston. Also contains 10 page booklet memorial to Agnes Weston.. Reprint. Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 5" x 7.5". Hard Back.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Nisbet, 1910. 4th impression. 8vo, Pp. 3290+ adv. Inscribed by the author. Dust speckled, a VG copy. Weston ran the "Sailor's Rest " home, a kind of Christian rescue service for Navy men and a number of other support services for the men of the British Navy.

LONDON: JAMES NISBET, 1910 SIGNED Copy.Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and front board. 205 x 140 mm approx. xvi + 330 + 4pp of publisher's adverts. Frontis b/w photo portrait with tissue guard + 16 other b/w illustrations as called for. Autobiography of English philanthropist "Aggie Weston" or Ma Weston who founded sailors missions and rests to support the men and families of the Royal Navy.Her work continues through the charity "Aggies".First published in October 1909 the copy offered by us is of the 4th impression of 1910 and is inscribed and signed by the author to the front free end paper. Good (Book- Moderate rubbing to extremities of boards.Offset browning to end papers. Mild foxing to edges of book block. Binding sound). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

James Nisbet, 1912, Ninth impression, enlarged,. 1912. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s) hardback, 8vo, xvi,333pp, 318pp, 8 plates, signed by the author on endpaper, inscribed to Miss Llewellyn, pages browning and scattered foxing, blue cloth, pictorial front panel, spine rubbed, Good / no dustwrapper .

James Nisbet. 1912. Eighth impression - enlarged. (10212) Hardback. 333 pages. 17 b.w. photographs. Good in turquoise cloth with small areas of loss to colour of cloth on front and rear boards, gilt lettering to front board and to sunned spine and ageing to edges of textblock. Details and small stamp of St. Leonards, Bootle, Church Club on half-title page. This book has been rebound (reverse backed with matching cloth) with the original spine-piece reaffixed. No d.w. Now a sound tight copy.

LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO LIMITED, 1911. 6th printing. Hardcover. Good Only/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed bookplate on front pastedown to the "Royal Sailors Institute" Portsmouth. Boards rubbed and marked, with green cloth colour faded to top corner by spine. spine darkened, top edge dusty, fore edge foxed. Clean throughout. Good only.