VISITS TO REMARKABLE PLACES:; Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illlustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry. In Two Volumes by Howitt, William - 1841

Longman,Orme, Brown,Green & Longmans 1840, 1840. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1840. No Edition Remarks. 528 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Orange cloth. Full title: Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry. Black and white illustrations throughout. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Tears to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping.

London: Longmans Green, 1907. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. 468pp. Red cloth Maroon leather. Marbled endpapers, gilt to top pegs, and titles.Presentation label to front pastedown.Slight spotting.Light wear to spine ends and corners. Rubbing of leather on spine. Small tears to spine ends of board joints.

Philadelphia, PA: Parry and M'Millan, 1854 Hardcover. No Jacket as Issued. 3rd American Edition. Vol 1 only of a two volume set. Good condition with large chip ( 1/4 inch tall, 1 inch wide) at top of spine, smaller chip missing at bottom of spine. Corners worn and bumped. Light sun fading on spine, but gilt spine lettering intact, clear and bright. Glue stain on front end sheet where old bookplate fell off. Content clean, binding strong

Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1840. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1840. No Edition Remarks. 526 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking and creasing to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with visible splitting and crushing to joints and ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1840. Hardcover. Covers show general rubbing, light soiling, worn corners. Contents clean and tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 526 pages .

London: Longmans,Green, And Co., 1900. xvi,468pp, with 79 illustrations.Author of ''The Rural Life of England'.. New impression. red cloth, gilt. Fine. Illus. by Samuel Williams.. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall.

Brown, Green & Longmans, Longman, Orme, 1840. Good. faded. Marbled paper covers, Leather spine with gold lettering. First. .

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

London. Longmans, Orme, Brown. 1840. F. Hardcover. 23cm, first edition, first issue, vii(1),526(2)p. plus 16p. ads dated January 1840, with 39 text illustrations, original straight grained cloth, gilt titles and decoration on the spine, expertly restored, else a very good copy (tgc).

Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.

Doubleday & Co., 1949. Used-very good. Hard Bound

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pp: 500. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Wrap-around pictorial dust jacket, deep blue cloth covered boards with the college insignia stamped in gilt on the top board. Includes pictorial endpapers, colour frontispiece, and a foreword by The Honourable Michael J. Beloff, President of Trinity College. The book is a history of the venerable college from its inception. There are black and white photographs throughout. The appendices contain; drawings of the college grounds, list ofTwentieth-century Fellows, list of member of the college in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and index. This is a near fine copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title page.

The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".

Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Advance Reader's Edition. Fine copy.

The 1857 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of King Richard the First 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 eighteen B&W engravings (nine plates) are intact.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with obvious water damage that shows through the endpapers. Fraying on top spine and front jacket. Small writing on front endpaper. Pages are age tanned and have small stains.

Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.

Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."

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.

Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).