Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, 1937 Hardback, 115mm x 205mm tall (6" x 8" approx.). 79pp plus a frontispiece and two other single-sided plate leaves, containing a total of 4 b/w photos. Privately published by Sutton, a Manchester Estate Agent, Auctioneer and Valuer of some forty years standing, the book includes a seven-page autobiographical section describing a 1936 seventy-four day, 22,000 mile, cruise on the s.s. Arandora Star, a Blue Star Line vessel, including visits to Mexico City, Honolulu, Los Angeles and Hollywood, including the Universal Film Studios. Inscribed, signed & dated 19th Dec.1936 by the Author on the front free endpaper, the book is largely unopened. A couple of areas of light dulling to rear board, a previous owner's illustrated book label to f.f.e.p. and one leaf carelessly opened with a small tear-without-loss to the blank margin. Otherwise very good, in the original black cloth-covered boards/gilt title.. Inscribed & Signed by the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Later Glassine d/w. Sm 8vo.
Privately Printed, 1894 Hardback, 145mm x 220mm tall (5.75" x 8.75" approx.). Pp xv, 151 on hand-made stock. Free endpapers toned, otherwise fine, in the original green cloth-covered boards, ruled and decorated in blind, with gilt spine title & top edges gilt. No. 77 of 210 copies only, this is a fine example of a scarce edition, only one copy of which is recorded on COPAC. "Printed for Distribution amongst Private Subscibers only.". First Edition Thus. Fine/Later Glassine d/w. 8vo.. Limited to 210 Copies Only.
London: Calder & Boyars, 1974 Hardback, 140mm x 220mm tall (5.5" x 8.75" approx.). 144pp. Very good, in the original black cloth-covered boards/silver spine title, and with the very good and unclipped dust-wrapper.. First Edition, First Impression. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1860 Hardback, 140mm x 278mm tall (5.5" x 9" approx.). Pp ix, 388, plus Contents leaf and tipped-in Errata slip. Title-leaf printed in red & black. Withdrawn and sold from the holdings of Keele University, with minimal stamping &c. and a small chip to the lower free corner of the title leaf, otherwise good, in the original blind-decorated, dark-green cloth-covered boards/gilt spine title.. Second Edition, Augmented and Revised. Decorated Cloth. Good/Later Glassine d/w. 8vo..
London: Privately Printed for the Author by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd,, 1933 Hardback, 165mm x 220mm tall (6.5" x 8.75" approx.). Pp xii, 314 + (i).+ a tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece plate Title-page printed in red & black. Withdrawn and sold by Keele University Library with minimal markings. Light occasional spotting to prelims and closed-page edges, otherwise very good, in the original sand-coloured, buckram-covered boards/gilt spine title. [Each of the eleven volumes published by the Author from his home at Treleaven House, Blundellsands, Nr. Liverpool was issued in an un-numbered Limited Edition of 350 copies only.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Later Glassine d/ws. Lge 8vo.. Limited to 350 Copies Only.
London: Privately Printed for the Author by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd,, 1946 Hardback, 165mm x 220mm tall (6.5" x 8.75" approx.). Pp xii, 224. Title-page printed in red & black. Withdrawn and sold by Keele University Library with minimal markings. Light occasional spotting to the closed-page edges, otherwise very good, in the original sand-coloured, buckram-covered boards/gilt spine title. [Each of the eleven volumes published by the Author from his home at Treleaven House, Blundellsands, Nr. Liverpool was issued in an un-numbered Limited Edition of 350 copies only.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Later Glassine d/ws. Lge 8vo.. Limited to 350 Copies Only.
London: Privately Printed for the Author by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co, 1928 Hardback, 165mm x 220mm tall (6.5" x 8.75" approx.). Pp xii, 314 + (i). Title-page printed in red & black. Withdrawn and sold by Keele University Library with minimal markings. Light occasional spotting to prelims and closed-page edges & upper corner torn from front free endpaper, otherwise very good, in the original sand-coloured, buckram-covered boards/gilt spine title. [Each of the eleven volumes published by the Author from his home at Treleaven House, Blundellsands, Nr. Liverpool was issued in an un-numbered Limited Edition of 350 copies only.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Later Glassine d/ws. Lge 8vo.. Limited to 350 Copies Only.
London: Privately Printed for the Author at the Arden Press, 1922 Hardback, 165mm x 220mm tall (6.5" x 8.75" approx.). Pp xi, 209 + (ii), title-page printed in red & black. Withdrawn and sold by Keele University Library with minimal markings. Light occasional spotting throughout, otherwise very good, in the original sand-coloured, buckram-covered boards/gilt spine title. [Each of the eleven volumes published by the Author from his home at Treleaven House, Blundellsands, Nr. Liverpool was issued in an un-numbered Limited Edition of 350 copies only.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Later Glassine d/w. Lge 8vo.. Limited to 350 Copies Only.
London: Privately Printed for the Author by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd,, 1952 Hardback, 165mm x 220mm tall (6.5" x 8.75" approx.). Pp xii, 518. Title-page printed in red & black. Withdrawn and sold by Keele University Library with minimal markings, otherwise very good, in the original sand-coloured, buckram-covered boards/gilt spine title. [Each of the eleven volumes published by the Author from his home at Treleaven House, Blundellsands, Nr. Liverpool was issued in an un-numbered Limited Edition of 350 copies only.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Later Glassine d/ws. Lge 8vo.. Limited to 350 Copies Only.
London: Privately Printed for the Author by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd,, 1939 Hardback, 165mm x 220mm tall (6.5" x 8.75" approx.). Pp v, 282. Title-page printed in red & black. Withdrawn and sold by Keele University Library with minimal markings. Light occasional spotting to prelims and closed-page edges, otherwise very good, in the original sand-coloured, buckram-covered boards/gilt spine title. [Each of the eleven volumes published by the Author from his home at Treleaven House, Blundellsands, Nr. Liverpool was issued in an un-numbered Limited Edition of 350 copies only.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Later Glassine d/ws. Lge 8vo.. Limited to 350 Copies Only.
London: Privately Printed for the Author by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd,, 1935 Hardback, 165mm x 220mm tall (6.5" x 8.75" approx.). Pp v, 226, + (ii).+ a double-folding key pedigree and a multi-folding map. Title-page printed in red & black. Withdrawn and sold by Keele University Library with minimal markings. Light occasional spotting to prelims and closed-page edges, otherwise very good, in the original sand-coloured, buckram-covered boards/gilt spine title. [Each of the eleven volumes published by the Author from his home at Treleaven House, Blundellsands, Nr. Liverpool was issued in an un-numbered Limited Edition of 350 copies only.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Later Glassine d/ws. Lge 8vo.. Limited to 350 Copies Only.
Manchester - n.d. Circa 1913/16: Lawlors Limited 125mm x 185mm tall (4.25" x 7.25" approx.). 95pp, plus a frontispiece plate and with 23 further illustrations from drawings by Horace Taylor in the text. Prelims foxed and occasional light spotting throughout and to closed-page edges. A couple of minor external marks, otherwise good, in the original red & yellow-printed, illustrated, soft grey card covers/red title. Undated, but stated by COPAC to have been published in either 1913 or 1916.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Taylor, Horace. Sm 8vo.
University of Keele, 1962 142mm x 223mm tall (5.5" x 8.75" approx). 18pp. The first Professorial Lecture given in the, then new, University, on 7th November, 1962. Very good, in the original pink soft-card covers/black title.. First & Only Edition.
London: Jarrold and Sons, 1914 Postage will be reduced for this light item. Hardback, 127mm x 188mm tall (5" x 7.5" approx.). 53pp. Printed at the Empire Press, Great Yarmouth. Withdrawn, with neat blind-stamp impressions of Keele University to the lower margin of two leaves, otherwise very good, in the original cloth-covered boards/gilt title. Poems by the unidentified "Son of the Workshop". Uncommon. Not in COPAC. . First (& 0nly?) Edition. Cloth. Very Good.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1960 Hardback, 130mm x 197mm tall (5" x 7.75" approx.). 224pp. Previous owner's neat inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise very good, in the original green boards/gilt spine title, and with slightly rubbed and chipped, but unclipped, colour-illustrated dust-wrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Sm. 8vo..
London, Bath & New York: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1897 Postage will be reduced for this book. Hardback, 125mm x 182mm tall (5" x 7.25" approx.). Pp (iv), 296, printed in red & black, plus a tissue-guarded frontispiece plate with a photo of Queen Victoria and 7 further b/w plates relevant to various aspects of the Queen's long reign. A few very minor external blemishes and free endpapers toned, otherwise very good in the original half black-leather/dark-blue cloth-covered boards/gilt spine title with seven double-rulings/all edges speckled red.. First & Only Edition Thus. Half Leather. Very Good.
Glasgow: Malcolm & Griffin, 1828 Hardback, 95mm x 148mm tall (3.75" x 5.75" approx.). Pp xxviii, 95 with an title-page vignette 'Industry' showing a bower with bee-skep and, also engraved, a fruit-bowl tailpiece. 1840 signature of one Harriet Carpenter to the vertically creased front free endpaper; occasional light internal spotting, and rubs to spine and board corners, otherwise very good in contemporary full morocco/gilt spine title & decorations/gilt logos to both front and back boards/all edges gilt. An uncommon Provincial printing of this classic.. First Edition Thus?. Full morocco/gilt. Good. 12mo.
Lovell's Court, Paternoster Row, London: James Blackwood & Co., 1872 Hardback, 125mm x 180mm tall (5" x 7" approx.). Pp xvi, 416, with a tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece plate, title-leaf vignette and plus two further engraved plates. Undated, but the only copy recorded on COPAC, that of the British Library, is stated to be 1872. Black-printed bookplate of a contemporary owner, one J.F. Coop of Abingdon Street, Blackpool, to the front pastedown and a "JFC" monogram stamp impression to the upper free corners of both the front free endpaper and the blank recto of the frontispiece. Blank sides of the first and last leaves toned and two pages carelessly opened, otherwise very good, in the original gilt & black-decorated, green cloth-covered boards/gilt titles.. First Edition Thus. Decorated Cloth. Very Good/Later glassine d/w. Sm 8vo.
Selkirk: James Lewis, 1907 Hardback, 135mm x 193mm tall (5.5" x 7.5" approx.) Pp (viii), 88 with engraved head & tail pieces (one full-page), plus a frontispiece and 11 further b/w plates and 3pp Publisher's adverts. Endpapers toned, minor light external rubs and age-darkening to the parchment spine (not vellum, as sometimes described), otherwise very good,. First Edition. Quarter Parchment/boards. Good/no d/w.
Norwood, N.J. & Amsterdam: Walter J. Johnson, Inc. & Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Ltd., 1977 Hardback, 105mm x 155mm tall (4.25" x 6" approx.). Pp (v), 80. Withdrawn from Keele University Library, with a neat embossed stamp impression to the lower blank margin of the title-leaf and a feint tape residue mark to the front board. Otherwise very good, in the original gilt-decorated, red cloth-covered boards/gilt-on-black titles. Number 836 in 'The English Experience, its Record in Early Printed Books' series, published in facsimile.. First & Only Edition Thus. Cloth. Very Good/No d/w.
