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London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. First edition. xvi, (2), 408pp. Woodcut vignettes and capitals, with title page vignette pasted on. First blank leaf inscribed 'Professor Stuart / from his obliged friend / the Author'. First leaves (up to p.iv) have light soiling and foxing, with repairs to top edge closed tears. Pages otherwise sound and unmarked, slightly cockled, with some soiling and browning to edges. In a splendid recent binding of light half calf with decoratively ruled spine with black lettering piece and marbled boards. Contents VG, binding Fine.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £950.00

London: Griffith & Farran, Undated [1883]. First edition. viii, 350pp. Fore-edge foxing to first chapter, contents otherwise very clean. In the original blue cloth with black stamped design, gilt lettering on spine, ends slightly frayed and bent. Slight rubbing to joints, small repair to upper joint. Otherwise clean, bright and firm. Very Good +.

Price: £48.00

London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 'Amateur Gardening' Office, n.d. [c.1904]. Third edition. 94 + [10] adverts, with illustrations in the text. Contents clean and in good order, with creases to some corners. 8vo, in the original orange boards printed in black and red with green cloth spine. Slight soiling and small red stain to boards, and a tiny amount of fraying to spine ends. Good firm copy. Very Good.

Price: £45.00

Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1907. Very bright fresh copy with damp mark to cloth edge. New Impression (late reprint). xiii, (ii), 304pp, illustrated with tissue-guarded photographs. Contents clean and tight. Pastedown bears armorial bookplate of Ampthill, and the name stamp is on the half-title. In Badminton Library livery: colours of boards and spine are rich and strong, the gilt bright. The spine ends are puckered. The bottom edges of both boards have a pale mark from former damp. VG+

Price: £55.00

Gale & Polden, London and Aldershot, n.d. (c.1910?). Second Edition. 38pp + portrait frontis, followed by 8pp of adverts (illustrated). Publisher's list pasted onto front pastedown. Laid in is the 25" sq folded chart illustrated with photographs: slightly creased and repaired and with a spot of old glue on the back at one corner. Octavo, pictorial red cloth softcover, tight, bright and clean: upper corner knocked, affecting pages. VG.

Price: £30.00

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, n.d. [1912]. First edition. 472pp + (8pp) ruled pages for memoranda (unused): illustrated with photographic plates and text illustrations in line. Some foxing to endpapers and back endpaper replaced. Corner clipped from border of photo facing p385. Occasional minimal foxing or marks, contents otherwise clean. In the original blue pictorial boards blocked in black and white, bright and firm, spine ends rubbed. An exceptionally good copy. Very Good+.

Price: £180.00

Bombay: Thacker & Company, 1913. Second edition. ix, 286pp, +(ii) adverts: illustrated with 13 photographs (including guarded frontis), 20 example diagrams, and a number of text illustrations. Slight browning to endpapers. Ownership name of C B Loring on pastedown with note 'Reviewed June 1913'. One plate corner creased, and a little minor foxing: contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original dark green cloth titled in gilt. Firm, and titles clear, but heavily used - very rubbed, extremities blunted, and nicks at joint ends. Still a viable copy of the expanded edition. Good+.

Price: £95.00

London: Chapman & Hall, 1919. First edition. viii, (ii), 241pp, (ii) adverts; with 12 illustrations by C.Fleming Williams. Slight browning to endpapers, neat 1920 ownership name on half-title, same name pencilled on title page. Pages cockled but otherwise clean. In the original binding of blue cloth lettered in gilt, firm, but faded, slightly knocked and soiled, edges slightly scuffed, and with a small nick at head of spine. Useful copy of a scarce title. VG.

Price: £35.00

London: Methuen, 1929. First edition. viii, 164pp, with a frontis portrait. 'In this volume Mr Tilden, the great lawn tennis player, surveys his career...' Half-title and title page foxed, little elsewhere: one page dogeared. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original blue cloth titled in navy: firm and bright, slight sunning to spine and faint mark on front; spine ends crimped with small nicks. In protected pictorial dust jacket, with contemporary green sale price sticker on front panel: two inch chip from base of spine, affecting corner of front panel, small holes to spine surface, and small chip to head of spine. Slightly soiled, corners chipped, edges scuffed and with small closed tears. Very Good in poor dust-jacket.

Price: £80.00

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1933. First English edition. 234pp, illustrated with many photographs, followed by [54]pp of photo strips. Vividly evokes the joys of skiing. Front free endpaper creased, and with 1934 ownership name: prelims have faint impression of endpaper crease and faint browning to edges. Contents otherwise fresh and clean. Quarto, in the original binding of cloth ruled and titled in white, bright, firm and clean, with slight blunting of spine foot and one corner. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: clean, slightly rubbed, front panel complete with minimal loss at corners, spine with quarter-inch chip to head, rear panel with creasing and large chip to the top edge. Near Fine in VG dust-jacket.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £140.00