BURMA : From the Ealiest Times to the Present Day by Scott, , Sir J.G - 1924

J.M.Dent & Co, 1906. Hardcover. Good. 1906. Second Edition. 673 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Slight stains, markings and creasing to some pages. Sticker residue to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Staining overall. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.

London: Dent - Everyman, 1909. Book. Good. Cloth. Reissue. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, binding good and pages bright and clean.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom: Adam & Charles Black , 1876. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. illustrated with steel engraving illustrations. College red gilt decorated full leather binding with front board detached, gilt closed page edges Some handling wear and marks, including surface scratches with rubbed edges and hinges.

Adam & Charles Black, 1876T. hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. This is the 1880 Adam and Charles Black edition. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Cover spine faded; some wear evident at hinge.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. xii, 372pp, index, bw ills, foldng map. Or green cloth lacking jacket. Small bookseller lable on rear pastedown, light even toning to page edges, spine title faded, minor bumps to top corners. Scarce title on Burmese history.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Alexander Moring. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 535pp, described as third revised edition, believed published 1946 previous owners name to front pastedown, no other inscriptions, illustrated.Some rubbing to wrapper with several small tears and a very small amount of loss to top and bottom of spine, slight spotting. There is a small area of wear to base of spine, possibly due to removal of a label. Wrapper has been internally repaired with special non acidic achive tape and is now in a removable clear protective sleeve. Good condition internally, little reading wear, hinges tight, some very light spotting to edge of text block. Happy to supply photos on request. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.

New York: William Lewer, 1837. Foster's Cabinet Miscellany series, Vols. VII-XIII. 7 vols. 8vo. Six brown patterned cloth, one blue, paper spine labels. Extremities rubbed, some scattered foxing. Very Good. Foster's Cabinet Miscellany series, Vols. VII-XIII. 7 vols. 8vo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First American Edition. Octavo. 22.5cm. Publisher's bottle green cloth titled in gilt to spine. Lacking dustjacket. 372pp. Light wear to edges and spine ends, a little toning of the spine and dulling of the gilt. A very good, strong copy. Internally clean, fore-edge untrimmed, top edge a trifle dusty. Ink ownership of Ralph E. Flanders to front flyleaf, a US Senator for Vermont in the 1950's who took an anti-McArthy/HUAC stance on the grounds that it was distracting America from actual Communist threats by hunting down Hollywood actors. Scott began his career in South East Asia as a journalist, born in Fife in Scotland, but he swiftly rose to influence and is recognised today as having been profoundly instrumental in the imposition of British colonial rule over Burma. His love of the country, and appreciation of its culture are clear in his writing, as was his absolute conviction that British rule was the best thing for the region, but the eye of history is probably… Read More

Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841. Second Edition thus. Good. The Waverley Novels (complete 48 volumes) : uniformly bound in debossed cloth (except Vol XL which is a slightly different colour of cloth) : all volumes except the XLth published in Edinburgh 1841 by Robert Cadell with extra vignette titles published 1829 - 1833. The XLth volume (Woodstock II) is published by Adam and Charles Black in 1842 without the extra vignette title. Waverley (I & II); Guy Mannering (III & IV); The Antiquary (V & VI); Rob Roy (VII & VIII); Black Dwarf and Old Mortality (IX); Old Mortality (cont.) (X) Old Mortality and the Heart of Midlothian (Xi); The Heart of Midlothian (cont.) (XII); The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor (XIII); The Bride of Lammermoor (XIV); A Legend of Montrose (XV); Ivanhoe (XVI & XVII); Monastery (XVIII & XIX); Abbot (XX & XXI); Kenilworth (XXII & XXIII); Pirate (XXIV & XXV); Nigel (XXVI & XXVII); Peveril of the Peak (XXVIII-XXX); Quentin Durward (XXXI- XXXII); St. Ronan's Well… Read More

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862. 10 volumes. Early Printing of the complete work. A set with fine provenance, bearing the bookplates of Henry Lee, of the historically important New England family. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and vignette title-pages. Small 8vo, handsomely bound in dark-green three-quarter morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spines with raised bands gilt stopped and with double gilt fillet rules to the panels, two compartments lettered in gilt, all edges marbled, marbled end-leaves. A fine and handsome set, especially well preserved and in very pleasing condition. WITH FINE PROVENANCE, THE COLLECTION BELONGING TO HENRY LEE OF BOSTON WITH HIS BOOKPLATE. The Lee family was engaged in early mercantile capitalism in America and was an important figure in its development. The family showed remarkable powers of adaptation to successive forms of capitalism, mercantile, industrial, and financial; and, as opportunity served, they were to do more… Read More