Search Results: Great Britain from Bygone Books

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG. Regional Guides to Ancient Monuments Series. 1st ed, 12mo, green cloth, 89 pages, 12 b/w plates, 28 plans, some fold-out, glossary. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: light edgewear to book and jacket, spine of book is gently creased, jacket has owner name on front panel. A common but quite delightful little book for anyone bent on a gothic adventure... [ Northanger Abbey anyone? ]

St. Albans, U.K.: H.A. Richardson Ltd., 1954. Soft cover. NF. Reprint of 1954 (originally published in 1946). 12mo, illustrated stapled wraps, [48] pages, b/w illustrations, photographs. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : a few owner notations on last page, otherwise like new.

Edinburgh / London: John Bartholomew & Son, 1920. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Automobile Association Touring Map of Scotland. Engraved and published by John Bartholomew & Son, no date (circa 1920s). Bartholomew's Quarter-Inch Great Britain Automobile Map. Original price 4/6. Description: Color folding map with cloth backing, folds into a 7" x 4" booklet with drawing on front and information on back pasted onto the cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD: very light wear and discoloring to edges; map is in nearly new condition.

London: Phaidon Press, 1956., 1956. Hardcover. VG/G. 4to, 4th printing, 124p. b/w illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD book / GOOD jacket : sl edgewear; sl browning to pgs. DJ: edgewear, rubbing; soiling; price-clipped. (in mylar).

Glasgow: H.B. Langman & Co. Hardcover. VG+. Legible" Series. No date, 48mo, [4" tall], flexible boards covered in tartan cloth, all edges gilt, unpaginated, zodiac illustration. VERY GOOD+ : owner name and date on front endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked throughout. A calendar of dates on left-hand page with Scottish proverbs on facing page; 6-page glossary..

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1965., 1965. Hardcover. VG-. 317p. 9th edition; Pocket size navy boards; map fep; fold-out maps maps and illus scattered. ribbon bookmark. VERY GOOD- / no jacket: minor wear; spine lightly sunned.

Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: Redwood Burn / David & Charles, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. Large ordnance survey map, cartographical notes by Dr. J. B. Harley, 1970. 2nd impression 1979. Condition: VERY GOOD map in a VERY GOOD envelope: map is in nice condition excepting a few small red and blue penned lines under town names, a few faint spots, very slight creasing; slipcase envelope has light edgewear and some creasing to bottom corner. Nice condition with no tears to the map.

Plainfield, NJ: Honeyman & Company, 1901. First Edition . Hardcover. VG. 1st edktion [same date], 12mo, red gilt decorated cloth, top edges gilt, 422 pages, b/w illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: light rubbing to spine head and tail and corners, spine slightly dulled, front endpaper torn at top corner, internally clean and tight with just the light typical yellowing of pages. A fabulous record of the author's "bright days" coaching around all of "dear, old England...

Glasgow, Scotland: Mozart Allen, [no date]. Soft cover. VG. 8vo, stapled wraps, 36 pp, musical notation. Condition is VERY GOOD: lt. spotting to front paper cover, lt. crease to front corner, owner name on contents page, store name stamped inside front cover.

New York: Archer House, 1963. First American edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG-. 1st American edition (first published in Britain in 1956); foreword by the Marquess of Salisbury. 8vo, light blue boards, 184 pages, 8 b/w plates, biographical index to diary entries. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has little wear, an owner label on fep; jacket has small chips and tears to top edge, sunning to front panel, a sunned spine with a few faint spots, a 1" closed tear at spine gutter and another large closed tear on rear panel that has been taped, in protective mylar. The diary of John Carrington, a working farmer in the early 19th century, of Bacon's Farm in the village of Bramfield. Carrington was also the Overseer of the Poor and Surveyor of Highways, Tax Assessor and Collector for Bramfield and Chief Constable of a number of parishes - he wrote his diary entries on any scraps of paper at hand - I wonder he had time left for farming.

Boston: Little Brown, 1901. Hardcover. VG+. E. Eldon Deane. New edition [originally publsihed in 1887], illustrated from sketches and photographs by E. Eldon Deane. 8vo, burgundy cloth decorated in gilt - a lovely binding designed by Amy Sacker - top edge gilt, 390 pages. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: light rubbing to the spine extremities, owner bookplate on front pastedown, clean and tight throughout, a very nice copy of this travelogue through the cathedrals of southern England, including Chichester, Winchester, Salisbury, Wells, Glastonbury, Exeter; Bath and Stonehenge are also visited.

Burlington, VT: University of Vermont / Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library, 1983., 1983. Soft cover. VG+. Foreword by Janet Ing, compiled by John Buechler. 8vo, wraps, 39 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Whittingham was proprietor of the Chiswick Press in London. This catalogue includes 4 title page reproductions. Condition is VERY GOOD+: a faint blue stain to fron cover, owner name inside front cover.

Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 1975. Soft cover. G. Reprint edition (originally published in 1946) 8vo, wraps, 89 pages, Welsh on verso - English on recto, b/w illustrations, map. Condition is GOOD: a poorly bound book so many of the pages are detached from the binding (all pages are present and in fine condition with no markings), covers have very slight wear, owner inscription inside front cover. A great reading reference copy... An analysis of the contribution of Wales to the growth and development of the United States (for instance, did you know that Yale University was named after a Welshman, Elihu Yale??)

Aylesbury, UK: Shire Publications, 1975. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 2nd edition [1975], 16mo, stiff card wraps, 48 pages, b/w text illustrations, b/w photographs, index. No. 29 in the Shire "Discovering" series, first published in 1968. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with little wear.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1950. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Reprint edition [BOMC, originally published 1950, copyright renewed 1978], 427 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliiography. VERY GOOD+ book in a VERY GOOD+ jacket: book has faint spotting to top page edge; jacket has a small open tear on rear panel - appears unread, just this minor shelfwear. Eleanor of Aquitaine [1122? - 1204] "was the very center of of the rich culture and clashing politics of the twelfth century - she was the Queen of France as the wife of Louis VII, and later married Henry Plantagenet who became Henry II of England." [from the jacket]

NY: Coward-McCann, 1959. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st American edition [stated] [but has "Book of the Month Club Selection" on the jacket - price is present and no publisher slug], 8vo, green cloth, 336 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight edgewear. A very nice copy.

NY: Oak Publications, 1965. First Edition . Soft cover. VG. Quarto wraps, 96 pages, b&w illustrations, musical notation. Condition is VERY GOOD: lt. edgewear, sl. sunning to spine

London: Duckworth, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+/Very Good. 1st edition [First published in 1972], 8o, olive green cloth, 336 pages, b/w decorative headpieces to each chapter, b/w plates of photographs and illustrations throughout, booklist, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has slight rubbing to edges and corners; jacket has light edgewear along top edge, ¼" closed tear at spine tail, small scratch on spine. "The aim of this engagingly discursive book is to show how large a contribution to the art and craft of gardening has been made through the past four centuries, by London - 'the flower of cities all.'" Covers Royal gardens, physic and botanical gardens, writers' gardens, market gardens, parks and pleasure gardens, smaller gardens and horticultural societies.

Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+/Very Good. 1st ed., 8vo, red boards, 224 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has slight toning to pages, old price on fep; jacket has slight edgewear to top edge, small tear to top right corner. Uncovers the stories of the privileged women of the Georgian dynasty over a period of 200 years, from the English Civil War to the first 20 years of Queen Victoria's reign [quoting the jacket].

Ithaca Ny: Cornell University Press / The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1965. Soft cover. NF. 3rd printing, 8vo, stapled wraps, 46 pages, 17 b&w illustrations. Condition is NEAR FINE: faint stain on front cover, owner name inside front cover.