Culture

London. L N Fowler & Co. no date (circa. 1938).

First Edition. Hardback. 8vo (5 1/2" x 8 1/2"). 282 pages + 3 full page plates. The covers are water stained and there is some edge wear. Small hole in the cloth of the front cover. Internally the book is very clean.
Subject: An impressionistic account of the inter-racial marriage of the black playwright Garland Anderson and of all the difficulties and kindnesses encountered by the couple in the US and England in the 1930s.

Good condition

Bungay. Clay and Taylor. 1879.

First Edition. Hardback. Tall 8vo. 176 pages. A few pages slightly loose. Cover edges slightly rubbed. Corners bumped. Owners inscriptions on end pages. Very slight foxing to title page. Booksellers Label. Booksellers catalog listing pasted inside rear board.

Very Good condition

London. B T Batsford Ltd. 1946.

First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 8vo. 116 pages. 149 illustrations from photographs and drawings. The development of craftsmanship from the earliest times and on wheel-wrighting cricket bats net making water crafts etc. Dust jacket foxed (brown spots). Foxing to page edges and prelims. Water stain to edges of cloth covers.

Good + / Very Good condition

London. Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1886.

Thirteenth Edition revised. Full natural calf prize binding by Stokeley (late Hawes). Hardback. 16mo. viii/ 392 pages. Red marbled end pages and page edges. Gift inscription date 1886. A little foxing to prelims. Slight marks to covers.

Very Good condition

London. Bodley Head. 1925.

Cheap edition (reprint of the 1908 1st edition). Publishers cloth bindings. Hardbacks. 12mo. xiv [i]/ 400 pages + publishers adverts + xiv/ 381 pages + publishers adverts. Illustrated. Corners bumped. Some light foxing. Slight dent to one spine. Some wear and tear.

Near Very Good condition

Tiverton and Torquay. Gregory and Son. no date but circa 1895.

First edition. Scarce. Limp cloth covers. Softback. 12mo. [iv]/ 72 pages. Illustrated by S Lewis. Closed tears and creasing to top edges of pages 11-14 (possible publishers flaw). Paper starting to brown.

Very Good condition

London. Chapman and Hall. 1858.

Reprint. First collated edition. Previously published separately in 1833. Full natural tan calf leather binding. Book plate from Arthurs Club 69 St James. 300 pages. Edges of covers are worn with some chipping. Covers subjects like the nigger question and prisons etc.

Near Very Good condition