ruthven murray peter (4 résultats)

Card covers, stapled. 71,(1)pp. Covers little marked and scuffed, else Very Good. ISBN 0901061425.

Hardcover. Etat : Nr. Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hilda Ruthven-Murray (illustrateur). 1st Edition. The dust has a touch of edge wear and a couple of scuffs o the rear panel. Signed on the title page. The book traces the pedigree of a Scottish border family from the reign of Charles II, through ten generations to the present day. It begins with John Murray (1670-1720) a tenant farmer in Roxburghshire, and records the family's rise to prominence in the Victorian era and the emigration of its members to Australia, Canada, America and South Africa. John Murray's descendants were hardworking and ambitious for their families. Among the members of the family will be found a General who fought in the Indian Mutiny of 1856 and the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Etat : Very Good. Very Good Minus in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light overall wear to the boards with moderately "bumped" edge-corners; The textblock edges are unblemished; Small erasure mark to the first endpaper, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.6 lbs; Olive green dust jacket with line drawing of a house, and title in white lettering; 1986, R.C.S. Limited; 248 pages; "Murrays of Rulewater," by Peter Ruthven-Murray.

1st edition. With B&W illustrations. Dust jacket unclipped. Jacket spine and surround faded but lettering unaffected. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.