playhours half holidays experiences two schoolboys de rev atkinson (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover. Full leather binding. Gold stamping on front cover, spine, and along the board edges and squares as well. All edges gilt. Leather is worn and chipping along joints and at corners, which are bumped and rounded. Endpaper cracked inside the front cover's hinge at top and bottom. Large bookplate from King's College, London affixed inside front cover, indicates this book was a prize for writing during Easter term, 1892. Title page dated 1892. Copyright page states that two first editions were published elsewhere, with this being the first Macmillan and Co publication of this title. 445 pages. Pages clean and unmarked. Illustrations throughout. A good copy, overall. Please ask for photos -- we'd love to send you some.

Cloth. Etat : Good Only. Coleman (illustrateur). First edition. A first edition of this collection of short stories following the adventures of two schoolboys, from English author and priest John Christopher Atkinson. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. A collection of short stories following the adventures of two schoolboys, with chapters on bird-catching, explorations, bait-fishing, watching otters, and a walk to the common, amongst others. Written by John Christopher Atkinson, an English author, antiquary, and priest. Illustrated by Coleman. With publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and loss to the extremities. Further loss to the tail of the spine. Minor bumping with the odd small mark to the boards. Light fading to the spine with small splits in the cloth to the joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers. School bookplate to the front pastedown. Good Only. book.

Fine Binding. Etat : Near Fine. W. Coleman (illustrateur). First Thus. This near fine copy is bound in full calf covered boards with raised bands to six compartments with the title to a burgundy panel in the second and gilt decoration to the rest, there are gilt borders to the upper and lower boards and an ornate gilt latin device of Glasgow Academy to the upper board. There are marbled endpapers and blind dentelles. There are matching marbled page edges all round There is some spotting to the prelims It ius believed that this has been bound by David Bryce & Son Glasgow. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. Canon Atkinson is now best remembered for two of his published works - British birds' eggs and their nests and Forty years in a moorland parish although he published many more. Those volumes with a natural history content were particularly aimed at young people. He was also a noted antiquarian with particular interest in the archaeology, folk-lore, dialect and history of his adopted home in Danby, Yorkshire, and the surrounding Cleveland district. Ref EEE3 Size: 446pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Coleman (illustrateur). 1st Edition. xii+445 pages. with 6 illustrations; Full maroon school prize calf bindind & six compartments of gilt decorations and gilt title green label on spine, outer edges dentellers, gilt decorated embossed medallions of Wesley Colledge, Colombo.on front cover, marbled endpapers, school prize award label dated July,1892 front paste down. Book cover chipped in lower corner.

Etat : Good. No dustjacket. Wear to binding. Discolouration/marks/some stains to cover & wear to edges. Small tears to top/base of spine. Tanning/foxing/some stains to textblock edges/endpapers. School prize label at front. Foxing/marks to several pages. Text good.