Ab Shone (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st, Limited Edition of 500 Copies. Dust Jacket: No, leatherbound. External Condition: Excellent. Clean. Internal Condition: Excellent. Clean. Author/Editor: Shone, A B. Publisher: J Allen Ltd. Year: 1955. Edition: 1st, Limited Edition of 500 copies. Binding: Hardcover. Illustrated: Yes, colour and B&W. Language: English. Page Count: 109. Keywords: amateur driving, century and a half, coaching club, horses, carriage, tandem driving. The book for sale is the one in the photo. …

Condition: Very Good. None. Hardcover, 112 pages, b&w and pasted-in color plates. Red board covers. Half leatherette with gilt lettering on spine. 500 proof copies printed December, 1955. Part One only of a two volume set. Clean. Record # 411700.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Gift inscription to ffep of Part 1. Boards clean and undamaged with gilt titling to spine. Limited to 500 proof copies. 215 x 270mm. Profusely illus. in b/w and colour with several tipped-in plates. Scattered foxing to endpapers with sparse foxing to contents of Part 1. Heavy set.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4to, mounted coloured plates and other illustrations , Edition limited to 500 copies, original quarter morocco.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4to, mounted coloured plates and other illustrations , Edition limited to 500 copies, original quarter morocco, Air Marshall A.T .Harris's copy with a few notes in pencil by him.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. c. 1959. Red buckram, leather spine with gilt lettering. A very good copy indeed. Book.

Hardback. Condition: VG. No DW. 500 proof copies. Burgundy cloth with leather spine, gilt. Slight spotting. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. c. 1959. Red buckram, leather spine with gilt lettering. A very good copy indeed. Book.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A limited edition, proof copy of the first edition of Part I of A. B. Shone's social history of carriage driving in Britain, illustrated with mounted colour plates. One of only 500 proof copies printed in December 1955.Part I only of a two volume work.Illustrated with a mounted colour frontispiece and twenty-two further mounted colour plates, alongside numerous further monochrome illustrations.Collated, complete.A. B. Shone presents a history of carriage driving in Britain, tracing the development of the pastime from the early eighteenth century through to the late nineteenth. Shone surveys the evolution of vehicles, harness, and driving techniques, alongside anecdotes of notable amateurs, sporting clubs, and celebrated turnouts on road and in park. In the publisher's original quarter morocco binding, with cloth covered boards. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright and generally clean, with instances of spotting and minor tide marks to head of a small number of plates. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…