Careless John Pseud (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 24 Full Page Color Illustrations By One of the Family (illustrator). A Poem in Ten Cantos. Red cloth binding with paper lable title, author etc on spne. Top and botton of spine and corners of binding rubbed and bumped. 127pp. Content clean, bright and sound.Copy is in good condition is no dust jacket, Spine and paper label on spine are darkened. Binding shows some shelf wear. Ohotos availale on request.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. viii + 127pp, coloured illus in the style of the early 19th century, good. *First printed in 1821 - a scarce poem on the adventures of a country squire in London etc.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Methuen & Co. 1905 edition. Soem minor foxing to pages, text clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Condition: near fine. London 1905 Metheun. Hardcover. 12mo., 127p., with 24 lovely color plates "by one of the family." Color frontispiece with tissue guard. A few pages yet unopened. Red cloth. Text near fine, hinges not cracked; cover has overall light wear; printed paper spine label is toned but legible. no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. One of the Family (illustrator). 1st Edition. With Twenty Four Humorous hand coloured plates, being a spoof on British Sporting Society First edition, large paper copy, in contemporary half red morocco over worn boards, corners & edges bumped & worn. Spine, re-laid, retaining the old, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-viii), [1], 2-136 pp, 24 pls (unnumbered, hand coloured, & dated 1821-1822), with the half title, bookplate to fpd (A Edward Newton 1864-1940 - Oak Knoll [Books]), armorial stamp to fep, some light offsetting, watermarked Whatman 182? Housed in a red cloth box and a red quarter calf cloth slipcase. (272*180 mm). (Tooley 128. Abbey Life 387. Schwerdt I:95. Prideaux 305) In addition to Careless, Chatto also used Joseph Fume & Stephen Oliver as pseudonyms. An excellent example.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 12mo. [2], iv, 165, [1] pp, frontis, 5 pl., ill. Contemporary quarter leather. Maroon pebbled boards. Marbled end pages. Prelims and frontis foxed. Lacking original wraps. The humorous plates depict contented smokers from around the world, and one scene of Scottish snuff-taking. Book plates of Miss Mabel Tompkins and Miss Ruth W. Tompkins to rear pastedown with respective notes to each in pen. Sabin 1414-1416.