Charles Strachey Ed (3 results)

Condition: Good. 1901. No Edition Remarks. 502 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Volume II. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Marking to both boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 2 volume set. 2nd ed. (1924). 416; 502pp. Original red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Both vols VG copies, bindings square and tight, corners gently bumped, a couple of marks to cloth covers otherwise clean, spines a little dulled and darkened, gilt reasonably bright, vol.1 has colour plate of Roubiliac's marble bust of Phulip Stanhope tipped-in, otherwise internally excellent; no dust jackets.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. A very good copy (for its age) of this 3rd edition, in a single volume, of this remarkable collection of letters, edited by Charles Strachey and with notes by Annette Calthrop, and in a good Dust Jacket (for its age). The first Methuen edition was published in 1901 in 2 volumes, and the second, also in 2 volumes in 1924. This is the first single volume Methuen edition. Dust Jacket: pinkish paper with black lettering to front and spine; some darkening to the spine; rubbing and chipping to all edges but largely intact; remarkable for printed titles etc for a completely different book on the reverse; not price clipped (now protected). Cover: green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, in very good clean condition; some slight signs of edge wear and slight wrinkling of cloth to both boards; otherwise very clean and bright. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; some darkening to page edges; small neat gift inscription to 'Beryl' on verso of front free end paper and an equally neat caption "The letters of the Lady 'Cranley' to her daughter." underneath the pre-title; previous owner's name (also very neat) to front paste down. lxxx, 502 pp.…