Currey John Ed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Part of 'Southern Cross' series. Past owner's name inscribed, front endpapers. Angus, Don (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 72pp. 30.5cm. 55 colour illustrations, most full page. Notes on each illustrations and on the artists at the end. Ink name and address on end paper. Hard cover in dust jacket. A good clean copy.

Card Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. Near Fine With The Residue Of An Old Label On The Back Cover Pp 81 Index Frontis Illustrations ,Loosely Inserted Map At The Rear.

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

French Flaps. No Jacket. First Edition. Near Fine PP 135, index, Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Editor Phillida Simons to title page. Standard Edition of 850 copies. Burgundy bds with bright Gilt title in Black flag, Red publishers staining top edge, 2 silk ribbon markers, printed on Domtar fine papers, nice half tone portrait frontis, pp 275 plus 64 colour and b/w illus. Original DJ is fresh with faintest shelf wear to spine head. Overweight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author.…

74pp. (37 numbered). 8vo. Original wrappers, a touch rubbed on upper wrapper. Small nameplate on inner wrapper. A very good copy. Number 19 of 100 copies.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A splendid large paper, limited edition copy of John Blades Currey's memoirs of his experiences in South Africa, adorned with striking colour plates. Limited edition of this work, one of eight hundred and fifty unnumbered copies bound in cloth, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, containing John Blades Currey's memoirs of fifty years in South Africa, where he exerted a deep influence on the Cape's most famous man, and chronicled the political and social events of his time.John Blades Currey's was Colonial Secretary to the Government of Griqualand West and an influential businessman and politician of the Cape Colony.Illustrated with sixty four plates printed in text, of which some are impressive watercolours by a variety of artists including Thomas Baines and Frederick I'Ons among others, as well as a black and white photographic portrait frontispiece of John Blades Currey by Henry van de Weyde. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece in black and white and sixty four plates in text, some in colour. Collated, complete. Fine. Various (illustrator). book.…