Davies G Illus (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine (As New) 1st Edition copy of this highly attractive 63pp survey, beautifully illustrated throughout by Mike Machat. The dust wrapper is close to Fine with only very light hints of use. Please see five pictures attached for a closer look.…

Ex Library, oblong super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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 will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photos; illus., 9 x 11.25", cloth, 64pp with index, a nice, fresh copy in a lightly edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. With printed letter from author/publisher, and photocopied catalogue from the publisher.

Original Cloth Respined. Condition: Good++. No Jacket. New Edition. xvii+470 pp., many illus., slightly marked dark green cloth, paper spine label worn, additional new label to help. a few pencil marks in margins, but a good overall copy of White's Selborne with all its natural history and ornithology. With a number of relevant newspaper cuttings pasted in on blank pages and bookseller catalogue pages either end. No date, but 1920 cutting pasted in front. Size: Crown. Many Illus. In B&W Engravings (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: g- to g. First edition. Duodecimo. 72pp. Tan leather over original illustrated tan and black paper boards, with black lettering on the covers. This obscure storywritten for a young adult audience, relates the tail of two travelers in the Netherlands in 1815, right after the end of the Napoleonic wars. The author remains anonymous, although it perhaps can be credited to the publisher Edward Lacey. The publisher, his address and some historical references in the text point to the fact the the book was likely published circa 1835, although no date is given. The text is illustrated with 3 plates credited to a G. Davies, who also is responsible for the illustrated covers and is likely the illustrator of the vignette on the title page as well. There is an addition steel-plate engraved frontispiece with no credit, titled "The Gardener's Daughter". Binding with rubbing to extremities, and some light to moderate staining to the covers. Interior with illegible period owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper. Minor to light sporadic water stains to the text. Starting and loosening of the book block at pages 26 and 36. Binding and interior in good- to good condition overall. Quite scarce.…