Eha E H Aitken (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. 6th Ed., hard cover brick red cloth bds, gilt titles and small vignette of sleeping man in a chair to btm upper bd corner, some scuffing to spine ends and corners, Good, no dust jacket, neat pen and ink inscript. to ffep, some light age-browning to frontis. and title pge in places, contents clean and tight, cracked at hinge at pge 64 but holding, b/w drawings by F C Macrae, pp159 + P32 adverts to rear. Macrae, F. C. (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Original gilt cloth, gilt top, frontispiece and other b/w plates and illustrations, 216,20p., 8vo.; Some foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Aitken, E. H. (EHA). The tribes on my frontier. An Indian naturalist's foreign policy / illustrated by F. C. MacCrea. Seventh edition. London: W. Thacker & Co., 1909. Hardback, VG. Blue cloth, bumped to corners and ends of spine with some small marks and blemishes. Gilt decorations and lettering to front and spine. Binding strong. Decorated endpapers. Frontispiece b/w illustration with tissue guard. Title page lettering in red and black. 216pp., b/w illustrations, 64pp. illustrated publisher catalogue. Contents clean and bright. Top edge of the page block gilt. Edward Hamilton Aitken (16 August 1851 - 11 April 1909) was a British civil servant in India, better known for his humorist writings on natural history in India and as a founding member of the Bombay Natural History Society. He was well known to Anglo-Indians by the pen-name of Eha. T. R. Bell, a naturalist friend, writing of him after his death said "He was a good man in every sense of the word; a strongly religious man, a pleasant companion, broad minded, exceedingly tolerant of the weaknesses of others, gentle and lovable and a rare example of a man without a single enemy". RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. We do not use AI and all images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. F. C. MacCrea (illustrator). …

Hb original blue cloth gilt titles to spine and front board, 8vo, xiv,195pp mono illustrations etc , Pencil inscription to half title page boards lightly grubby and soiled o/w A Vg copy.

Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 196, (2, adverts), b/w fronts., b/w plates, b/w ills., some offsetting eps and prelims., orig gilt dec cloth, minor fishing front cover, spine sunned, d.j torn, lower half spine missing, protected. Collection of natural history sketches by the well-known Anglo-Indian author. illustrations by J.A. Shepherd (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Undated. Circa 1900. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with ilt titles. 195 pp. B/w illustrations. Bookplate (of one Herbert Octavius-Moore) to front pastedown. Beautifully clean and sound. NEAR FINE.

Condition: Very Good. Fourth edition hard back binding in publisher's original vertically grained bottle green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, top edge gilt, publisher's green and cream patterned end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains (xi), 257 + i pp with 78 monochrome illustrations throughout. Rubbing to the bottom corners, else in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ZOOLOGY (Animal Biology).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Thacker, Spink and Co, 1890. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fair. 3rd Edition. 158pp+40pp of Illustrated Catalogue of Thacker, Spink and Co. 1889. Third edition. Binding has started splitting at page 1 and again at page 64. Binding shaky but intact. Ffep missing, previous owners' names to reverse of frontispeice. Some age-related marking, toning, mostly clean. …

Octavo,195 pp.,illustrations, bookplate of Roy Cooper. Publisher's cloth, flecking on endpapers, some light wear, a sound copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. An early edition of this vibrant novel providing an insight to India in the late nineteenth century, written by Edward Hamilton Aitken. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Tenth edition. This entertaining and informative novel is set in India at the end of the nineteenth century, providing an insight into the history of the country. It is presented as a series of papers, with each describing a young boy in a different area of the country to show the various aspects of social life.Written by 'EHA', or Edward Hamilton Aitken, who was a civil servant living in India, known for his writings on natural history. Illustrated with numerous charming vignettes and a frontispiece by F. C. Macrae. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Externally, excellent, with light rubbing and the odd mark. A small tear to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. F. C. Macrae (illustrator). book.…

London/ Calcutta, Thacker/ Spink, 1898. Illustrated blue cloth. 216, 24 p. Illustrated. With publisher's book list at the end. 6th ed. Edges a bit worn, some foxing. Delicious book about the birds and bees, but especially the bugs around the house of a Colonial Brit, with funny drawings. On the upper cover a row of rats with personalities.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. A scarce second edition copy of this abundantly illustrated natural history work. The scarce second edition of the work.In publisher's original decorative green cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece, 7 plates, and in text illustrations throughout.With 32 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.A work by Edward Hamilton Aitken, a civil servant in India, better known for hishumoristwritings onnatural historyin India and as a founding member of theBombay Natural History Society. He was well known toAnglo-Indiansby the pen-name ofEha. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Shelf wear to extremities, with bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Fading to spine. Marks to rear board. Hinges cracked. Internally, generally firmly bound, but fragile to the middle of the work. Pages 113- 144 disbound. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd spot. Ink inscription to first blank. Good. F.C. Macrae (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Book measures 19.5x15.cm. xii,257pp, [3],40pp catalogue. Bound in original publishers green decorative cloth. Cloth lightly rubbed, slight lean on spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A nice clean copy. Size: 8vo. …

Tenth edition. [8], 159, [1], 32pp. With a half-title, frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text, and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's gilt-stamped brick-red cloth, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Near contemporary inked gift inscription to half-title. Edward Hamilton Aitken's (1851-1909) immensely popular spirited novel of colonial life in India, initially serialised in the Times of India in 1889. Size: 8vo.…

1st edition. Gilt & black lettering & decoration. Staining at top of front board and on discoloured spine. Endpapers foxed. Name on front free endpaper. Internally VG. Used - Good. Good hardback in blue cloth Used - Good. Good hardback in blue cloth.

Condition: Poor. No jacket. Hardcover is worn & bumped along the edges & corners with light wear & marks to boards. Tanned textblock, darker at the edges & endpapers. Writing on ffep & front pastedown. Content is in good, generally clean condition.

Condition: Poor. 1890 edition. Very worn hardcover with scuffs & light scratches & exposed board along the edges & corners. Worn & cracked hinges. Tanned & foxed textblock edge & endpapers. Loose ffep with pen & marks on first page. Content is good & clear to read with light tanning to pages.

Calcutta,Thacker, Spink and Co., 1889. In 16, pp. viii-158-(40 catalogo editoriale) con illustrazioni nel testo, legatura cartonato editoriale illustrato al piatto anter. e al dorso. Una raccolta di saggi del popolare autore indiano, funzionario pubblico e fondatore della Bombay Natural History Society. Buon esemplare.…