F Lyde Caunter (9 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 168 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Boards are slightly bowed.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dustjacket present also plastic cover protector, corner unclipped, some wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges a little creased and worn, rips on top and bottom edge of back cover 4 cm and 2.5 cm, some light wear to covers and spine, corners a little bumped, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, signed by the author with an inscription to a previous owner. Signed by Author(s).

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xii, pp13-168, illustrated with black & white photos as plates, pages clean and crisp apart from a lightly tanned strip down the final page, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, dust jacket has wear and chips to edges and corners, corner torn from inner flap. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 Inches. Fishing.

Blue Cloth. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). Some Illustrations & Frontispiece in Black & White (illustrator). First Edition. Very Stained boards.The jacket has closed tears.Please Email for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. F.Lyde Caunter was a great advocate for Cornish tin and wolfram, a governor of the Camborne School of Mines, well known in the legal profession around Liskeard , a keen shark fisherman and resident of Looe. As an aspiring athlete he was afflicted with polio but recovered sufficiently to lead a full and inspiring life. The book is in excellent condition in a very good unclipped dustjacket with no inscriptions. Undated but believed to have been published in 1957. Size - 224mm. x 142mm.(8vo.). Pp.168.

ex libris (usual cancellation stamps pkts etc) 168pp illus VG+(v sl bruised corners,v sl bumped spine head & foot) d/w VG+(v sl wear at extremities, v sl rubbed).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Frederick Lyde Caunter was born in 1892 in Liskeard, Cornwall. In addition to practicing as a solicitor in the Liskeard and Looe area, Caunter took a lifelong interest in the Cornish mining industry. He was President of the Cornish Mining Development Association and a governor of Camborne School of Mines, situated at Camborne in Cornwall, as well as serving as Vice-Chairman of the Cornish Tin-Mining Advisory Committee (founded in 1939). Ex- county library with label and stamp. Overall good but with bumped corners, tight binding, pages aged toned. Size - 223mm. x 145mm.(8vo.). Pp.56.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Previously owned copy, ex-library, with the usual stamps etc., no dust jacket, overall good condition. Slight bumping to boards, small tear to top of spine from shelf wear. Pages are age-tanned but clean and unmarked. Binding is tight.