Hearne John Editor (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 46 pages. Illustrated. The Era (1960): Known historically as the "Year of Africa," 1960 marked the height of the service's global numbers (reaching roughly 20,500 personnel) right before massive administrative shifts took place as nations gained independence. A M Healy "Melanesian Contrasts" / Peter de Sautoy "Processing the Project" / J H Reading "Training for Trades in West Africa" / Harry Conway "Seaport of South Arabia" / Edwin G Davy "Meteorology in Mauritius" / John Hearne "Tougher Time for New Britons" / from The Times "A Pip on the Shoulder" / W B Collins "Trees Must Fall" Sir Hilary Blood "Planning for Mauritius" / Grace Hammond "Distressed British Subject" / J W Chanell "Leave Car" - also For Your Leave (August To October) - News of Your Friends - Promotions And Transfers - Book Reviews (SL#125/17).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 310 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Second impression. Orig. orange cloth. Map endpapers. 240 pp. [24] pp. colour photos + colour frontis. Dust jacket is age toned, with 1" tear to head of rear joint, some light bumping to extremities. Ian Fleming spent part of every year at Goldeneye, his Jamaican house in which he wrote all the James Bond books. He loved Jamaica and used to regret that there was no book on it which he considered worthy. His friend Morris Cargill, the distinguished Jamaican journalist and broadcaster, urged him to write one himself. After many conversations at Goldeneye a 'team' was collected: Ian Flaming to open the book, of course, with an account of his own relationship with Jamaica and a general picture of the pleasures of living there; Morris Cargill and the novelist John Hearne to fill in the background, historical and human; and ten other writers, either Jamaican or long-term residents of the island, chosen because of their special knowledge of and enthusiasm for various aspects of it.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 Volumes in 1 Book, pp.xxiii, 304+668 (Vol. II itself comprises two Parts), marbled edges and end-papers, a very good hardback, full brown morocco, inner gilt dentelles, and the spine with raised bands, from an academic library, though there's minimal evidence to indicate its past except [1] the shadow on the spine and [2] colouring of the top- and fore-edges to match the marbling.…

9 volumes bound in 5, 8vo, list of subscribers, vignette to first title page, a few plates, some in text, bound in contemporary polished calf, spines gilt with raised bands a little rubbed and worn at heads of spines, with some labels chipped but legible, a sound clean set, THIRD AND BEST EDITION, at least of the early editions, only replaced by the standard modern edition of 1906-10. The most accurate 18th Century transcription of Hearne's original manuscript. …

Condition: Good. Oblong 4to. 27 1x 21 cm. 5 vols., engraved titles and 249 plates (only of 250, lacking Hillingdon House plate from vol.1), the odd spot or foxing mark but largely clean internally, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, blind-stamped and panelled with gilt, a little rubbed, corners bumped.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1009029252:At head of publisher's original (part) wrappers: New copper-plate magazineEditor and principal engraver: John WalkerEngravings by J. Walker, William Walker, T. Medland, Birrell, B.T. Pouncy, James Greig, James Heath, G. Walker, William Ellis, Fitler, Barrett, J. Storer, Roberts, J. Widnell, J. Roffe, and T. Tagg; after J.M.W. Turner, Paul Sandby, Thomas Girtin, Thomas Hearne and Thomas Malton, Esther Acklom, Miss Berniers, Edward Francis Burney, Charles Catton, Jr., Richard Corbould, George Cuit, Edward Dayes, Arthur Benoni Evans, Thomas Girtin, Harraden, John Hassell, J. Hornsey, H. Jeayes, Thomas Malton, John Meheux, Conrad Martin Metz, James Moore, Francis Nicholson, John Nixon, Rev. Robert Nixon, William Orme, Alexander Reid, Philip Reinagle, Humphry Repton, Paul Sandby, Thomas Sandby, William Watts, Francis Wheatley and othersImprints undated; years of publication from monthly issues.Originally issued in 125 parts, each consisting of two plates and two letterpress leaves. Each cumulated volume contains 50 plates with associated letterpress, an index leaf and engraved title page; vols. 1, 4 and 5 have an "Advertisement" leaf; v. 5 also has a general index.Plates include great houses and significant architectural structures from various places in the British Isles. Each plate includes names of engraver and artist, but these are not indexed.Title pages are engraved; signed (v.1): Milns scrt. Puke sc.Vol. 2 with imprint: London : printed for Harrison and Co. Pater-Noster Row. & J. Walker, engraver. No. 16, Rosomans Street, Clerkenwell; v. 3-5 with imprint: London : printed for J. Walker, engraver. No. 16, Rosomans Street, ClerkenwellVol. 4: "Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, Holborn."Vols. 4 & 5 with alternative title: Elegant cabinet. …