Herries Sir William (4 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very Good PP 69, tissue protected frontis, 7 plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. Pale green paper on boards, with black lettering to spine. Mild bumping to extremities. Slight discolouration to spine and edges of boards.Previous owner's pencilled details on front free page. Otherwise clean and tidy throughout. With foreword by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A very scarce item.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Red cloth (hardcover), gilt title, (10 x 16 inchs). 175 pages, with Genealogical Charts and Tables. Full title: "The Successful Running and Sire Lines of The Modern Thoroughbred Horse as Shown in a Series of Tables Giving the Descending Tail Male and Tail Female of the Principal WInners and Sires in Great Britain and Ireland and in Australia and New Zealand in Modern TImes." An important and scarce book showing just light wear, internally clean. Size: Oblong Quarto.…

See his father's entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 16mo. On first leaf of bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. The recipient's full name is not give. Signed 'Walter H Pollock'. The 'Ajax business' referred to in the letter is the performance of the first of the Cambridge Greek plays, organised by the archaeologist Sir Charles Walston [formerly Waldstein] (1856-1927). Begins: 'My dear Thomas / My friend Dr Waldstein who has got up the whole Ajax business asks me to send you the enclosed admission and programme.' He ends by offering to get him 'any details as to the archaeological part of the business'.…