Hosking Clement (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good plus condition copy. Bright and clean wraps with only light shelf wear. Tight and square binding. Internally, a previous owner gift inscription reading "Dear Mother, Thank you for many wonderful Christmases - Love, Melanie." The edition is otherwise unmarked with bright and clean pages. An excellent copy. .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 213 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edith Lanser (illustrator). Presumed First Edition. No stated date but acknowledgments and foreword are dated 1950. Presumed first edition. 230pp., black and white chapter header illustrations and a map on the endpapers by Edith Lanser. Edwin Clement Hosking (1896-1966) was born in Adelaide, but his grandfather had been a Cornishman, and Clement's initial introduction to the traditional music of the British Isles was as a child listening to his father sing the songs and melodies which his own father had taught him. By the age of seventeen, he had decided on a musical career, but his ambitions in this direction were delayed by World War One. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1916, and after serving in Europe from September 1917 Hosking was discharged in 1919. While he was in the army he was able to spend some time in England and Wales, and he was impressed by both the sheer volume of traditional music surviving in the British Isles and by the wide range of styles. He later spent a summer just before the Second World War listening to and writing down the traditional songs and tunes sung by the people in the Western Isles of Scotland, and the greater part of this book is an account of his experiences in the Farthest Hebrides. There are descriptions of fascinating isles he visited; of interesting characters; and the words and melodies of songs as well as legends and stories he gathered. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with bumping to the spine ends and top corners and a dent on the top edge of the rear board. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with soiling and some light staining and the spine is sunned. The top edge and bottom rear edge are rubbed with some creases. About 1/4" is missing from part of the top of the spine, a larger piece is missing from the bottom of the spine, and smaller pieces are missing from the corner tips. There are small tears on the bottom edges of the spine and there is a tear of about 1/4" on the top rear edge.

Hard Cover. Condition: near Very Good binding. 16mo. [24], 36 pp., frontis, illus. facsims. First trade edition, thus. In publisher's red paper over boards with title and decoration in silver. Light wear to the joints and extremities; covers a trifle soiled, nevertheless a fairly good copy of this fragile binding. Includes a facsimile of the 1848 edition by Henry M. Onderdonk with Boyd's illustrations. This is followed by a Hosking's brief biography of Moore and a short bibliography of Moore's writing. Uncommon. Marshall 308.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. HETHERINGTON, Norman (illustrator). Hardback, with dust wrapper. Wear around edges of boards. Small amount of staining of page edges. Light discoloration of front free endpaper. Binding neat and tidy. This book is in good condition. Dustwrapper is moderately rubbed at the edges. creases and chips, head and tale, else dust wrapper is in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo. hardcvover. 230pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Good, chipped d/w.