Jacques Reindorp (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, 8vo, xii,238pp, 61 b/w illustrations, mopderate foxing and browning throughout, internal binding shaken but holding, no inscriptions, pictorial cloth, covers rubbed and soiled, Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardback. Condition: GOOD. No Dust Jacket. PICTORIAL BINDING 2/3 COLOURS AND GOLD TEXT, NEW AND CHEAPER ED, FOXED, TANNED, INSCRIPTION DATED 1913. J.P. RODNEY (illustrator).

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, endpapers and half-title browned, neat contemporary signature on frontispiece recto; original green pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately lettered and blocked in gilt and colours, gilt edges, upper hinge tender (but binding wholly sound), a bright, clean copy. Vividly-written and entertaining account of five boys building a canoe (among other things) with much period practical detail in the manner of a manual. EXTREMELY SCARCE. …

Illustr by J.P. Rodney, 8 x 5, pict cloth, 238 pp, covers a bit worn (esp extremities), hinges loose, inner hinges cracked, pp toned else a decent copy of this scarce British import. A group of boys get together and build things including a canoe and a battery.

Front., plates & illus. Orig. red-brown cloth, blocked in blind, lettered in gilt; a little dulled & rubbed. Not recorded in BL or on Copac; there is also apparently no record of The Pioneer itself. Includes: A chat about the Lancashire Folk; Essays for workmen; The glory of the man; The modern fair; &c. Reindorp went on to edit 'Hobbies for Boys' and 'Practical Camping for Boys'.…