James Paton Editor (21 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 8vo. lxiii 141 pp., bibliography, index. Cover shows minor edge wear and rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Very Good dust. Clean pages and very sound. Some moderate cover wear. Very nice dustjacket. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable archival sleeve.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8"; 223 pages.

Hardcover. 223p., introduction, biographical notes, bookplate of Leslie Rubin otherwise a very good first edition in decorative cloth boards and unclipped dj with light soiling and short closed tears. Previous owner Rubin "was an outspoken opponent of the apartheid regime in South Africa. A lawyer by training, he was a founder of the South African Liberal party, a member of the senate and a friend of Chief Albert Luthuli, from 1952 to 1967 president of the African National Congress." Guardian obit 2002.…

brown, black & white decorative full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with sepiatone photo inlay & dark brown silk marker ribbon. no dustwrapper (as issued). very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing (nap) of this facsimile reprint edition of the 1891 original published as "Missionary To The New Hebrides". 11+ix+524p. b&w frontis. portrait. b&w map. 3 appendics. index. autobiography. memoirs. history of vanuatu. british empire. french colonial empire. ~ "Paton was thirty~three when he was ordained to preach in the New Hebrides, an island chain named by Captain James Cooke consisting of about thirty mountainous islands inhabited by heathens of the worst sort~violent, man~eating savages. After visiting the island and engaging in a skirmish with the natives in 1774, Cooke declared that "no one would ever venture to introduce Christianity.because neither fame nor profit would offer the requisite inducement." But missionaries did come, many of whom were subsequently murdered by the islanders. Undaunted, Paton arrived in 1858, where twenty years earlier, the first missionaries to the island, John Williams and James Harris, were clubbed to death immediately upon disembarking their vessels".…

paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. annotated edition. 208 pages. 9.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2 Volume set. Vol I- 1890, xv + pp375 plus portrait frontis. Vol II- 1889, xvi + pp382 plus frontis and 2 pages adverts, map appears to be missing. Both Volumes bound in royal blue buckram with gilt design to front board and titles to spine, Vol I in good condition with old water marks to spine and a little to back board, Vol II in very good condition with a little rubbing to edges and top & tail of spine. Inside Vol I - starting to crack in a number of places but binding holding firm. Both vols pages are in very good clean condition with the odd finger mark.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A good edition. Navy buckram boards decorated with gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and colour-plates throughout. Copy has some visible damage. Spine has begun to split from boards on exterior, and from endpages on interior. Some chipping to top of spine. Decal-edges. A wonderful gift for a lover of Scotland.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Popular Edition.Complete in One Volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 400 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 343pp. plus 21pp. of preliminaries. 4.0Kg Illustrated with 24 full-page plates some with tissue guards tipped in and some with tissue guards ( `browned) laid loose. Also there are 437 drawings in the text , 289 of which were specially engraved for this volume. Limited edition No. 55 of of 320copies. Green/grey cloth boards with gilt lettering and coat-of-arms design to bottom of spine. Boards are `bumped' on corners and rubbed to edges and scuffed to extremities. Internally the hinges are a little weak but unbroken and first and last two or three pages are pulling away from binding at the top, but o/w contents are clean, with no foxing or inscriptions except for bookplate on front pastedown. T.e.g. and other edges uncut. Boards GOOD. Contents V.G. Scan available on rquest. Weight of book means exta shipping charges will be incurred.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. A memorial volume. 8vo. Pp viii, 166. Plates and figures in the text. Original cloth. No d/w - probably issued without one.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Gilt lettered blue cloth. illustrated throughout.Bump to top edge splitting cloth. Wear at spine ends o/w very sharp. Ink name front endpaper. Heavy book extra freight. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. varii (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Large paper edition, 46/320, 343pp, photographs, illustrations, 4 page flyer, silk effect cloth binding, gilt titles. The contents are in very good condition, with a little wear to the yapped edges. The boards are in very good condition, with a little rubbing to the corners and fading to the top and bottom of the spine. UK shipping will be by UPS or equivalent for £3.85. Overseas shipping will be higher than the ABE default rate and additional charges will be requested.…

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Tissue-guarded colour frontispiece; 30 tissue-guarded black & white plates; 312 illustrations in the text; Hardback: black buckram elaborately decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, decorated end-papers, half-title and title-page printed in black and red; The book looks as if has been scorched along the edges, though also leaving some black and pink marks to the corners of some leaves and plates, some light general cover wear, bruise to lower edge of lower cover, small white marks to top cover, previous owner's name, vg-.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Brown hardback with gilt lettering along the spine; in very good shape: firm and square, strong joints, just mildly rubbed. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Size: 8vo (250mm x 160mm); collation: pp. viii, 166. Illustrated with a number of charts and figures. Scarce.…

FIRST EDITION, FOLIO, BUCKRAM, TEG. A RECORD OF THE HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION IN THE BISHOP' S CASTLE, GLASGOW, 1888. WITH 359 PAGES, 287 ILLUS. IN THE TEXT, 30 FULL PLATES. FRONT HINGE IS SPLIT HENCE SOME PLATES LOOSE, BUT A GOOD, CLEAN WORKING COPY.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with spike hole to one corner. Folded once. From the context the recipient is clearly James S. Cotton, editor of the Academy. He explains that 'Mr S. Reinach' (the French archaeologist Salomon Reinach, 1858-1932) recently wrote to him to say that he would send him 'a copy of his book Chroniques d'Orient if I would review it. I said I would with pleasure review it somewhere. Yesterday the book reached me addressed to me (probably owing to some mistake of the publishers) as "redacteur de l'Academy"'. If the editor has not received another copy Paton will either forward the copy he has received, 'or, if you will permit me, retain it and write a notice of the book for the Academy.'. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else good in blue cloth and paper covered boards. No dust jacket. ; 104 pages B007Q8CGVA.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1894, Fifteenth Thousand, 1890, Sixth Thousand, 1900, First Editions. Publisher's original blue cloth gilt decorated binding, with gilt decoration to the front boards of the first 2 volumes, gilt titles to the spine, rubbed and worn. Pagination: viii, 493pp, 2pp of adverts; Second Part xvi, 382pp, 2pp of adverts; Later Years and Farewell xv, [i], 286pp. Provenance: inscription of M.G. Griffin (Autobiography); Charles W. Toms (Second Part), Bowdman (Later Years and Farewell) to the front of each volume. Approximately 8 ¼ inches tall (21cm). Condition Report Externally Spine good condition worn and rubbed, gilt titles. Joints good condition worn, whitening to the edges. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition marked and worn, gilt design to the front board of the first 2 volumes. Page edges good condition top edge darkened, other edges tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition original papers. End papers good condition tanned and foxed. Title good condition tanned and minor foxing, more pronounced in Later Years. Pages good condition some pencil marginalia, tanned and minor foxing, more pronounced in Later Years. Binding good condition worn and marked. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1890-1900 Binding: Hardback. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Folio, half-title in red & black, naming the editor, main title in red & black with vignette, frontis., plates, illus. in text, finely bound in full contemporary blue morocco, spine gilt in compartments with thistle motif within raised bands, gilt crest of Scotland on upper cover, gilt rule borders, gilt rules on turnovers, t.e.g., by Maclehose of Glasgow, apart from a very small mark at the top of the front joint this is a very fine and attractive copy. Number nine of twenty copies on Japanese vellum and this one printed for George B. Hoggan. A total of 320 copies were printed of this Large Paper edition. [Extra postage required for overseas].…