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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (SD, NAP). Once listed, I believe this will be the Only original copy for sale anywhere on the Internet. You can see the covers in the photos. I'm not quite sure how to describe them, they have that flexible quality. The gilt lettering and design on front, rear and spine is in very nice shape. All three page edges are gilt, quite shiny. The thin cover edges are in very good shape. There is a very tiny bit of corner wear, rubbing, at the two front corners. The spine ends have only a slight bit of wear. The spine is pretty straight and the binding is decent. There is a little bit of a space, with paper showing, over the top inch or two of the juncture between the illustrated front inside cover and illustrated front end paper, but the binding of the front cover is very good. The same is the case between the blank rear side of the illustrated front end paper and the facing blank second end paper The illustrated front end paper is pulled away a little bit over its top half, not its bottom half. The blank end paper is not pulled away. Scrolling through the pages I found only two or three instances of a very thin space between two facing pages. There is one between the title page and the page it faces, but only over the top inch or so of the juncture. All the pages appear to be solidly bound (excepting the illustrated front end paper). There are no issues with the rear cover. Both inside covers and end papers each form their own illustration, very nice. The pages are very clean. I saw one instance of a very small spot off the outer edge of two facing pages, not reaching the print. Two other facing pages have a few tiny spots. The pages are in very good condition. I didn't see any conspicuous creasing, no turned-down corners or placeholder creases. I saw three consecutive pages with a tiny tear at their middle edge, none coming anywhere near the print. I saw one other instance of a very tiny tear off a bottom edge of a page, also far from the print. Were talking about maybe 1/8th". There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. There are two old signatures on the second front end paper, the blank one. There is no other writing to be found anywhere in the book. The letter is of more than 70 personages, including John Donne, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, James Boswell, George Washington, William Cowper, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, John Adams, Charles Lamb, John Keats, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Barrett, George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Huxley, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Brontë, Matthew Arnold, Abraham Lincoln, Louisa Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Lewis Carroll.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fifth Edition. Red binding heavily stained with outer spine missing. Contents very good with over 100pp. of period advertisements. Maps not present and hinges a little weak. Please contact me direct for more information and accurate shipping costs.

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Missing. 783 pp. Book shows heavy use. Solidly bound copy with heavy external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Multiple stains on fore, bottom edge and front cover Dj (if any) missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus 1870. Three folding maps and illustrated adverts throughout. Maps heavily foxed and with general foxing throughout. Endpaper heavily foxed. Inner hinges slightly weak (still attached). Publishers gilt decorated red cloth darkened, rubbing and slight fraying to corners, edges and top and bottom of the spine. Still generally a good copy of this early Kelly's directory. Rare. Three folding maps. (illustrator).…

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with the spine strip starting to separate. Two marks to the upper board. Hinges weak fore and aft. The map complete but with a notable tear; Hardback. Red boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 7½" x 5" (0.8 kg); pp (xv) 362; In the County Topographies series; Includes: All edges dyed Red; Fold-out maps (1); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #200187 ||.…

Hard. Condition: Poor. Poor. Publishers red cloth; spine partially missing. Upper board detached along with the first couple of leaves. Missing Durham map. Slightly foxed. Missing Durham map. Northumberland map bears a couple of closed tears. (illustrator).

Maroon Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Published. xv, pp519-971, 84pp adverts, folding black & white map of the county which has been torn and repaired with sellotape, now browned, endpapers with adverts, previous owner signature to front free endpaper, light spotting to prelims and end matter, pages appear clean otherwise, maroon cloth with gilt spine letterign and heraldic device to upper board, blind-stamped borders, corners bumped and fraye, spine edges fragile with some chips, spine tanned. Size: 10.5 x 7 Inches. Directory.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1870 EDITION. SHROPSHIRE ONLY (As issued). 272 Pages + Advertisements. Front hard board with spine covering only held onto to book by fabric strips at top and bottom. Back board is held on by original binding. Both boards are well worn. Pages are still well bound but some loose advertising pages at rear. Pages themselves are clean with some age ruffling. A good reference work albeit in poor to fair condition.…

Hb original red cloth ,gilt large 8vo, xvii,867pp+ 72 pp advert pages at rear. Large fold out map of Lincolnshire. small chip to head of spine and minor wear to foot of spine o/w A Vg copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Original boards concealed by home made cloth cover, faded and grubby, held in place with sown thread (this cover serves its purpose so unwilling to remove it; hence unable to describe board beneath). Internally foxing to endpapers, the free ones showing run off of colour from cloth cover;paper cutting on front pastedown; webbing exposed down front gutter up to 1 cm in width; first blank and title page semi-detached; followed by 13 pages of Indexes + 1 ad and folding map of Cambridge: the last two detached. Page 1 of 'Cambridgeshire' spotted and semi-detached; remaining 191 pages of 'Cambridgeshire' secure + 1 ad, Spotting to folding map of Norfolk: pp, 193 - 694; foxing to three preliminary pages; webbing exposed between pages 256 and 257; pages 257 to 272 semi-detached, pages 385 to 432 just holding on; remaining contents for 'Norfolk' secure. Page 694 followed by Suffolk Directory title page with ad on reverse side; folding map of 'Suffolk' frayed down its margin; Pp 697 - 1079 secure and in good order with tipped in 'Blythburgh Church', Burgh Castle (loose) and Chapel in Needham Market. Pp, 1079 -1128 consists of full page ads. Similar exposure of webbing in gutter at rear. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

1875, London, Kelly and Co., ppxv + 362, black and white folding map, red cloth. Front cover stained, map has large tear, otherwise good.