Kempson E G H (14 results)

5pp, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 24 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Bound in the original full orange Buckram with gilt titles. This is number 277 of 420 copies signed by both editors. Contents of this book are clean and bright. The lightly worn jacket is present and complete. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st and Limited Ed. Limited ed. of 263/420 signed by Kempson and Kennedy. 27.5 x 18.5 cm. Pp. xvii, 87, colour frontis, other illustrations by Richard Kennedy. Original buckram with gilt lettering to spine and gilt design to upper board. Dust wrapper slightly frayed, owner's gift details on first blank. Richard Kennedy (illustrator).…

Russet Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION OF 420 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 363. SIGNED COPY. xiii, 84pp, tipped in colour frontispiece plate, other black & white illustrations by Richard Kennedy, pages clean and crisp, limitation page signed by Kempson and Kennedy, illustrated endpapers, ink owner signature to inner endpaper, russet cloth, gilt spine lettering and gilt motif to upper board, printed paper dust jacket in very good condition. Size: Smaller Quarto. Richard Kennedy (illustrator). Editor and Illustrator. Local History.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition Hardback - 111 / 420. 285 x 200mm. pp. 82. English text. Number 111 of a limited edition of 420 copies of 'Marlborough: Twon and Countryside'. Hand numbered and signed by Kempson and Kennedy at rear. Black and white illustrations. Bound in original red boards. Housed in orange pictorial dust jacket. A few light marks to edges of text block, otherwise clean. Binding strong. No underlining. See images. Kennedy, Richard (SIGNED) (illustrator). SIGNED.…

First Limited Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Publisher's presentation copy with compliments card loosely inserted. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; iii-xv, 84 p. : illustrations (1 colour, tipped in), 2 maps (on endpapers) ; 29 cm. Notes; Limited ed. of 420 signed and numbered copies. Subjects; Private press books. Marlborough (England) History Sources. Wiltshire Marlborough 1436-1977. 1 Kg. …

First Limited Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Publisher's presentation copy with compliments card loosely inserted. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; iii-xv, 84 p. : illustrations (1 colour, tipped in), 2 maps (on endpapers) ; 29 cm. Notes; Limited ed. of 420 signed and numbered copies. Subjects; Private press books. Marlborough (England) History Sources. Wiltshire Marlborough 1436-1977. 1 Kg. …

Paperback. 1st Ed. 21.5 x 14 cm., 92 pp. A collection of chapters by various authors. Buff card covers with black lettering on the front; blank spine. CONDITION. VG. The pages are clean and tight. The upper cover is stained. No marks of ownership.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited edition copy, number 393 of 410. Signed by both editors. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Book.

Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 4to pp.84.Limited edition 395/420.Signed by both author and artist on limitation page. Richard Kennedy (illustrator). Signed by Author. book.

Condition: Fine. Reprinted from The British Numismatic Journal Vol XLIII 1973.

Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Limited Edition. Imperial 8vo, 11 x 7 1/2 inches (280 x 190 mm). [xvi], 84 pp. Set in Monotype Garamond and printed on Abbey Mills Text Book White laid paper. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Bound in Tego buckram, gilt-blocked on the front cover with the coat of arms of Marlborough, backstrip lettered in gilt; top edge amber, others untrimmed. Endpapers printed with a map of Wiltshire (1773) on Glastonbury Amber Antique laid paper. With matching dustjacket printed in black and myrtle green, featuring a line-block reproduction of a print of Marlborough High Street (not repeated in the text). Very light discoloration to the tail of the spine; small tear and chip to bottom edge of dust jacket, in rear. Copy 236 of 420 copies produced, numbered and signed by author and illustrator on the limitation page. [Butcher 25]. A typographically refined anthology tracing the history and character of Marlborough and its surrounding countryside from the fifteenth century onward, bringing together a wide range of historical and literary sources. The basis of the book was E. G. H. Kempson's series of talks on the history of Marlborough given at the town library, with an added selection of prose and poems connected to the town. Both illustrator, Richard Kennedy, and wood-engraver, Simon Brett, have association with Marlborough College. Richard Kennedy (illustrator).…

126/410 COPIES (of an edition of 420 copies) signed by Kempson and Kennedy, tipped-in frontispiece, title-page printed in black and green, pp. [xvi], 84, imperial 8vo, original terracotta buckram stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge amber, others untrimmed, illustrated endpapers, bookplate to initial blank, dustjacket, fine. (Butcher 35). …