Monfries Alex (4 results)

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. Fully bound in red leather. Contains black and white plates throughout. Frontispiece is removed. Front board and spine are detached from textblock but still present and attached to rear hinge. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Notable loss to title page and rear endpaper. Brown staining to gutters throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to hinges and gutters, leaving binding threads exposed. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Some splits to spine. Noticeable peeling leather to spine and edges. Black marks overall.

hardcover. 1883 circa. vii, 254pp, full decorative red leather with raised bands, a.e.g., VG+, inscription signed by Peter Carmichael, father of James. James Drummond Carmichael 1849-1881. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. Various Engravers (illustrator). 1st Edition. Memorials of James Drummond Carmichael, Arthurstone, Ed. by Alex Monfries period full crimson crushed levant morocco all edges gilt, gilt tooled spine and raised bands, with marbled endsheets and four unique spine compartments decors and icons. with steel engraved plates and a signed in the plate signature of the deceased with his frontispiece. Carmichael was from a famous Socttish family and this is a memorial to his brief life of some 32 years. Engraving of his grave comprises the last plate superb copy, unique press book, no other copy exists for sale as far we have researched.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1867 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 119 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 119.