Notes Francis Steer (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. DJ has uneven browning. Endpapers are partially browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. First of This Edition. 4to Front endpaper foxed. Foreword by Winston Churchill.

Hardcover. Condition: Good-VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bound in gilt-lettered blue cloth, bright, clean and unworn. f/piece (George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham)+ facs. signed Churchill letter praising the book+31, 16 pp. col. ills of coats of arms after p.16 on alternate full openings, these however numbered with pp. between which the coats of arms are relevant+ further unpag. monochrome plate after p.28 (this pagination format is a little confusing in fact); this would be fine but for heavily tanned inner halves of end-papers offset from jacket wraparounds. Unclipped jacket is virtually pristine and in acetate protective sleeve as acquired (this has 6 cm tear from bottom outer corner). Churchill's one page endorsement adds interest for obsessional Churchill completists. 19 cm x 25.5 cm.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original royal blue cloth covers, gilt title to the spine and the upper panel. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Contains 31 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece of The Duke of Buckingham with eight pages of colour illustrations of the heraldic shields of the Constables of Dover Castle. Ghosting to the end papers. Very Good condition book, in near Fine condition dust wrapper with just a little darkening to the spine, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Dover].