Phillida Brooke Simons Ed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. limited to 850 copies. the jacket is a torn on the spine and at the back. internally neat and clean. excellent binding. heavy, may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Editor Phillida Simons to title page. Standard Edition of 850 copies. Burgundy bds with bright Gilt title in Black flag, Red publishers staining top edge, 2 silk ribbon markers, printed on Domtar fine papers, nice half tone portrait frontis, pp 275 plus 64 colour and b/w illus. Original DJ is fresh with faintest shelf wear to spine head. Overweight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. hardback, quarto, measuring 12" x 9 1/2", a near fine tightly bound copy in a very well preserved pictorial dust jacket which is now protected in a non-adhesive clear film sleeve. Ribbon markers, colour frontis, b&w and colour illustrations, 275pp. Published in a standard edition limited to 850 copies. A heavy volume which may attract a request for additional postage if ordered from certain locations outside the United Kingdom.…

Condition: Near fine. Memoirs of John Currey. From the labours of soldiering, farming and copper mining to politics, eventually ending up as Steward of the Groote Schuur Estate in Cape Town. Standard edition of 850 copies bound in cloth. Signed by Editor. A small watermark to the rose tint to top page edges. Bookplate to front fixed end paper. 275 Pages. Standard Edition. Condition: Near fine. Dust jacket: Near fine. Binding: Hardcover. Dimensions: 31cm x 24.5 x 3.5cm.…

Condition: Good. Memoirs of John Currey. From the labours of soldiering, farming and copper mining to politics, eventually ending up as Steward of the Groote Schuur Estate in Cape Town. Standard edition of 850 copies bound in cloth. Faded rose tint to top edge. Very light foxing to fore-edge. 275 Pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. Standard Edition. Good to very good. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with a couple of small marks. Dimensions: 31cm x 24.5 x 3.5cm.…

Condition: Very good. Memoirs of John Currey. From the labours of soldiering, farming and copper mining to politics, eventually ending up as Steward of the Groote Schuur Estate in Cape Town. Standard edition of 850 copies bound in cloth. Deep rose tint to top edge. Very light foxing to fore- and lower page edges. 275 Pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. Standard Edition.Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good. Edge-wear to extremities especially spine edges. Some light sunning to the spine. Binding: Hardcover. Deep rose-coloured cloth boards with gilt lettering on a black background on the spine. Dimensions: 31cm x 24.5 x 3.5cm.…

Condition: Very good. Memoirs of John Currey. From the labours of soldiering, farming and copper mining to politics, eventually ending up as Steward of the Groote Schuur Estate in Cape Town. Standard edition of 850 copies bound in cloth. Rose tint to top edge. Small bookseller's label on front flyleaf. 275 Pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. Standard edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good. Some edge-wear and creasing. 1cm closed tear on lower edge. Binding: Hardcover. Deep rose-coloured cloth boards with gilt lettering on a black background on the spine. Dimensions: 31cm x 24.5 x 3.5cm.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A splendid large paper, limited edition copy of John Blades Currey's memoirs of his experiences in South Africa, adorned with striking colour plates. Limited edition of this work, one of eight hundred and fifty unnumbered copies bound in cloth, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, containing John Blades Currey's memoirs of fifty years in South Africa, where he exerted a deep influence on the Cape's most famous man, and chronicled the political and social events of his time.John Blades Currey's was Colonial Secretary to the Government of Griqualand West and an influential businessman and politician of the Cape Colony.Illustrated with sixty four plates printed in text, of which some are impressive watercolours by a variety of artists including Thomas Baines and Frederick I'Ons among others, as well as a black and white photographic portrait frontispiece of John Blades Currey by Henry van de Weyde. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece in black and white and sixty four plates in text, some in colour. Collated, complete. Fine. Various (illustrator). book.…

Memoirs of John Currey. From the labours of soldiering, farming and copper mining to politics, eventually ending up as Steward of the Groote Schuur Estate in Cape Town. Good. Handling marks to lower page edges with bumping to the lower corner of the first 100 pages.