Williams Colonel H W (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to good. A scarce book written by the son of one of the St. Ives men who was a prisoner of War in France. The book is personal memories from his childhood to the end of the Great War and includes references to the early rail system in Cornwall and also of the author's time in London when he was heavily involved in the development of the docks before the return to his home town of St.Ives. Red cloth covers, with scratch, gilt title . Frontispiece is a photograph of author.The fep is torn with loss and evidence of library label removed, no other library stamps or labels. Size - 218mm. x 145mm. Pp.112.…

Original Plum Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/w (as issued?). 1st Edition. 112p portrait frontis. "With the compliments of the author" to Porthminster House St Ives dated 1920 on fep. Williams was born in St Ives and records anecdotes of his life in which he worked on early railways in the South West, the London docks and returned to St Ives in the roll of Mayor. He offers much detail about his fathers capture and imprisonment as a POW in Napoleonic France, remembers fireworks at St Ives for Victoria's coronation, Pilchard fishing, Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, Waterloo station, submarine cables; he worked on the Railway at Reading, wreck of the Khyber at Lands End 1905, Sennen Cove lifeboat and etc. The book is clean and tight with some toning of the endpapers. See scans.…

First edition, first printing. Fine in burgundy boards with gilt titles. Inscription marking the closing of Bridger's bookshop.

First edition, first printing. Very good in purple boards. Inscribed by the author ("with the compliments of the author").