Riding Recollections by Whyte Melville G J (125 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Thomson, Hugh (illustrator). All orders are dispatched within one working day from our UK warehouse. We've been selling books online since 2004! We have over 750,000 books in stock. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In our dealings with the brute creation, it cannot be too much insisted on that mutual confidence is only to be established by mutual good-will. The perceptions of the beast must be raised to their highest standard, and there is no such enemy to intelligence as fear. Reward should be as the daily food it eats, punishment as the medicine administered on rare occasions, unwillingly, and but when absolute necessity demands. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edgar Giberne (illustrator). 8 x 5" 251 pages and 32 pages of Chapman and Hall's catalogue of books. Rubbed and aged spine, but good and together. Some page joints are a little cracked with cracked front end paper. Red cloth with gilt and black embossed design and lettering. .

Hardback. Condition: Good. No dustwrapper, green cloth with title and horse's head in gold. Some damage to top of spine, binding sound; good overall. In German. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Good; firm binding; contents good; paste-down scuffed - label removed; otherwise good; no dust jacket. Hard Cover Ward Lock ca 1900 Horse Riding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Very nice condition grey cloth boards with red and green titling and trim. Text pages nr fine, clean with no foxing. Light transfer tanning to fep Some sporadic foxing to fore edge of text block. D/J has 2 or 3 closed tears but no major loss. A little light foxing. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Thus. 8vo. 10% front & back cover damp marked. sl tanned sp. ow Good tiny name fpd. Book.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: Good. Boards have some light wear. Content is clean and has light toning. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. uniform volume . heavy book , international postage will be expensive.

Condition: Good. 1933. 260 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Front endpaper has been removed. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Splitting to spine joints and ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Riding Recollections", by George Whyte-Melville. George Whyte-Melville was scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet (1821-1878). Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 251 pages. Half bound blue leather with orange cloth covered boards. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Gilt to edges of text block. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Sixth Edition. Bumped and rubbed spine ends, lightly soiled boards, cracked hinges on end papers, foxed page edges, slight rips to some pages internally.

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. Undated & with no edition stated. Probably a reprint, c.1890. In blue cloth with gilt. Some scattered light foxing; free endpapers a little browned; spine a little darkened, with bumping & wear at head & foot.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Land and Water Edition. Good condition, half green leather, green cloth, top edges gilt, marbled end papers, 248 pages. [QP].

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering.Rough cut pages. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardback. John Charlton (illustrator). Red cloth gilt titling to spine gilt tooled decoration to upper board Spine sl sunned Prev owners ink inscription to verso of frontis Fore edge lightly spotted but contents on the whole good and clean pp 248. book.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Reprint. Not dated but about 1890. 200 x 130 mm. Uniform half burgundy leather with five flattish raised bands on spine. Titles and decorations in gold on spine. Pink cloth covers. Top edge gold. Marbled endpapers. Clean tight text with slightly spotted edges. Quite a pleasant copy but spine extremities all rubbed. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hard Cover. Condition: Poor. Edgar Giberne (illustrator). 7th edn. 251pp. Burgandy bds. Gilt titles to spine. Gilt vig of saddle and black border to front. Corners and edges bumped and rubbed. Bds soiled. Spine edges v.worn, worn through in places. Pages seperated to show binding 160/161.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo, fp, 248pp. Four plates by John Charlton. Original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Free endpapers browned, name and small ink spot on ffep o/w Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, quarter modern calf, plates, pp251.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 248pp + several single-sided plates. Still tightly bound, top edges gilt, others rough cut. Gilt titling to spine and decoration to front. Interior good and clean. 1 of only 1050 printed by Morrison and Gibb Limited of Edinburgh. Signed bookplate of Alban Dobson on pastedown.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. no date (early 20th C), edition not stated, hb, no dw, 8vo, illustrated by John Charlton, blue cloth, good plus.

Hard back green covers with gilt and black titles and vignettes to spine and front panel, upper edge untrimmed. 251 pp + 4 pp publishers advertisements, chocolate end papers, frontispiece engraving. Name to the title page, webbing and stapled binding of which some of the staples have rusted and left small deposits of rust to the centre pages. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Glazed Pictorial Boards. Condition: G+. Tenth Edition. (No internal illustrations). Pictorial boards. "Yellowback". Printer code at base of page 251 includes .8-86 suggesting a date of 1886. Rear cover advert for Fry's Cocoa mentions Gold Medal of 1878. List of "The Select Library of Fiction" at end (of which this is no 410 and is so numbered on front cover) lists to 541 plus 600 and 601. Quite clean tight text. Covers are reasonably clean but worn particularly over spine.