Wild Animals Freedom Captivity (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date, c.1870, Beeton's Boys' Own Library. All pages present, no marks to any page. The binding is loose with both front and rear boards working loose from the block (but still wholly attached at present. The blue, gilt cover has minor marking to top front and edges. The main gilt work to front and spine is still clear and bright. A good copy, priced to take account of the loose binding. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. c1870. Hardcover. Fair condition. Slightly scuffed spine. Foxing of the edges and some pages. Front page separated from the headband. Fairly prominent foxing of the first few pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Beeton's Boys' Own Library. Not dated but circa 1875. Near fine and bright publisher's brown cloth with gilt decoration. Pages all edge gilt. Charcoal endpapers, no inscriptions or marks. Illustrated with a colour litho frontis and one hundred and twenty illustrations by Weir, Wood and others principally from drawings made in Regents Park Zoological Gardens. ; Black & white engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvi 440 pages. Illustrated by Harrison Weir, T W Wood, (illustrator).…

"Beeton's Boy's Own Library". Hardback. Professionally rebound in maroon cloth, with gilt spine titles and bands. The pictorial cloth from the original binding in nicely laid-on to the front. With one hundred and twenty illustrations by Harrison Weir, T. W. Wood and other artists (principally from drawings made in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park). Contents: a little spotting. A few light smudge marks and small marks to edges. Some corners lightly curled/creased. Last page of text browned/dotted. Otherwise pages generally very good and clean. Previous owner's inscription dated 1873. Boards: very good. A very good, tight copy of this scarce title. 440 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A very good copy in publisher's decorated cloth, a bit rubbed and dulled at the edges, colour litho frontis and other illustrations. Attractive school prize place of Circus Palace Upper School Edinburgh on the front pastedown and stamped onto the rear cover. Part of Beeton's Boy's Own Library.…