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Corrected edition of Kipling and Fletcher's history of Great Britain for boys and girls. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with colored plates and maps by Henry Ford. Very good in the original dust jacket which is in good condition. Kipling and Fletcher's A History of England covers the history of Great Britain and the British Empire from the departure of the Romans, through Saxon England and the Middle Ages, the eras of the Tudors and Stuarts, the American Rebellion and Great French War, up until the Kingdom and Dominion of the Georges. Fletcher contributed most of the historical text with Kipling's assistance and contribution of 23 poems. Illustrator Henry Ford was best known for his work in Andrew Lang's colored Fairy books. Seller Inventory # 135268
Title: A History of England.
Publisher: The Clarendon Press, Oxford
Publication Date: 1930
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Out West Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good with bumping to spine bottom and corners. Bright gilt on red boards. Seller Inventory # 00474
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Doubleday, Page & Company, NY, 1911. Hardcover. Condition: very good+. in good+ dust Jacket. This 6.25 x 8.75 inch, 308 page hardcover book is the 1911 first American printing of this title with the 1911 date on the title page. 308 pages. red cloth colored boards with white titles and illustration on cover and spine, map endpapers, many illustrations, dj has small slosses to corners, and head and tail of spine, small tear to top edge of back cover near corner, clean and unmarked D1. Seller Inventory # ABE-1616691490303
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Prior owner details and inscription to title page. Light foxing. Margin notes (as published) throughout. Extremities show use. Seller Inventory # 042261
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ford, Henry (illustrator). 4to. Pp 252. Plates. line drawings & maps. Endpaper maps. Original pictorial cloth . A little light foxing. The unclipped d/w shows a little wear to spine ends and edges. A very nice copy. Seller Inventory # 19133U4
Seller: Porter and Frye, Amherst, NH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Henry Ford (illustrator). First Edition. Red cloth, creme decoration and titles, map end papers, soil spot on spine, a touch of rubbing to spine ends and tips, the first 3 of the spectacular 14 color plates by Ford have been removed, 308 pp. Seller Inventory # 001584
Seller: Grimes Hill Books (Member of the PBFA), Wythall, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A History Of England, C.R.L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling, Clarendon Press, 1911, First Edition, First Impression With twenty three new poems by Rudyard Kipling and pictures by Henry Ford, this book was written for children who had an interest in the history of Great Britain and her Empire, from the earliest times through to George III and George V. The book is illustrated with coloured plates, drawings and maps. In very good condition, the binding is straight and tight and the lettering on the spine bright. There are white marks to the back board, two small nicks to the top edge of the spine, a tear to the bottom edges of the front and back board and four small nicks to the bottom edge of the spine. The end papers and pages are free from marks, tears and inscriptions. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box. Seller Inventory # 03815
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. First Edition. Colour plates, black-and-white illustrations and maps by Henry Ford Cloth just a little rubbed at extremities and some slight spotting internally, but a nice copy; inscription on front free end-paper. Seller Inventory # 6783
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. First School Edition of "History of England." 8vo., orig. red cloth, 250pp. With 11 plates in colour. A fine copy. Stewart 538. Seller Inventory # 18000
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No d.j. Henry Ford (illustrator). new edition, revised and corrected. 250pp. 15 full page colour plates, 12 full page black and white illustrations, 5 maps and map end-papers. Blue decorated cloth. Neat gift ink inscription to thr head corner of the title-page dated 1920. White title to the from board and gilt to the spine. A nice clean and un-faded copy. Seller Inventory # Le345
Seller: Neverland Books, Waalre, Netherlands
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "A History of England" by C.R.L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling. New York: Doubleday. 1911 edition. Inscribed by Kipling to title page. Book in good condition, colour and monochrome illustrations, map endpapers, original cloth, spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo, signed to title by Rudyard Kipling. Incredible provenance: From the library of A. P. Watt, Rudyard Kipling's literary agent. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1713726959913
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