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LONDON: A & C BLACK / Adam & Charles Black, 1903 Green Cloth boards with pale lilac decs and gilt titles to spine and front board. 230 x 170 mm approx.Gilt top edge, xiv + 254 pp. Colour frontis with captioned tissue guard + 98 other such, 6 facsimile letters and folding plan at rear all as called for. 2nd Printing 1903 (3,000).Good no d/j (Book- moderate shelf wear to cloth including some splitting to spine edge to rear board, no notable soiling, mild foxing spots to prelims, moderate to heavy to fore edge of book block occasionally extending to margins. No previous owner name or insc. Binding sound with no other notable defects). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.

Adam & Charles Black, London, 1903. Reprint. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 254 pages (complete). A heroic copy. The book has at some stage been subjected to damp storage conditions that injured the top of the book. The damp damage has transferred through the book and affects the top edges of the pages. In general, however, the text and the illustrations are unaffected. The book is resolutely steady and sound. The boards have other wear and handling marks. They are still sure. The contents have some foxing, aging. The frontispage is intriguingly signed by a previous owner, "Betty The Rebel"! The pages, despite the damp consequences are benign, passive, certain, companionable, competent and capable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Adam & Charles Black, London , 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Menpes, Mortimer. 254 pages (complete). A placid, genteel copy. The green boards have storage wear and scuffing. The edges have some shallow shelving wear. The spine has been darkened and burnished from shelving and handling. The spine and boards are comfortable and sure. The paper-edges are untrimmed (they are also foxed). The contents are mild-mannered, convivial. They have some light flurries of foxing about the edges. The early and later pages have age-spots and some blots of foxing. The pages are however, pleasingly contented, genial, clean and clear, certain, amenable and amiable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1901. First Edition. hardcover. Very good. Menpes, Mortimer. Large octavo (approx. 6 1/4" wide by 8 3/8" tall) green cloth covers with gilt titles, white rules and decorations on the top cover and spine. Top edge gilt. xiv + 255 [1] pages. 99 plates, most in color. Each plate has a tissue guard with description of the plate printed on it. Seven facsimiles letters, etc (including fold-out diagram of the Boer Plan of the Battle of Magersfontein). Light scattered foxing throughout, and some browning on endpapers. Cover corners a bit worn, still very good. Boer War, South African War, Transvaal, South Africa. 090617A

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gilt decorated green cloth boards. Tear on top of spine, minor scuffing and some marks on cover and spine. Inner hinges are cracked. List of illustrations on page xii is detached. Second printing of an edition first published in 1901.

Adam & Charles Black. Previous owner's details on half-title page.

A & C Black, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. the shelf boards are shelf worn. tanning and foxing. library stamps. ownership inscriptions. some loose pages. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Adam & Charles Black, London/ 1903.. Hardback.. Colour & Black and White illustrations by Mortimer Menpes. Very Good, without dust jacket. Concerns the Boer War. From the library of MP Denis Healey, and signed by him. Oversize; Postage & Packing may cost extra.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903 Copy in green cloth on boards with gilt title on cover and spine. Liquid splash mark on front paste down which has permeated through the volume on folio fore-edges but thios has not affected contents. Slight rubbing to head/foot of spine. Light tanning to front and rear end papers. Previous owners inscribed envelope pasted to FFE. Several light internal cracks. Clean text with colour illustrations protected by tissue guards. Records the sketches of Mortimer Menpes recording his military time time in South Africa.

Published by A. and C. Black, London, 1903, reprint. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, no dustwrapper. TEG. 9ins x 6.75ins, xiv, 254pp plus 99 tissue guarded colour plates and a folding plan. An account of the Boer War and South Africa. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Rubbed and a little worn to base of spine. Otherwise VG

London : A. & C. Black , 1903. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.  Provenance; includes a bookplate with the inscription Lowenac - Camborne. Physical description; xiv, 254 p., 99 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (some col.), facsims., map, ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Menpes, Mortimer (British painter and etcher, (1855-1938). South African War, (1899-1902) � Personal narratives. South African War, (1899-1902) � Pictorial works. Painters, British � 19th century � Biography. Painters, British � 20th century � Biography. South African War, (1899-1902) � Personal narratives, British. South Africa - Transvaal - South African War, (1899-1902). Genres; Biography. Illustrated.

London : A. C. Black, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy bound in gilt decorated cloth. Wear and tear with the spine and front board loosely attached. Text remains well preserve overall; clean and without blemish. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; xiv, 254 p., 99 leaves of plates (mainly col.), fold. plan ; 23 cm. Notes; Each plate accompanied by guard sheet, with descriptive letterpress. Subjects; Menpes, Mortimer (1855-1938). South African War, (1899-1902) ; Personal narratives. South Africa ; Biography.

London : Adam & Charles Black , 1901. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6". Mortimer Menpes. A first edition copy of War Impressions, with colour plates. A first edition copy. War Impressions is a record of the art of Mortimer Menpes from the sketches he had made during South Africa, described by his daughter Dorothy Menpes. Mortimer Menpes was an Australian-born British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. With ninety-nine illustrations and a frontispiece and facsimile letters to the rear of the volume, the folding plate to the rear is loose. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with a mark to the spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with some light scattered spots to the odd page. Very Good

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903. Second Printing. fair to good. Mortimer Menpes. 235 + app, profusely illus. in color, facsimile letters, fr bd weak, ink name fr flylf, discolor ins bds & flylves, bd & sp edges worn. Profusely illustrated with 99 full-page color plates. Mortimer Menpes made these sketches as a Special Correspondent for BLACK AND WHITE during the Boer War; his daughter, Dorothy, transcribed his descriptions of the incidents depicted. A series of facsimile autograph letters is appended. Also included is a six-page announcement and order form for this book.