Westward Ho!

Undated but school prize plate to front pastedown dated 1912. Colour frontispiece and one colour plate. Illustrated endpapers. Lovely blue, cream and black illustrated boards with black title to front, title on bright gilt panel to spine. Binding firm with light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Foxing to endpapers and text block edges creeping into margins otherwise content clean… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge: Macmillan & Co.,, 1855. With secretarial presentation from the author First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "From The Author" in a secretarial hand on the half-title of vol. I. Kingsley's greatest popular success, Westward Ho! was originally planned as a patriotic tale about the defeat of the Spanish Armada at a time when Napoleon III's anti-English posturing was alarming… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan and Co , 1899 . Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". None. Charles Kingsley's exciting work of historical adventure fiction, in a charming full calf school prize binding. A smart edition of Charles Kingsley's famous historical novel, in a full calf signed school prize binding from Relfe Brothers of London.First published in 1855, this exciting tale… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan and Co.,, 1908. An attractive prize binding, on Kingsley's historical novel Westward Ho! (1855), based on the life of Amyas Preston (d. 1609), a privateer who sailed to the New World and who led the Preston-Somers expedition. Octavo (188 x 125 mm). Contemporary green calf prize binding, red label to spine lettered in gilt, raised bands ruled… Saber más sobre este artículo

1905. London, Henry Frowde, 1905. 13 cm x 18.5 cm. 594 Pages. Original Hardcover. with gilt embossed lettering. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Discolouring of the spine. [Oxford Edition].

1936 Charles Scribner's Sons. Hardcover. A Very Good Volume with a full color paste front, having several tiny nics overall. Bound in black cloth (faded spine titles) with barely bumped/worn corners. Pictorial end-papers; front free end-paper has a tiny p.o. ink name. Nine full N.C. Wyeth color plates, all present. A tight and clean copy. NO Jacket. Deckle edge.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge: Macmillan & Co, 1855. Second edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth. Bookplates of Charles Arthur Wynne Finch, signed C.W. G. Wynne 39 Portman Square on flyleaf, (with some offsetting and foxing). Spine ends and corners bumped, joints starting to fray, else very good. Second edition. 3 vols. 8vo.

Charles Scribner's Sons. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book very clean and tight, unclipped cover very good covered in Brodart.

Macmillan & Co, 1896. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1896. No Edition Remarks. 591 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece and illustrations. Moderate crinkling to paper at gutter. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed with visible markings throughout. Binding remains firm. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Bookseller sticker stuck to front… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York, Macmillan and Co., 1885., 1885. 8vo. 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, spine decorated with gilt stamped roses within gilt scrolled borders, t.e.g.; marbled endpapers. Fine, fresh copy. 591 pages. Bookplates of Kate Allerton Papin on the front pastedown. Basis for the 1988 animated film, for TV.. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.

New York.: Scribners., 1936. Black cloth, gilt spine title, color pictorial cover.. Very good, no dust jacket.. 24.8x18 cm.. N.C. Wyeth.. weight: 1.8 lb. 9 full-page color illustrations.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., n. d. (ca. 1890). Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo, 5 x 8, 500 pages. Full title: Westare Ho! or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, Rendered into Modern English by Charles… Saber más sobre este artículo

Geneva: Heron Books [no date]. (Hardcover) 572pp. Very good. Gilt decorated blue leatherette. Decorated endpapers, ribbon marker, frontispiece. There is a small horizontal cut at the foot of the spine. Introduction by L.A.G. Strong. (Fiction).

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., (1920). Large 8vo., 604pp., top-edge gilt. Limited Edition, 91/100 signed by the illustrator. Publisher's gilt-lettered dark blue cloth with color pictorial label to front cover. Illustrated with color endpapers, color plates, and illustrations; all by Thornton Oakley. Binding in lovely condition; 1922 pencil Xmas gift inscription; internally some faint foxing scattered throughout; light… Saber más sobre este artículo

Limited Editions Club, New York, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. CHARLES KINGSLEY. Westward Ho! in 2 volumes, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947.Quartos, No. 343 of an edition of 1,500, pp. xvii, 292; ii, 293-576, 1 (limitation page), blue printed boards quarter-bound in cream cloth, top edges tinted red,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. hardcover. Spines somewhat darkened. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase with minor wear. Edward Wilson. Two quarto (7" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in half canvas stamped in red, black, and gold leaf with a design by Edward Wilson, and green paper sides bearing a two-color drawing. Introduction by John Winterich. One… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First printing of the reissued edition. Crisp and unmarked, NF/NF. Full brown cloth binding, Illustrated endpapers. 413pp. Color illustrated plates. Very nice dust jacket offered now in a new mylar cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Wyeth, N. C.. 8vo - 8" - 9"… Saber más sobre este artículo

London- UK: Humphrey Milford-Oxford University Press, 1927. WESTWARD HO!- Charles Kingsley- Herbert Strang's Library- Humphrey Milford-Oxford University Press- London- 1927- Softcover:-16mo-VG/ no dj as issued-illustrated red and black wraps-ink spot on back cover-some ligh rubbing PO name on illustrated end paper and on book edge- otherwise a tight and scarce copy-287pp no tears or writing-SEE PHOTOS-"The classic adventure story by… Saber más sobre este artículo

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. N.C. Wyeth. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. First printing. Covers worn. Front hinge cracked. Deckle edges foxed.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. Spines somewhat darkened. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with a closed split along the back edge. Edward Wilson. Two quarto (7" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in half canvas stamped in red, black, and gold leaf with a design by Edward Wilson,… Saber más sobre este artículo