Surtees robert jorrocks john (9 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Shows minor wear.

Hardcover. Clean pages with few toning spots to outside text block edge, binding tight, cloth boards with bright gold decoration couple of soil spots, splitting to cloth at spine topPlease contact us about shipping costs for international orders of over-sized books or multi-book sets. We are happy to provide accurate quote prior to purchase. Clean pages with few toning spot.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 291 pages (text complete). Three of twelve illustration plates are missing. A creaky, much worn copy of a resolutely cheerful book. Jorrocks was Surtees' timeless creation, his vulgarity and cheer still make the reader chuckle today. The red cloth cover is much bashed about. There is wear to all edges, corners and seams. The covers are marked, stained, scuffed. The covers and the spine are stoic. Inside, the contents are foxed throughout. Here and there the binding is cracked, but the pages are secure and sure. The pages are comfortable, relaxed, clear, companionable, amiable and competent for the purpose of entertainment. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Octavo; VG+/no-DJ: Red fabric spine with gilded text and illustration, also black text and lines. Boards have general shelf wear, apart from that, binding strong, corners sharp; Textblock has foxing on edges and a few pages, otherwise, clean, free of underlining/highlighting; pp 291. 1253426. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Limited edition, no. 144 of 250. xiv+291p. Illustrated by George Denholm Armour. 12 colour plates including frontispiece, 1 half-tone plate, and 11 black and white illustrations in the text. Some plates detached, but all clean except slight mark on half-tone. Slight foxing to prelims and occasionally elsewhere, paper toned. Dark marks suggestive of earlier damp on front endpapers. Bookplate of C.H. Waterland Mander on front pastedown. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Bound in publisher's red buckram board, somewhat blotchy, and worn at corners, with faded gilt lettering to upper board and spine.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. A very impressive copy of the 1925 limited edition. #47 of 250 copies offered. This copy clean, bright and Near Fine in a lovely, Near Fine example of the printed light-red dustjacket. Quarto, top-edge gilt, deckled fore and bottom-edges. Illustrated throughout by Geo. Denholm Armour, including a dozen tipped-in plates in rich color. Geo. Denholm Armour (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Indeed. An excellent limited edition collection of Jorrocks' encounters during a hunt, illustrated by Denholm Armour and complete with an uncommon dust wrapper. A limited edition, this being No. 35 of two hundred and fifty copies.Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor and novelist, most widely known for the cockney character of Jorrocks.With twelve tipped-in illustrations in colour by George Denholm Armour, one half-tone and in-text illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.A delightful collection of the insights of Jorrocks on hunting, complete with a scarce dust wrapper. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally generally smart, with just a little bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper has been expertly repaired to the rear joint and board, with some minor edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Geo. Denholm Armour (illustrator). book.…

Half Calf. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. First edition. xiv, 291 pp. Half tan-brown Rivià re binding with ruling to the boards & raised bands, gilt lettered title labels and decorations to the spine. Top edge gilt and endpapers marbled. With in-text and full-page illustration in colour & black and white by George Demholm Armour. Binding firm with very minor marks the boards, some spots to the book edge and minor spots to the prelims, else clean. A beautifully bound copy of this selection of writings on hunting and equestrian life by R. S. Surtees from the perspective of Mr. Jorrocks, Surtees's fictional sporting protagonist. 8vo. Illustrated. Armour, Geo. Denholm (illustrator). …

Fine Binding. Zustand: Near Fine. A finely bound copy of Robert Smith Surtees' Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities. In a beautiful half crushed morocco binding, with the illustrations remaining bright. The full title being Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities, The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of the Renowned Sporting Citixen, Mr John Jorrocks. In a beautiful half crushed morocco binding with pictorial gilt stamping to the spine of some of the jaunts and jollities mentioned in the text. To the rear the original cloth binding is tipped in. Illustrated, with sixteen coloured plates, including a colour title page and frontispiece. Illustrations by Henry Alken, an English painter and engraver. He was chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of coaching scenes and sporting subjects. This is the third, revised edition of this text. Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities was written by sporting writer Robert Smith Surtees. Surtees started his writing career by contributing to Sporting Magazine. He created his own New Sporting Magazine in 1831, contributing his comic papers of Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities. The character of Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer was incredibly successful with the public and Surtees wrote many sporting works from Jorrocks' viewpoint. In a half crushed morocco binding with pictorial gilt stamping to spine. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with heavy spotting to the first and last few pages and scattered spots throughout though much less than usually seen. Newspaper article from 'The Sale Room' loosely inserted describing several lots from the library at Hornby Castle, of which this title was one of them. Near Fine. Henry Alken (illustrator). book. …