James gresham (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Joelle Gresham (illustrator).

Zustand: New. In English.

hardcover. Zustand: Like New. no. 2026 junefiled behind deskSigned: James Gresham. Joelle Gresham (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a young child I was captivated by a shabby old book filled with hand-drawn pictures, erratically typed text, and a cover made of cardboard and wall paper. It was all tightly bound together with string but had seen better days. It was a particular treasure of my mother's. She had spent most of her early childhood in Tanganyika, which is now known as Tanzania. Her father was the Assistant District Commissioner of the area, a British public servant administrator from a time when Tanganyika was a British colony, and her mother was a nurse. Her mother (my grandmother) had written, hand-illustrated and bound the little book. It is four delightful tales of four adventurous siblings from what was, in many ways, a golden era of colonial East Africa, around the end of World War II. The images and text are almost exactly as my grandmother made them (except for the occasional grubby finger print, several of which could well be my own). The book has been reprinted as a gift to my mother (who once swam with mermaids), and to share these wonderful little stories with the wider world. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.…

'.of those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages, that suffered By Death, Sequestration, Decimation, Or otherwise, for the Protestant Religion, And the great Principle thereof, etc. ALLEGIANCE to their soveraigne, In our late Intestine Wars, From the Year 1637, to the Year 1660. and from thence continued to 1666. With the Life and Martyrdom of King CHARLES I.' 708pp.+1pp. ad. Full leather in what seems an original or at least early cover. Frontispiece of Charles I, (Behold! the Monarch= Martyr (Round beset with Loyall subjects)), surrounded by 18 head n' shoulder portraits of his loyal subjects. One page-long crease to f.e.p. and frontispiece. Very clean content, which has no visible signs of foxing and very tight binding. Cover has obvious signs of rubbing and wear to spine, with fraying to top and base of spine and cover perimeter. Much bumping to corners, one upper corner especially has taken a bit of a biff! It goes without saying that this is an extremely RARE volume.…