Buy this book on-line HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Children of ShallowfordFaber, London, 1939
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 292pp. With a frontispiece and sixteen photographs by the author. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges spotted and with a little more spotting to the endpapers and several (blank) preliminary and concluding leaves. Just a touch of wear to the spine ends. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front free endpaper, alongside a former owner inked name and date (1944). A nice crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat tanned at the spine panel, rubbed and a little nicked at the extremities with just a touch of light spotting and an inch or so of loss from the head of the spine panel and, a smaller area of loss from the base of the spine panel and several tiny slivers of loss from the corner tips. An affectionate and mostly literal account of the early years of Williamson's growing family, based in part on a series of articles called 'Tales of My Children' which he had contributed to 'Family' in 1935. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Children of Shallowford. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Children of ShallowfordFaber, London, 1939
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 292pp. With a frontispiece and sixteen photographs by the author. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges spotted and with a little more spotting to the endpapers and several (blank) preliminary and concluding leaves. A little wear to the backstrip ends and the upper and lower board margins. Former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the front free endpaper, alongside a second former owner name A good copy, really quite crisp internally, in price-clipped and a little rubbed, faded, tanned and spotted dust wrapper with four or five tiny slivers of loss from the spine ends and corner tips. An affectionate and mostly literal account of the early years of Williamson's growing family, based in part on a series of articles called 'Tales of My Children' which he had contributed to 'Family' in 1935.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Children of Shallowford. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Children of ShallowfordFaber, London, 1959
The revised second edition, extensively rewritten and rearranged with additional (revised) extracts from Goodbye West Country with several passages of new text which did not appear in the original 1939 edition. 8vo. 218pp. Blue-green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny scattering of very light spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the top edge with a thumbnail-sized area of loss from the head of the front panel, several further tiny fractions of top edge loss and a small area of internal taped repair.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Children of Shallowford. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, collectables, out-of-print books, livres illustrées and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |