Strang, Frances. TOWN AND COUNTRY IN SOUTHERN FRANCE. Macmillan and Co Limited, London, 1937.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Charming Travel Book covering the Southern Half of France. Very well illustrated with 48 B&W Plates of illusterations by Ian Strang. Frontis illustrated with a Grecian style Pavilion. Endpapers illustrated with Maps. Blue cloth cover with Gilt illustration of a Chateau on the front and Gilt lettering to spine. Top page edges Gilt. 158 Pages, 690g, 9" Tall. Some edge wear. front corners bumped. A few pencil marks on endpaper Map. Remains of an old Bookplate on back of ffep. No inscriptions. One Plate loose. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Frances Strang. Town and Country in Southern France. MacMillan and Co., Limited, London, 1937.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 158 pp, b/w illustrations, top edge of pages is gilded, map endpapers, the rear cover has a small indentation ( 3/16" in diameter), that has gone partially through last 30 pages, else the book and contents are clean and solid, owner name stamped on second front free endpaper, a 3" x 1.75" gold-embossed castle is on front cover, a very good looking and solid book.
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Strang, Francis.. Town and Country in Southern France.. Macmillan, London, 1937.
Price: US$44.58 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A crisp copy; top edge gilt; gilding to spine and cover bright; slight wear to head and tail of spine; middle sections slightly loose; front cover very slightly creased; illustrator's dedication to half-title and typewritten letter from author loosely inserted, also later newspaper clipping of illustrator's obituary. B. & w. illustrations
Seller: Primrose Hill Books BA, London, United Kingdom
Strang, Frances. Strang, Ian. Town and country in southern France. London : Macmillan, 1937.
Price: US$50.12 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 158 pages frontispiece, plates 23 cm. Notes: Map on lining-papers. Includes: music ("La Toulousaine" and "La fontaine de Nimes": p. 106). Subject: France, Southern Description and travel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Strang, Frances. Strang, Ian. Town and country in southern France. London : Macmillan, 1937.
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 158 pages frontispiece, plates 23 cm. Notes: Map on lining-papers. Includes: music ("La Toulousaine" and "La fontaine de Nimes": p. 106). Subject: France, Southern Description and travel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Frances Stang. Town and Country in Southern France. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1937.
Price: US$77.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart first edition of this illustrated guide to the towns and villages of southern France. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and forty-seven plates. Collated complete. A charming travel work on the author's "second home" in the south of France, with chapters on Avignon and Villeneuve-Les-Avignon, Cordes, Bayonne, Orthez, Uzes, Tarascon and Beaucaire. Written by Frances Strang, a British writer. Illustrated by Ian Strang, a British draughtsman and etcher or topographical subjects. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed. First Edition Inscribed by C.S. Forester: "For Francis Philips / from / C. S. Forester / Christmas 1937" . A lovely copy showing moderate use in the publisher's blue cloth covered boards, decorated in gilt, (previous owner's discreet notes on rfe.), gilt titles to the spine, teg. With 48 black & white stunning plates of Southern France. 8vo. 158 pp.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada