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Price: US$30.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napolean's Captivity." With Preface by Hilaire Belloc and five illustrations. Cover: blue cloth on boards with gilt titles; mild soiling and rubbing. Spine: thin bumping and rubbed cracks (not split) to head & foot. Edges: top-edge once blue now faded to a sea green; foxing to edges. Tiny bumping to boards fore corners. Frontis: from a portrait probably painted around 1840 is General Baron Gougaud. Light foxing to a few pages although mostly to the margins. B/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 360p Dj: only the front jacket, no flaps nor spine: Top-edge missing a small section of half-curved. Edges with some small tears and chips.
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$30.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napolean's Captivity." With Preface by Hilaire Belloc and five illustrations. Cover: blue cloth on boards with gilt titles; mild soiling, rubbing and vertical thin surface puckering to front boards fore-edge. Spine: thin bumping and thin wear to head & foot. Edges: top-edge once blue now faded to a dark blue/brown, small soiling; fore and bottom edge with age yellowing and lght few only foxing. Small wear to fore corners. Frontis: from a private portrait painted around 1840 is General Baron Gourgaud. Clean content; soft thin yellowing to margins. B/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 360p
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Description: John Lane The Bodley Head, London. 1932. First edition English language. Hardback NO DW. Blue cloth, gilt type to spine and facsimile signature to upper board. Frontis. xxxvi + 360 pages. Index. Small patch of faint marks to cloth of upper board; inscription to front free end-paper.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. xxxvii (iii), 360 (2) pp, illus. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Norman Edwards. Preface by Hilaire Belloc. Translated by Sydney Gillard: First English Edition, 1932. Appendix I: The Gourgaud Problem; Appendix II: Gourgaud's Letter to Marie Louise, Index. Light wear, mostly to top and bottom edge boards with age-toned text block. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.75". Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$61.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napolean's Captivity." With Preface by Hilaire Belloc and five illustrations. Cover: blue cloth on boards with gilt titles; mild soiling and rubbing. Spine: thin bumping and thin wear to head & foot. Edges: top-edge once blue now faded to a dark blue/brown; very light foxing to edges. Tiny bumping to head boards fore corners. Frontis: from a private portrait painted around 1840 is General Baron Gourgaud. Light foxing to a few pages although mostly to the margins. B/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 360p Dj: moderate soiling & rubbing. Spine: head & foot with wear, creasing, small open tears and chips Head of spine on rearside is a 1 x 3cm open v-tear piece missing; foot with 3cm tear to rearside seam. Head & foot of flaps spine with open wear, small tears and chips; rear flap spine with small hole and tiny splits. Head & bottom edges with a couple of small tears and chips, some creasing.
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Description: First edition in English. John Lane The Bodley Head, London. 1932. Author portrait frontis. xxxvii + 369 pages. Index. Spine sl. sunned with sl. crumpled ends; some mild water(?) marking to cloth of boards. Presentation copy from the editor Norman Edwards - his somewhat intriguing signed inscription to front free end-paper.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom