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Cecil Aldin. Time I Was Dead: Pages From My Autobiography. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1934.
Price: US$12.54 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1934. No Edition Remarks. 389 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic and illustrated plates. Noticeable foxing and moderate tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking and staining to gutters; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with noticeable splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Description: Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm, xiv, 389 pp, 9 colour plates, numerous black-and-white plates and ills. The reminiscences of the great sporting artist. Covers marked, wear to top of spine and one corner, short tear at head of front joint, lower edges slightly bumped, top edges duststained and slightly arked, contents Good.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Aldin Cecil. Time I Was Dead. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1934.
Price: US$18.89 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Wear to spine edges and ends. Marks to boards. PO inscription to fep, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Seller: Cotswold Rare Books, OXFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom
Aldin, Cecil. Time I Was Dead. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1934.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The volume is lightly bumped at the spine ends, the spine has a touch of sun washing, and there is an inked name, city and date on the front endpaper. Illustrated with 9 color plates, 16 black and white plates, and other drawings.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Cecil Aldin. Time I Was Dead: Pages From My Autobiography. Eyre & Spottiswoode,, 1934.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One loose plate
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Cecil Aldin. Time I Was Dead : pages from MY Autobiography. London Eyre and Spottiswoode 1934, 1934.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Shoulders are beginning to splet, edges are bumped, spine is faded.Hinges are beginning to loosten. No dust jacket. Pages are age tanned with occasional foxing. Spotting to page edges. 9 colour plates and numerous black and white plates and drawings by Aldin. NB pencil note from previous seller on fep states that plates at p168 are missing. In fact they are present at p160. A charming account of Cecil Aldin's life in good condtion for its age. 8vo.
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Aldin Cecil. Time I Was Dead. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1934.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: All books outside UK sent airmail and over £30 tracked and inside UK signed for. PayPal accepted. Illustrated in colour and black and white ( all plates present as listed). First Edition. Pages from my autobiography. Large 8vo. 389 numbered pages. Original red cloth, wear to top and foot of spine, clean and tight throughout but a little spotting to prelims. Bookplate on paste down.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Aldin, Cecil. Time I was Dead. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1934.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Aldin, Cecil. Time I was Dead. Pages from my Autobiography. Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$48.41 + shipping
Description: 245mm x 165mm (10" x 6"). xiv, 389pp. 25 plates (9 in colour). Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Light foxing within. Aldin newspaper cutting pasted to front pastedown
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Aldin, Cecil.. Time I Was Dead: Pages From My Autobiography.. Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., 1934.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback in red cloth covers, with gilt lettering on spine. In Very Good condition. First edition. No dustwrapper. With b&w illustrations and many drawings. Cecil Aldin's autobiography.
Seller: Deeside Books, Ballater, United Kingdom
Cecil Aldin. Time I Was Dead: Pages From My Autobiography. Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A smart first edition of this illustrated autobiography from Cecil Aldin, with a cut out from the very scarce original dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with colour frontispiece, eight colour plates, sixteen back-and-white plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. With a cut out of the front board from the very scarce original dust wrapper. An autobiography from British artist and illustrator Cecil Aldin, best known for his paintings and drawings of animals and sports. With chapters on hunting, the war years, theatrical adventures, dogs, and the golden isles. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities resulting in light fraying to the head and tail of the spine. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper dated 1934. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Aldin, Cecil. Time I Was Dead, Pages From My Autobiography. Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1934, 1934.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good octavo xiv + 389pp., colour frontis., colour & b/w plates, Some spotting to spine & Armorial bookplate o/w VG copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Aldin, Cecil. Time I was Dead, pages from my autobiography. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1934.
Price: US$112.20 + shipping
Description: name on flyleaf, small stain front cover, very good
Seller: Ken Saunders, Stirling, ON, Canada
Aldin (Cecil). TIME I WAS DEAD Pages from my Autobiography. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1934.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First de luxe limited edition of 100 copies, this copy number 14, signed by the author, 389 pp, 9 colour and 16 black and white illustrations, and many black and white drawings through text, ¼ calf and cloth, some dampstyaining to front and back bottom outer cover (see photos), otherwise a very good copy , Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1934 Size: 8vo
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
ALDIN, Cecil. Time I Was Dead: Pages From My Autobiography. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1934.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated in both color and black and white with reproductions of drawings and photographs. 387 pages, 8vo, 1/2 maroon morocco. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1934. Near Fine. A funny and self effacing autobiography accompanied by illustrations by the author. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 10, signed by Cecil Aldin. Handsome early bookplate on inside front cover and small newspaper article about the book with a photo of Cecil Alden and is dog, on the last blank leaf,
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.