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Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1934. hardcover. Poor/None. 0x0x0. Some water damage in storage. 389 p., many pages unopened; this is a first limited ed., no. 693, signed by author; binding firm, interior clean and unmarked, but no slipcase so there is some fading at edges of green boards; carved design on front board; spine firm; deckle edges; frontis. color plate of horse race painted by the author; many other ill. in b&w, including photos of such notables as W.R. Hearst from a chapter about a visit to Hearst's ranch; reproductions of portraits of the Bronte sisters, as well as the Duke of Reichstadt, a Currier & Ives print of a locomotive; photos of places in Vienna, Budapest, London, including Dr. Johnson's reception room; booklet in back reproduces an unfinished work of Charlotte Bronte in her own hand. AS IS

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. VG. 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition bound in black and white checkered cloth with a pa per title label and spine label. Illustrated with color frontis and 25 black & white plates. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4" 351 pages. A Very Good copy. Th is is an ex-library copy with minimal markings. It has two small rub s pots near the base of the spine. The spine is tanned and faded. Some l ight tanning to the covers. There is a memorial book plate affixed to the front endpaper and a light rub mark on the rear endpaper else clea n, tight & otherwise unmarked. .

Charles Sessler. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Philadelphia, 1934; paper covers; mild edge and corner wear; underlining on front cover; crease horizontally across center of book; housed in plastic sleeve with cardboard; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior clean and unmarked; not paginated.

Little, Brown & Company, 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1934. Stated first edition . Hardcover. very good/Good. NOT an ex library book. 351 pages including the index. Dust jacket has a scar on the spie where I assume a price sticker was removed. Jacket has 1/2" tears, price is not clipped.

Ayer Co Pub, 1990-05-31. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Ayer Co Pub. hardcover. Very Good. 5x1x8.

New York: Books For Libraries Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Owner's address label on front fly, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Essay Index Reprint Series.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with chips and tears, rear jacket panel lightly foxed. A few minor spots on top page ridge, endpapers faintly foxed. 1934 Hard Cover. xii, 351 pp. Black-and-white checkered cloth boards with paper label. Color frontispiece, illustrated with black-and-white plates. Sixteen essays by the famous book collector: six literary papers, four on sports, a six about personal adventures.

Boston, MA: Little Brown & Company, 1934. 389 clean, unmarked pages/Index; b/w checked cloth w/paper label;dj w/chipping, 1" paper loss n back panel,unclipped price, in mylar; checked c w/green paper labels; .various essays about Horse Racing; California Redwoods, William Randolph Hearst, Duke of Reichstadt, Folger Library, Greyhounds, Ascot, Helen Keller, Hearst Castle, Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, Charlotte Bronte, Etc; in mylar protective wraps. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Color & b&w. 8 Vo.

Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1934. decorative cloth hard cover is in very good condition with light wear to corners with no dust jacket. boards are checkerboards black and white squares with a green and black with white borders paste-on to front cover and a brown and black paste-on to spine. has a name on fly page otherwise is unmarked and tightly bound.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1934. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. First edition. Near Fine (would be fine but for slight tears to the margins of several pages, not affecting the text). No dj. Very interesting travel essays, set in England, San Francisco, Budapest, and Vienna from the noted traveller and book collector.

Little, Brown and Company, 1934. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good hc ed. w/dj in mylar. Dust jacket sunned, corners and edges worn. Book spine lightly sunned. bookplate on first endpaper, name of owner in ink on first free endpaper. Small clipping glued into first free endpaper has resulted in discoloration to that page. Otherwise, clean and tight. Marking on top of text block. 26 plates, mostly b/w. 351 pp.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1934. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Limited edition, olive green paper backed in tan cloth, 8vo, 389 pages, illustrated throughout, signed by the author on the colophon; toning to edges of boards, interior is unmarked and illustrations are sharp. Limited edition printing of 1,129 numbered copies, of which this is number 115. Within the back cover is included a facsimile of the unpublished novelette, "A Leaf from an Unopened Volume", by Charlotte Bronte.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The front endpapers have some light toning to the edges and there is a small spot of paper loss where a sticker was removed. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and a couple of small chips, especially to the spine ends. There is toning to the spine and edges of the dust jacket. "When A. Edward Newton sits ensconced in his library at Oak Knoll, Pennsylvania, he appears as a delightful eighteenth-century Tory, an intimate friend of Samuel Johnson and Boswell." (from Wikipedia) .

Boston: Little Brown and Co, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Hardcover. Black and white patterned cloth with paper title label on the front cover and the spine. Illustrated. Top edge shaded green. Gilt top edge. Color frontispiece. Illustrated in text. 351 pages. Very good.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated. Black and white checkered cloth with green printed label on front and spine. Owner's sticker on front pastedown, spine darkened, stain on front board, very good lacking the dustwrapper.

Boston Little Brown & Co. , 1934. HARDBACK NODustJacket, Stated Published September 1934, 1st Edition, Dates Match on Title & Copyright pg, NF+/VG+, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Small B/W checkered like Cloth with LimeGreen & B/W Illustrated & Titled Paste-On Label on Front & with Label on Spine cvr with Fox Wear, Outer Top pgs edge is Publishers Green, Interior nice tight cleanlight FOX, Wear, 351 pgs, Index, 8vo. FOXING to Spine Cvr, .There are 24 illustrations and a frontispiece in color which is from an original painting that was owned by Newton. As the 21st century has rediscovered Newton - this is one of his finest essay books. Adventures at the Grand National, in London, Gough Square, at the Hearst Ranch, in San Francisco, the Bronte Country, etc. includes The Enchanted Hill Mr.Hearsts Ranch at San Simeon , California Etc mostly photos.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xii, 351 pages. Reprint of the first edition (Fleck A.36.D). A fine copy. Identical with the first edition with the following exceptions: The frontispiece has been printed on the verso of the half-title thus eliminating the list of Newton's writings; frontispiece is in black-and-white; title page and copyright page have been altered; four blank pages at the end.