Search Results: from paddington to penzance by charles g harper

BiblioBazaar, 2009-11-21. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1893. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 98x12x147. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xxiv, 272 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates 23 cm.

Hardback. New.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1893. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". Charles G. Harper. A first edition of this travelogue in which Charles George Harper describes and illustrates is journey from London to Cornwall. A first edition of this travelogue in which Charles George Harper describes and illustrates is journey from Paddington to Penzance across sixty eight short chapters. Alongside many in-text illustrations by the author, the volume contains twenty three plates, collated and complete. With a thirty two page catalogue of publisher's adverts to the rear In the publisher's original buckram binding. Externally, generally smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards, more so to the spine. The spine is la little bumped to the head and the tail, and there is a small chip in the cloth at the front joint near the head. With some light bumping to the extremities. Internally, generally firmly bound with a couple of points of strain. The plates between pages 112 and 113, and 126 and 127 are disbound but… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1893. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Charles G. Harper. A beautifully illustrated first edition of this travel log from Paddington, London, to Penzance. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and twenty-two plates, with a total of one hundred and drawings. Collated complete. A detailed account of the author's travels from Paddington to Penzance, through Petersham, Windsor, Hampshire, Winchester, Romsey, The New Forest, Bournemouth, Lulworth Castle, Charmouth, Teignmouth, Dartmouth, Plymouth, and Alverton. Written and illustrated by Charles George Harper, an English author and illustrator of travel books. Bound in half red calf with patterned boards. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. Minor loss to the leather. Fading to the spine and light discolouration to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting predominantly to the first and last few pages. Very Good