Buy this book on-line HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Lone SwallowsCollins, London [1922]
First Edition (first printing) of Williamson's second book. 8vo. 245pp + publisher's catalogue. Linen-backed boards with a chipped and very lightly tanned paper spine label. Bottom- and fore edges untrimmed. Boards just a little rubbed at tips of corners and with some spotting to the first five or six leaves. Endpapers browned. Neatly inked contemporary former owner gift inscription. Quite a bright copy of this rather frail production. No jacket called for. Thirty-one nature essays which were never subsequently published in this original form.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Lone Swallows. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Lone SwallowsCollins, London [1922]., 1922
First edition, of which just 500 copies were printed. 8vo. 245pp + vi publisher's catalogue at the rear. Linen-backed boards with a paper spine label, which is just fractionally tanned. Bottom- and fore edges untrimmed. Boards just a little rubbed and marked in places, and a tiny hint of toning and spotting to the free endpapers. Title hinge cracked but perfectly sound. Very good indeed. No jacket called for. The author's second book, thirty-two short essays, mostly concerning nature and the countryside, which was never reprinted in its entirety (various revised, altered and illustrated editions would follow, but one story, 'The Outlaw', was omitted from all subsequent editions).. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Lone Swallows. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Lone SwallowsCollins, London [1922]
First Edition (first printing) of the author's second book. 8vo. 245pp + publisher's catalogue at the rear. Linen-backed boards and paper spine label. Bottom- and fore edges untrimmed. A touch of wear to the corners tips and a little light browning to the free endpapers. Half-title lightly spotted. Very good - an unusually well preserved example of quite a fragile production. No dust wrapper called for. Thirty-one nature essays, never subsequently published in this original form (one story, 'The Outlaw', was excluded from all subsequent reprints). 500 copies were printed.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HENRY WILLIAMSON : The Lone Swallows. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, out-of-print books, first editions, libri antichi and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |