Old Cavalry Stations by Baker, B. Granville - 1934

Heath Cranton, 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1934. No Edition Remarks. 226 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Includes colour frontispiece. Black & white illustrations. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier tanning to endpaper & pastedowns. Binding is weak. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean.

Heath Cranton, 1934. Hardcover. Good. 1934. No Edition Remarks. 225 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with black lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Binding remains firm.Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Boards have heavy edge-wear with substantial bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over.

London: Heath Cranton. xvi + 226 pages, illustrated with 46 pen and ink sketches by the author, colour frontispiece, foreword by Field Marshall Viscount Allenby, index, page edges tanned, some foxing, light rubbing to green cloth covers. . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1934.

London: Heath Cranton, 1934. Green cloth hardcover without dust jacket, xvi + 226 pages including "---46 forty-six pen-and-ink sketches by the author"; traces of edge and corner wear, previous owner's faded ink signature inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked throughout, gently used.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +.

London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1934. First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Small. N/a. xvi,225pp. (green cloth spine) small 4to. A very good, clean, tight, clean copy. Blind stamped title to the front board. Colour frontispiece. The text supported by a number of line drawings. Former owner's book plate to the front paste-down. Some normal age toning to the endpapers. No wrapper. 3 tiny circular stains to the fore-edge - the largest being 3mm in diameter with the margins of 2 leaves being ever so slightly stained to the extreme margin. The head and tail of the spine a little bumped. A lovely, very good well preserved copy of this book.

Published by Heath Cranton Limited, London, 1934, 1st edition. Purple cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, no dustwrapper. 9.75ins x 6.25ins, marbled endpapers, xvi, 226pp plus colour frontis. Also 46 smaller pencil sketches within the text. Errata slip tipped-in at the half title. Slight colour fade to narrow strip at top & bottom of front cover. VG / G+.

London: Cranton, 1934., 1934. 226p. illus. Posts in England. Frontispiece loose. Spine sunned. Very Good Copy. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: Heath Cranton, 1934. 1st edition. Nice Copy. octavo. orig. cloth xvi + 226pp., col. frontis., text ills., index, East Anglia, Wessex; the South & Kent; London & Home Counties; Roads to the North; The Border & Beyond

London: Heath Cranton Limited , 1934. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 6.5" . Not Stated . The first edition of this work exploring old cavalry stations around the UK, illustrated. A volume revisiting the history of old cavalry stations around the United Kingdom by B. Granville Baker. With a foreword by Field Marshal the Viscount Allenby. Retracing the history of cavalry stations, with descriptions, in East Anglia, Wessex, the South and Kent, London and home counties, and roads to the North, as well as Edinburgh and Newcastle. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and forty-six drawings in black and white by the author. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. With a light foxing affecting only the fore edge and first and last few leaves, otherwise the pages are bright and clean throughout. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece… Read More