Riding Recollections (1878) by Whyte-Melville, G. J. [George John Whyte-Melville] - 1880

London: Country Life, 1933. First Thus. . Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. 10% front & back cover damp marked. sl tanned sp. ow Good tiny name fpd.

Sportsman's Press, The. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

The Alston Rivers Co., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Medium cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Stains and markings to some pages. Water staining to first and last few pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Slight staining overall.

Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 251 pages. Half bound blue leather with orange cloth covered boards. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Gilt to edges of text block. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

Country Life, Ltd, 1933. Hardcover. Good. 1933. 260 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Front endpaper has been removed. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Splitting to spine joints and ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Ward Lock, 1885-01-01. hardcover. Acceptable/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). This book does NOT include a jacket. Acceptable due to missing blank flyleaf. Undated, circa 1885 Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1878. Red cloth with decoration and titles in black and gilt. Light rubbing to head and tail of spine. No inscriptions. Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece. 251 pages, illustrations.. Third Edition. Decorated Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edgar Giberne. 5" x 8". Hard Cover.

Leipzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1879. Book. Good-VG. Three-Quarter Leather. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5" - 6" tall. Dark red 3/4 morocco, marbled paper covered boards, spine panel stamped and lettered in gilt. "Copyright Edition," issued 1879 in Germany. Leather rubbed at corners and along joints, covers somewhat darkened by age. Former owner's illus. book plate mounted inside front cover. 296 pp..

GB: Ward, Lock, 1890. Not dated but about 1890. 200 x 130 mm. Uniform half burgundy leather with five flattish raised bands on spine. Titles and decorations in gold on spine. Pink cloth covers. Top edge gold. Marbled endpapers. Clean tight text with slightly spotted edges. Quite a pleasant copy but spine extremities all rubbed. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . Reprint. Hardback. VG-/No DW.