Search Results: ayrshire idylls by munro neil

William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1941. Hardcover. Good. 1941. No edition remarks. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are mildly tanned with light foxing. Mild cracking to front hinge, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to endpapers. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to boards. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean.

William Blackwood and Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 325 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends.

London: A & C Black, 1912. Publisher's Cloth. Very Good Minus/none. George Houston. 1912, Lovely look at the Scottish countryside, 20 color plates, 139 pages, Book is Very Good Minus, front board covers are bumped, top corner heavily, shows some spotting and dark ink staining, spine is better, rear panel slightly soiled with bumped corners, previous owner bookplate on front pastedown, tip edge bright gilt, preliminary pages lightly foxed, text clean and clear, text top corner had been bumped. Foxing to all page edges.

London: A. & C. Black., 1923. x, 139pp, 16 col plates, 20 bw ills in text. Or blue-green cloth in jacket. Prize label on front free endpaper, small bookseller label on front paste down, minor foxing throughout. Small bumps to corners. Jacket price clipped with minor edgewear. A nicely illustrated look at Ayrshire.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Houston, George.. 8vo.

William Blackwood & Sons LTD. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Inveraray Edition. No date stated. Dust jacket torn. (literature, fiction)

Published by A. & C. Black, 1912. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Houston, George. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Green decorative cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. 20 tipped-in colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 7s 6d series. Bumping to spine and corners. Browning to spine. Front endpaper is MISSING. Foxing is heaviest to prelims and outer page edges. Some page browning.

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1948 vi 326pp light ageing, DW unclipped but faded from original blue to an off white, text has not faded just the paper stock colouring, minor chipping to corners, collection of three stories to do with Scotland and the Scots. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Adam and Charles Black. Used - Very Good. Square 8vo. Cloth, no dj. Green cloth with white decorations on front board, gilt lettering on spine. 139 numbered pp. Spine somewhat faded, lightly frayed at head. Minor scuffing to boards, slight rubbing at edges and corners. Expected age-toning to text block. Infrequent foxing. Occasional creasing to corners of leaves and plates. Else fine. A sound copy with nice, clean, internals, Very Good.

London: Adam and Charles Black 1912. (Cloth) 139pp. Very good. Frontispiece, illus.- b / w as well as numerous colour plates tipped in. Former owner's name on endpaper whited out. Illustrations by George Houston..

London: A. and C. Black, 1912. Book. Illus. by illustrated by George Houston. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. x, 139 pages, [20] leaves of color plates : illustrations, Grey green cloth with a design blocked in gilt on the front and printed in pink on the front and spine; titling blocked in gilt on the front and spine; top edge gilt, 20 full page illustrations in colour tipped on white mounts. a volume in the 7s 6d Series. Condition; gilt is bright, very, very light wear to edges and spine ends, covers show some light soil. From the library of John Sloan Gordon, Artist and Educator,Principal, Hamilton (Ontario) Art School 1909-1932 with six line ink inscription from a Eliza B. Sloan to the artist on half-title..

Adam & Charles Black, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. George Houston. h/b 139 pages, condition is very good. pale green boards with white design and lettering to the front cover and spine.

London: A. &. C. Black, 1923. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 139p. illustrated. Subject: Ayrshire (Scotland) History.Other names: Houston, George 1869-1947. Genre: Illustrated.

London: A. & C. Black, 1923. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket x + 139pp., colour frontis., colour plates, text ills., Neat ownership signature o/w a nice copy in pale green decorated boards in a nice unclipped dust jacket

Adam & Charles Black London 1st 1912 HB With tipped-in illustrations by George Houston. Green decorated cloth, stained and marked, small split to hinge, no inscriptions, internally VG, in tattered DJ. 139pp 0

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1912. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9.5" by 7". George Houston. The first edition of this colourfully illustrated topography look at Ayrshire, a Scottish county. First edition. Illustrated throughout with twenty colour plates and twenty black and white in-text images. Collated complete. A beautiful look into the picturesque views and topography of Ayrshire, with chapters on: the lion and the covenant, Burns and Clarinda, the making of Tam o' Shanter, and the three brothers. Written by Neil Munro, a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. Illustrated by George Houston, a Scottish artist known as a prolific landscape painter, using both oil and watercolour. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Minor loss to the head of the spine. An ink mark to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Light age toning to the endpapers.… Read More

1912. A & C Black, London. First Edition. No DW issued. Green boards, gilt type and decoration. Beautiful colour landscape prints tipped in (all present) and other illustrations. 139pp.Slight shelf wear to head and foot of spine. Front free endpaper browned, and some minor foxing throughout. Gift Inscription to ffep. A very nice copy of a lovely book. VG+

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1912. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 7". George Houston. A colourfully illustrated topography look at Ayrshire, a Scottish county, illustrated in colour throughout. The first edition of this work.A beautiful look into the picturesque views and topography of Ayrshire.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, nineteen tipped-in colour plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.Written by Neil Munro.Illustrated by George Houston.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper, 'From Herbert, Xmas, 1912'. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just a few odd spots. Tipped-in plates facing pages 33 and 40 are detached but present. Very Good Indeed

A & C Black, London, 1912. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. 1st printing. Thick 4to in decorated steel blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 139pp on thick paper, colour frontispiece and 19 other tipped-in colour plates, 20 b/w illustrations in text __CONDITION : An unusually well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (some very slight foxing to end-leaves and page-block edges, top edge of page block slightly dusty). A very nice copy. ... __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

Edinburgh & London. William Blackwood & Sons. 1935. 12mo. 18cm, Inverary Edition, vi,326p., in half dark blue calf, black ruled raised bands, with gilt floral (heather) decorations in the panels, patterned light blue cloth on the boards in black ruled borders, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., spine slightly toned, fine signed binding "...Riviere & Son", (ho2.2). A collection of short stories first published in 1896. This edition published in 1935 is part of the Inveraray Edition, named after Munro's birthplace Inveraray, Scotland. In attractive signed binding by Riviere & Son.

London, England: Adam and Charles Black, 1912. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - 7.75 to 9.75" tall. HOUSTON, George. Very Good - Signed by the Author on the pre title page and a signed dedication by the Illustrator on ffep. Dust wrapper is grubby and worn at the extremities, volume is in excellent condition with a touch of tanning on the ffep and rfep, ex libris plate on ffep, small printed review of the book is tipped in after the pre title page, contents are clean, bright and tight with all pages and images correct and paginated. There are some loose items within the volume, Adam and Black advertisement material and articles about the artist. As this item weighs over 1kg when packed additional postage will be required for delivery outside of the United Kingdom.