Hitchin Worthies

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., Museum Street, 1932. 1st Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.Provenance: signed, limited edition of 1021 copies of which this is number 465. Physical description: 3 preliminary leaves, [11]-399, [1] pages: color… Read more about this item

London : George Allen & Unwin, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Limited edition: #144/1021. SIGNED by the author. Physical description; 399 p., ca. 97 plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25… Read more about this item

Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1932, 1st edition. No 231 of an edition of 1021 copies which have been numbered and signed by the author. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and illustration to spine, gilt decoration to front and rear boards, no dustwrapper. Teg. 10ins x 6.75ins, 399pp, plus 4 colour plates and 65pp b&w plates.… Read more about this item

George Allen and Unwin, 1932. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1932. First Edition. 399 pages. Limited Edition of 1021 copies, this copy has not been numbered. Brown dust jacket with green lettering over green cloth. B&W and colour illustrations and photographs throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and… Read more about this item

George Allen and Unwin, London, 1932. First edition, limited to 1021 copies of which this number 654, signed by the author. 399 pages. Many illustration in black and white and colour, by Samuel Lucas and others. A very entertaining view of 400 years of prominent men and women of Hitchin, closing with a long chapter on 'A Group of Eccentrics.… Read more about this item

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1932. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed and limited first edition (ours is number 406 of 1021 hand-numbered copies), 1932. Green cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine, 399 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, soiling or discoloration to pages and page-edges, minor rubbing to the edges of the covers, discoloration… Read more about this item

London: George Allen &Unwin, 1932. HEAVY. 399pp, coloured frontispiece, with tissue-guard, b/w plates, line drawings. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Prelims, endpages and page edges foxed. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf with a note that this book was chosen, out of 22,000, as one of the 50 best-produced works of its year (1932). Decorative green… Read more about this item

Eric T. Moore, Hitchin, Herts, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Fair. Book First Published In 1932, This Is A 1974 Reprint Of 1250 Copies. Green Cloth Boards With Gilt Lettering. Tightly Bound, Bright And Clear Pages. A Few Very Minor Foxing Marks On The Page Edges. The Dust Jacket Shows Signs Of Wear: The Top Has Creases… Read more about this item

1932. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. Large 8vo. - Limited Edition of 1021 copies, this being No. 191, signed by the author - Covers marked, scratched and rubbed - Decorations and lettering faded - Spine heavily sunned - 2" split to bottome of rear joint - Edges of text block marked and… Read more about this item

London: Allen & Unwin. Bound in clean green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front board and spine, this 1932 hardback First Edition is VG. 399pp with 107 illustration,(colour frontis with tissue guard) Introduction, 27 Individual Worthies, Conclusion and Index. Slight fading to spine and top of front board. Bottom righthand corner of front board bumped with creasing. Last… Read more about this item

Eric T. Moore, 1974. Hardcover. Good.