Biography & Memoir from Alex Richardson

Keele: Keele University Press, 1994. 1st edition. Hardback. Red cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 368 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned; a few spots to the top edge. Jacket has a tanned spine and edges, with some creasing at the spine ends. Both faces have a couple of marks along… Read more about this item

Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1999. 1st edition. Hardback. Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [xiv prelims] 225 pages. Numerous b&w photographs within the text. Foreword by Raymond Baxter. Pasted onto the front free endpaper is a bookplate signed by both Cunningham and Golley. Good in Good jacket. Text a bit tanned at the edges. Jacket has some wear… Read more about this item

Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983. 1st edition. Hardback. Grey cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [x prelims] 188 pages. 4 pages of b&w plates; several illustrations within the text. Very Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned, as are both pastedowns. Jacket has a tanned spine and flaps and a little wear at the spine ends. Both faces have… Read more about this item

Stamford: Peter Maskell Publishing Services, 2010. 1st edition. Hardback. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Octavo. 197 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Preface by Pat Marston Walker; Introduction by Peter Maskell; Foreword by Chris Yates. Number 234 in a limited edition of 570 copies, signed by Pat Marston Walker on the title page and Peter Maskell on… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Liber Press, 1994. 1st edition. Hardback. Brown cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 158 pages. Pull-out map with several b&w illustrations. Translated from the Japanese by Glyndon Townhill. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has a bit of creasing along the top edge of its front.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 1st edition. Hardback. Blue-grey boards with red lettering to spine. Octavo. [xviii prelims] 250 pages. 10 b&w figures and 2 tables within the text. Near Fine in Very Good jacket which has some creasing along its top edge.

Bath: Fairfield Books, 2019. 1st edition. Hardback. Original green boards with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 256 pages. Numerous b&w photographs within the text. Signed on the half-title page by Rumsey, Henry Blofeld and A. N. Other whose name I cannot quite make out. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has flared out a bit along its edges.

Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1984. 1st edition. Hardback. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. [ix prelims] 364 pages. 16 pages of b&w plates. Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned; a single foxed spot to the top and the fore-edge. Endpapers and paste-downs also tanned. The kraft paper jacket has some obvious wear and creasing along its top… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970. Hardback. Octavo. 224 pages. Illustrated with a b&w plate showing a page from the author's 'Little Weather Journal', a facsimile of the title page of the 1789 first edition and 8 b&w reproductions of engravings from that edition by Johann Rudolph Schellenberg. First edition in English of this classic of Swiss literature, the picaresque autobiography… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. 1st edition. Hardback. Octavo. [x prelims] 499 pages. 40 pages of colour and b&w plates. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half title page: "For Larry, / with thanks, and admiration, / Denise Gigante / 3/27/12". Good in Good jacket. Back board has a couple of small bumps… Read more about this item