London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 189 pages. Color, black & white illustrations by George Morrow. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down flyleaf. Color illustrated front cover. Covers bowed. Red stain on front lower edge. Spine faded.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Hugh Thomson. Unfortunate foxing throughout text. Minor wear to illustrated boards with light soil to rear cover.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 346 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white photographs. Degree of darkening to spine cloth. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Rhode Island, Old Narragansett Church, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Some wear to cover boards and spine due to age, pages yellowed, but in good shape. A thorough history of one of New England's oldest Episcopalian churches.
Hardcover. New York, MacMillan Company, Reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light wear, fraying and rubbing along edges and spine, previous owner's signature in crayon on front fly leaf. Interior very good.
Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd printing, 1988-01-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 680 pages. Small tears to upper edger of dust jacket flaps, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 680 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and slight bumping on edges of spine. Minor foxing on dust jacket, along spine on front and rear endpages, and around all edges. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 3rd, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 898 pages. Edited by Percival Spear. 20 black-and-white text-figures (including one fold-out map). 40 black-and-white illustrations. Small spot and chipping on dust jacket spine. Minor stain on rear dust jacket cover. Some soiling on dust jacket covers. Light sun-fading on dust jacket flaps. Slight foxing on top edge. Previous owner's signature and pencil notes on front flyleaf. Pencil and pen markings throughout. A little spotting on first few pages. Good, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Very good condition in a very good dust jacket with light fading to spine, edges. Large format. 57 color plates, 158 b/w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Chanticleer Press, 2nd printing, unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear to green cloth boards, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Walker & Company, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 395 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of black & white photographs.Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Chapman and Hall, 1st, 1843, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Brown cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Rough-cut pages. Edge wear, rubbing to covers; tears on spine. Foxing to end papers. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Binding weak.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 656 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. London, England, British Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, nearly new condition. "Peake sailed as a young doctor in 1899 for a part for China where few people had ever seen a Westerner before, and his account of his subsequent career is vivid, sometimes startling, and almost entirely free of the self-righteous religiosity that makes most mission memoirs hard to read."
Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, Penguin Books, 1st U.S., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 253 pages of text. 192 pages of b&w photographs, reproductions, and illustrations. Red cloth cover with gilt lettering and design, minor wear to edges and spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, foxing. Foxing on front and rear endpapers Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Edited by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Hardcover. Albany, NY, J. B. Lyon Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages of text. 73 pages of b&w illustrations throughout. Slightly oversized, brown embossed cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Bumped corners, some wear to edges. Slight foxing to pages. Diverse content, a nice copy.
Hardcover. London, John Whiting, 2nd, 1791, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 520 pages plus index. Leather covers. Title in gilt on spine. Previous owners inscription on preliminary page, and opposite preface. Minor foxing to some pages. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages. Hardcover. covers bound in dark green, top edge dyed. Gilt title on spine, still quite bright. Spine has a touch of fraying/fading at top and bottom. Very tight binding, edges and pages have some age-yellowing, but otherwise very clean inside.
Hardcover. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., Reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Hardcover with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.