CHESSHYRE,TOM

Lost in the Lakes (Signed Copy)

London: Summersdale Publishers, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Fine Copy of this book in Publisher's black blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Fine Dust-Jacket (As New) .This copy has been Signed by the Author on the Title Page.An outstanding copy with a firm binding.Illustrated with 6 pages of coloured photographs showing the Author sights along the route.Lovely copy by this highly regarded Travel writer of 11 previous books.8vo 319pp First Edition 1st Impression [2023]. Fine .

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Book number: 83434

Catalogue: Lake District & Cumbria

Keywords: Signed the Lake District Cumbria

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

Uncle Remus and His Legends of the Old Plantation

New York: David Bogue, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Frederick Church and James Moser. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in original charcoal boards with gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover and lettered also in black to the upper cover with decorative designs to both front and rear board.Well illustrated in b&w by Frederick Church and James H. Moser.This uncommon Uncle Remus story bound in the publisher's original with engraved frontis and title page of Uncle Remus present.Grey endpapers and with one former ownership inscription to the front pastedown.A few of the protective guards of the plates are loose,one is torn and slight looseness to a couple of page gatherings within the book itself.With bevlled edges slight wear to spine tips and corners of the book.There is one small bookbinder's ticket to the rear pastedown of W Greening Fleet Street London.Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist and a well regarded writer of fiction.This is the uncommon First UK Edition of 1881.192pp plus 32 page publisher's catalogue to the back of the book.. Very Good .

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Book number: 83296

Catalogue: Lake District & Cumbria

Keywords: Uncle Remus

KIRKBY,B.

Lakeland Words a Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases As Used in Cumberland and Westmorland with Illustrative Sentences in the North Westmorland Dialect

Kendal: Titus Wilson, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Near Fine Copy of this hardcover book in Publisher's oatmeal coloured boards with black title lettering to spine and upper cover.With floral patterned endpapers.This copy has NO previous names or inscriptions present.Lovely clean copy internally with a little offsetting/Browning to the endpapers and with some foxing noted to the fore-edge of the book.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.Lovely bright tight copy small 8vo 168pp First Edition [1898]. Near Fine .

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Book number: 83383

Catalogue: Lake District & Cumbria

Keywords: Lake District Dialect

REV H.D. RAWNSLEY

A Rambler's Notebook at the English Lakes

Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in Publisher's original red cloth boards with bright and vivid title lettering to spine and upper cover.There is one former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown.Illustrated with 8 b&w plates including a frontispiece 'Out Hunting Otters in St John's Vale'.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness,top edge of the book is in gilt with other [page edges untrimmed.Internally the text block is very clean save for a few foxing spots in places and some browning/offsetting to the front endpaper.It really is a most attractive copy of this uncommon title.Rev H.D. Rawnsley was a co-founder of the National Trust, but that is not all.He was a great advocate for the English Lake District and wrote many works on The Lakes.He was an educationalist,and animal welfare enthusiast and he also served as a Parish Priest for over 30 years and appointed a Canon of Carlisle Cathedral and an Honorary Chaplain to King George V.Great copy for the collector,8vo (viii) 258pp First Edition 1st Impression [1902]. Near Fine .

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Book number: 83297

Catalogue: Lake District & Cumbria

Keywords: Rev H.D. Rawnsley Lake District Poetry Cumbria

RAWNSLEY,REV H.D. (EDITED BY)

A Reminiscence of Wordsworth Day Cockermouth,April 7th 1896

Cockermouth: Brash Bros West Cumberland Times, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original slightly dulled down light tan coloured buckram boards with red title lettering to the front cover.No Dust-Jacket.This copy has one former owner's small plate to the front pastedown and there is one small bookseller's ticket to the bottom edge of the same page of 'Maurice Dodd' Cockermouth.There is some weakness to the gathering at frontispiece illustration of Wordsworth House and First Page of text.Contents remain clean internally.Illustrated with 4 black and white plates.Small 12mo Measures 19cm by 13cm Uncommon tribute to William Wordsworth in the town where he was born,88pp First Edition [1896]. Good .

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Book number: 83308

Catalogue: Lake District & Cumbria

Keywords: Wordsworth Cockermouth

ROBINSON,JEFFREY C.

Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825-1833 Fibres of These Thoughts

London and New York: Anthem Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Fine Copy (AS NEW) of this book in Publisher's Pictorial Boards As Issued.There are no previous names or inscriptions present.Profusely illustrated throughout.Lovely copy of this copy which uses extensive manuscript study of Wordsworth's poems to present, for the first time, an account of his poetics during the supposedly "fallow" years, 1825-1833. The poetry of this period appears in a "landscape" that includes manuscripts, streams and pathways, and Wordsworth's house and garden at Rydal Mount.Large and Heavy 4to 349pp First Edition [2019]. As New .

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Book number: 83384

Catalogue: Lake District & Cumbria

Keywords: Lake District Dialect William Wordsworth Grasmere

WATSON,JOHN

The English Lake District Fisheries

London and Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Good Only Ex Library Copy of this book in green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.No inscriptions present but with Whitehaven Public Library Label to the front pastedown and partially remioved label to the front endpaper.There is a white code mark to the base of spine.Complete with 12 plates.The binding is firm with no hinge weakness and the contents remain clean internally,8vo 271pp First Edition [1925]. Good .

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Book number: 83649

Catalogue: Lake District & Cumbria

Keywords: Fishing Lake District