Author: Clive Holland
Title: Unknown Hampshire
Description: London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated tour through Hampshire's lesser known parts, with colour plates. The first edition, first impression. Rebound in full navy cloth, with renewed endpapers and a spine title label. With a colour frontispiece, eleven colour plates, eight sketch maps and many in-text monochrome illustrations, including a vignette to the title page. Collated, complete. A lovely guide to a series of wanderings one can take through Hampshire, as described by Clive Holland (pseudonym of Charles James Hankinson), a journalist and author of science fiction stories, numerous of which were published in the Boy's Papers. With two leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Rebound in full navy cloth, with renewed endpapers. Externally, excellent, with only wear being a mark to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with scattered spots throughout, most concentrated to the first and last couple leaves. Near Fine . Ill.: Douglas Snowdon. Near Fine .

Keywords: Unknown Hampshire British Topography Clive Holland Colour Plates British Topography Douglas Snowdon


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