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Glue stain verso front cover. Attractive high school text. b/w repros, photos. near fine, no dj, green-stamped black cloth. Clean text. Tight 277 pgs.

The cover is chipped, spine missing, has water damage, worn and bumped. Notes on end pages. Pages lightly tanning.

Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Owner name stamped on fep, sheet edges.

Book. Thin Octavo; VG-; quarter bound green spine without text; light green slipcase; slipcase exterior shows slight soiling, probably due to handling; lightly sunned edges; minor wear to edges; otherwise intact; light green marbled boards; red lettering to front; fully intact binding; slight whitish spotting to spine; few, minor smudges to exterior; text block has creamy yellow coloring; lithographic reproduction of handwritten text; four unpaginated leaves; holographically signed by the author and dated "Oct 1931" with "No. 8" under signature; interior clean. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2-New Ephemera Box #4. 1365492. FP New Rockville Stock.

Type: Ex-Library Previous owner name on inside board. Library stamp on inside board and first end page. No other library markings. Spine has some light edgewear. Pages have faint age-toning on the edges. Otherwise they are clean and crisp. Binding tight, no marks or tears.

Unpaginated, 16 photographic leaves showing views of Warminster. No date but one source shows 1896--street images show only horse and carriage, no automobiles. Ribbed dark brown cloth horizontal octavo with blind ruling, gilt to front cover. Spine is perished and repaired with black library tape, some small faint marks to the front cover. Interior floral endpapers of the period with wear at the gutter, webbing showing, crude tape repair at back gutter, plates are clean and unmarked. Not a perfect copy but certainly a scarce one! Not in WorldCat and barely on Google. There is no title page, only the name of the book and "A. H. Coates, The Library, Warminster" on the cover. Coates was at one time the Secretary of the Warminster Club. He was the proprietor and editor of the Warminster Journal for 60 years. His first love was cricket but he was also an excellent billiards player. His 1959 obituary noted: "He was no less well known with his ability with the billiard cue and even a few months before his retirement could hold his own with any player in the town at snooker."; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 16 pages.