RALSTON, William (1841-1911). North Again. Golfing this Time. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., [c. 1890]. Oblong 4to (200 x 245mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece by W. Ralston, coloured vignette on title, illustrations, advertisements (some light spotting). Original coloured pictorial wrappers (lightly spotted). Provenance: "D.M." (old initials on upper wrapper). FIRST EDITION. With 2 other copies of the same book; and with C. W. Cole and W. Ralston's Messrs. Kamdene, Barnesburie, and d'Aliston's Tour in the North (London, [n.d.]) and W. Ralston's A Yachting Holiday (London, [n.d.]); and with Charles Dana Gibson's Drawings (New York and London, 1897), The Social Ladder (New York and London, 1902), Americans (New York and London, 1902), Eighty Drawings including the Weaker Sex. The Story of a Susceptible Bachelor (New York and London, 1903); and Bookano Stories. With Pictures that Spring Up in Model Form (London, [c. 1930], coloured "pop-up" plates), all variously scuffed and rubbed. The lot sold not subject to return. (10)
