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The Manual of Rank and Nobility; or Key to the Peerage.

By: N/A

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Saunders & Otley: 1832

Seller ID: 000159

Condition: Fair

Hand coloured frontispiece depicting crowns and coronets (offset onto title page), pp xx,598, uncut, rather weak internally, hinges weak, frontispiece detached, original polished cloth, rubbed, spine poor, joints breaking.
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Swank - the Gentle Art of Kidding- Being the Inner Mystery of the Art of Kidding, as Now Set Forth for the First Time in the King's English.

By: N/A

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Success Publishing Company Ltd.:

Seller ID: 001037

(TITLE CONTINUES : Written by one Who has Made it his Special Study, Who has Found it Pay where Ordinary Brains Failed to Impress, and Who now Wishes to Impart his Knowledge to the Great Army of Incompetents all Over the World.) Small 8vo, pp 96, in pictorial wrappers, undated (circa 1920's), copy has some wear and browning, some small tears and creasing to wrappers, part of "Political Humbug" sticker attached to front of wrappers, some small tears and nicks to fore-edges, corners worn, spine lacking a small piece at base. [Author not attributed but satirical analysis of how to "sw...
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Planning - a Broadsheet Issued by PEP (Political and Economic Planning) Volume 1 - Vol 32 (i.e. Issues 1 - 498)

By: N/A

Price: £400.00

Publisher: London,

Seller ID: 005801

Condition: Good

1933 - 1966. (Lacking only three issues - 415, 466, 471). An amazing, highly unusual long run of this diverse publication. Volumes 1 - 18 are clothbound, slightly marked and faded but very sound; the rest are in original parts, a few minor imperfections, but overall very good. A quick sample glance through the 495 issues offerd here immediately shows the range of articles : The Use of Statistics (1934). The Fuel problem (1935). The State of the Highlands (1936). The Health Services (1937). The Control of Rivers (1938). London Under Bombing (1941). Refugees in Britain (1944). The Unmarried Moth...
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Flats - Municipal and Private Enterprise

By: N/A

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Ascot Gas Water Heaters Ltd: 1938

Seller ID: 009832

Condition: Good

Very well illustrated throughout, quarto, pp 287, very slightly worn internally, cloth a little marked and thumbed, a small stain around the top edge of the upper cover. [There are extensive site plans, floor plans, photographs and kitchen details of many newly constructed buildings, mainly throughout the home counties and London, such as Islington, Southwark, Stockwell, Hackney, Hampstead, Pinner, Staines, Bournemouth etc.. These are preceeded by short articles on working class housing, management of flats, planning against noise, air-raid precautions, radio reception, design of continental f...
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The Smoker's Garland - Part III

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Liverpool, Cope's Tobacco Plant: 1890

Seller ID: 011908

Condition: Good

Slim 12mo, frontispiece, vignette title page printed in red and black, pp (60), a few period advertisements, uncut, pictorial wrappers printed in red brown black and gilt, dull chipped and frayed. SCARCE. [Postage will be reduced]
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Famous Old Inns of London

By: N/A

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Torquay, Hamilton-Fisher & Co:

Seller ID: 012077

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small horizontal 12mo (measures 150mm x 116mm], pp (48), paperback, very slightly worn. SCARCE. [" 45 photographs of inns with history, general information and map".) Postage will be much reduced.
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The British Pavilion from Brussels, exhibited at The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, Olympia, London, 1959

By: N/A

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Associated Newspapers Limited: 1959

Seller ID: 014636

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, slim octavo, pp 56, slight age-toning, paperback, covers showing very slight signs of wear, but really a very good copy. Six of the pages are illustrated by Barbara Jones. [The main features of the Pavilion were transferred to the 1959 Ideal Home Exhibition. Expo 58, also known as the Brussels World’s Fair (Dutch: Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling, French: Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles), was held from 17 April to 19 October 1958. It was the first major World Expo registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) after World War II. The Br...
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Image for Gamage's Christmas Bazaar 1913, being a facsimile reprint of the 1913 Christmas catalogue of A.W. Gamage Ltd of Holborn, London, with some pages from the 1911 General Catalogue

Gamage's Christmas Bazaar 1913, being a facsimile reprint of the 1913 Christmas catalogue of A.W. Gamage Ltd of Holborn, London, with some pages from the 1911 General Catalogue

By: Adburgham, Alison (introduction)

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles: 1974

Seller ID: 013239

ISBN: 0715366084

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (36), 472, top edge foxed and fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise a very good copy in a slightly faded dustwrapper. [Gamages began life in 1878 in a rented watch repair shop and, after quickly becoming a success amongst its customers, was established as a London institution. In time it was to grow large enough to take up most of the block on which it was situated. The store finally closed in 1972, but prior to that had been unusual in that its premises were away from the main Oxford Street shopping area, being on the edge of the City of London at Holborn Circu...
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Image for The Romance of the Rostrum - being the business life of Henry Stevens and the history of thirty-eight King Street, together with some account of famous sales held there during the last hundred years

The Romance of the Rostrum - being the business life of Henry Stevens and the history of thirty-eight King Street, together with some account of famous sales held there during the last hundred years

By: Allingham, E.G.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, H.F. & G. Witherby: 1924

Seller ID: 011124

Condition: Fair

Illustrated with 12 plates (of 13 - lacking plate at page 234), lge thick 8vo, pp 333, a little foxing, ageing and marking throughout, signature and address on front endpaper, the plate at page 18 a little marginally frayed, slightly weak internally, cloth a little rubbed and marked, spine slightly pulled at the head and foot, joints rubbed. [Remarkably scarce: according to a Wheldon & Wesley catalogue the print run was only 750 copies].
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What I Found Out in the House of a German Prince

By: An English Governess [Williamson, Alice Muriel Livingston]

Price: £6.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1915

Seller ID: 016396

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Small octavo, pp (4), 251, very slightly used internally, red cloth, slightly worn and age-toned, upper cover a bit marked, the spine slightly faded and wrinkled. [Alice Muriel Williamson (1858 - 1933), was an American-English author. Her success, in its early stages, was owing to Alfred Harmsworth who, recognizing her talent, promoted her stories - especially sensational serial stories - in the Daily Mail and his many other publications. Although best known for her series of motor travel romances, she was a literary polymath adept at a wide variety of genres (detective, mystery, Gothi...
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A Force on the Move: The Story of the British Transport Police 1825-1995

By: Appleby, Pauline

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Malvern, Images Publishing Ltd: 1995

Seller ID: 016198

ISBN: 1897817673

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp 286, fore-edge very slightly thumbed, otherwise very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows only very slight signs of use.
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The Haberdashers' Company in the Later Twentieth Century

By: Archer, Ian W.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Chichester, Phillimore & Co Ltd: 2004

Seller ID: 011527

ISBN: 1860773184

Condition: New

Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp xiv, 178, a very good new copy in dustwrapper.
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Now, Where Are We ? 1967 - 2017

By: Armour, Jonathan (introduction)

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Androtechnie: 2017

Seller ID: 013216

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small square 12mo, (measures 148mm x 148mm), pp (36), paperback, a very good copy. [Complete with illustrated price list, quarto, five pages, stapled]. An exhibition in response to the fiftieth anniversary of the decriminilisation of sex between men. {Postage will be reduced}
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The English Parson-naturalist: A Companionship Between Science and Religion

By: Armstrong, Patrick

Price: £6.75

Publisher: Leominster, Gracewing: 2000

Seller ID: 014091

ISBN: 0852445164

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp x, 198, extremely clean internally, paperback, covers showing the slightest signs of age,
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In a League of Their Own - the story of the Women's league of Health and Beauty

By: Ashburner, Lynn

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Market Drayton, Heritage Books: 2005

Seller ID: 008403

ISBN: 0954996305

Condition: Very Good

illustrated, large 8vo, pp (8), 130, paperback, the very slightest signs of wear, but really a very good copy.
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A Century of Ballads. Collected, Edited and Illustrated in Facsimile of the Originals

By: Ashton, John

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Elliott Stock: 1887

Seller ID: 001453

["Ballads Illustrative of the Life, Manners and Habits of the English Nation During the Seventeenth Century."] . Illustrated from woodcuts, small quarto, pp xx, 354, rebound in tan buckram, (the original upper cover and spine laid down, slightly rubbed and frayed). An ex College library copy, with tiny oval stamp on title page, label on front endpaper, trace of label on spine, and stamp on top edge, fore-edge and bottom edge.
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Into Thin Air - People Who Disappear

By: Begg, Paul

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles: 1979

Seller ID: 014510

ISBN: 0715377248

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations, octavo, pp 184, extremely clean internally, grey cloth very slightly worn, the dustwrapper is faded on the spine but otherwise very good, and protected in a removable plastic sleeve. VERY SCARCE.
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Tobacco Tins and Their Prices

By: Bergevin, Al

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Radnor, Pennsylvania, Wallace-Homestead Book Company: 1986

Seller ID: 010880

ISBN: 0870694642

Condition: Fair

Well illustrated in black and white, large 8vo, pp 232, a faint stain to the bottom edge of the last few pages, corners curled or slightly dog-eared, fore-edge faintly marked, paperback, covers slightly worn and curled at corners.
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The Clouds and the Rain - the art of love in China

By: Beurdeley, Michel; Schipper. Kristofer; Fu-Jui, Chang & Pimpaneau, Jacques

Price: £27.50

Publisher: Fribourg & London, Office du Livre, and Hammand, Hammond & Company: 1969

Seller ID: 013230

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, including many mounted colour plates, folio, pp xiv, 209, a very good copy in a dustwrapper showing very slight signs of age-toning. In the original plain card slipcase. [A heavy book - extra postage may be required].
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Flora Domestica: A History of Flower Arranging, 1500-1930

By: Blacker, Mary Rose

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, The National Trust & William Collins: 2000

Seller ID: 014090

ISBN: 0707803802

Condition: New

Very well illustrated, horizontal quarto, pp 256, red cloth, a very good new copy in dustwrapper. [This social and horticultural history includes practical instructions on recreating "authentic" historical floral displays, including those for weddings.]
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