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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. View more info
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: £4.50
Publisher: New Delhi, Centre for Science and Environment: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001944
Condition: Good
Illustrated with monocrome photos and line drawings, 4to, pp xvii, 393, (v), laminated boards, slightly worn and rubbed, base of board spine cracking but held together by the cellaphane layer of the laminated board, internally sound and tight, slight scuff on the rear pastedown endpaper. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £500.00
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Amman, Department of Statistics: 1970
Seller ID: 006900
A few illustrations, one folding chart, one folding map, small slim 8vo, pp (c.100), paperback, very slight signs of wear. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter]. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £4.00
Publisher: London, Alcohol Investigation Committee (Medical Research Council): 1924
Edition: Second edition
Seller ID: 007278
Condition: Good
Second edition, enlarged and revised. Small slim 8vo, pp xx, 170, paperback, covers slightly worn and creased. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper] View more info
By: N/A
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Ascot Gas Water Heaters Ltd: 1938
Edition: First Edition
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... View more info
By: N/A
Price: £3.75
Publisher: Maynard, Mass, Chandler Press: 1988
Seller ID: 011155
ISBN: 0944593038
Condition: Good
Well illustrated, small slim 8vo, pp (32), papeback, a little wear and foxing to the covers, upper cover slightly creased, otherwise a good sound copy. [A collection of amusing and bizarre advertisements]. Postage will be reduced. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Hackney Workers Educational Association:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011227
ISBN: 0903738147
Condition: Very Good
[Not dated - c. 1975 ?]. Well illustrated, square octavo, pp (60), paperback, covers slightly age-toned and very slightly worn. [Postage will be reduced] View more info
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] View more info
By: N/A
Price: £9.50
Publisher: Torquay, Hamilton-Fisher & Co:
Edition: First Edition
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London,
Seller ID: 012976
Condition: Fair
Journal of the Society of Arts (later The Royal Society of Arts, and later still, in 1964 The Journal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) - an extensive and rare collection of c.217 parts, mainly duplicates from a National Botanic Garden library, with neat withdrawn stamps on most of the upper covers. Paperbacks, as issued. The covers of the early issues are extremely fragile and crumbling, though the contents are sound. A few early covers are either detached or missing. The remaining parts are overall in good sound condition. The Journal contain... View more info
By: N/A
Price: £3.00
Publisher: 1961
Seller ID: 013386
Condition: Fair
Four plates, small slim octavo, pp 112, a little worn throughout with a few folded corners, ink manuscript notes on a few corners, paperback, covers a little worn and creased. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Associated Newspapers Limited: 1959
Edition: First Edition
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... View more info
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Lewes, Southover Press: 1993
Seller ID: 010949
ISBN: 1870962095
Condition: Good
Small illustrations from contemporary sources within the text, large 8vo, pp x, 180, slightly worn internally (mainly at the corners), paperback, covers slightly worn at the margins. View more info
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... View more info
By: Allen, Alistair & Hoverstadt, Joan
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, New Cavendish Books: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011739
ISBN: 0904568946
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated, quarto, pp 174, very clean internally, paperback, covers showing only very slight signs of wear. View more info
By: Allingham, E.G.
Price: £60.00
Publisher: London, H.F. & G. Witherby: 1924
Edition: First Edition
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]. View more info
By: Archer, Ian W.
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Chichester, Phillimore & Co Ltd: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011527
ISBN: 1860773184
Condition: New
Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp xiv, 178, a very good new copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Armour, Jonathan (introduction)
Price: £4.00
Publisher: London, Androtechnie: 2017
Edition: First Edition
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} View more info
