Category: Social History

Famous Old Inns of London

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

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Associated Newspapers Limited : 1959

Seller ID: 014636

Binding: Paperback

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

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Saunders & Otley : 1832

Seller ID: 000159

Binding: Cloth

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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The Smoker's Garland - Part III

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Liverpool, Cope's Tobacco Plant : 1890

Seller ID: 011908

Binding: Paperback

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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Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape

By: Aalen, F.H.A. & Kevin Whelan & Matthew Stout (editors

Price: £18.50

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press : 1997

Seller ID: 019655

ISBN-13: 9780802042941

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (12), 352, very clean internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and slightly wrinkled round the edges. [A heavy book - extra postage may be needed]
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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-13: 9780715366080

Binding: Cloth

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 accomplished letter-writer; or, Universal correspondent. : Containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. Also a variety of more elegant letters for examples and improvement of style, from the best modern authors,

The accomplished letter-writer; or, Universal correspondent. : Containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. Also a variety of more elegant letters for examples and improvement of style, from the best modern authors,

By: Anonymous

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London & Kendal, W.J. & J. Richardson; M. Branthwaite : 1802

Seller ID: 016589

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

[The title continues - "together with many originals, on business, duty, amusement, affection, courtship, marriage, friendship, and other subjects. To which is prefixed a compendious grammar of the English tongue. Also a table of the clerk-like contraction of words, for the dispatch of business; and the proper mode of addressing people of all ranks, either in writing or discourse; and some necessary orthographical directions. With a selection of some beautiful poetical epistles, and various forms of polite messages".]. 12mo, cancellans title page, pp xii, 252, a little age-toned and slighly u...
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Now, Where Are We ? 1967 - 2017

By: Armour, Jonathan (introduction)

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Androtechnie : 2017

Seller ID: 013216

Binding: Paperback

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-13: 9780852445167

Binding: Paperback

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-13: 9780954996307

Binding: Paperback

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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Evenings in Albany

By: Bax, Clifford

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode : 1942

Seller ID: 017621

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Frontispiece, octavo, pp 153, slightly age-toned and very slight occasional fox mark, grey cloth, age-toned, faded and slightly worn.
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The Beginning of Rayon, (with Corrigenda & Supplement)

By: Beer, Edwin J.

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Shorton, Paignton, Phoebe Beer

Seller ID: 017534

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

[1962 - 1968]. Illustrated, octavo, pp (10), 206, (6), very clean internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and marked. TOGETHER WITH : Corrignda & Supplement. 12mo, pp 36, paperback, very good. [Viscose Rayon, one of the most successful man-made fibres.]
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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-13: 9780870694646

Binding: Paperback

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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Observations Botanical and Physiological on the Potato Murrain. Together with Selections from Berkeley's Vegetable Pathology [Sir John Burnett's copy]

By: Berkeley, M.J.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: East Lansing, Michigan, American Phytopathological Society : 1948

Seller ID: 019071

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

{Originally published 1846.} Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and five plates, octavo, pp 108, exceptionally clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. [Phytopathological Classics Number 8. Sir John Burnett's copy, with his signature on the upper cover.]
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The Art of Satire - London in Caricature

By: Bills, Mark

Price: £32.50

Publisher: London, Museum of London & Philip Wilson Publishers : 2006

Seller ID: 017136

ISBN-13: 9780904818543

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 228, paperback, a very brught clean copy throughout, virtually as new. [Includes illustrations from the collection of satirical and caricature images in the Museum of London, it encompasses research and uses historical and literary sources to place the satire of London in the context of English satire as a whole. Catalogue of an exhibition, Satirical London, held at the Museum of London, April-September 2006.]
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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-13: 9780707803807

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, horizontal quarto, pp 256, red cloth, binding leaning very, very slightly, otherwise a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. [This social and horticultural history includes practical instructions on recreating "authentic" historical floral displays, including those for weddings.]
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A History of the British Fire Service [David Coombe's copy]

By: Blackstone, G.V.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul : 1957

Seller ID: 017739

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xx, 484, fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise clean internally, red cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is rather worn chipped and creased, lacking several pieces from its rear cover but now protected in a removable clear cover. [From the library of the Cambridge botanist David Coombe, with his signature on the front endpaper.]
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Steam : On the Farm, On the Road, Afloat & In Industry

By: Bloom, Alan

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Alan Bloom on behalf of Bressingham Steam Museum : 1988

Seller ID: 015329

ISBN-13: 9780951368800

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Wel illustrated, small octavo, pp 64, (4), paperback, a very good copy throughout.
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Image for Paradise Row: or, A broken piece of old Chelsea, being the curious and diverting annals of a famous village street newly destroyed, together with particulars of sundry noble and notable persons who in former times dwelt there

Paradise Row: or, A broken piece of old Chelsea, being the curious and diverting annals of a famous village street newly destroyed, together with particulars of sundry noble and notable persons who in former times dwelt there

By: Blunt, Reginald

Price: £32.50

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Company Ltd : 1906

Seller ID: 009622

Binding: Half vellum

Condition: Good

Number 93 of a Special Limited Edition of 110 copies. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp xvi, 200, top edge gilt, fore-edge foxed, half-vellum and marbled boards, slightly worn. a bit marked, and with larger stain on rear cover and side of spine.
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Category: Social History

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