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6 vols., roy. 8vo., with frontispieces (original tissue guards present) and many hundreds of woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, preliminaries and titles lightly spotted as often, fore-edges faintly spotted; original brown cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt and black, gilt backs, gilt tops, black endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. The set comprises: Vol. I: General (Thornbury); Vol. II: General (Thornbury); Vol. III: Westminster and the Western Suburbs (Walford); Vol. IV: Westminster and the Western Suburbs (Walford); Vol. V: The Western and Northern Suburbs (Walford); Vol. VI: The Southern Suburbs (Walford). A HANDSOME SET IN PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BINDING.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Sole Edition, with frontispieces and very numerous plates and illustrations in the text; boards, cloth backs gilt, upper cover of first volume a little scored else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES. One of the most detailed histories of any Romano-British settlement, and now very hard to find. Bonser, 4213.
8vo., Third Edition, title and text framed in red, with engraved title-vignette, numerous engraved illustrations and 2 full-page plans in the text, and patterned endpapers; original beige pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in black, boards unevenly faded else a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. With the armorial bookplate of Bristows of Sussex [Leslie Beaconsfield Bristow] on front paste-down. Nice copy of this well-illustrated, comprehensive account of this magnificent church, perhaps the finest mediaeval building in London after the Abbey.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and a full-page map in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
Sm. 8vo., Fifth Edition, with 9 full-page photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1956.
8vo., with 17 plates on 15; red marbled cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Good quality facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1935. Canon Thompson was rector of Hayes 1919-1933. 'The only full printed history of Hayes; useful for parish matters since author searched parish archives fully' (Burch). Bennett p.176; Burch 427 (both recording the original edition).
8vo., with illustrations; pictorial wrappers, yapped edges, a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., with a title-vignette and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; pictorial cloth, covers and back a little age-marked, wanting half-title and rear free endpaper else a good, sound copy. A well-illustrated, comprehensive account and one of the best guides to this magnificent church, perhaps the finest mediaeval building in London after the Abbey.
First Edition, [iv], iv, [xii list of subscribers], 382, 84pp., engraved frontispiece and dedication, 4 engraved plates, one folding pedigree (torn but complete), wood engravings in the text, cont. calf, re-backed, leather label to spine.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, and several illustrations and 2 double-page maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, covers lightly dust-soiled, backstrip mildly browned else a very good, brightm clean copy. WITH THE AUTHOR'S COMPLIMENTS SLIP LOOSELY INSERTED. Roe was a distinguished civil servant at the time of George III. These are verbatim printings of his private notebooks filled with much interesting material on the Withdean estate and the parish of Patcham (now all but absorbed by Brighton). EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original brown buckram, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, clean copy. One of the most elusive Civil War County histories. Extremely scarce
8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. Offprinted from Vol. LIX of the Sussex Archaeological Society's Collections. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to corners of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with rubbing to spine edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased. 256pp. Bestselling author Leslie Thomas takes us through hidden villages and waterways, thick woodland and isolated coastline, while his diversity of anecdotes captures the humous and vitality of the inhabitants of these wilder places.
Octavo. Pp. xvii, 168. Plus 9 plates, almost all in colour, some of which are folding, each protected with tissue-guard printed with caption. Hardcover, bound in later full dark mustard cloth, Japanese emblem stamped in gilt on upper cover, lettering-piece to cover and spine, some foxing to prelims and title-page. In fine condition. A lovely copy with all the charming plates in excellent condition. ~ First edition. From the private collection of Ing. P. L. W. Arts with his bookplate to first free endpaper.
8vo., First Edition, with decorative title and several illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter just a little chipped at head and tail of backstrip. With a relevant cutting affixed to front paste-down and book token illustraion affixed to front free endpaper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
8vo., with numerous photographs and double-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The dustwrapper was designed and illustrated by John Piper.
Steel-engraved map on paper; measuring 8.0 x 10.5 ins (approx. 20.00 x 26.5 cms), FINELY COLOURED BY HAND; attractively mounted in bevelled-edge steel-grey card with bevelled edges, a very good, bright, clean copy. The map is enclosed by an elaborate pictorial border incorporating four coats-of-arms and various other symbolic figures, and includes three charming vignettes of Greenwich Hospital, Rochester and Dover.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations; green tweed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations in the text, full-page map and coloured endpaper maps (lightly spotted); blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper, the latter with crude repair at head of backstrip. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 7 coloured plates and 12 plates in monochrome, half-title browned; mid-blue cloth, upper board framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, covers unevenly sunned, backstrip faded (but all lettering entirely legible in blind), a good, firm copy. The last of Thomas's works, published a few months after his death at Arras in April 1917. The first UK edition (4 October) follows that of the US (22 September). See Eckert pp. 238-240.
4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title-spread and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; blue cloth,gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
