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1st edition. VG pbk. Edited by Philip C. Bursill. With a note on the works carried out by the Borough Engineer H. W. Tee.14297. eng
8vo., First and Sole Edition, endpapers very lightly spotted; attractively bound in contemporary green half morocco, straight-grain cloth boards ruled in gilt, back gilt extra with five raised bands, second compartment lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled edges, covers very lightly age-scuffed else a most attractive copy. Scarce, especially in this condition. Anderson, p.183.
One of the Collins Peacock Colour Books. With eleven plates in colour the book describes the fascinating history of London's River from the Middle Ages to the present day. Dust jacket has tear and creases at top front as well as foxing back and front. Front book cover has browning at lower edge with some white spotting
104 pages. Features: Nice two-page AT&T ad features photos of young Meg Rawls; Bombs over Hanoi and Tough Talk from LBJ; 'Black Power' and the politics of frustration; Medicare and our sick hospitals; The Three R's = $Billions; Nice one-page ad for the Volkswagen (VW) bug; Hard to imagine two-page Caterpillar ad features photo of Ohio's 'hot river', the Mahoning, which was literally heated by heavy industrial effluent; RFK - Democratic kingpin in New York; Rebirth of the 5th Marines; Guests of the Viet Cong (POWs) - Walter W. Eckes and James Dodson; Photo ad for the MGB/BT car; Kwame Kkrumah of Ghana; Boom times in Tahiti; Argentina - the last coup?; Photo of Hugh Hefner in London with many bunnies; Stanley Upson of the Stan-Up Diner in Milling, PA is featured in a Hammermill Bond ad; Runner Jim Ryun; Chicago police were arresting 150 homosexuals per month; Publisher Harry N. Abrams and his 'hamburger art'; Nice CBS Radio Network ad features photo of airborne Phil Rizzuto in baseball game; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Signed by MP Tom Normanton below his photograph on The Terrace on page 10. No other marks or inscriptions. A few faint creases. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. 26pp. A history and description of both of the British Houses of Parliament by the Clerk of Committee Records. With thirty-six colour photographs. A list of the photographs is provided inside the front cover in both French and German.
Folio, (330 x 205 mm), 3, [1]pp., docket title, folded, as issued. Not found on ESTC or Copac.
Folio, (330 x 205 mm), 5, [1]pp., docket title, folded, as issued. Not found on ESTC or Copac.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Edited by William Bray. With Index. 619 pages. Inscription by previous owner on half-title page. Front pastedown hinge cracked. Title on spine soiled, and spine worn with some loss at top/tail.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Valuable selection of well-chosen 'before and after' photographs of buildings destroyed or badly damaged in the German air attacks of 1940-1944.
ABERYSTWYTH, Welch Gazette - 1903 -Table V à VIII - Préface (Reader) IX à xiv - Table des Illustrations XV à XVI - 316 pages. Très bel exemplaire
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
Libro in eccellenti condizioni, copertina usurata con una macchia vicino al bordo. Book in excellent condition, the cover is worn with a spot close to the edge.
8vo., Eleventh Edition, with copper-engraved portrait frontispiece and 12 engraved full-page illustrations in the text, fore-edge very lightly spotted; attractively bound in twentieth century tan calf, back with gilt rules, second compartment with nineteenth-century red leather label lettered and tooled in gilt, boards unevenly sunned else a very good, remarkably bright, crisp copy. First published in 1783, Farley's work was a popular and continuing success, reaching its twelfth edition in 1811. Principal Cook at the London Tavern, Farley claims that his work 'unlike so many which are without method or order, is marked by perspicuity and regularity'. However Cagle reveals that Fiona Lucraft provides a detailed account of the author's plagiarism from Raffald and Glasse. Farley's name appears below the portrait from the ninth edition (?) onwards. Bitting 152; Cagle, 675; Maclean, pp.50-52; Oxford, p.114; Wheaton & Kelly 2066 (all recording the first edition). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
4to., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps and plans (a number folding); original brown buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Crisp copy of this standard reference. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with wood-engraved title-vignette, fine engraved armorial dedication, 6 engraved plates, folding pedigree, 11 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, and several engraved head- and tail-pieces, wanting frontispiece, list of plates and folding map; contemporary boards, uncut, neatly rebacked, old calf backstrip laid down, a most attractive working or reference copy. THIS COPY IS BOUND WITHOUT THE FRONTISPIECE, LIST OF PLATES AND FOLDING MAP. The engraved illustrations are by Nesbitt of Chelsea. Anderson, p.175; Upcott, p. 600.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with armorial title and 2 plates; original printed wrappers, title lightly spotted else a very good, crisp, clean copy. The author was sometime Clerk to the Gresham Committee.
Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No. 13 - remarkable robbery of the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Oregon, October 11, 1923 - article with photos of Hugh De Autremont, Ray Charles De Autremont and Roy A.A. De Autremont; Saving a President - the author spirited President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico from Mexico City to the coast when he adbicated in 1911; Ning Wo Intervenes - a Chinese Sherlock Holmes with methods all his own; Diver v. Devil-Fish - a Puget Sound battle in 1927; Life in a Land of Death - Part 1 - adventures among Papuan head-hunters - article with amazing photos; A Matter of Slave-Raiding - the white man goes up against a ruffianly border chieftain along the Abyssinian frontier of the Sudan; "Square-Pegs" - part 1 - the misadventures of a middle-class London family which uprooted itself and relocated to a Canadian prairie farm; Saved by an Iceberg - two Newfoundland fisherman were adrift for 11 days; The Lost Tusker - occult powers of the primitive Kurramba tribesmen of the Malabar forests; O'Hara to the Rescue - incident on board a steamer; Tom Threepersons - article with photo about a 'wild west' gunman; On Tour with a Puppet-Show - part 2 - odd experiences through the West of England; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
A street by street guide to the places in London associated with famous murders. Pbk.272p. plates bibliography.maps.indexes. Book
64 pages. Features: This Happened Before - Germany invaded Denmark in 1864, before its most recent Hitlerian invasion - article with great photos; Gathering of a Clan in London - The MacLeods affirm their loyalty to their chief - article with photos; The Little Man Who Leads France - Paul Reynaud; Jean Arthur at Home; Spring Comes to Cornwall; H.M.S. Gipsy is raised by Salvage Men; Where the Sportsmen Have Gone - sports stars of a year ago are now in the military or doing war work at home - article with photos of Bob Gregory, Eric Filby, Ted Drake, footballer Bartram, Sydney Wooderson, Alan Pennington, Peter Cranmer, J.G. Jenkins, G.M. Milne, Mervyn Jones; Leslie Ames, Cliff Bastin, George Male, Len Harvey, "Snowie" Buckingham, Len Hutton, and Tom Lawton; Croonerettes - Pat Taylor, Gloria Brent, Evelyn Dall, Vera Lynn, Beryl Davis and Phyllis Robins; The Good Soldier Schweik - created by the Czech writer Hasek; Diary of the War, No. 33 - The 31st Week; The Marooning of Barny; Letters about refugees; Nice back cover ad for Coty lipstick; Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
pp. xxiii, 322. 8vo. 205mm. Original full cloth binding. Bound and printed by Plimpton Press. Limited to only three thousand copies. BIO BX 2
First edition, 30, [2]pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Copac locating a single copy at Bristol; Not found on OCLC.
grand in-8°, 382 pages, broché, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Bel exemplaire. [DV-6]
8vo., Second Edition, with plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO AN UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 792). Limited reissue of the original edition of 1936.
Stable Money Association gift bookplate inside front board is signed by Irving Fisher, James Rand, Jr., and Frederic A. Delano. Delano [1863-1953] was uncle to FDR, President of the Stable Money Association and was appointed to serve on the first Board of the Federal Reserve by Woodrow Wilson. James Rand Jr. [1886-1968] was Chairman of the Committee For the Nation and a prominent American businessman. This copy inscribed to Ethan Bates Stanley who was President of the American Laundry Machinery Company. pp. [vi], vii-xxiii, 484. Selected bibliography. Index. Extensive footnotes. "The present book is intended to be not so much a history of [monetary] catastrophes, due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion, but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." - xxi. Pages 443-484 constitute a lengthy list of Stable Money Pioneers, individuals who supported the movement. Corporate affiliations are included for most of these names, thus the list reads like a corporate Who's Who of America. Dust jacket not included. Average wear to publisher's pebbled navy cloth. Binding sound. Bookseller ink stamp inside front board. 21 x 14.5cm. Rist p.379, Cohen p.186, Fisher M-2058, Book