Adrian TinniswoodMareMagnum
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No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to upper edge. 331pp. 'A work of dynamic history that depicts in fascinating detail the cataclysm that was the Great Fire of London in 1666 and the modern capital that rose from its ashes.'
No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with faint creasing to some edges. 119pp. This fully revised fifth edition details all operational railways - British Rail, London Transport, Tyne & Wear Metro, Irish rail, Northern Ireland Railways and the numerous independant preserved/tourist railways and tramways, standard gauge and narrow gauge.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean tight copy with rubbing to upper and lower board edges. Slight rubbing/nicks to lower edges of five pages and a trace of foxing to a few pages. Dust jacket not price clipped with tape repairs and a few small pieces missing. 128pp. "Nearly 120 photographs presenting a modern pictorial cavalcade of the world's largest city and its citizens."
Ink date to titlepage. Some scattered foxing. ; A Roman Catholic look at Westminster Abbey, with the "Daily Prayer" to convert England printed on the rear inside cover. ; 101 pages
In-16 (cm 15,7x10,5), pp. 91+indice, brossura edit. grigia. Traduzione di U. Dèttore. "Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli" 587. Firma di appartenenza al frontespizio, ordinari segni del tempo, buono.
Giro del mondo in Underground. A Londra, città dalle trecento lingue, un viaggio nei tunnel della mitica metropolitana.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly sunned to upper page margins and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 97pp. The work of London Transport during the Second World War with many very graphic images of serious damage.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, very minor sunning to extreme upper edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn with light creasing to upper edge. 166pp. Weaving together extracts from letters, diaries and memoirs of the 1920s, with many first-hand accounts by many who recall the time, the author provides a graphic and amusing evocation of Society then and of the quality of life in its rather loose top drawer.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean tight copy with unmarked blue cloth boards, dusty upper page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to lower edge. 252pp. Great cities and their golden ages are explored in this book of panoramic sweep encompassing almost four thousand years. Each city is brought to life through its people, their work and pleasures, customs and society and the dramas and excitements that caused their rise and fall.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to upper edge and a little sunning to spine. 95pp. The final volume of the three-volume set of the History of the LMS by OS Nock covering the war period from 1939 to 1945 and the next three years up to nationalisation in 1948. Very well illustrated.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and coloured and monochrome plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
4to., with title-vignette, 24 plates, and full-page photograph and 2 full-page plans in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. This edition was entirely rewritten to incorporate new information that came to light during restoration of the house between 1934-1936.
Sixth and popular edition. Near VG hbk in faded blue cloth, red decoration and title lettering. Endpapers browned. Light foxing throughout. 20516. eng
