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4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the test; pictorial cloth gilt, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. Collects forty evocative essays with charming illustrations.
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 55pp. A study of work and employment standards in small firms around London, including gender and colour and ethnicity issues. Very scarce. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
Sm. 8vo. with frontispiece plates and endpaper maps; terracotta cloth backstrip lettered in black a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Attractive copy of one of the author's delightful 'Open Air' books first published in 1930. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo. First Edition with numerous charts and tables; blue cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, dark top, blue silk marker, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. With personal bookplate on half-title
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with plans in the text and large folding plan; original series binding of olive cloth, backstrip lettered in black, covers lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. LTS Publication No. 127.
Sm. 8vo., Fifty-Fourth Edition, with plates, and plans in the text; original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, backstrip mildly sunned, upper hinge tender else a very good, bright, clean copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements. Tipped-in is the publisher's printed disclaimer slip 'owing to the Control of Maps Order and other exigencies of the situation, it is not at present possible to include the customary complete set of maps and plan in this Guide'. The COM Order 1940 banned commercial publication of maps and plans on a scale greater than one inch to one mile and therefore of likely use to the enemy. In this edition the omissions include virtually all the folding maps, retaining only the plan of London termini and double-page plan of Hyde Park.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 191pp. The story of London's Millennium Dome at Greenwich, constructed to celebrate the year 2000. This well illustrated study covers its architecture, design, engineering and construction.
Good hbk in faded blue pictorial cloth. Illustrated by the author. 16549. eng
Sequel to Manchester Fourteen Miles and The Foolish Virgin, third in the series of autobiographical novels. First published in 1954 "Hilda Winstanley (Margaret Penn) now married to a young army officer who served in the First World War gives a moving account of their life together in Brighton and London in the depressed years after the War. Without self pity she writes of the unhappy marriage, including the alcoholism of her husband and the poverty and destitution that ensued. In describing giving up her childen for adoption it ...illustrates the problems of the days before the welfare state. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have lightly bumped corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with small enclosed tear to spine and chips and small pieces missing from upper edge. Eighty plates plus 132pp. A study of residential development in London through 350 years. In the Londoner's Library Series.
Stapled covers, reading copy only. 50450 eng
Very good condition in stapled covers.50452. eng
Very good condition in stapled covers.50453. eng
1st edition. Good in green cloth, gilt. Cover spine frayed at the top edge. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. 14335. eng
in-8°, 234 pp., broché. Bel exemplaire [CA33-7]
in-8 étroit, 323 pp., broche, couv. ill.- 9782742751402 Tres bel exemplaire. [P-42] Michelet, Stevenson, Schwob, London, etc.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint creasing to a small number of page corners and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 239pp. A fishing tale, at times touching, at times bawdy, always amusing, this is a book not just for anglers, but for anyone who enjoys a finely-told story.
pp. 187, in 8°, bross.
in-8°, 267 pages, ill. h.t. n., cartes, index, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bon état (couv. lég. us.). [109B-18]
Cartoline postali non viaggiate, senza data. Codice AT.1320 R + AT1853- Vedi foto fronte e retro. 2 Unused and undated colour post cards in good condition, 139 x 90 mm - Worldwide delivery.
2 Cartoline postali non viaggiate, senza data. Codice AT.987 + AT 1520 R - Vedi foto fronte e retro. 2 Unused and undated colour post cards in good condition, 139 x 90 mm - Worldwide delivery.