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cvi + 239pp., 20cm., bound in cart. cover, few foxing, good condition, T95933
in-8°, 293 pages, illustrations hors texte, broche, couv. Très bel exemplaire, non coupé. [NV-9] Roman de Roger Grenier d'après le scénario original de Charles Chaplin.
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1846 - 90 ème Livraison - In-4 - 16 pages de texte - 3 gravures
In 8° (19,2x13 cm); 470, (2) pp. Brossura editoriale con titolo in rosso e nero entro cornice al piatto anteriore. Difetti al dorso con una piccola mancanza al margine inferiore dello stesso. Esemplare ancora in barbe e all'interno in buone condizioni. Prima, non comune, traduzione italiana di questo romanzo di Jack London.
In 8o, pp. 180, mz. tela, titoli dorati al dorso, con 24 tavv. i.t. e f.t., ottimo (9426/ SIMON - VINO - NEW YORK - TORONTO - LONDON)
A list of Honorary Members, Life Members and Members of the Savage Club with dates of joining. Don't bother looking for any women in the list, there aren't any. In 1951 the club was to be found at 1 Carlton House Terrace. 62 pages. Wear to base of spine. Browning to covers diminishing towards centre.
8vo., First Edition, with maps and diagrams in the text; pictorial boards, a fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 12; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 14 plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. The first dedicated history of the well-known arena.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wrappers lightly chafed edges else a good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements throughout.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, foxing to page edges and a number of pages and no bumping to corners. Very large coloured fold-out historical plan at end of book in excellent condition. 220 photographic plates plus 142pp. A lavish study of the architecture, sculptures, fittings and relics in Westminster Abbey and its adjacent buildings.
8vo., First Edition, with 36 plates on 24 and endpaper maps; cloth, backstrip lettered in red; a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, a double-page coloured plate and 16 monochrome plates on 10; pictorial boards lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, black top, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF TIN PLATE WORKERS ALIAS WIRE WORKERS WITH ITS COLOURED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY FREDERICK ERNEST CLEARY, MASTER OF THE COMPANY. Published to commemorate the tercentenary of the Company.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Final volume of the author's remarkable autobiographical trilogy, following 'Growing up in a London Village' and 'A Green Girl'. Already scarce, especially in this condition.
Nostalgic descriptions of London past and present (as of 1950) some chapters are based on talks given on BBC Radio. 232p. plates.index maps in endpapers Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 427 pages with occasional illustrations, Contents include: Prostitutes: Seclusives, or Those that Live in Private Houses and Apartments; Haymarket; Board Lodgers; Those who Live in Low Lodging Houses; Sailors' Women; Soldiers' Women; Theives' Women; Park Women; Bawds; Procuresses, Pimps and Panders; Fancy-men; Bullies; Clandestine Prostitutes; Female Operative; Maid-Servants; Ladies of Intrigue and Houses of Assignation; THEIVES AND SWINDLERS: Sneaks, Common Thieves, Stealing from Children, Child Stripping, Robberies from Carts and other Vehicles, Lead From Housetops, Copper from Kitchens; Robberies by False Keys, Lodgers, Servants, Attic , Garret Theives; Rookery of St. Giles , Pickpockets ,Shoplifters; Omnibus Pickpockets; Railway Pickpockets; Shoplifters, Spitalfields, Horse-stealing, Dog-stealing, Highway Robbers,Felonies , River Thames, Mudlarks; Sweeping Boys, Smuggling, River Priates, Mudlark, Receivers of Stolen Property, Coining Forgers, Bank, Skittles; Thimble and Pea, The Lock, Swindlers. BEGGARS AND CHEATS, Begging-Letter Writers, Decayed Gentleman; The Broken-Down Tradesman; The Distressed Scholar; The Kaggs Family; Advertising Begging-Letter Writers; Ashamed Beggars; The Swell Beggar,Turnpike Sailor, Street Campaigners; Foreign Beggars: The French Beggar; Destitute Poles; Hindoo Beggars; Negro Beggars; Disaster Beggars, etc.
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 264 pages, heavily illustrated throughout with color and b&w prints, illustrations, photos, maps. Contents include: Experience of a ham sandwich seller, Coffee stall keepers, Street piemen, Street sellers of boiled puddings, Statement of a prostitute, Crippled seller of nutmeg graters, Music duffers, Rosemary lane, Tricks of the bird duffers, Street trade in baked potatoes, Sheeps trotter women, London flower girls, Penny gaff, vic gallery, etc.
Book is as-new with straight spine, solid binding, no edge wear, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. B&w photos, 230 pages. Dust jacket has very slight shelf wear only, no tears.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very minor creasing to rear cover. Clean tight pages in booklet form with slightly sunned boards, slight marking to rear, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. Large fold-out sketch map (21 x 31 inches) of London under Henry II at end is in excellent condition. 40pp. An account of the City of London from the time of the Conquest, when even then it stood alone above other English towns in wealth and power. Includes a translation of William Fitz Stephen's description of London. Historical Association Leaflets No 93 and 94.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Covers show edgewear at lower edge. 112 pages with large b&w illustrations and photos throughout. Subjects covered in text include: Balloonists, Brass bands, bathing, Batty's hoppodrome, Catch clubs, Circuses, Cock fighting, Cyclorama, Cricket, Derby, Donkey rides, Hangings, Hyde park, Jockey club, Magic Lantern, Pleasure gardens, Prize fighting, Horse racing, Street traders, thames, Thaumatrope, Village entertainment, etc.
Oversize 30 p.+56 plts. Hardcover Good condition tattered
8th edition. Kl.8° (ca. 16 x 10 cm). XVI, 109 Seiten. Ganzleder der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. Vorderdeckel lose mit Beschabungen und Randläsuren, hinterer Deckel fehlt. Leder am Rücken rissig mit kleineren Fehlstellen, Titel unvollständig. Vorsatzpapier gegilbt. Insgesamt noch befriedigender Zustand. - Contemporary leather binding with gilt title on spine. Front cover loose, with rubbings and wear at the edges, back cover lost. Leather at spine cracky with some minor losses, title incomplete. Fly-leaf papers yellowed. All in all still satisfactory condition Mit eingebunden vom selben Autor/Integrated by the same author: "The Fudge Family in Paris". Sixth edition. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. (VIII, 168 Seiten).
Book is in excellent condition with very light edge wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind and is in impressively fine condition with tipped-in color plates and b&w prints, map endpapers showing the locations of the text. Dust jacket is price clipped and is extensively repaired at edges with scotch tape. Contents include The pleasure gardens, White conduit house, Marylebone gardens, Jenny's whim, Bagnigge wells, Islington spa, Sadler's wells, Highbury barn, Bermondsey spa, The English grotto, Finch's grotto gardens, Florida gardens, The Yorkshire stingo, etc.
173p., illus. Hardcover Good condition; boards lightly soiled
