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Features: Colonel Grivas meets the Greek Prime Minister; The 105th University Boat Race - Oxford and Cambridge; Comets; The Centenary of District Nursing; London as the Romans saw it; Making Bearkskins - a generous Canadian offer; Hazor and the Idolatrous Israelites - Highlights of the last season, Part II - the Mound; The Sumptuous Gold Regalia of a Burmese King; Snow Geese by the thousand; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Pages 237-276. Topics include: Remembrance Day in London; Fox Hunting; Moscow Anniversary; Terror in Cyprus; The Unification of Western Europe; Hong Kong Development; South of Nasser; African Women Demonstrate; Coronation of the Pope; Guided Missiles in East Anglia; Return of Bulwark; Ambitious Projects; Vespa Scooters; Oil Driling; Unmarked. Average wear with two inch opening at top of cover crease. Binding intact. Book
576 pages plus index. "The narrative makes for easy and highly interesting reading and coupled with the superb illustrations manages to bring this fascinating subject to life." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
90 pages. Features: Christmas Fact and Fantasy; London's Christmas Choirs; Christmas on Duty; Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World; Two Words (short story); The Electric Pen - a hundred years ago a primitive version of the mimeograph provided an unlikely link between Thomas Edison and Lewis Carroll; ; The Tyranny of Things; Seasonal Greetings - tracing the history of Victorian era Christmas Cards - article with lovely colour illustrations; The Model World (fashion model article); Nice colour-photo one-page ad for the Triumph TR7; Camels in America (USA); A True Christmas Story; The Constancy of Coade stone; The Boy Who Stole the Sun (children's story); Toys for Adults; The Carthusian Liqueur; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this charming issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates and maps; black cloth gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. ALREADY VERY SCARCE
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece after Eckstein, engraved and printed titles (the former by Heath) and a folding plate containing twenty-two humorous depictions of London's 'tavern clubs', frontispiece, engraved title and folding plate very lightly damp-marked; mid-nineteenth century half morocco, marbled boards, gilt back, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, covers a little age-marked, corners lightly bruised, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down and original endpapers preserved, a very good, tight copy of a very scarce work. The frontispiece portrays Christopher Brown, Secretary to the 'Free & Easy Counsellors under the Cauliflower' who were predominantly (and most appropriately) booksellers. The folding plate affords us such delights as 'The Belle Sauvage', 'The Tanner of Joppa' and 'George and the Dragon'. Even then, it seems, the tavern was a haven of tranquillity for the hard-pressed professional male. SCARCE. We can trace no other edition, though a popular work with the title 'Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings' was compiled for Charles Hindley and issued in several editions during the 70s and 80s.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text, and several folding plans and charts on japon, free endpapers lightly browned; original yellow cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled and chipped at edges. An outstanding copy of one of the most important studies of London's Underground prior to WWII. Written by the Operating Manager of London's Undergound, it presents a comprehensive and highly detailed account, with valuable illustrations of early equipment, procedures and scenes. All contents and charts are in near fine state. RARE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley 1026.
4to., SOLE EDITION, with a folding facsimile as frontispiece and a large folding map, endpapers very lightly spotted; cloth, blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, clean copy of a very scarce work. EDITION LIMITED TO 235 COPIES
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.
8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece, 18 plates and 22 maps (a number folding); original blue cloth, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. The first edition was issued a limited edition of two hundred signed copies in the previous year. Enser p.68; Sutcliffe p.393; White p.203
8vo., 20pp leaflet, First Edition, with photographs throughout; wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Surprisingly detailed account of the V1 and V2 attacks on South London, with many captioned photographs of damage taken mainly by local press photographers. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE SURVIVAL. Not recorded by Enser.
pp. viii, 358, xxi, [3]. Engraved frontis portrait, engraved title, and an engraved cul-de-lampe portrait of Queen Elizabeth on the last leaf of text. Small 4to. 210 mm. Original marbled boards binding, backed with black cloth. First edition. Detailed and entertaing scholarship by a precocious teen-ager who began to write while convalescing, after the amputation of his right arm. He is so shown here, in a lithograph portrait, with quill in his left hand, and his empty right sleeve pinned across his tunic. Manuscript presentation from the father of the young author to Rev. R. Blackiston, March 1820. . **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151
Six Volumes. Numerous charming woodcut illustrations. Very slight foxing. Inked ownership of Peter Copp?, 1844. Tall 8vo. Original quarter leather bindings over marbled boards. Marbled boards rubbed. Spines tooled in gold and blind. Raised bands. Volumes lack original morocco leather labels but still presentable. Hardbound set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND BOX 2
pp. ii, 34. 16mo. Original full blue cloth binding, gold lettered. Slight loss at tail of spine. Hardbound. Very Good copy. We believe that Wiley was a printer and publisher. This is a charming account of Victorian era travel to: London; Rotterdam; Brussels; Germany; Italy; France; etc. EXTREMELY SCARCE. We can find no copies of this at libraries in the U.S. or abroad. nor is it being offered for sale by other booksellers at any price anywhere. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/3
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 26 monochrome photographs and 14 maps, endpapers mildly browned; original grey regimental cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper board, backstrip lettered in green, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Includes a history of the Civil Service Rifle Volunteers; then 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions Civil Service Rifles during WWI. In 1921 the 1/15th was reconstituted as 15th Battalion London Regiment (POW Own Civil Service Rifles); in 1923 15th Battalion was amalgamated with 16th Battalion. Scarce in this condition. Sutcliffe, p. 454; White, p.204.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, and numerous plates and maps; original pictorial cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt entirely legible) else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 4 maps (three double-page) as frontispiece, 158 plates on 96 and numerous illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original tan cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. 'Buildings of England', BE12. VERY SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION. Cherry 12 (HB1, HJ2)
8vo., original printed wrappers, neat signature on front cover else a very good, clean copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
First edition, [7], 8-80, [14, appendix]pp., disbound. Henry Letheby (1816?1876), analytical chemist, lecturer on chemistry at the London Hospital, and for some years medical officer of health and analyst of foods for the city of London. Letheby was an exceedingly accurate technological chemist, and contributed many papers to the 'Lancet' and other scientific periodicals. His official reports on the sanitary condition of London were published from time to time. This, the seventeenth annual report is not found on Copac.
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 231 pages, heavily illustrated with color and b&w photos, drawings, maps, cross sections, architectural drawings. Contents include: Regents canal, Park Village east, Cumberland Basin, London, Girmingham, Railway, Robert B. Dockray, the Roundhouse, North London Railway, Great Wall of Camden, Ice wells, Gilbey's Wine and Spirits, Booth Poverty, survey, maps, Purfleet wharf, Harlow, Pirates club, Jubilee Waterside Centre, Stables Market, Suffolk wharf, Albert street, etc.
Features: Photo and write-up of Mr. Edward Peacock, Late Member "A" Company, Regimental Number 452; Company Notes; Shooting Results; London Scottish Rifle Volunteers - An Appreciation; The Roarin' Game (curling; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Special Appeal Fund; Our Regimental Plate (No. VI. - The Trotter Cup) - photographed and described by Ian Bhreatannaich; Scots Abroad - a letter from Rhodesia; Proposed Poster for Recruits; Notes on the Attack, by the C.O.; Correspondence; and more. Four-inch tear to top of back cover. Water marks to top of first few pages. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
Features: Photo of Mrs. Romilly (and her dog) who is to honour the London Scottish by presenting the Battalion Prizes on December 9th; Company Notes; Shooting results; Scots Abroad - a rifle club in the Falkland Islands; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Editorial; Hallowe'en; Archibald Forbes, War Correspondent; "A" Company March; Roll of Non-Commissioned Officers and Men; "The Bonnet"; and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
94 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "This book is of great importance in this series for it deals with the Trade and Commerce of Britain." - Editor's Note. Discusses topics including: Weights, Measures and Coinage; The Royal Mint; the Post Office; the Food Supply; Foreign and Colonial Markets; Banks, Exchange and Custom Houses; Gold Reserves. Chapters also detail the work of the Board of Trade and the Patent Office, Joint Stock Companies, and Lloyd's of London. Underlining on a handful of pages else unmarked. small openings at each hinge. Average wear overall. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Photo of Australian naval gunners practising; Image of John F. Kennedy inside front cover as promotion for his book "Why England Slept"; Nice photo of the legless pilot and his men - Squadron Leader D.R.S. Bader leads a famous Canadian fighter squadron and is pictured with some of his men; Illustration of Malta - our island stronghold in the Mediterranean; Article on Welfare Work for the Troops - social, educational and recreational facilities for Britain's fighting forces; Sunderland saves 21 shipwrecked sailors; War pictures from African battlefields; Message to the French Nation - broadcast by Winston Churchill; centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black shows the H.M.S. Kimberley sinking an Italian destroyer in the Red Sea; superb photo of several gleaming torpedoes in a British warship; Photos of London destruction, including the famous photo of men perusing books in the ruins of the library at Holland House, Kensington; Soldiers of the allied armies; Article - how the Observer Corps aid the Fighter Pilots; Photo of train taking children from the danger of Berlin; A commentary on the war this week; In action with the Fleet Air Arm; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
