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8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; most attractively bound in contemporary speckled calf, sides with double Oxford frame in gilt, back with five raised bands, second compartment with red leather label framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments toole and ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, a remarakbly bright, clean, crisp copy. First edition of Sherlock's first collection of sermons, and forerunner of a well-known series of 'discourses' published across the late eighteenth century. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE 3rd MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY AND BEARS HIS FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. The bookplate shows the arms of Londonderry and those of his second wife Frances Anne Emily, daughter of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest. A small, neat, contemporary signature 'Henry Vane' appears on title. A PLEASING COPY WITH NOTABLE PROVENANCE.
97 p. illus. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and playbill endpapers on pink stock, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; original white boards, upper board blocked in red and lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, boards mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy.
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.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 4 plates on maps and large folding map at end; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy. LTS Publication no. 127.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with bright slightly marked boards, slightly dusty page edges and some bumping to corners. 190pp. A biography of Fleet Street in London in it's heyday, in particularly, the Street at play.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with title-vignette, numerous reproductions of engraved plates throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. High quality facsimile reissue of a classic of nineteenth century London topography, first published in 1829.
8vo., First Edition thus, with facsimiles in the text; original buff wrappers printed in black, a very good, clean copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publications Nos. 145,146. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of copies in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE
254p. illus. Hardcover fine condition in fine d.j. fair
pp. xxxix, 138 + Full page color plates by Charles Mozley. Numerous portrait text drawings. Poster like title page. Pictorial endpapers. All edges sprinkled in colors. Includes an insert of the Heritage Club Sandglass, Number XIII:27. Sm. 4to. Original cloth spine with marbled boards. Spine stamped with an Victorian urn and lettered in gold. Original slip case which contains in its own pocket "The Revolutionist's Handbook & Pocket Companion" written by John Tanner, male lead in Man and Superman. The "Handbook" was ghosted by Bernard Shaw. (64 pages, original printed wraps). Very nice copy. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W85
333 p. port. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, some very light and occasional spotting; original green buckram, gilt backs, red tops, a very good, clean set. The set comprises Vol. I: The Comedies (I); Vol. II: The Comedies (II): Vol. III: The Histories (I); Vol. IV: The Histories (II), The Poems; Vol. V: The Tragedies (I); Vol. VI: The Tragedies (II). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.
pp. xiv, 354 + Plus photographs. Top edge blue. Uncut. Stamped ownership of C. Stoner Herr. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, gold lettered. Original dust jacket, worn. WWII 3/2
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. 367 pages with b&w illustrations and maps throughout. Chapters include: Above Oxford, Oxford to Abingdon, Abingdon to Streatley, Streatley to Henley, Henley to Maindenhead, Maidenhead to Windson, Windsor to Hampton Court, Hampton Court to Richmond, Richmond to Battersea, Battersea to London Bridge, London Bridge to Gravesend, Gravesend to the Nore.
Pages 254-336 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: Biggest Hold-up on Record - robbery of the U.S. Mail at Toledo, Ohio in February, 1921; Salvaging a God - a tale of South Sea natives and one of their gods; Pekin (Peking / Beijing) to London, Mostly by Car- Fantastic photo-illustrated article on Capt. D.M. McCallum's 15,000 mile adventure, including photos of Angkor; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada (part 3 of 3) - H.P. Musson's homestead turns out to be all rocks and precipices!; The People of Pierre Le Loupe - George E. Stuart-Reid volunteers with the North-West Mounted to finally capture a half-breed murderer after a long and arduous hunt; A Day in the Life of a South African Farmer; Over Niagara Falls in a Rubber Ball! - Amazing photo-illustrated article on Jean Albert Lussier and his daring exploit; How I Won My Horse - Margaret S. Coffman and her challenging 300-mile Texas ride; The Big Leopard - John de Bruin recounts how he was attacked - with photo; When Raj Mungal Saw Red - a valuable elephant goes rogue in Sabalpur, India; The Snake Worshippers - a story from Calcutta about the Ooriyas, natives of the province of Orissa on the east coast of India; Through the Heart of Afghanistan - Part 2 of 2 of this photo-illustrated account of Emil Trinkler and his trip to this strange land of desolate mountains and fertile valleys, with photos of the huge cliff carvings at Bamian; Following the Frontier Trail - Newspaperwoman Edith Ammons Kohl recounts her experiences in the vast range country of Wyoming; My Strangest Experience - a story of the occult by a trooper in the B.S.A. police. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
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.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright slightly marked front board and no bumping to corners. 62pp.
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
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan with Chief Justice Earl Warren; Where does the liberal go now? - A challenge to focus on spiritual and cultural, rather than economic issues; Legal pilgrimage to London for American Bar Association's 80th annual meeting; A defence of bigness in business - an argument that it promotes research and competition; What the aged need in homes - they require special safety features and should be where their occupants can join fully into community life; Europe, too, runs into a traffic jam; The passing parade at Lindy's - for 36 years it mirrored Broadway; Haircuts in review; Festival of the Parks; Curriculum for tomorrow's world; Jersey fashion photos; The Pajama Game. Ads include: Lord & Taylor, Cranston, Ban-Lon; Cone; nice colour photo centrefold ad for Judy Bond; Springmaid Fabrics; B. Altman & Co.; Leotard Scandale; Wamsutta Mills; and Fruit of the Loom. Pages somewhat brittle with age and moderately yellowed at periphery. Covers loose but present. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
34 pages. Features: Briefly Told - fascinating news bits inside front cover; William Jennings Bryan - The Great Commoner - article with photos; Who is the Governor of Texas? - Miriam A. Ferguson - photo-illustrated article; Home Crafts for Idle Hands; A Jewish Rabbi in Jerusalem (Joseph Klausner) Writes "Jesus of Nazareth" and refutes Jewish traditions - a review of this much discussed book; How the Coolidge Cabinet Funcations; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - The Qualities of Practicability in Ideas; Editorial - What is the Neglected Truth?; The Couzens Investigation; Chats with Office Callers - Who Owns the Movie Industry? - A Man From Poland Describes Conditions in his Country where 'business is entirely out of the hands of the Poles', General Coxey of "Coxey's Army; Sapiro Officials Run a Sideline - second article on the plight of Sapiro's tobacco co-operatives, "all members of Sapiro associations should read these articles"; Famous Conductor Sir Henry Wood, of Queen's Hall Orchestra in London; Hynes E. Terry Guides People Through the Capitol; Bell Collection at the Glenwood Mission Inn, California; Interesting news items from across the nation; Aviation from the Navy's Viewpoint - conclusion of a photo-illustrated article by Captain W.S. Pye, U.S.N.; An Icelandic Tale; Are the Movies Cruel to Animals?; Some further instruction on the Correct Movements in a Plain Quadrille Dance - with illustrations; Aerial photo of cloud-shrouded Mount of the Holy Cross in Eagle County, Colorado. Some pages free from staples but present. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
4to., First Edition, with full-page reproductions throughout; original series binding of ivory cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publication No. 147. With the errata slip following title.
Gutes Exemplar; der farb. illustr. Einband stw. minimal berieben. - Vorwort von Herb Lubalin. - Englisch. - Deidi von Schaewen (* 1941 in Berlin) ist eine deutsche Architekturfotografin und Kamerafrau ... (wiki) // INHALT / Städte: ... Paris and suburb, 1974-1975 ---- Berlin-Neukölln, 1965 ---- Barcelona, calle de Pelayo, 1967 ---- Belgium, near Liege, 1974 ---- Berlin-Charlottenburg, Spreekanal, 1965 ---- Berlin-Charlottenburg, Augsburgerstrasse, 1968 ---- Berlin-Reinickendorf, 1965 ---- Berlin-Pankow, 1964 ---- Berlin-Schöneberg, Langenscheidstrasse, 1962 (my first photograph of a wall) ---- France, Montelimar, 1965 ---- Paris, Rueil-Malmaison, 1973 ---- London, West Hampstead, 1975 ---- France, Dole, 1975 Spain, 1964 ---- South of France, near Nimes, 1964 ---- London, 1975 ---- Paris, Les Halles, 1972 ---- New York, Soho, Prince Street, 1970 ---- New York, Chelsea, 1969 ---- New York, Chinatown, 1970 ---- New York, Chelsea, 1971 ---- New York, Soho, 1970 -71 ---- Barcelona, Barrio Chino, 1968 ---- Jamaica, near Port Antonio, 1971 ---- Paris, rue de Toqueville, 1976 ---- France, Verdun, 1973 ---- Paris and suburbs, 1973-1975 ---- Paris and suburbs, 1972-1975 ---- Paris, rue du Depart, 1974 ---- Paris, Belleville, detail of photograph 1972 ---- Paris, Kremlin Bicetre, 15 avenue de Fontainebleau, 1973 -- (u.v.a.) // Famous buildings are most people's landmarks. Mine are walls: they are my inner map. Any wall interests me for its intrinsic quality: be it traces, different materials, lettering, advertising, people's idiosyncrasies, decoration, destruction. I always know where the walls are, or where they stood whenever they have been destroyed or painted over. The early publicity was gigantic in scale and gave color to the streets; the inscriptions made dull facades come alive. The walls in the book are all houses' walls-not enclosing walls, not separating walls, like those of prisons or the Berlin Wall. My interest lies in architecture, environment, painting, graphic design, as well as photography. Memory: I don't remember Berlin from my childhood. I left it at the age of two, during the war, and grew up in the country. But my favorite pastime was drawing "cuts" of houses with the life going on inside exposed. Maybe I did remember. First picture of a wall: 1962. While a student at the Hochschule fur Bildende Künste and painting in Berlin, I was watching a friend in the darkroom, and the growth of a photographic print out of nothing fascinated me so much that I decided then and there to start photography. … (VII) ISBN 050027102X
204 pages. Index. Colour frontispiece illustration of the Gillett Building. "In telling how, against the general background of market development, a small family business of the late nineteenth century has grown into the flourishing public company of today, this book provides a substantial contribution to the history of the London money market." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket. A sound copy. Book
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous monochrome photographs and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publication No. 152.
