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Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: In the Grip of the "Hip Sings" - Part II - an American businessman is also secretly a member of a lawless tong/Chinese secret society; How We Foiled "U 39" - H.O. Read, Late First Officer S.S. "Anglo-Californian", a horse transport, explains what happened when his vessel was attacked by a German U-Boat; Our Wanderings in Northern Africa - another of the popular "Penelope" articles covers Tunis, Kairouan, and Algeria (includes photo of Tunisian Jewesses in towering head-dresses intended to make them, all fat to enhance their marriage prospects); The Trapped Diver - Charles Margerison recounts his terrible underwater predicament working for the City of Toronto's Department of Works; On the Trail in Wonderland - Part I - Mary Roberts Rinehart explores the new Glacier Park in North-Western Montana; The Old Man of Tregennon Lodge - a very remarkable ghost story from Cornwall, England; From Job to Job Around the World - Part VIII - two young Americans begin broke in London but soon Mr. Fletcher travels to Norway under contract to do Arctic coal-mining; A Boy Hero of the Midi - translated from the diary of Eugene Escloupie, a 14-year-old French boy who smuggled himself to the front and took part in some hot WWI fighting; Our Fijian Field-Day - three young white men compete in sports contests against sport-loving Fijians (with nice photos); The Great Wire Mystery - copper wire was constantly stolen from South-East Pennsylvania railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies until the elusive culprit was caught; Fishing With Spades and Ploughs for the sand eel on the Normandy coast; and more. pp. 9 [ads], [2], 484-576, 10-16 [ads]. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition; library cloth, a sound, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, small neat stamp on title and last printed leaf, and classification number on backstrip. A standard reference
Mm 230x295 Volume rilegato in tela, sovraccoperta originale, 174 pagine profusamente illustrate in nero. Testo in lingua inglese - english text. With an Appendix to the Catalogue by Charlotte Crawley. Libro in ottime condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
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.
Good+ Paperback. Pages are browned slightly, otherwise clean copy. xiv. + 130p.
350pp, 333pp VG/none First (only) edition, complete in two volumes. Full title Musical Memoirs comprising An Account on the General State of Music in England, from the First Commemoration of Handel in 1784, to the Year 1830, Interspersed with Numerous Anecdotes, Musical, Histrionic, &c. Rebound in modern green buckram with gilt lettering on spine and new endpapers, just a faint damp stain on lower corner of the first sheets in vol.I and sporadic foxing, generally light (see photos), overall in VG conditions. Musical recollections (and much more) of William Thomas Parke, forty years principal oboist to the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, brother of the other notable oboist John Parke. A lot of trivia, gossip and jokes included nevertheless interesting in the information presented on music, opera and opera houses in London in that period.
12pp., large folding wood-engraving frontispiece of "Explanation of View of the Ruins of Pompeii, exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester-Square" (lower margin shaved by the binders knife, effecting several lines of descriptive text), one "plan of the Larger Theatre", 2 wood-engravings within the text, disbound.
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 or creased with very minor traces of storage. 197pp. The compelling paranormal search for the killer's true identity.
52 pages. Features: Very attractive full-page two-colour ad for International Harvester's TracTractors; Ad for RCA Victor audio products; Runaround in Reverse (short story); Jail Without Locks - British Columbia's new Borstal home near Vancouver - a prison with no guards nor locks - article with photos; Edward Johnson of Guelph - Part 1 - article with photos; A Train Journey (short story); Beverley Baxter's letter from London; Beauty Business - article about beauty products - with photos of their manufacture; Will Poland Be Next?, by Douglas Reed - article with photos; The Flying Yorkshireman (short story); Well I Declare! - tips on dealing with Customs officers - article with photos; Nice ad for Chevroet trucks; Hudson car ad; Tennis player Don Budge is featured in Bromo-Seltzer ad; Lux soap ad featuring photos of Claudette Colbert and Andrea Leeds; Canada's First Marathon Victory - W.J. (Billy) Sherring of Hamilton won the marathon at the Athens Olympics in 1906 - brief article with photos; Nice half-page colour ad for Sisman's Scampers (shoes). Above-average external wear. Coverfold halfway open. Covers almost loose. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The author is archivist to Sir John Soane's Museum.
4to., First Edition, with pictorial title-spread, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text, and decorative endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
163p., illus. 20 cm. Hardcover Good condition, top of backstrip split
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with small tear/crease to upper rear corner. 127pp. A study of photography and of photographs taken in London in the 1880s. With fifty full page plates showing trades and activities from the time, this is an important glimpse of the kind of street life common in all the great cities of Britain at this time of Victoria's reign.
A traveller's guide to the places associated with the most fanous English and Irish authors." 424p.(+ 40p. maps) illus.index. Book
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Toys of Ancient London; Living With Antiques - The Connecticut Home of Mary Allis; Blown-Three-Mold Glass - A Condensation from 'Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass' by Helen and George S. McKearin; Coppersmithing in Early America; Good, Better, Best - In American Furniture; Dolls - From the Collection of Mrs. George H. Savage; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 397-484. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover illustration of a Cunard 'A' Class passenger liner outward bound in the Thames around 1935; Large photo of the Cunard Samaria inside front cover; Full-page photo of the HMS Invincible in the Indian Ocean; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; Naval Review; New Ship News; Where to see the Cruise Ships; Six Names and Three Flags - the story of the 'Emerald Seas'; Scandinavian Steam Ship Rally; London's Docks - a short history of their rise and decline and of the shipping they handled - Part 1; European Ferry Commentary; Winter, North Atlantic - a voyage made in the winter of 1925/26 in the steam tanker "Hermione", a coal-burning oil tanker; Nice photo of the HMS Alaunia in 1953 inside back cover; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Please note: colour print of Cunarder NOT included. Book
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21.5 x 30.5 ins (approx. 54.5 x 77.5 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.0 x 4.5 ins (approx. 17.75 x 11.5 cms), lightly age-soiled as usual ; original marbled wrappers, upper wrapper with printed paper label, two folds neatly reinforced with tape, wrappers mildly age-faded else a very good, clean copy. The survey for the Third Edition (the second revision of the New Series) was carried out between 1901 and 1912. Coverage extends to Reigate in the south. Scarce in the Stanford cover, immediately predating the first of the OS-branded covers published in 1914.
33"x23" reinforced paper map. Undated - circa 1945? Scale: one quarter inch to one mile Geographical Section, General Staff, No. 3957 (Air). "F/O Ellis" neatly printed in each corner in ink. Average wear. Book
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21 x 30 ins (approx. 53.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, light wear to folds else a bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin was first issued in 1919. This is the 1926 revision. The covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a
Folding coloured map on linen measuring 22.0 x 28.5 ins (approx. 56.0 x 72.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.25 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.0 cms); a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous One Inch Fifth Edition series was first published in 1934 with striking 'younger sitting hiker' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1935 revision; the covers are the blue and black variant with location map. Browne, 11.2.unrecorded.
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 28 x 30 ins (approx. 71.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 32 panels to 7.0 x 3.75 ins (approx. 18.0 x 9.5 cms), some very light age-soiling; original pictorial card wrappers, wrappers lightly age-soiled, else a very good, bright, clean copy. The half-inch road maps were reduced from the one-inch map of 1903-08. This 1925 issue includes the 1924 revisions, with Ellis Martin's well-known 'car & signpost' cover in the green and brown variant. SCARCE. Browne, 12.2.a.
Inscribed by author on dedication page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to very slightly arched spine. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 646pp. The story of Joseph Silver who was a central character in London in the global market for commercial sex and white slavery for three turbulent decades before the First World War.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs anf facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
xx, 97-192 pages. Contents include: Poetry; Lord Mount Prospect; Proud-For-Nothing Giles; Via Condotti; The Poetry of Robert Bridges; Cezanne, Cubism and Modern Art; Mr. Rhodes's Sheridan; and more. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. Vendor's inkstamp upon front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition in chocolate heavy cloth covers, gilt print on cover and spine. No flaws, beautiful shape. 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 small edge tears, one open at top cover, now wrapped in clear protective cover. 188 pages. Nice quotes and b&w photos throughout. Nice shot of author inside back cover also.
