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Art for the London Underground: London Transport Posters 1908 to the Present

144 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. "The posters in this book are a representative selection from over three thousand originals held in the London Transport Museum's archives. They span more than eighty years and reveal a very wide range of artistic styles, constituting a cross-section of British graphic design in this century. The posters also document the remarkable way in which one organization successfully developed this particular publicity medium as a corporate image for its entire operation." - from Introduction. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A thrilling compilation. Book

Art of the Sixties

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's stamp inside. 80 pages. 8 1/2"w x 11 1/4"h. Full black cloth boards printed with Claes Oldenburg's "London Knees." 66 plates.

Arts of Asia Magazine, Volume 41, Number 1, February [Feb.] 2011 - Qianlong Emperor's Imperial Seals

148 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Asian Art in London 2010; Eskenazi Limited - London gallery celebrates fifty years; The portrayal of life in a splendid age - Qianlong emperor's imperial seals; Power and Clothing - Imperial Chinese robes from the forbidden city; Evolution of Yongzheng rank badges; Inheritance and Innovation - an archaeological perspective of Qin culture; Korean traditional ceramics; India's fabled city - the art of courtly Lucknow; The Silk Road in history and pre-history; Book Review; and more. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book

ATV Television Show Book

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight rubbing to spine and no bumping to corners. 93pp. Starting with Sunday Night at the London Palladium, this lovely condition book covers all the stars and the shows at the end of the 1950s on Associated Television. Very well illustrated in black & white.

Au service de leurs majestés. Histoire secrète des Belges de Londres

278pp.avec ills.hors-texte, 21cm.

Authorised Guide to the Tower of London

44 pages, with 12 views and 2 plans, description of the armoury by Viscount Dillon, revised by Charles Ffoulkes, back cover missing. eng

Authorised Guide to the Tower of London

44 pages, with 12 views and 2 plans, description of the armoury by Viscount Dillon, revised by Charles Ffoulkes, dusty covers, rusty staples. eng

Bacon's New Map of Central London. Divided into Half Mile Squares and Circles. Scale: Four Inches to the Mile. A RARE SURVIVAL

Folding engraved map printed on fine ivory linen, size: 21 x 28 ins (approx. 53.0 x 71.0 cms) folding in 36 panels to 6 x 3 ins (approx. 15.o x 7.5 cms), printed surface very lightly browned (rather more heavily so along central fold), a few locations marked with red ink ; original green cloth slip-case framed in blind and lettered in black 'Flexible Map of London' with deckled thumb-hole, a very good, bright copy. Covers the area from Islington (north) to Oval (south); Notting Hill (west) to Stepney (east). IN THIS CONDITION A RARE SURVIVAL. Hyde, 'Printed Maps of Victorian London', no. 201.

Banquetting House Whitehall Distribution of Her Majesty's Maundy

Barber Surgeon's Hall The Company admitting a New Member

Beatles - Paralleli

Raro: in condizioni perfette il numero della rivista Paralleli (anno I, n.3) sui Beatles ricco di foto e articoli. La rarità consiste nella presenza del poster dei Beatles intatto e della cartina di Liverpool con tutti i locali segnati !!! Brossura

Bedlam. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with plates; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lively and facsinating social history of Bethlem Royal Hospital, and the treatment of the insane. The building in Lambeth is now the home of the Imperial War Museum.

Before Adam

Sixth and popular edition. Near VG hbk in faded blue cloth, red decoration and title lettering. Endpapers browned. Light foxing throughout. 20516. eng

BEHIND THE GERMAN VEIL. A Record of a Journalistic War Pilgrimage. With Illustrations and Maps.

pp. xix, 403 + Plus portrait frontis, photographs and maps. Inked ownership of Julia B. Martingale, Dec. 11, 1928. Inner hinges cracked. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, worn. Eighth edition. Poor copy. Virulent but readable anti-German propaganda based on travels throughout Germany with interviews of people from all walks of life. Includes chapters on: Zeppelins; the Navy and its tactics; Spies; etc. WWI 5

Berkyngechirche. All Hallows by the Tower. With a Foreword by Rev. P.B. Clayton. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with an illustration in the text, some light spotting; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, uncut and unopened, wrappers a little age-marked at extremities else a very good, clean copy. The account appeared originally in 'The Nineteenth Century' magazine. SCARCE.

Bertie and the Tinman

A Victorian mystery novel featuring Edward the Prince of Wales Book

Bertie and the Tinman : From the Detective Memoirs of Edward VII

A Victorian mystery novel featuring Edward VII. Book

Betjeman's London

VG no dj. paperback with card covers. no inscriptions. A study of london - from a betjeman perspective - with architectural and historic details.not a coffee-table book - this is for serious researchers and fans of the area. Well illustrated throughout, using drawing and colour photographs

Bibliography of Printed Works on London History to 1939. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Roy. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. An important and impressive bibliography.

Bindle. Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle. [Nineteenth Impression].

8vo., Nineteenth Impression; original green cloth, upper board framed and lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publishers advertisement at end. The first edition of Jenkins' classic appeared in 1916. Uncommon in anything like this condition.

Bloomsbury and St. Giles's Past and Present. Giles's Past and Present. With Historical and Antiquarian Notices of the Vicinity.

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.

Blue Guide : Literary Britain and Ireland

A traveller's guide to the places associated with the most fanous English and Irish authors." 424p.(+ 40p. maps) illus.index. Book

Blue Guide : London

Comprehensive guide to London "This 12th.ed.of the famous Blue Guide has been completely revised. More than 30 itineraries, most designed to be followed on foot, cover inner London; coverage of outer London has been greatly extended." 416p.(+ 32p. maps) illus.index. Book

Book and Magazine Collector : No 103 October 1992

No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to lower front corner. A very clean very tight copy with bright very slightly foxed front board and no bumping to corners. 147pp. This issue includes Alfred Tennyson, Everyman's Library, Chas Addams, Addams Family, Richard Laymon, Leo Walmsley, Yorkshire, Elmore Leonard, Jack London.